Security-tech billionaire Cassian Holt opens Holt House as a sanctuary—until the Marionettes crash his charity night and announce an auction of silence, selling off kompromat to the highest influence. Crisis negotiator Mara Quinn reads danger like music; forensic analyst Siena Rook hears lies in the wiring. Forced into a truce with the man whose rules could save them or break them, the three mount a counter-sting through mirrored corridors, velvet ropes, and a money-laundering ledger that won’t stop biting.
Desire is leverage. Trust is the only weapon that doesn’t misfire. To rescue a vanished girl and torch the ring behind the auction, they’ll flip the cameras, hijack the ledgers, and stake a future that binds all three.
A high-heat, consent-positive why-choose romance fused with razor-tense suspense—mansion-gothic glam, black-tie heist, safehouse rules, found family, and a public takedown that hits hard. For readers who want their billionaires protective, their heroines fearless, and their HEA fiercely earned.