As a specialist house-sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down-not her work, not a house, and not at all a romantic relationship. She spends her life moving in one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend’s Manhattan house. And even though she can appreciate her customers’ remarkable homes, their expensive choices, and their lovable pets, Lila has never longed for belongings of her own. Everything she has, including her center, can be portable. But when she witnesses a about The Collector feasible murder-suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as Lila understands it takes a dramatic switch. Designer Ashton Archer understands his charming, smart, and impulsive sibling couldn’t have wiped out his girlfriend-or taken his own lifestyle. His wish of unraveling what occurred is situated with Lila, the only eyewitness. As well as buried in grief, Ash longs to color the woman whose deep, dark eye seem to keep limitless reserves of power and a fiery passion. Chalking up their intense attraction to the heat of as soon as, Lila agrees to greatly help Ash in trying to find out who murdered his brother and why. From the penthouses of Manhattan to grand Italian villas, their analysis draws them into a rarefied group where invaluable antiques are bought, sold, gambled apart, and stolen, where everything you possess is usually who you are, and where what you desire becomes a deadly obsession…