Exposed

She built her career exposing killers. Now one of them knows where she lives.

Wren Calloway has spent years turning other peoples secrets into the most successful true-crime podcast in the country. With more than four million listeners and very little respect for personal safety, she has never allowed threats, lawsuits, or furious men with expensive attorneys to stop her from asking the questions no one else will.

Then someone leaves a dead crow outside her studio with her home address hidden beneath it.

Declan Hayes recognizes the warning immediately. A former CIA operative and co-founder of Vanguard Protection, he has built his life around control, preparation, and never allowing emotion to compromise the mission. Protecting a reckless podcaster who refuses to follow orders should be nothing more than another assignment.

Wren has other ideas.

She does not need a bodyguard, does not trust men who search her apartment without permission, and certainly does not appreciate Declan moving into her life as though he intends to reorganize everything from her security system to the chaotic collection of evidence covering her walls.

But the deeper Wren digs into the disappearance of a young woman from her hometown, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. A tracker appears in her bag. Someone enters her apartment. The names surrounding the case reach into law enforcement, politics, and a criminal network that has survived for decades by ensuring witnesses never live long enough to speak.

Forced into hiding with the one man she cannot provoke, distract, or intimidate into leaving, Wren begins to realize that Declan is not merely protecting her from the people hunting her.

He is becoming the only person capable of seeing every dangerous, obsessive part of her and choosing to stay.

Declan knows attachment creates weaknesses. Wren has spent her life proving that buried truths never remain silent forever. Neither of them is prepared for the moment the investigation becomes personal, protecting her stops being a job, and the man who never loses control decides he will destroy anyone who tries to take her from him.

A fast, dark, spicy romantic thriller with an intelligent heroine, a controlled and dangerously protective hero, a decades-old disappearance, political corruption, hidden evidence, close-quarters tension, and a love story forged while both characters are being hunted.