Close Enough to Break

The ambassador's daughter is supposed to keep her head down.
The ex-Marine assigned to protect her is supposed to keep his distance.
Yet they find themselves wanting to give in to the love they were never supposed to have.

Julia Locke has spent her life beside her father in the world of politics, helping him build charitable programs for women and children and standing proudly at his side as his career nears its end. The cross-country goodwill tour should be a celebration of everything they've fought for. Instead, it becomes a threat the moment security assigns her a bodyguard she never expected to see again.

Gray Delevigne.

Six years ago, he was the boy she thought she could build a future with. The summer fling that turned into something deeper. The man who knew her secrets, her heartbreak, and the loss she has never fully spoken of. When life pulled them apart, Julia shut him out completely. Now he's back in her orbit, harder, quieter, and oh-so impossible to ignore.

As an online hate campaign grows more vicious and the tour spirals into danger, Julia and Gray are forced together in close quarters, where old wounds and buried feelings are impossible to outrun. But someone is watching—someone with money, influence, and a reason to destroy her father's legacy. And when the lies turn public, Julia will have to decide how much she's willing to sacrifice to protect the truth.
Because the deeper the threat becomes, the more Julia realizes the danger isn't only coming for her father's career as she had originally thought. As a matter of fact, it's coming for her heart, too, and she doesn't know if she'd be able to survive it.