PROTECTING WHAT MATTERS (BONDI BODYGUARDS #1)

When the truth becomes deadly, love becomes the ultimate protection.
Investigative journalist Jonah Sullivan has spent months uncovering a web of corruption that reaches into the highest levels of Australian law enforcement. But when his source turns up dead and mysterious accidents start plaguing his life, Jonah realizes he's stumbled onto something far more dangerous than corporate fraud—he's exposed a criminal network that will kill to protect its secrets.
Enter Marcus Chen, a former AFP detective turned private bodyguard who carries the weight of his partner's unsolved murder. Haunted by guilt and convinced that caring about people makes him weak, Marcus has built his new career on professional distance and emotional walls. But protecting Jonah Sullivan challenges everything he believes about love, duty, and the price of justice.
As the threats escalate and their enemies close in, Marcus and Jonah are forced into hiding in the remote Australian mountains. But isolation breeds intimacy, and soon the line between protector and protected begins to blur. When they discover that the same criminal network responsible for stalking Jonah also orchestrated Marcus's partner's death two years earlier, their mission becomes personal.
Now they're not just fighting for survival—they're fighting for justice, for truth, and for a love that neither of them expected to find. But taking on a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of law enforcement will require them to risk everything, including the future they're just beginning to build together.
In a deadly game where trust is a luxury they can't afford and betrayal comes from the most unexpected places, Marcus and Jonah must Is love worth dying for? Or is it worth living for?
A pulse-pounding romantic suspense that combines sizzling chemistry with heart-stopping action, proving that sometimes the most dangerous thing you can do is fall in love.