Her past should have stayed buried. Bella thought she could escape her past. For a while, she did. She even found happiness and the chance for a future she never thought possible. Until one day when it was all taken away in an instant, forcing her to leave behind the man she loved just to survive. Now her nightmare is finally over and she needs to reclaim everything she lost. Except she doesn’t know whether he’ll take her back. And she’s about to discover that the past won’t let her go so easily. Now it’s coming after them both. Professional bodyguard Creed’s whole world caved in the day Bella left without explanation. Now, over a year later she’s back without warning, and what she tells him leaves him reeling. She’s been through a hell far worse than he’d ever imagined, but one thing is certain. He will love her until he draws his last breath—and won’t let anything or anyone take her away from him ever again. But when deadly forces from her past life come for her, they find themselves in a fight for survival unlike anything they’ve faced before. And the only way out is to make an impossible choice that could tear them apart forever.

She was just trying to help him get back on his feet. Once upon a time, Bristol Moreau managed to drag her late brother back from the brink of the abyss. So when she finds out that one of his former brothers-in-arms is living on the streets, she makes it her mission to do the same for him. But he makes it clear from the start that he doesn’t want her help—or anything to do with her. When she persists, it unleashes a chain of events that lands them square in the crosshairs of a deadly cartel. And now her only hope is the man who wants nothing to do with her. Instead, she accidentally blew up his world. It feels like every time former Ranger TJ Barros turns around, she’s there. The exasperating, stubborn, and gorgeous woman who refuses to take no for an answer. He shouldn’t want her—because he knows the scorching attraction between them could destroy them both. She deserves better than him, a broken man who’s spent the past year living on the streets. But now they’ve both got targets on their backs, and armed gunmen hunting them down. And just when he finally breaks away from her, things go sideways. Now she’s facing certain death because of him, and TJ will do anything to save her—even if it means trading his life for hers.