Discipline has been the backbone of former Navy SEAL Zenko Marks's career, because ignoring an order gets men killed and leaves brothers behind.
A tortured American with no business in Syria should not have been enough to shake that creed, yet falling for the man he pulled from that nightmare threatens everything he has been trained to protect.
Shaun Jacobsen, a black-ops ghost operator, has no reason to trust his rescuer; secrets keep him alive, and his chosen family's safety hangs on silence.
Still, the pull between them grows from cautious attraction into a hunger neither expected, even as Shaun withholds answers Zenko cannot stop chasing.
A joint mission between their two most secret teams will test whether two covert operators can let their hearts lead, or whether the work they were built for will cost them each other.