PFD

After getting betrayed by someone he thought was a friend, Renzaré Franklin shuts down emotionally-only giving real love and energy to his close-knit family. But things take a strange turn when he crosses paths with a stunning personal shopper whose charm isn't the only thing raising red flags. Renzaré's calm demeanor starts to crack as shady moves pile up. When he learns his girlfriend's been scheming with her bestie to cheat, he snaps. Renzaré sets a trap-not just for revenge, but to force his presence on Clarice Teals, a co-worker with trauma in her eyes and a deep connection he can't ignore.

Still hurt over her ex-husband leaving her for her sister, her family welcoming the betrayal, and stuck dragging a toxic best friend who treats her loyalty like a leash, Clarice Teals' life becomes messier once a cardiac nurse specialist with danger in his eyes calmly makes a demand of her presence. She's stuck in a ridiculous purging-redemption-revenge deal with the one man who feels protective but reeks of dangerous-Renzaré Franklin. More soul-damaging skeletons fall from a closet Clarice didn't know existed.

Can Clarice handle the newly learned betrayal from a friend while being closely tied to a man who speaks in riddles and threats? The kind of man who removes thumbs if someone doesn't want to continue playing a game they started, which he must finish as the winner. Will Renzaré receive a better insight into a woman who intrigues him but also rubs him in ways that makes him want to remove her thumbs?