She vanished with his heart. Now she's leaving breadcrumbs-and she's not alone. He stalks mistakes for a living. This time the trail ends with the one woman he swore he'd never lose.

Billionaire crisis fixer Julian Maddox doesn't believe in coincidences-only patterns. When a dossier lands on his desk with the nanny who once soothed his colicky baby and then disappeared, the hunt ignites. Bryn Carter moves like a ghost across American backroads, a small boy's hand tucked in hers, every motel room scrubbed of prints and hope. Julian follows the red-pin map from Chicago to Seattle, convinced she's running from more than him-and that the child may carry his eyes.

Bryn knows the rules: keep moving, trust no one, survive. But the man closing in isn't a stranger; he's the only person who ever made the house feel safe. With powerful enemies willing to burn empires to keep their crimes buried, the chase becomes a forced-proximity, high-stakes escape: burner phones, back-alley safehouses, a journalist with a death wish, and a network of lies that reaches boardrooms and bloodlines.

Desire collides with danger as past and present lock into target. To protect a child and expose the truth, Julian and Bryn must choose: keep running-or turn and fight.