Some desires never see the light of day.

Until lurking obsessions force them out of the dark.

Tanner Kennedy built his walls from the ground up twenty years ago.

Sturdy, unbreakable walls that have kept Callie Anderson out just fine—until circumstance pushed her closer to his boundary.

She’s the only one who seems to have the tools to break ground and rebuild, but Tanner won’t make it easy for her.

Callie threatens everything Tanner has known for decades. Sanctuary. Peace. Safety.

But is that ever really what he felt? Or is that exactly what he’s been protecting himself from this whole time?

When a prominent new client needs his team’s help—and the work comes loaded with secrets and demons of its own—Tanner realizes the line between peace and destruction can become blurred.

And someone else can see it all too clearly.

In a world where you never really know the people you think you do, Tanner has to make the decision to trust.

Trust himself, or lose Callie to a world of doubt