He Knows When You’re Awake

Jewelry designer Sloane has the designs and none of the money. With every bank turning her down, a lifeline from a stranger is not something she can afford to refuse — so when reclusive billionaire Cole Asher flies her out to a Swiss resort to talk terms, she goes, and only then places him as the man she met once in a New York bar.

Cole's offer comes with a condition: to secure his investment, Sloane must move into his Manhattan penthouse and finish a first round of designs before Christmas. She throws herself into the work while the city sparkles below, and the attraction between them stops being deniable. What she does not know is how long Cole has been watching her, or how much of this arrangement he built to keep her close. When his enemies decide the fastest way to destroy him is through the woman he loves, the fairy tale turns dangerous.

He Knows When You're Awake is the second book in Alta Hensley's Naughty or Nice series, following He Sees You When You're Sleeping, and reads as an interconnected standalone. Published by Avon on 16 September 2025, it is a dark romance with a morally grey male lead, an obsessive point of view, and holiday trappings played against genuine menace — readers are pointed to the content warnings at the front of the book.