Strike the Witness: A Dark Forced Proximity Romance

He was sent to make her disappear. He wrote her seven rules instead.Court reporter Tess Arden has never written down a word nobody said. Then she goes back up to a hotel suite for the steno machine she left behind, and finds a dead man on the bathroom floor, and a stranger in a gray suit, folding a towel.Jude Sarkis cleans up for the family that owns Port Calder. He makes rooms tell the story they're supposed to. His order tonight is two words long: no witnesses.He takes her instead. And on the back of a hotel laundry ticket he writes her seven terms.Don't go home. Don't call anyone. Don't lie to him. Don't ask his name. Don't touch him.She'll break every one of them. He'll break the last one first.But the machine she left on the table was still recording. It heard the man who did it. It heard the man who called in the cleaner. And it heard what they're planning to do with Jude when anyone starts asking questions.Seventy-two hours. One filing deadline. A polite killer with a bird book, and a family that owns the courthouse.Strike the Witness is a fast, dark, single-plot romance: morally gray hero, a heroine who is better at something than he is, forced proximity, high heat with the door closed, and a guaranteed happy-for-now ending. Book One of The Calder Cleaners. Each book follows a new couple.