Kept Close – Audiobook (2026 A)

She built walls around her heart to feel safe, and he built a wall inside them.

Investigative journalist Nahla Avery only wanted the truth. A small-town corruption story turned into a nightmare the moment Lyles sheriff put a target on her back. Forced into hiding and stripped of her safety, her career, and her peace, Nahla doesnt back downshe digs deeper. Thats what shes always done. What shes never done? Depend on anyone until Cannon Porter.

Cannon lives quiet, stays low, and keeps his past buried under lock and key. But when hes hired to protect Nahla, their worlds collide with the kind of intensity neither of them is prepared for. Shes brilliant, stubborn, fearless. Hes disciplined, dangerous, and done letting life take anything else from him. Protecting her shouldve been simple.

But it isnt.

Together, they uncover a conspiracy that has already cost too many people too much. Every new truth pulls them closer until hiding their connection becomes impossible. But when Cannons buried past crashes into Nahlas present, love becomes the riskiest thing either of them has ever attempted. The question they have to answer is: Is it worth it?