Thirty Feet of Dark: A Second-Chance Military Romantic Suspense

Thirty feet. That is the distance between Zoe Archer’s bedroom window and the man who used to live two doors down.Twenty-five years ago, Aidan Kane was the boy next door, the one she kissed once on Renner’s wall and never told a soul. Then he disappeared into the Marines and a life she only half imagined. And Zoe built a life with no room left for the past.She is a neuroscientist on the edge of everything she has worked for, weeks from launching the program that will define her career. She does not have time to want anything, least of all the hard-eyed stranger who turns out not to be a stranger at all.She catches a shadow move behind a lit kitchen window,Aidan came home to disappear. Instead, a security contract drops him inside Sereno Biotech, on Zoe’s team, sworn to protect a launch that someone, somewhere, is willing to kill for. He knows exactly who she is. He takes the assignment anyway, and tells himself he can hold the line, keep the distance, keep her alive without ever letting her close.He is wrong about all three.Zoe Archer does not let people in. Her marriage was a long, polite experiment, and she was the one running it. Her work is safer than wanting things. And wanting Aidan Kane, the one person who knew her before she armored up, is the most dangerous variable on her board.Because the threat circling her is not a rival or a leak. It is a network with reach and patience and a reason to want her erased, and it has been inside her company longer than anyone guessed.As the launch nears, the danger sharpens from quiet surveillance to gunfire in the dark, and the only thing standing between Zoe and the people hunting her is a man who has spent his whole life learning how to keep others alive, and how to let no one in.What Zoe cannot see is the war Aidan carries home every night. A thing that happened in a Kandahar dark years ago still reaches for him at the worst possible moments, and the closer he gets to her, the more he stands to lose when it does.They have thirty feet and a lifetime of almosts between them. They have a slow burn that turns, finally, scorching. And they have a countdown neither of them can stop, toward a night in a safe house that will ask Aidan for everything he swore he had nothing left to give.Some distances you measure. Some you have to cross.Thirty Feet of Dark is a second-chance military romantic suspense with a brilliant heroine, a haunted ex-Recon Marine, a forced-proximity slow burn that runs all the way to scorching, Read more