She was the daughter of my worst enemy. I was the hitman hired to take her out. She was broken, frightened, and guarded, and the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. I vowed then and there to take away her fears and keep her safe. But she lied to me, giving me a fake name before she disappeared from my sight. The contract that hit my phone gave me her true identity and a second chance at finding her. Hunting her down was no easy feat, but leaving her alone wasn’t an option. It wasn’t just my family of hitmen I needed to protect her from, it was the man who wanted her life. Digging into the past revealed secrets so dangerous they put all our lives at risk. For me, she was worth it. For love, it was a chance I would take. But would I be enough to save her, or would our pasts tear us apart?

He wasn’t who I thought he was. A man nine years my junior, Mateo had access to secrets he shouldn’t have, and knowledge of things he had no right to know. That didn’t stop me from falling for him the moment we met. Or letting him hold my heart in his hands. I thought the secrets I held would change the way he looked at me. But as the truth came out, my world went to war against our greatest enemy, and it was his secrets that put everything that mattered most at risk. The question was, would we both make it through unscathed, or would one of us have to make the ultimate sacrifice?

They said he was a ghost. A man who could slip in and out of a room, kill without a trace, and never be noticed. But I noticed. From the moment we met, he was the only thing I saw. His moonlit gaze. The anger rippling under his skin. The turmoil dancing in the dark depths of his mind. They said I was innocent and pure. That I needed to be hidden away and protected from the world. Only I knew the truth. I was stronger than they gave me credit for. And the brutal killer who showed no mercy melted under my touch. Our pasts collided, vicious and cruel. And when mine came to collect, it wasn’t just my life on the line. It was his, too.