Leash

She was the perfect daughter. He was hired to make sure she stayed that way.

Noor Hadid has spent her entire life inside her father's empire. As Vice President of Hadid Pharmaceuticals, she occupies a corner office on the thirty-eighth floor of a Manhattan tower built on ambition, billions, and secrets she was never meant to find. She smiles at board meetings. She signs off on quarterly reports. She plays the part Victor Hadid designed for her: polished, obedient, untouchable.

Then the letter arrives. One sentence, no return address: You are not safe in your father's house.

Within hours, her father sends Ezra Marchetti - a former intelligence operative with scarred hands, a soldier's discipline, and eyes that miss nothing. His orders are simple: stay close, keep her alive, report everything. He moves into her apartment. He monitors her exits. He stands in her hallway through the night and calls it protocol.

Noor calls it a leash.

But as Ezra tightens his watch, Noor begins pulling at threads she was raised never to touch. Suppressed clinical trials. Seventeen dead patients buried under sealed settlements. Shell companies funneling money through Swiss and Cypriot banks. A shadow operation run by her father's fixer from a locked study in the family compound overlooking Beirut. And at the center of it all, the truth about her mother - a woman who tried to run and met a mountain road that curved when her car did not.

The deeper Noor digs, the more she realizes that Ezra already knew. He knew about the dead. He knew about the money. He was never just a bodyguard - he was waiting for her to see what he had already seen. And the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to each other: a slow, devastating pull between a woman dismantling her own bloodline and the man who was sent to keep her caged.

From the glass towers of Manhattan to a gilded gala in the hills above Beirut. From a locked study broken open in an emerald gown to a hotel room in Berlin where the walls of an empire finally come down. LEASH is the story of a woman who was raised to obey, trained to perform, and chose - at the cost of everything - to burn it all to the ground.

He was hired to protect her. He wasn't supposed to help her light the match.