Description
Sloane Kessler has spent her life perfecting the art of emotional fortress-building. A master of control and calculated maneuvers, she is a woman who never loses—until a devastating betrayal strips away her career and her reputation in a single, ruinous stroke. Desperate to escape the scandal, she retreats to a quiet coastal town under a fresh identity, determined to remain a ghost who asks for nothing and owes no one.
Then she encounters Nadia Reyes. If Sloane is the jagged, icy edge of a blade, Nadia is the warmth that threatens to melt her core. Nadia is effortlessly open, soft, and dangerously observant, possessing an uncanny ability to push past every one of Sloane’s defenses. What begins as a wary, forced proximity spirals into a high-stakes, simmering attraction that Sloane is ill-equipped to handle.
But Sloane’s sanctuary is built on a foundation of lies. As her feelings deepen, the shadows of her past tighten their grip, with the person who destroyed her life creeping closer to unmask her. When the cold truth finally breaks the surface, Sloane must decide: will she flee once more into the darkness, or will she finally risk everything to hold onto the one woman who taught her how to surrender?
