Vice Admiral Trevor Maddox had continued to function for five years after losing his much-loved wife to cancer, but he hadn’t been living. His work had become his life. He went from one command to another, wherever the Navy sent him until he landed in the office behind her desk.
Marta Merkel was a force to be reckoned in the SEAL world. For over twenty-five years, since her husband had been killed on a mission overseas, she could make or break a SEAL’s career.
Even though they were both single adults past fifty, she worked directly for him, so dating was not a possibility. But they could be friends.
With both of them carrying years of baggage, could they make this friendship work? Or would the embers between them light into fire?
KaLyn Cooper is a USA Today Bestselling author whose romances blend fact and fiction with blazing heat and heart-pounding suspense. Twenty-two years as a military wife has shown KaLyn the world, and thirty years in PR taught her that fact can be stranger than fiction. She leaves it up to the reader to separate truth from imagination. She, her husband, and Little Bear (Alaskan Malamute) live in Tennessee on a micro-plantation filled with gardens, cattle, and quail. When she’s not writing, she’s at the shooting range or on the river.