Jonathan was wealthy beyond measure, though Lena had not known it when she knelt in the rain, and his fortune had attracted the attention of a man named Edwin Frost, a financier with a spotless public image and a private obsession with control, who believed that children could be acquired as easily as companies if one simply applied enough pressure.
At first, the danger was subtle.
A woman posing as a nanny tried to infiltrate Jonathan’s home, only to be discovered drugging one of the infants, and when Lena realized what had almost happened, fear gave way to something harder and steadier, a refusal to let anyone hurt the family she had stumbled into by accident and choice.
Jonathan made Lena his legal guardian in case anything happened to him, a decision that shocked everyone but made perfect sense to the girl who had already proven she would not turn away, and though she was young, she paid attention, noticing patterns others dismissed, sensing that Edwin Frost was not finished.
Weeks passed, then months, and the pressure escalated.