Keep Your Secrets

Five years ago, Rhys Calder took Ava Meridian home from a gala, gave her the best night of her life, and was gone by morning, along with the files that ended her career.

She's spent five years hating him.

He's spent five years watching her from the dark.

Now Celeste Vane, the queen of Manhattan's secrets and Ava's former mentor, is dead, and she has left Ava a key, a riddle, and a ledger written in a private shorthand only Ava can read. Twenty years of senators, bishops, billionaires and bodies. Every powerful man in New York wants it. Some of them will kill for it. One of them already has.

Rhys has three rules. No touching. No lies. And when it's over, he disappears.

But snowed in at Celeste's house on the Hudson, with the book open between them and someone hunting them through the trees, the rules start to burn. Because Rhys Calder still knows exactly how Ava sounds when she stops pretending. And the deeper she reads, the clearer it gets that the man who wrote the most entries in Celeste's black book is the one who signs Rhys's paychecks.

His father.

Some secrets protect you. Some will get you killed. And some are written down in a stranger's hand, waiting for you to finally read them in order.