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Someone wants Dominic St. Clair deadand theyre using music to say so.
When a handwritten funeral march appears beneath the door of his St. Charles Avenue mansion, seventy-two-year-old conductor Dominic St. Clair knows the threat is real. A fixture of New Orleanss cultural life, Dominic has lived a long, public career shaped by legacy, loyalty, and carefully guarded truths. Now someone from his past is orchestrating a final reckoningtimed to his farewell concert series and designed to unfold in front of the entire city.
To protect him, Dominic hires The Guardians.
Former Army Ranger Thiago Reyes is used to dangerand to keeping his distance. Calm, controlled, and relentlessly professional, hes not prepared for Dominics home, where music drifts through open doors and boundaries blur. Or for Luca Moreau, Dominics sharp-witted, fiercely loyal personal assistant, whos been holding Dominics world together for years. To Luca, Dominic isnt just a client. Hes family. And Luca doesnt trust anyone whose job comes with an expiration date.
As the threats escalate from ominous warnings to break-ins and near-misses in the streets of New Orleans, Thiago and Luca are forced into uneasy proximity. Their chemistry is immediateand inconvenient. While Thiago digs into a decades-old grievance tied to Dominics rise, Luca refuses to believe this stoic bodyguard wont disappear once the danger passes.
Each threat arrives like a new movement in a deadly composition, building toward a public finale during Dominics final performance. As the citys music swells and the danger turns unmistakably real, Thiago and Luca must learn to trust each other completely.
Because protecting Dominic may cost them everythingand choosing each other may require the courage to finally step into the light.
Counterpoint is a romantic suspense novel about devotion, legacy, and the people who stand between others and harmset to the rhythm of New Orleans, and a love story worth fighting for.
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