SAVE ME (ECHELON VANGUARD BOOK ONE)

Echelon Vanguard bought her.
He refuses to let them keep her.

Thea

When you’re five, and people ask what you want to be when you grow up, the answers are easy.
Princess. Doctor. Astronaut.

When you’re twenty-one—when you’re expected to know—the answer doesn’t come so easily.

I float through community college without much direction, but none of that matters when my father chooses money over my life as I know it.

I’m sold to a secret society in Chicago where power is traded as easily as people. Except there’s one man who doesn’t fit.

Slade DuPont doesn’t speak, but he watches everything.
Watches me.

He isn’t cruel. He isn’t careless. And sometimes, it feels like he’s trapped here too.

His fixation fractures into something deeper. Something dangerous.
But he may be the only one who can save me.

Slade

My life has been carved out for me since I was young. Narrowed down into a single path. Congress. Take up the DuPont mantle.

I was meant to inherit a political future—one I fully intended to control.

Instead, I step straight into Echelon Vanguard, a society built on the backs of the rich and powerful. Businessmen. Politicians. Former organized crime figures. All bound by secrecy and leverage.

My grandfather’s voice replaces my own, until I barely remember I ever had one.

Until her.

Thea Harmon disrupts every calculated move I’ve made to undermine him. My discipline turns to obsession, and when EV tightens its grip, loyalty becomes suffocation.

She’s been sold into a world designed to break her. And all I want is to save her.