Zoe Vass is a broke pastry chef who crashes a billionaire's private party by accident — and kisses the wrong man in the dark before she even knows his name. That man is Rael Morrow, cold-eyed owner of the city's most powerful hotel empire, and when the corridor lights come on, he's already decided she did it on purpose. His solution: offer her a job she can't afford to refuse and keep her close enough to figure out her angle. But the closer Zoe gets to Rael, the more she suspects the real danger isn't losing her position in his kitchen — it's the secret he's carrying, one that reaches further into her own life than she ever imagined. How do you protect yourself from a man who already knows something about you that you don't?