Tara Bennett has learned to recognize the feeling of being watched. The unanswered calls. The messages that arrive at the wrong hour. The uneasy certainty that someone is always a little too close.

Then Max Calloway steps into her life. He is older, controlled, and impossible to ignore. What begins as an unexpected encounter quickly becomes an attraction neither of them planned for, just as the danger surrounding Tara begins to close in.

But attention can feel a lot like protection until you no longer know where one ends and the other begins. As desire deepens and the threats grow harder to dismiss, Tara is forced to question who she can trust, who is watching, and how far someone might go to keep her in their sights.

Somewhere between attraction and obsession, the line has already been crossed. The only question is who crossed it.