Ezra King learned early that love comes with a price, so he stopped paying it. He just took what he wanted and left before anyone could leave him first. Now he's a billionaire, owner of the fastest growing tech company in the country, running from a past that still owns him as he drowns himself in work and women. Until he meets Carissa, his new private Chef whose presence unravels him. She sees straight through the armor he's spent a lifetime building but she refuses to either fix him or flee from him, which unsettles Ezra more than either would. He sees a woman who has never once needed anything he could buy.Carissa Davis, a young talented Chef in urgent need of money to pay off the mortgage on her parents house seeing as her dad is too proud to admit his need for help. She took the job in Ezra's mansion to help her family. She told herself she would just do her job and stay away from her charming boss. But she was wrong. Something deeper than she could understand draws her to him.She's terrified, way more than she'll admit, because wanting him means risking the one thing she's always protected; Herself.Between his hunger for a love he doesn't believe he deserves and her fear of being consumed by a man she can't save, something neither of them choose starts to grow.He'll have to stop running. She'll have to stop rescuing. And both of them will have to face the need for grace, more than either has ever given anyone.