For a chance to save his daughter, he’ll do whatever it takes…
Sebastian Voss has spent the last three years fighting for custody of the little girl who means everything to him. Between a narcissistic ex-wife, her polished new fiancé, and a steady stream of damaging headlines painting him as the NHL’s favorite womanizing disaster, Sebastian is running out of options.
Then he lands on one reckless, desperate solution.
He needs a wife.
Kat Morrison should be the last woman he asks. She’s a sharp-tongued journalist he barely knows, a woman with storm-gray eyes, a guarded heart, and more secrets than anyone should carry. But Sebastian has been gone for her since the moment they met, and if marrying Kat gives him a better chance at keeping his daughter safe, he’ll risk everything.
Even his heart.
Kat knows saying yes is a mistake.
Not because she doesn’t love him.
Because she does.
For three years, she’s been forced to write the lies that have damaged Sebastian’s reputation and cost him chance after chance in court. Blackmailed into obedience to save her brother’s life, Kat has become the weapon aimed straight at the only man who’s ever made her feel safe.
Now she’s living in his house, wearing his ring, loving his daughter, and falling deeper for the family she was supposed to help destroy.
But the closer Sebastian and Kat get, the harder it becomes to tell where the lie ends and forever begins.
And when the truth finally comes out, Sebastian could lose more than custody of his daughter.
He could lose the woman he’s loved all along.
Guarded is a spicy contemporary hockey romance featuring fake marriage, a devoted single dad, a morally gray heroine, found family, secret betrayal, and a hero who falls first and hard.