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By: Riley Edwards
Narrated by: Audrey Obeyn, Christian Black
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Ryan Strong is a former Navy SEAL, bar owner, and the last man Chloe Baughman should want.

He’s her boss. She’s his employee. And he’s been very, very careful to keep it that way.

But when Chloe takes a second job at the Vault—a high-end club Ryan’s quietly investigating—his protective instincts go into overdrive. Because the Vault isn’t just a club. It’s a front. And Chloe is in deeper than she knows.

Chloe isn’t reckless. She’s desperate. Her father’s Alzheimer’s care doesn’t come cheap, and the tips at the Vault are too good to pass up. She never expected to stumble into a human trafficking ring—or to need rescuing by the brooding alpha who signs her paychecks.

Ryan calls in his ex-SEAL crew. The mission is clear. But so is something else: He’s not just fighting to save her life. He’s fighting for a chance at something more.

© 2026 by Riley Edwards. ℗ 2026 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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He needs her...
her smiles....
her joy....
her fears....
and her tears.
But Chloe has so much on her shoulders already, she works 20 hours a day, juggling numerous jobs and barely has time to sleep, she doesn't need someone else that needs something from her.
However, Ryan is not another thing on her list, he can and will help her, support her, stand beside her as she fights and hold her tight as she breaks. Ryan really impressed me here, he tones down his Alpha need to control to try and support Chloe, rather than take over and put everything right, it costs him some of his sanity, but he sees that Chloe needs to keep some control, needs any changes to be her decision, so as difficult as he finds, it he hands the reins over to her. Apart from the bedroom, here he doesn't hesitate to take control, he's demanding, dirty, tells her what he wants in filthy detail and ensures she's more than sated....delicious, dirty and steamy. I love this series, they are all slightly dinted and damaged souls, but they still fight to protect the innocent and remove the filth, they are all heroes. I listened to this on Audible with Kindle Unlimited.

He doesn't just want her...

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Overweening martyrdom, heroine who just cannot have a thought that isn’t exaggerated, lengthy and martyred. No action that isn’t prefaced with her carrying on and on. Hypersensitivity to anything anyone other than what the hero says and then he gets super objectified over and over. A good storyline destroyed. Couldn’t actually carry on listening. Very disappointed as I usually love this author.

Overdramatic much

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