The One Who Won’t Get Away

It was just one night—until he showed up with her sister in his arms.

Nadya Almaznaya doesn’t do second chances. Not in life. Not in love. After a childhood ripped apart by the worst kind of evil, she’s learned to keep things simple: keep moving, keep laughing, and never, ever let anyone close enough to break her.

Especially not the quiet, steel-eyed FBI agent she slept with once and never called again.

But when her youngest sister is rescued, Nadya comes face-to-face with Nick Santano—the man she never forgot.

He’s older now, even more intense, and somehow still looking at her like he sees beneath every mask she’s ever worn.

She’s not part of his case. She’s not someone who needs saving. But being near him again threatens to crack the armor she’s spent years perfecting.

And when shadows from her past resurface, Nadya must choose: stay behind the walls she built to survive—or take the kind of risk that could finally set her free.

He was never supposed to matter.

Walking away from him once was hard.

Doing it twice might destroy her.