The Bodyguard She Lied To

At the end of a sold-out concert, Celeste Vane sees a dead man in the front row.

Then the arena screen goes black.

SING THE TRUTH OR HE DIES AGAIN.

The crowd thinks it is part of the show. Celeste knows better.

Seven years ago, Eli Vale vanished after warning her about a private-room scandal that could destroy the men who owned her career. Celeste lied to police to save her sister's life, and the man who paid for that lie was Rhys Calder, the bodyguard who never abandoned his post.

Rhys lost his license, his company, and his trust in her.

Now a stalker is using impossible sightings, buried tapes, and intimate threats to drag them both back into the night that made Celeste famous and broke Rhys publicly.

Their fake relationship is supposed to distract the press.
Their forced proximity is supposed to keep her alive.
Their desire is the one thing neither of them can spin.

But the truth was never dead.

And the bodyguard she lied to may be the only man who can protect her from the lie that built her life.

The Bodyguard She Lied To is part of the Velvet Wounds series, a celebrity bodyguard romantic suspense novel with second-chance tension, forced proximity, fake relationship heat, stalker danger, buried industry secrets, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.