She has exactly one piece of leverage on a very dangerous man. She uses it to get herself a job. And, somehow, a boyfriend.

Brynn Satcher is a graphic designer with a taste for the darker things in life, an appetite she feeds on true crime documentaries. But watching them has never made her want to be in one.

Operative Zero doesn't exist—not to the Bureau, not to anyone but the man who runs it. He specializes in permanent solutions, the kind that erase people from existence. Right now he's hunting a predator to deliver his own brand of justice.

A foul-mouthed woman in platform boots walking into the middle of it? Not part of the plan.

To make matters worse, she's the designer contracted to work with his daytime identity: Indigo West, curator of one of the most prestigious art museums in Los Angeles. And Brynn is already piecing together exactly who he is.

Most witnesses run. She negotiates. He tells himself that keeping her close means keeping her in check.

But when the police turn their attention to Brynn, she becomes a liability—a thread that could lead investigators straight to Operative Zero and everything he's buried.

Forced into an alliance neither of them wanted, Indigo and Brynn have to stay ahead of the law long enough to survive each other.

Staying alive turns out to be the easy part. Falling in love is what could ruin them both.

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Trigger Warning: graphic violence, murder, strangulation, kidnapping, stalking, explicit content including breath play, profanity. Referenced: sexual assault, childhood abuse, self-harm.