When Francesca Brook escaped a religious cult, she left everything behind?including her baby sister. To fight for custody of her sibling, she needs a job and resources, but she has no education or work experience. She's never even owned a smartphone. Spending the last of her savings to seek refuge with her estranged grandmother in Rome, she must find employment quickly. The last person she expects to hire her is Nate Icefall.

Nate hadn't planned on hiring the mysterious woman who wandered into his exclusive club either, but a crisis demands his return to the States?and he needs a new club manager fast. One week to train her, then he's gone. The growing attraction he's starting to feel for her means nothing. He had destroyed his life because of a woman before...he won't do it again. Not when he's almost reclaimed everything he lost.

But when Francesca's past finds her in Italy, Nate faces an impossible choice: return to the life he just managed to rebuild, or risk it all for a woman who's determined to stand on her own.