When The Devil Stays

"The wrong man at the worst possible moment."

Anna Jones has twenty-four hours to disappear. Her ex-fiancé, Marcus Hale — heir to the Hale Group, one of the most powerful private equity dynasties in London — has made it very clear: stay in this city, and what happens next won't be pretty. She's seen what his family does to people who know too much. She audited their books. She found the number that wasn't supposed to exist.

Now she's at the airport with a one-way ticket, a phone full of evidence she doesn't know what to do with, and a stranger sitting across from her in a coffee shop who knows far more than a stranger should.

Jojo Smith is calm in the way that dangerous men are calm. He says he's not her enemy. He has a platinum lounge pass, a staff lanyard, and eyes that never stop reading the room. He helps her. She doesn't know why. And that is the problem that will follow her all the way to the moment she realises she's already fallen for him.

Anna Jones

The Heroine

27. Forensic auditor. Grew up in a council flat in Leeds, clawed her way into a career built on precision and nerve. She doesn't trust easily. She trusted Marcus. That won't happen again — or so she believes.

Jojo Smith

The Hero

33. CEO of a private intelligence firm. Reads every room before he enters it. Has a laugh that surprises you because nothing else about him suggests softness. He was at the airport for a reason. That reason was Anna.