She was hired to clean his world of everything that threatened the wrong people. She never expected him to make her his wife. Mara Cole never wanted blood on her hands. But when the people who destroyed her life gave her no other choice, she took the job — get inside the Brown mansion, get close, eliminate Frederick and Daniel Brown, and vanish. But Simon Brown does not let people vanish. Cold, ruthless, and dangerously perceptive, Simon sees something in his quiet maid that he cannot name. When his father demands he marry before the year ends, Simon makes a decision that unravels everything — he offers Mara a contract, a ring, and a place in his world she was never supposed to enter. Now Mara sleeps in the bed of the man whose brothers she buried. And falling in love with him is the one thing she was never hired to do. But the truth always finds its way to the surface. And when it does — love may not be enough to survive it.