No Innocent Ground

Maren Cole used to be the FBI’s best profiler. Now she runs a private security firm out of a warehouse in Seattle’s industrial district, taking the cases the system won’t touch. She’s good at reading people. She’s better at not trusting them.

When investigative journalist Eli Rowan goes missing while working a story that points directly at Greywater’s biggest client, Maren takes the case and finds more than a missing reporter. She finds a man who’s been building evidence of something she’s spent years trying not to see: a conspiracy running through the city’s courts, police, and political offices like rot through old wood.

Eli doesn’t trust her. She’s connected to the people he’s investigating. She doesn’t trust him. He’s got a story that could destroy everything she’s built. But someone wants Eli dead, and the only way to keep him alive is to work together, which means spending every hour in close quarters with a man who sees through her defenses as easily as she reads his.

The case is personal. The attraction is worse. And the people who disappeared Eli the first time are not finished.

No Innocent Ground is enemies-to-lovers romantic suspense for readers who like their heroines sharp, their heroes stubborn, and their danger closer than the bedroom door.