Every number tells the truth. Except his.
Forensic accountant Jillian Hart can find anything hidden in a ledger. The forty-seven cents nobody else would notice. The nine-year trail of stolen money someone buried deep in Blaine Financial's books. The kind of secrets that get people killed.
What she can't account for is Damon Marchetti.
A man who commands entire construction sites with one eyebrow, gentler than he has any right to be, and watching her with an attention that doesn't feel like coincidence - Damon is the most dangerous line item Jillian has ever encountered. Because the trail she's following runs straight toward his family's door. And Damon has already decided that the brilliant, stubborn woman from Louisiana will be protected whether she consents to it or not - from his enemies, from his world, and from the truth about what he's willing to do to keep her.
She sets her terms. He agrees to every one of them.
He's already broken the first.
When the shadow war circling them both finally reaches out and touches everything Jillian loves, she'll learn what her careful arithmetic never could have told her.
In Damon Marchetti's world, love is a security detail-and the bill always comes due.