by Katee Robert
First published 2024
Charlotte Finch built her life around the law. Then the officers she trusted turned on her, and the line she once drew between right and wrong stopped making sense. Now she's standing in front of Aiden O'Malley, head of the most powerful criminal family in Boston, listening to a proposition she never expected to consider. He wants her to play his fiancée. In return, she gets the justice her former colleagues denied her. Aiden runs the O'Malley empire on control and cold calculation. He keeps the man underneath buried. Then Charlie walks in and that discipline starts to crack. A single touch from her is enough to knock him sideways. The fake engagement was supposed to be a tactical move, a way to neutralize his enemies. It stops feeling tactical fast. This is the fifth book in Katee Robert's O'Malleys series. Robert is a New York Times bestselling author with a massive following on TikTok. As the arrangement pulls Aiden deeper in, he realizes he will burn down everything he built, including his own family, to keep her alive. Charlie has to decide whether the man offering to protect her is the same man she was trained to stop.
Genres: romance, crime, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance, romantic-suspense
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, gritty, intense, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, forced-proximity, slow-burn
Setting: Boston
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
336 pages · Paperback · Forever
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content, violence