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He was hired to find the family's leak and deliver her. He found her in four days - and didn't tell them, because his own name is buried one layer beneath the empire she's bleeding to burn down. A slow-burn, mutual-deception dark romance. Standalone. Eyes-open HEA.
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She came to burn her family down. She didn't plan on the man they sent to stop her.
Sloane Marchetti walked away from the family business two years ago - the "import" business, the one whose real cargo she can no longer pretend not to know. She's a former prosecutor turning her own precision on her own blood, quietly building the file that will put her father in prison for the rest of his life. She's three months from walking it into the FBI when the federal government arrives at the family door with questions she recognizes from her own notes.
Now the family is hunting the leak. And the leak is her.
Elias Reyne makes people disappear. A former federal protection specialist gone private, he's summoned to "consult on Sloane's security" - but within forty-eight hours he understands the real job: watch her, prove she's the leak, and deliver her to the people who love her enough to make it quick. He knows within four days that she's exactly who they think she is.
He doesn't tell them.
Because Elias has a secret one layer deeper than hers - a name he signed into the dark eight years ago to save a life, welded into the very structure Sloane is bleeding to destroy. Protecting her exposes him. Catching her is what the family owns him to do. And the closer he keeps her, the closer she comes to the file that ends him.
Two people who survive by reading rooms, put in a house that's watching them both. She can't tell him what she has, because he's the threat. He can't tell her who he is, because she's the target. They fall in love in the impossible space between those two silences - and when the walls finally close, only one truth can get her out alive, and it's the one that will cost him everything.
The Second Family is a slow-burn, deception-on-both-sides dark romance with a morally grey heroine, a protective hero who's certain he's the danger, and an eyes-open happily ever after. No cheating. No cliffhanger on the central couple. Standalone in the Rowe Capital Series.
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