Graduate student Clara Pidgeon’s life changes in a single, horrifying shutter-click: she accidentally films a mafia execution. Now, she’s marked for death by the city’s most ruthless crime lord. Enter Derek Morgan, a charming bartender who saves her from an attack and offers refuge. As danger closes in, Clara finds herself drawn to his protective strength and quiet intensity. But Derek isn’t just a bartender—he’s an FBI agent deep undercover, and Clara is his assignment. Their desperate, growing attraction blurs every professional line, until the day Clara uncovers the truth: the man she’s falling for isn’t just her protector. He’s the key to the killer’s empire—and he’s been lying to her from the very first “hello.”
