He sells absence. She finds what powerful men try to bury. Neither of them was supposed to meet in Monaco.
Forensic auditor Aris Mercer has spent her career making rich men's money confess. She is not afraid of polished rooms. She is not afraid of being underestimated. She is not even afraid of the billionaire who told her, twice, to stop looking at the file in her hand.
She should have been.
When she walks onto the superyacht Sovereign during Grand Prix weekend with two pages and a question that should not exist, Aris doesn't know that the yacht's quiet, dangerous head of security has already seen her name on the boarding log. She doesn't know her audit has tripped a system designed to bury women like her. And she doesn't know that the man watching her from the upper deck is the one person in Monaco capable of keeping her alive.
Carlos Vale walked out of a world that taught him how to disappear bodies and balance sheets in the same breath. Ten years of clean work later, a forensic auditor has stepped onto his deck carrying proof of the one system he never finished escaping. He should put her on the next launch back to Nice.
Instead, he gives her his jacket, his second pistol, and a fake passport.
One bed. Two days. A luxury world hunting them both.
What follows is forty-eight hours of harbor tunnels, secret panels, a salon full of billionaires watching the wrong woman, and a forced cover that puts a stranger in the only bed of a Swiss safe flat. Aris has spent her life refusing to be reduced. Carlos has spent his life refusing to be known. Both of them are about to fail.
Predator in Silk is the first novel in The Sovereign Series, international romantic suspense for readers who want their heroes lethal, their heroines impossible to underestimate, and their first kiss earned in the dark of a cave with armed men closing in.
Tropes & forced proximity, dangerous man capable woman, bodyguard romance, fake-marriage cover, only one bed, slow-burn explosive, hunted protagonists, international thriller romance.
Book 1 of 5 in The Sovereign Series. All five books are written. New book every month through October 2026. High heat. Alpha hero. One couple across five books. Each book ends with the next door open.