Your dead father apparently forgot to mention that you’re old-money New England royalty.

At twenty-five, you thought you knew who Nathaniel Brackett was.

Your dad. Your mother Vivian’s late husband. A Missouri man who raised you in tiny Foxfire Forest.

Then your grandfather dies.

The grandfather you didn’t know existed.

Bartholomew Brackett leaves behind Greyhaven—a sprawling coastal estate in Camden, Maine—and a century-old family fortune built on seafood, food, land, and the kind of money that has its own attorneys.

There’s just one problem.

Everyone thought your cousin Kane was the heir.

Including Kane.

Turns out your father was the estranged eldest Brackett son—and as Nathaniel’s only child, everything passes through him to you.

Suddenly you’re the first Brackett heiress in four generations, you apparently own part of Maine, and people keep discussing lobster distribution like that’s a normal fucking sentence.

Kane has spent thirty years preparing for the future you inherited overnight.

And the man he trusts most has been sent to collect you.

Declan “Dec” Webster.

Thirty. Six-foot-four. Tattooed. Dark curls. Green eyes. Executive protection specialist. Lifelong Greyhaven insider. Kane’s best friend since childhood.

Dec arrives in Foxfire in a black Denali with one official job:

Protect the new Brackett heiress.

He has another job you don’t know about.

Watch you.

Find out what you know. What you want. Whether you’ll keep the company. Whether you’ll sell. Whether Missouri is the pressure point Kane needs.

Dec expects a secret heiress with a plan.

Instead he finds a woman yelling at her mother in Greece because MISSOURI IS LANDLOCKED AND YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO CARE FOR A DADGUM LOBSTER.

He calls you Heiress just to piss you off.

Then he starts liking you.

Then the reports to Kane get shorter.

Then they stop containing anything useful at all.

Because somewhere between Foxfire and Greyhaven, Kane’s eyes and ears become your bodyguard. Your confidant. Your safe place.

And eventually?

Your man.

There’s just one problem.

You don’t know he was ever Kane’s spy.

🖤 Bodyguard x Heiress • Morally Gray Protector • Old Money • Secret Inheritance • Forced Proximity • Best Friend’s Cousin • Divided Loyalty • Betrayal • Devoted Swan • Captivated Consort • “Who Did This to You?” • He Falls First • Maine x Missouri • “Heiress” • So Far, So Fake