DIAMONDS AND DECEPTION
She ran from one man’s control straight into another man’s arms – and into the most dangerous game of her life.
Scarlett Rose Astor-St. James was born into diamonds and destined to inherit her grandfather’s empire. But when Conrad Astor dies suddenly, leaving her vulnerable to her stepfather’s ruthless schemes, Scarlett finds herself being sold like a pawn – forced to marry a man she despises to secure control of the company she loves.
So she runs.
On a first class flight to New York she sits next to a dangerously handsome stranger. He says his name is Aiden. She tells him hers is Gem. One electrifying night later he is gone and she tells herself it meant nothing.
It meant everything.
When Aiden King walks into her lawyer’s office days later the truth hits like a thunderbolt. He is not just the stranger from the plane. He is the one man her grandfather trusted to protect her. The one man bound by a deathbed promise to keep her safe.
The one man she cannot have.
But her stepfather is not finished. And the dangerous men he has made deals with will stop at nothing, including threatening Scarlett’s life – to get what they want.
In a world built on diamonds and deception the only thing more precious than the Astor empire is the woman at the heart of it. And Aiden King did not make a promise he does not intend to keep.
✦ Strangers to lovers ✦ Forced proximity ✦ Billionaire romantic suspense ✦ Southern belle heroine ✦ Guaranteed HEA