Concealed Desire by Eliza Quinn

Nora can’t risk her dark past being exposed.

The opportunity to cater a book reading for a famous author at the Van Der Meer Library is too good to be true. She leaps at the chance, prepared to make her very best pastries and coffee. Authors and readers love coffee, right? And who doesn’t love pastries?
But the good-natured sweetheart clashes with Dax, a temperamental security expert, when he asks too many questions. Did the hunk forget he’s there to protect the author? Because Nora’s not sure he’s aware that she’s not supposed to be his focus. He’s coming at her hard and fast with probing questions she’s not willing to answer.
He seems determined to dismantle the walls around her heart brick by brick. But those walls serve a purpose; they keep her dark past hidden and protect those she loves. She can’t let him—or anyone else—in. She won’t. But will the stubborn, protective bodyguard take no for an answer?