BREACHED

Attorney Nora Kearney has built her career around one rule: a capable adult gets to choose, even when the safer choice is ugly.

So when a protected client's supposedly secure challenge is breached and Nora realizes the approved protection network may be compromised, she does the unforgivable thing. She takes the woman and disappears.

Gabriel Vale is the enforcer sent to bring her back.

He does not threaten casually. He closes routes, strips safehouses from her one by one, turns favors into liabilities, names consequences, and executes valid authority with the same cold precision he uses when violence becomes necessary. Nora can fight him across a review table. On the streets of Chicago, she has to survive the hunt.

When Gabriel finally catches her, he discovers Nora has made herself unable to betray her client's location. Nora discovers something worse: Gabriel's control is most dangerous when he gives her enough truth to refuse it.

Forced into shared movement while the breach widens around them, hunter and fugitive make a private bargain: truth for compliance. Every answer gives Nora more leverage. Every command makes it harder to pretend she does not want the man behind the authority. And the deeper they go, the more each must decide whether protecting one life can justify taking another person's choice.

BREACHED is Book 4 of THE BRIDE PRICE, an interconnected dark mafia romance series. It features enemies to lovers, hunter/captive tension, forced proximity, mutual blackmail, a possessive villain hero, consensual D/s and authority kink, graphic violence, and a complete dark HEA.