All she wants is a quiet life and for no one to look too hard...but he makes his living finding what people hide.
Kennedy is doing all she can to outrun the wreckage her father's crimes left behind. An apartment above the tea shop, a studio full of little girls in pointe shoes, volunteer shifts at the shelter... A simple life of peace and service. And she's worked hard to keep it that way.
Then a billionaire security expert decides to make Sutter Lake his home.
Cain Hale has buried his demons under layers of control and success. The one time he wasn't there when it mattered, it cost him everything. The only things he wants now are his company and his solitude. Certainly not a woman with green eyes filled with ghosts so similar to his own.
He's a reminder of the life she's left behind. And she's a threat to his tightly guarded control. As sparks fly between them, they discover that what they might need most is each other.
But with pasts like theirs...you never know when darkness might descend.