Overview

I’ve bled years into keeping our city’s residents safe. But nothing in my training prepared me for her…

Content notes: Contains dark and potentially distressing themes. Reader discretion is advised.

Ray

I’m Regina "Ray" Irick. I'm also the first Black female Lieutenant in the Chase Springs PD’s Special Crimes Unit.

I know something about growing up rough.

Now, I'm in my forties and tough as a rock. You have to be when your job is to smoke out drug lords and serial killers.

But when I'm called in to protect a young female witness, I’m taken completely by surprise.

Selena Banks isn't like any witness I've handled before.

She’s fierce. Defiant. Sexy.

She sets my blood on fire by breaking my rules and trying to flirt with me.

Worse, her taunts stir up something dirty and possessive within my heart. Something that makes me want to cross a line I should definitely be miles away from.

Look. I know better than to get involved with a witness under my protection.

Especially when her life is at stake.

But the more I get to know her secrets, the harder it gets to stay away…

Selena

When I witness a shooting at the pub where I work, my first instinct is to run.

I don’t talk to cops—I've seen what they do to people like me.

I’ve got the nightmares to prove it.

But then a detective barges into my apartment in the night and whisks me off to a safehouse. Apparently I’m the only witness, and there’s a deadly drug ring out there hunting for me.

Now I’m cooped up in a motel room with a tough, 42-year-old butch cop who’s used to wielding her power.

She’s everything I should hate.

But instead I’m drawn to her like a magnet.

Is it her dark eyes? Her long dreadlocks? The way she watches me?

Or is it the way she holds me so gently, even when I disrespect her and defy her authority?

Her sexy stud lesbian energy makes both my heart and body go wild...but there's no way I can fall for her.

Not when it means I'll be betraying what I've fought for my whole life.

But it's getting harder and harder to resist my growing attraction towards this gorgeous older stud lesbian. How can I, when she actually makes me feel safe? When she wants to know more about my imprisoned brother?

How can I hold back when everything that’s so wrong about her feels so right?

Shielding Selena is a standalone high heat, age gap, stud/femme lesbian romance featuring an interracial couple.