Twenty-five years later, Baker Personal Injury and Law is thriving with Grant at the helm. He took the firm from a single-man operation to one of the most premiere law firms in Texas with the help of his high-sprung siblings. All except one…the one he doesn’t speak of. Because if he did—if he even thought about her—she’d weasel into town on her motorcycle with an impish grin, break his heart, and blow out of town again.

Rinse. Cycle. Repeat.

After months of being M.I.A., Kiyah returns home for a family event and isn’t surprised to receive a less-than-welcoming reception from Grant. She doesn’t take it to heart because she knows the drill—avoid her like the plague until he can’t resist any longer. What Kiyah doesn’t expect is for Grant to propose they give their secret marriage another go. She readily agrees because there’s nowhere else she rather be than with the love of her life, but when a painful secret is revealed, the forbidden couple call it quits for good.

With no money to her name, Kiyah secures a live-in nanny position for a wealthy and influential politician. The child she cares for is as sweet as pumpkin pie, the money is as good as it can get, and the perks are out of this world, but there’s one thing that keeps Kiyah on edge—her employer, Governor Hopeful Thaddeus Branson Jr. He’s controlling and manipulative, and Kiyah can’t shake the feeling that he wants her to replace his recently deceased wife as the First Lady of Texas. 

When Kiyah shows up on Grant’s doorstep in the middle of the night bloodied, bruised, and incoherent with her employer’s son, he a vows to end Thaddeus, and he won’t be satisfied until he’s six feet under.