Too Close To Dark (Point Bluff #2)

Mira Voss

has been running for three years. Not from the law. From the people the law can’t touch.

She used to build the systems that read the world for powerful men, until she learned what her work was really feeding.

Now she’s the only witness who can bring the whole network down, and the price on her silence gets higher every day she stays alive.

When a rifle round finds her through a courthouse window, the government offers her a wall of federal agents.

She turns them down and asks for one man instead.

Travis "Stonewall" Nolan

has spent twenty years being the wall. It’s what he knows.

It’s what he has instead of the family he never let himself want, because the last time he loved something more than the mission, a little girl was carried away on a truck in Karachi, and he has spent every day since keeping the people in his care alive and keeping his own heart out of the equation.

Eleven weeks of safe houses. Eleven weeks of learning that the silent woman in the passenger seat is the bravest person he has ever guarded. Eleven weeks of a foot of air between them that neither one will admit is the hardest post he’s ever stood.

Then his boss draws the line out loud: what Nolan does for her stays strictly professional, or he’s replaced. Because a protector who falls for his principal makes bad calls, and bad calls get principals killed.

The order comes too late. It came too late weeks ago.

And somewhere above them, the man hunting Mira knows it.

He doesn’t need a bullet to finish her. He only needs a piece of paper that takes Nolan off her wall and lets the dark walk into the space where he used to stand.

Now the thing they’ve been hiding in the dark of every safe house is the exact weapon being used against them, and Mira has nine days to reach a witness stand alive, with her mother’s life in the balance and the only man she’s ever trusted forbidden, by his own honor, to stand beside her.

He made her one promise:

if they take you, I will come. Not like a man with nothing to lose. Like a man with a team.

She’s about to find out what that promise is worth.

Too Close to Dark

is the second book in the

Point Bluff

series and can be read as a standalone. It features a protector hero who never learned how to stop standing between the people he loves and the dark, a heroine strong enough to walk into the one room he can’t follow her into, found family who show up when it counts,

and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

If you believe the right man doesn’t ask you to be smaller, he clears the room so you can stand at full height, this one is for you.