Street-smart survivor Lil Ashford never expected returning a stolen watch to change her life. But when guarded billionaire Nathan Sterling takes her in and hires her as his assistant, their unlikely connection quickly turns into something neither can resist. As enemies close in on Nathan’s empire and Lil’s dangerous past resurfaces, Nathan discovers that protecting the woman he loves may cost him everything.
A retired killer. A spoiled heiress. And an island full of men carrying silver.
Sloane Holt spent twenty years as her agency's most lethal asset, and not once asked what was actually in the vitamin protocol her handler kept her on. Two years into retirement, a woman she was about to take home puts her on a bathroom floor in ninety seconds — and Sloane wakes up tied to a chair with one last job: fly to a private island and babysit a general's daughter for a week. Lily Derrickson is twenty-five, spectacular, entirely uninterested in being protected, and the first person in two decades to look at Sloane like a woman instead of a weapon. Then the hotel staff turn out to be armed, the island goes dark, and Sloane takes a round in the chest that should have ended her — and doesn't, because it hit the flask Lily shoved in her pocket as an insult. The bullet inside it is silver. Which means someone on this island isn't here for the general's launch codes at all. With a full moon four days out, a poisoned girl she cannot cure, an ex-partner begging her to run, and a handler who has held her leash since she was twenty, Sloane has to decide how much Lily is allowed to see — because the only permanent cure for what's killing her is the one thing Sloane has never done to anyone she loved.
Mara is a plus-size mermaid, mocked and rejected her entire life by her own family and an entire kingdom of the thin. When her envious sister offers her up as a sacrifice to the forbidden Abyss, Mara finds herself not among monsters, but in a world where fullness is true magical power — and falls in love with its beautiful queen. But the moment the legendary Heart of the Ocean awakens, capable of uniting two warring worlds, Mara has no choice left — she must protect her new love, her people, and herself from her sister's schemes and the cruel King of the Upper Sea, both willing to do anything to preserve an age-old lie.