Devoted

Kendal has been dodging her father since he got out on parole. One week clean, one week sober, one more week of Fred Avery promising he's changed — and then a golf club through the passenger window of the Corolla she needs for tomorrow's hair appointments. She's kneeling in the parking lot picking up glass when a hand offers her a handkerchief and a business card.

Joel Norouzi came to North Carolina to find the birth parents the Norouzis never told him about. He didn't expect to find a woman who flinches when the valet drops a key, or a violent ex-convict circling her like a shark.

He has a private jet, a Times Square penthouse, and no intention of letting Fred Avery get within a hundred miles of her again.

Secret billionaire. Rescue romance. Insta-protective alpha. Violent ex-father villain. NC small-town / NYC / yacht.