The Mafia Collector Claims Her Breath

Calder Vane locks the panic-room door with Ira Pell inside—and her inhaler in his hand. She has one breath left to convince the mafia collector not to destroy the ledger that can sink his entire dock. Ira knows numbers; Calder knows exactly how to turn them into weapons. He needs her alive, silent, and under his control, while she needs his dock code to save the widows his crew has abandoned. But when enemies breach the river hatch and his ruthless protection starts feeling dangerously like trust, Ira can no longer tell whether Calder is her captor—or the only man keeping her alive. With the hatch failing and her air running out, will Ira trade the ledger for Calder’s protection—or expose his darkest secret and let them both drown?