Three years ago, Ava Bennett’s brother vanished without a trace. The police gave up, but Ava didn't. Her desperate search leads her to Cross Holdings—and directly into the path of its notoriously cold, devastatingly private CEO, Adrian Cross. Ava manipulates her way into a job as his personal assistant to uncover the truth, but Adrian is harboring dangerous secrets of his own. Fieriously protective, relentlessly secretive, and far too observant, he seems determined to keep her away from the answers she's spent three years searching for. When a twisted game of corporate espionage catches up to them, Ava realizes the man she suspected may be the only one keeping her alive. But Adrian knows something about her brother that could shatter everything she believes—and the undeniable attraction growing between them. To survive, Ava must learn whom to trust. And Adrian must decide how much of the truth he is willing to sacrifice to protect her.