Elena Rossi built her boutique architecture firm from nothing, and she's three signatures away from landing the biggest contract of her career — until Damian Vale swoops in and buys the company she was designing it for, out from under her.He's arrogant, ruthless, and everything she despises about old money. She's the one person in New York who won't fawn over him — and the one person he can't stop thinking about...

Sienna Calloway has spent her whole life being watched — by cameras, by tabloids, by a father who treats her safety like a line item in the family's hotel empire. After a credible threat forces his hand, he hires the best protection money can buy: Marcus Reyes, a former Army Ranger turned elite bodyguard with a reputation for being untouchable, professionally and otherwise.Sienna doesn't want a shadow. Marcus doesn't want a client who makes his job harder by sneaking out of galas and flirting with danger just to feel something real. But proximity breeds its own kind of chaos — stolen moments in the back of armored cars, late-night conversations when the rest of the house is asleep, the particular intimacy of someone whose entire job is to notice everything about you.There's one rule neither of them is allowed to break: bodyguards don't fall for the people they're paid to protect. But when the threat against Sienna turns out to be closer to home than anyone expected, Marcus has to decide what he's actually protecting her from — and whether walking away is more dangerous than staying.