Two men. One rule. Zero self-control. Elliot Shaw has spent his entire life being exactly the son his father—the four-star General—wants him to be. Controlled. Precise. Closeted.
When he arrives at Special Forces Selection, he has one objective: finish first. He cannot afford to want anything else.
Then he meets Hudson Hale. Hudson is everything Elliot has been trained to suppress. The kind of soldier who runs toward the fire, consequences be damned. He shouldn’t be Elliot’s type.
He shouldn’t be Elliot’s anything.
What starts as a single reckless night on an overnight assignment becomes six years of stolen weekends and discipline that fails in increments.
Through deployments, a wedding, a funeral, and a war zone, Elliot and Hudson keep finding their way back to each other—only to part again as if nothing happened.
It almost works. Except pretending has a price—and sooner or later, somebody has to pay.
