She vanished from Monaco without a trace. Now she’s back—and she might be the only one who can save everything I’ve built.

Three years ago, I met a woman who made me forget the world expected me to be a polished, controlled heir to a billion-dollar empire. Sophie was brilliant, captivating, unforgettable—and gone by sunrise. I searched half of Europe for her, but the woman I fell for might as well have been a fever dream.

Until today.

Because the woman sitting across from me in a KOAN security briefing isn’t Sophie at all. She’s Brie Anderson—an undercover operative assigned to investigate the blackmail ring threatening to destroy my newest venture, The Sanctuary, the luxury Manhattan club I built to prove I’m more than my last name.

Someone inside my organization is weaponizing desire, using The Sanctuary to steal corporate secrets from the country’s most powerful people.
They’re selling that intelligence.
They’re escalating their threats.
They must be stopped.

Working with Brie means stepping straight back into the fire—into the connection I’ve never been able to replicate, the woman who looked at me once and saw the man beneath the curated façade. But she’s here on assignment, keeping her distance while we navigate a web.

The problem is simple: I’ve never stopped wanting her.
And now that she’s real—Brie, not the ghost I chased—I’m not letting her disappear again.

Even if protecting her means risking my family’s empire.
Even if stopping this conspiracy means tearing down the life I’ve built.
Because some things are worth any price.

And she’s at the top of that very short list.