The Security Detail's Secret

About this book:

Elite bodyguard Maya Lin has built her career on precision, protocol, and keeping her past buried. But her newest assignment—guarding brilliant, infuriating tech CEO Julian Vance—comes with a threat that hits terrifyingly close to home. The stalker leaving cryptic messages and long-range photos isn't just a professional hazard. It's her estranged brother, Daniel, a ghost from the black-market surveillance world who framed her years ago and vanished. Now he's using Maya's protection detail as bait, turning her greatest strength—her proximity to the target—into his deadliest advantage.

Julian Vance doesn't need a babysitter. He needs his servers online, his defense contract secured, and his life uninterrupted. What he gets is a shadow who reads sightlines like poetry, rewrites his schedule at 4:30 a.m., and carries a stillness that speaks of violence barely leashed. He also gets a partner who sees through his algorithms to the man underneath—and a chemistry that complicates every tactical decision. As Daniel's game escalates from psychological warfare to live fire, Maya must choose between the career she rebuilt from ruin and the brother who shattered it, all while keeping a client alive who refuses to stay behind cover.

In a high-stakes dance across Manhattan rooftops, secure server farms, and safehouse bolt-holes, the line between protector and protected dissolves. Because the most dangerous variable in any security equation isn't the threat you can see—it's the secret you can't afford to tell.