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Get in. Get paid. Get the hell out. That’s the plan. Scotland’s rolling hills are calling me home, and this job is just another stop along the way. But being her bodyguard is harder than expected. Keeping tabs on a fiercely independent lass who refuses to follow the rules? Nearly impossible. Then my cold, blackened heart starts to thaw as I watch her dirty little shows. She’s maddening, bratty, and curvy in all the right ways. Ach, what am I doing? And what happens when my compass home begins pointing toward her instead?

When Dirk Van Arnhem—a brilliant American with a Yale degree, fluent Chinese, and a damaged past—crosses paths in Shanghai with Anneke Knauss, a fiercely intelligent and beautiful German innovator, their connection is instant and electric. He is looking to heal old wounds. She’s engineering the future of AI while defining her dignity through her work. Each wants to create the world’s most valuable AI company by fusing American and Chinese technology. Their work has the potential to cure diseases, advance world peace, and create an AI empire worth trillions.

The second I board the Bruise Cruise, I’m ready to indulge—top-shelf liquor, five-star meals, and maybe a little pain to round out the night. What I don’t expect? Falling for the one woman guaranteed to ruin everything. A federal agent. She’s here to sink us, and I’m stuck sharing a suite—and a bed—with the enemy.

I see her jotting down notes in her little notebook. Psychopath. Deranged. No empathy to be found. She doesn't yet understand just how right she is, but she will. I'm obsessed with her. She consumes my every waking thought. The problem is, she's my therapist. Can she break through to me, or will I end up breaking her?

Redemption was never supposed to be on the set list for Twisted Tours. Eight years ago, Zack Anderson recited his vows to me in front of our friends and family. He swore to stand by my side through all heartache and fears. Yet, six months later—I came home to find our home cleaned of his...