Rook and Ronin

Rook Walsh appeared out of nowhere like a dark angel sent to steal my soul. And I could just tell that she was broken, and beaten, and scared. So I made her an offer of a lifetime. She needed a job and I needed a certain "type" of girl for a modeling contract worth millions of dollars called Tragic. I was warned to keep my hands to myself. I was warned not to get involved. I was warned not to ruin her. (The way I ruined the last one.) But I don’t take orders - I give them.

Rook Walsh appeared out of nowhere like a dark angel sent to steal my soul. And I could just tell that she was broken, and beaten, and scared. So I made her an offer of a lifetime. She needed a job, and I needed a certain "type" of girl for a modeling contract worth millions of dollars called Tragic. I was warned to keep my hands to myself. I was warned not to get involved. I was warned not to ruin her. (The way I ruined the last one.) But I don’t take orders - I give them.

I get it. Stripping naked and letting your boyfriend’s best friend paint your body in order to sell custom motorcycles isn’t the ideal way to start a brand-new relationship. Add in a TV reality show, another best friend who seems determined to make me notice him, and the little fact that in order to get paid I will have to strut my stuff in public wearing nothing but body paint. Yeah. There’s not a chance in hell that Ronin is going to be okay with all this.

I’m chasing a dream here. And I’m so close to having everything I ever wanted. But I can’t start over when I’m still on the run. Before I can become the girl I want to be, I’ll need to deal with the girl I left behind.

Ford Aston is not too picky about what he wants out of Christmas. He's not into this holiday - like at all. He doesn't do presents or family dinners or parties or church. He does pets. And he's got one lined up for Christmas Eve. In fact it's the highlight of his day. And if he can get through drop-in visits, nosy 12-year-olds, an inappropriate conversation with his best friend's girlfriend, dinner with a family that's not his, and a party at his mother's house - well, he might just get home in time to enjoy himself with a stranger and make it all okay.

Spencer Shrike has been secretly taking care of Veronica Vaughn for years. She has no idea. All she sees is a man who won't show up — and another man who will. Ron the Bomb is done waiting. She's fierce, she knows how to shoot, and she's about to prove she doesn't need Spencer at all. Except... she really, really does. The entire Rook and Ronin series comes full circle. Every con, every lie, and every skeleton in the closet is back for one final shot at vengeance.

Captured, brutalized, and rebuilt into something barely human, he runs on instinct and violence. But he remembers a girl from a long time ago. A girl who was promised to him before he chose the knife instead. Harper Tate grew up invisible—no birth certificate, no name in any system, trained in secret by her assassin brother on a superyacht that never docked. Now she's on the run with something the Company will kill to get back. Sasha Cherlin is thirteen years old. She just lost her father. She's smarter, deadlier, and more broken than anyone knows.

He's empty, inhuman, dishonest, and cruel. She's never wanted anyone more. Sydney has lived in fear for eight years after freelance assassin, Merc, failed to rescue her from a cult-like militia group. Left in the hands of a sadistic man, she did whatever it took to survive. But Merc's last words gave her hope. Hope he'd be back to finish the job. After Merc is betrayed by her father, Sydney becomes his target. He wields sex, drugs, lies, and love like weapons.

Sasha Cherlin was raised to kill. Then she was raised to forget. Ford gave her a normal life—grad school, stability, a future that didn't involve blood. She buried everything. The training, the missions, the boy she lost. She was doing fine. She was almost convincing. Then FBI Special Agent Jax Barlow showed up with questions she can't answer, secrets she cant keep, and a photo that changes everything. Jax thinks he's the good guy. He thinks he's in control.

Fifteen years of happily ever after and Ronin, Ford, Spencer, and Five are all losing their minds on Christmas Eve. Ronin's daughter just got a job offer he hates. Ford's watching his genius kid pack for Oxford at fifteen while Ashleigh keeps bringing up babies. Spencer's princess looks way too much like her Bombshell mother. And Five just needs one night to be brave enough to tell a girl something before he's an ocean away.