Elena Voss doesn't need a bodyguard. She's made that clear to everyone who'll listen, and several who won't. What she gets anyway, courtesy of her company and without her consent, is Jax Harlan, stoic and professionally immovable, assigned to share her private cabin for three days and nights on a luxury train crossing the country.

The cabin is well-appointed and extremely small. The tension is immediate.

Jax has one job: keep Elena safe from the corporate threats that have been escalating around her. He's trained for close protection, not for the particular difficulty of maintaining professional distance from a woman this self-possessed in a space this confined. Late nights with nothing but the rhythm of the rails outside and the low hum of the heating system leave nowhere to hide from honest conversation, and honest conversation has a way of surfacing things neither of them planned to share.

Danger waits at stations along the route. Elena pushes against every boundary Jax tries to hold. The slow burn between them builds past the point where either can pretend it isn't there.

Duty against desire. Safety against the pull toward something that breaks every professional rule he came in with.

Three days, one cabin, no clean exits.

When everything else is out of control, can either of them manage to guard what matters most?

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As you journey through this standalone story, let the rails carry you deeper into the seductive universe of Tracks of Temptation.

A cross-country train. Plush cabins and narrow corridors. Five strangers heading in different directions, yet pulled toward moments they never saw coming. A slow look over dinner, a late-night conversation by the window, rain streaking past the glass. Desire grows with every stop. Secrets surface as the wheels keep turning. In Tracks of Temptation, every mile brings them closer to the one thing they can’t ignore. Who’ll step off the train changed forever?