Torch
A Ghost Division Novel
Ryan "Torch" Calloway has one rule about women: don't start something he can't finish.
For a Navy SEAL who lives on six hours' notice and an early expiration date, that rule has served him well. Missions come first. His team comes second. Everything else stays temporary.
Then he meets Olivia Monroe.
Olivia is a bestselling romance novelist who would rather disappear behind a stack of books than spend an afternoon making small talk at a charity event aboard the USS Midway. She isn't looking for excitement, complications, or a man who can see straight through the walls she's spent years building.
What she gets is Torch.
He is steady, impossible to rattle, and far too easy to trust. He is also the first man in three years to look at Olivia like she is worth the risk.
For one afternoon, the attraction between them feels harmless. But Torch knows better than to let it become anything more. His life is built around sudden departures, classified missions, and an expiration date that seems ever impending.
So he leaves before either of them can want too much.
What he doesn't know is that someone else has been watching Olivia. Someone who believes he knows her better than anyone else. Someone who has already decided she belongs to him.
By the time Torch learns about the letters, the threats have become impossible to ignore. The danger is real, closing in, and far more personal than Olivia ever understood.
Torch doesn't hesitate.
He puts himself between Olivia and the man hunting her, determined to keep her safe no matter what it costs. Protecting her should be another mission, clean, controlled, and temporary. Instead, every hour at her side forces him to face the truth he tried to outrun.
Leaving her never made her safer.
It only left her alone.
Now Torch is fighting on two fronts: against the threat determined to claim Olivia, and against the feelings that make walking away impossible a second time.
He thought leaving her was the same as keeping her safe.
He was wrong about that.
He was wrong about a lot of things.
Torch is the second book in the Ghost Division series, a scorching military romantic suspense series featuring a protective Navy SEAL, a romance novelist in danger, obsessive suspense, forced proximity, high-stakes action, and a hero who will risk everything for the woman he refuses to lose.