Chain of Custody: A Dark Forced Proximity Romance: 2

He was sent to burn her evidence. He wrote her seven rules instead.Medical examiner Mara Quint has spent a month proving that nine "accidents" were murders, one wax-sealed slice of tissue at a time. On the Friday night before the grand jury, the lights go out in her archive, and a stranger in a tan coat walks in with a can of gasoline, talking about the snow.Ezra Kade cleans up for the family that owns Port Calder. He never says anything but the weather. Tonight's job is her evidence.Instead he gets her out of the fire, along with the sealed box she refuses to put down. And on the back of a diner receipt he writes her seven terms.Don't go to work. Don't open the door. Don't sign anything. Don't ask what he did. Don't examine him.She'll break most of them. He'll help her break the rest.She has four days to carry that box to the grand jury with a list of every hand that touched it, because one unlogged hand makes it worthless. The family has a warrant with her name on it. Their new man only asks questions. And the one man in the county she can trust has spent nine years making rooms lie.Chain of Custody is a fast, dark, single-plot romance: a morally gray hero who feeds her, a heroine who reads bodies better than he reads rooms, forced proximity in a snowstorm, high heat with the door closed, and a guaranteed happy ending. Book Two of The Calder Cleaners. Each book follows a new couple and reads as a standalone.