Archer: Reynolds Protective, Book 1

She's supposed to be dead. He's the one man who knows she isn't.

Keira McKenna has spent years building a quiet life in the Wyoming mountains—a life that belongs to someone else, complete with a borrowed name and a buried past. When your father testifies against Boston's Irish mob, you learn fast that survival means disappearing. And Keira has become very, very good at disappearing.

Until the crimes start.

Archer Reynolds left Boston's police force carrying the weight of one catastrophic failure. Back home in small-town Wyoming, he built Reynolds Protective Group from the ground up—elite security work as penance, as purpose, as proof he could still protect the people who needed him. He never expected the investigation into a string of local incidents to put him face-to-face with a ghost. Specifically, the ghost of the one woman he's never managed to forget.

She lied about who she was. She let him believe she was dead. And now she needs his protection whether she'll admit it or not.

With her past closing in fast and her carefully constructed world unraveling, Keira can't afford to trust anyone—least of all the broad-shouldered, infuriatingly perceptive man who looks at her like she owes him answers. Archer isn't inclined to forgive easily either. But when the danger turns lethal, keeping his distance becomes the one thing he simply cannot do.

Some second chances arrive disguised as second chances at survival.