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📖 Paperback Edition — He was hired to erase her. He kept her instead.

Sloane Mercer is a forensic accountant who doesn’t round anything off. Six days into an audit of Halcyon Industrial, she finds twelve identical payments of $275,000 — one for every worker who died in the Ashgrove fire — and a controller whose initials simply stopped. She reports all of it. By eleven that night her credentials are dead, her accounts are frozen, and she’s being framed for stealing $312,000.

By midnight, a man is coming up her stairs to make her disappear.

Dorian Cade has spent fourteen years making bad weeks not happen for the people who can afford him. He built Sloane’s frame himself. He wrote her file. He has watched her through her own smoke detector for twelve nights, and on the thirteenth he turned the cameras off and couldn’t explain why. When the order comes down to close her permanently, he walks into her apartment, breaks the contractor’s wrist, and takes her out the service stairs instead.

Now she’s hiding in his safehouse with the one man who knows every secret she has — and none of the ones he’s keeping. She wants her life back. He wants her alive. And the closer the firm that made him gets, the harder it is to tell which of them is the bigger danger to her.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MF Dark Protector Romantic Suspense by Isla Wilde

Tropes: Protector Romance • Morally Grey Hero • Fixer × Witness • Forced Proximity • Safehouse • He Falls First • Touch Her and Die • Praise Kink • Light Bondage • Control/Surrender • Scar Worship • Hurt/Comfort • Found Family • HEA

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MF scenes, including oral sex, light bondage and restraint, praise and dirty talk, and negotiated power exchange), covert surveillance of the heroine by the hero before the story begins, a frame-up and financial ruin, kidnapping attempts, gun violence and gunshot wounds, physical fights, forced sedation of a captive character, references to workplace deaths in an industrial fire, a past death in custody presented as suicide, grief, and strong language. Intended for readers 18+.

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