The line was dead. Then it moved. Electrical safety investigator Sloane Mercer knows exactly what a dead power line looks like. So does Garrick Brandt. That is why he tackles her to the ground seconds before thousands of volts tear through a storm-ravaged transmission corridor. Garrick is BREAKLINE’s grid commander, the man called when catastrophic failure leaves entire communities in the dark. Calm under pressure, brutally competent, and accustomed to being obeyed, he has hundreds of people depending on him to restore the grid before the next wave of damage hits. Sloane has a different job. Find out what went wrong. And whether BREAKLINE caused it. She trusts evidence, not reputations. Garrick trusts the instincts that have kept his crews alive. From the moment they meet, they challenge each other at every turn. The attraction is just as immediate. And considerably more dangerous. Then another supposedly dead line comes alive. Switching records are altered. Critical equipment is sabotaged. Someone inside the restoration effort appears determined to turn a massive blackout into something much worse. Suddenly Sloane is no longer investigating Garrick. She is standing beside him. And the closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes to ignore what is happening between them. Garrick Brandt can command a disaster zone without raising his voice. He can walk toward danger while everyone else backs away. But the one thing he cannot control is Sloane. And once the man who protects everyone decides she matters, walking away may be the one thing neither of them can do. BACKFEED is Book One in BREAKLINE, a high-heat, closed-door alpha-male romantic suspense series featuring a fiercely protective hero, a capable heroine, enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, dangerous rescues, intense chemistry, brotherhood, and a hard-earned happily ever after. High heat. Closed door. No on-page sex.
