SAFE WITH THE BODYGUARD

The firewall held.

The threat did not.

After exposing a deadly cyber conspiracy, Ironcrest Security should have had time to breathe. Instead, an encrypted target list opens in the middle of the night with a chilling warning.

PHASE TWO BEGINS IN NASHVILLE.

Beneath Knox Bishop's name is a woman he has never met, but whose family he has never forgotten.

Isla Ellison.
Trauma nurse.
Night shift.
Status active.

Three years ago, Isla's sister Mara died after trying to expose a hospital coverup powerful people wanted buried. Since then, Isla has survived on long shifts, locked doors, and the kind of grief that never fully sleeps. Then a message arrives during a brutal night at Nashville General.

Mara wanted you to finish it.

Minutes later, Isla is lured into a restricted hospital corridor where a waiting gurney, false uniforms, and a looping security camera make one thing terrifyingly clear. The people who silenced Mara have come back for what she left behind.

Knox Bishop does not believe in luck. As Ironcrest Security's most controlled protector, he trusts exits, threat patterns, and the discipline of moving before fear can become fatal. When Isla's name appears on the target list, Knox does not wait for permission. He goes after her.

He reaches her in time.

But saving Isla from the hospital is only the beginning.

Hidden inside a silver locket is Mara's final warning and the first real proof of Clean Transport, the physical enforcement arm of a conspiracy that turns kidnappings into paperwork, witnesses into liabilities, and hospital corridors into perfect places to disappear.

Isla refuses to be treated like cargo. Knox refuses to let another Ellison die on his watch. Forced into close protection, they must learn how to survive each other as much as the enemy closing in around them.

She needs truth.
He needs control.
Neither one knows how to trust without bleeding for it first.

As danger follows them from Nashville General to Ironcrest's safehouse and into the heart of a network protected by money, power, and law, Knox and Isla will have to decide what matters more.

The perfect plan.

Or the person worth breaking it for.

Safe With the Bodyguard is a high stakes romantic suspense novel filled with danger, forced proximity, buried secrets, found family, and a protector hero who must learn that love is not control. It is the second book in the Ironcrest Security series.