He collects her protection money. Now, he's coming to collect her. Glenda Fisher knows the rules of survival in Philadelphia: keep your head down, run your boutique, and never get involved with the Fontanas. But avoiding the city's most powerful crime family is impossible when their head of security walks into her shop every month. Chance Thorpe is terrifying, lethal, and the star of every one of Glenda's darkest fantasies. Chance is a man of discipline. As the "Business Security Manager" for the Fontana empire, he maintains order with brutal efficiency. He doesn't do messy, and he doesn't do relationships.

But the fiery redhead with the sharp tongue and the curves of a goddess has been testing his legendary self-control for too long. When a rival crime syndicate targets Glenda to get to Chance, the professional line blurs into obsession. After an attack on her shop leaves her shattered, Chance decides that watching from afar isn't enough. He's moving her into his penthouse, into his bed, and under his absolute protection. In his world, safety comes at a price. He doesn't just want to keep her safe; he wants to own her. Body and soul. But with a war brewing on the streets, the greatest danger to Glenda might not be the enemy outside, but the possessive man locking the door behind her.