On Retainer, Off Script
A Romantic Suspense Novel

About this book:

They're Blackwood Security's top operatives. They can't stand each other. And now they have to pretend to be newlyweds.

Maya Vance is ice-cold precision—analytical, prepared, and ruthlessly by-the-book. Julian Mercer is controlled chaos—adaptable, infuriatingly charming, and allergic to protocol. After three years of blistering rivalry, they're the last two people who should share a cover identity. But when biotech heiress Clara Chen becomes the target of a multi-vector assassination plot at an exclusive Alpine summit, their director gives them an ultimatum: pose as Julian and Maya Montgomery, venture-capitalist power couple, or lose their badges.

Five days. One isolated chateau. Thirty hyper-observant billionaires. And zero margin for error.

As corporate mercenaries circle the estate and a traitor moves through the guest list, Maya and Julian navigate a minefield of staged intimacy—shared suites, lingering touches, whispered endearments that feel dangerously real. Every stolen glance blurs the line between mission and something they can't name. But in a house where everyone has a motive and no one can be trusted, the greatest threat might not be the killers hunting their client. It's the fact that the longer they play the part, the less it feels like acting.