All or Nothing

Everyone thinks Maya Reyes ran. She was working the whole time.Maya Reyes guides people up mountains for a living. She owns two bags, a rope, and a room in Wanaka she has not slept in for eleven nights, and she has spent eleven years on the far side of the world making certain that nothing at home could ever hold her.Then a photograph: her brother alone in the middle of a ring with a world title over his head, forty thousand strangers around him, and not one person in that frame who is his.So Maya does the thing Maya does. Quietly, patiently, over two years, without ever once saying his name out loud to the only woman alive who could fix him, she arranges it. Nobody asks her to. Nobody knows she did.Kieran Voss books six weeks on her expedition programme. He is unhurried, funny in a low unshowy register, and the best listener she has ever roped up.He is also being paid to be there.Kieran has one rule: he never lies about anything that matters. He simply arranges true things into a shape that points somewhere, and he has done it for eleven years to service a debt that was never his. His assignment is her brother's shoulder: the real recovery timeline, six weeks before the betting line hears about it. Maya is not the target. Maya is the door.She works him out in week five. She does not tell him.What neither of them plans for is everything after. A tent, a ridge, a whiteout, and the specific dangerous intimacy of two people who manage everyone around them discovering that the other one does it too, and that neither of them wants to leave.Then the fight gets moved. A second name appears on the ledger. And Maya, who has spent her whole life deciding what the people she loves are strong enough to know, has to decide whether to tell her brother what she has been carrying for six weeks, and what it will cost her when he asks why she waited.Steamy - Romantic suspense - Morally grey hero - Forced proximity - Dual POV - Slow burn - He falls first and he falls hardestALL OR NOTHING is Book 2 of the Vegas Cage Trilogy: the same eleven weeks as TWO OUT OF THREE, from the other side of the world, with the whole truth. Open door, dual POV, no cheating, no cliffhanger, and an HEA both of them have to earn. Best read after Book 1. Priya's story is next.