The Boss's Bodyguard

A forbidden bodyguard dark mafia romance — obsessive protector, forced proximity, age gap

By: Helena von Heilig, Scarlett Cross

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He has one rule about the don's daughter: don't want her. He's already failing.

Nikolai Voss doesn't make mistakes. Twelve years of military discipline and five more running personal protection for the Marchetti crime family have made sure of that. He doesn't get attached. He doesn't get distracted. He doesn't look twice at women he can't have.

Then Serena Marchetti witnesses a murder she was never supposed to see—and he's ordered to contain her.

She isn't frightened. That's the problem.

Serena has spent her entire life being managed, sheltered, and handled by men who think they know best. She has no intention of making it easy for one more. What she has instead is a plan, a secret, and a small encrypted device she picked up off a dead man's coat that nobody knows she's carrying.

The threat should be coming from outside the family. Nikolai is starting to think it isn't. The case is closing too fast, the evidence is too clean, and someone with a desk inside AEGIS's own building gave a shooter access to a secured level.

The closer he looks, the more dangerous the truth gets. The closer he gets to her, the more impossible the rules become.

Someone inside the firm that's supposed to protect the Marchetti family wants Serena dead. And the only man standing between her and the people he works for is the one man who was never supposed to want her at all.

Leibwächter des Bosses is the first book in the SCHATTEN & STAHL series—six interconnected dark mafia romances set in the shadowed world of European organized crime. Each book ends in HEA. The conspiracy runs deeper than any one of them knows.

Tropes: Bodyguard romance • Forbidden romance • Forced proximity • Grumpy/sunshine • Obsessive hero • Age gap • Morally grey MMC

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