**She has spent her life bringing people home. Now all she wants is to stay with her own.**
To the world that operates in shadows, she’s Guardian, a highly trained operative trusted with missions most people will never know existed. But in New Orleans, behind the front door of a house filled with laughter, love, and the occasional chaos of raising a five-year-old, she’s simply Aisha Dupré-Batiste.
A wife. A mother. A woman who has everything to lose.
Her husband, Alan, is the steady place she lands when the world gets too heavy, and their son, Aiden, is the little boy who believes his mother can do absolutely anything. Together, they’ve built the kind of life Aisha once thought impossible for someone in her line of work. And lately, the desire to trade dangerous assignments for ordinary mornings, family dinners, and a future that doesn’t require saying goodbye has become harder to ignore.
But leaving isn’t as simple as walking away.
When a shadowy threat begins to surface and an attempt on her life raises questions even her closest teammates cannot answer, Aisha finds herself caught between the duty that has defined her and the family that gives her life meaning. As secrets deepen and the danger moves closer, she must confront a terrifying possibility: the world she’s spent years protecting others from may be one she can no longer escape.
For years, Guardian has been the person everyone counts on to make it home.
**This time, everything she loves is waiting for her to do the same.**
