One painter. One billionaire. One promise, finally kept.

Tessa Quinn restores old paintings and paints shop signs in her late father’s locksmith shop in Red Hook. She can tell a five-hundred-dollar painting from an eighty-five-thousand-dollar one across a room – and she knows that three rooms at the Ravenshaw Grand were robbed, and that her godmother, a housekeeper there for thirty-four years, was blamed for it.

She has written to the Ravenshaw Group four times. Nobody wrote back.

So at a wedding party in a Brooklyn bakery, she walks up to the quietest Ravenshaw brother, tells him his hotel has a thief, straightens his tie, and walks away.

Adrian Ravenshaw runs his family’s security. He speaks rarely, watches every door, and tells people about one percent of what he knows. He never saw her letters – and the only way they could have disappeared is from inside his own office.

Together they follow the money: stolen jewelry, a gallery selling worthless paintings for eighty-five thousand dollars apiece, companies with no people in them, and a gold watch on the wrong man’s wrist. But Adrian guards his secrets the way he guards everything else, and the man behind it all is coming for Tessa – all the way to the black water of the Erie Basin, where a man who never learned to swim will have to decide how far he will go for her.

Dangerously Guarded is Book 3 in the Ravenshaw Brothers series. It can be read on its own and features open-door scenes for adult readers.