When your bodyguard is the one man you were never allowed to want.Event planner Isabeau Lindner has built a life of flawless surfaces-couture, champagne, and perfectly staged galas. Behind the glass façade of her penthouse, however, lies a woman who has spent years as a beautiful prop in someone else's story. When anonymous harassment shatters her carefully controlled world, there is only one place she can turn for protection: the security empire of her powerful ex-husband.
Gideon Mercer doesn't hesitate. For a client this high-profile-and this personal-he assigns his most trusted man: Samuel Koster. Loyal, disciplined, unreadable. The man who has always remained a step behind Gideon's shoulder.and a step out of Isabeau's reach. Sharing a penthouse, then a secluded mountain chalet, turns distance into dangerous closeness. A brush of hands over a calendar. A steady palm at the small of her back at a glittering gala.
A breathless pause in the falling snow. With every look, every unspoken word, the line between duty and desire frays. He swore never to betray the man who made him. She swore never to surrender her heart again. In the silence between snowbound nights and city lights, Isabeau and Samuel must decide: is one forbidden touch worth risking the only lives they've ever known?
When your bodyguard is the one man you were never allowed to want.Event planner Isabeau Lindner has built a life of flawless surfaces-couture, champagne, and perfectly staged galas. Behind the glass façade of her penthouse, however, lies a woman who has spent years as a beautiful prop in someone else's story. When anonymous harassment shatters her carefully controlled world, there is only one place she can turn for protection: the security empire of her powerful ex-husband.
Gideon Mercer doesn't hesitate. For a client this high-profile-and this personal-he assigns his most trusted man: Samuel Koster. Loyal, disciplined, unreadable. The man who has always remained a step behind Gideon's shoulder.and a step out of Isabeau's reach. Sharing a penthouse, then a secluded mountain chalet, turns distance into dangerous closeness. A brush of hands over a calendar. A steady palm at the small of her back at a glittering gala.
A breathless pause in the falling snow. With every look, every unspoken word, the line between duty and desire frays. He swore never to betray the man who made him. She swore never to surrender her heart again. In the silence between snowbound nights and city lights, Isabeau and Samuel must decide: is one forbidden touch worth risking the only lives they've ever known?
