Tomorrow was never guaranteed. Slade Lewis built his life around that truth.As Deputy Director of the CIA, he doesn't hide behind a desk. He leads from the front—every mission mapped, every variable controlled, every threat neutralized before it can take another partner from him. Control isn't a preference. It's survival.Then she walks into his crosshairs.A petite brunette with a razor-sharp mind and a past dipped in shadows. A former attorney general turned fugitive, freed from prison under circumstances that scream corruption. She should be a target. A file. A name on a list.Instead, she's the only woman he's ever wanted to master.Jessica Hewitt was untouchable — a headline-making attorney general who never bent and never broke. Until blood proved thicker than the law, and her family's sins dragged her down with them. Now she's lost everything: her career, her freedom, and any chance at the man she's secretly burned for since the day she met him.So when Slade Lewis walks through her door, not as her hunter, but as her savior, Jessica's carefully constructed walls don't stand a chance.One dark look. One whispered command. One promise of discipline over his lap, and the Deputy Director becomes her Daddy.But Jessica is caught between two worlds. The family that owns her loyalty and the Daddy who's claiming her heart. And the closer Slade gets to the truth, the more dangerous her silence becomes…Because some secrets don't just break hearts. They start wars.