Deadly Stakes (High Stakes Brotherhood Book 1)
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A murder. A lie. A temptation neither of them can afford.
When a powerful executive is gunned down inside his best friend’s luxury hotel, Detective Derrick Holmes is assigned the case. The only witness? A high-end escort who was never supposed to be in that room.
Sonnet Jackson walked into the wrong suite — and straight into a nightmare. She saw the killer. Worse, she knows him. He’s a ghost from her past she prayed would never return. Terrified for her life, Sonnet lies during her police interview.
Derrick knows it.
He sees the fear behind her defiance. The secrets in her eyes. And he’s determined to break through her walls — even if it means getting dangerously close. What starts as a strategy becomes something far more volatile. Because Derrick isn’t just fighting for the truth. He’s falling for the witness.
But Derrick has enemies of his own — powerful men who want him silenced. When a brutal attack leaves them both in the crosshairs, he calls in reinforcements: loyal friends who will stand beside him when the city edges toward war.
The clock is ticking. The truth is deadly. And surrendering to desire may cost them everything.
In a world ruled by power, loyalty, and lethal ambition, love is the most dangerous risk of all.