He was hired to protect me. Instead, he destroyed everything I thought I knew about love.

My father's world is built on secrets and blood. As his daughter, I've been kept clean-innocent, sheltered, safe. Until the threats get too close and he assigns me a bodyguard.

Lochlan O'Rourke is dangerous in all the wrong ways. Ex-military. Haunted. And so devastatingly broken that I want to fix him with my bare hands.

I'm not supposed to want him. He works for my father. He's seen too much war, carries too many scars. But when he looks at me like I'm something precious, all my good intentions crumble.

Then I discover the truth.

He's been lying to me. Selling my family's secrets. Playing both sides while I fall for him like the naive princess everyone thinks I am.

Now I'm carrying his baby, and my parents want me married to someone safe.

But I belong to a man with blood on his hands and ghosts in his eyes. A man who might be a traitor. A man who claims he did it all to protect me.

The problem? I believe him.

Even as my world burns down around us, even as enemies close in from every side, I can't stop loving the man who was supposed to be my shield but became my greatest weakness.

In this world, loving the wrong man can get you killed.

But not loving him might destroy us both.