A Tier-1 sniper who never misses. A stolen ballerina in his crosshairs. One rule about to break.Dax Calloway keeps the world at twelve hundred yards. Task Force 9's deadliest sniper hunts the Consortium - a global trafficking syndicate - from the shadows. His rule is simple: distance keeps people alive. Attachment gets them killed.Then he looks through his scope and sees her.Lily is a ballerina, stolen from her life and locked in a subterranean compound beneath Bangkok. When the extraction goes wrong, Dax doesn't just pull the trigger. He breaks his only rule. He closes the gap.Now they're off the grid and on the run, the Consortium closing in and the safe options running out. Dax is as dangerous as the men hunting them - but his icy exterior hides a primal devotion. He doesn't just want to protect Lily. He wants to keep her.And for the first time in her life, she wants to let him.A dark-edged romantic suspense with forced-proximity heat, a morally gray protector, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Touch her and you die Protector/bodyguard romance Forced proximity Military sniper hero Morally gray hero On the run Grumpy/sunshine Virgin heroine Obsessed, devoted heroPerfect for every reader who craves military romantic suspense with a protector who doesn't know how to let go.One-click Lethal Impact and start running - Book 3 in The Lethal Series, an interconnected standalone.Heat Level: Explicit / High HeatTone: Dark, Intense, Suspenseful, ProtectiveSeries: US Marshals: The Lethal Series, Book 3 (interconnected standalones)Ending: HEA (Happily Ever After)POV: Dual First Person, Present Tense (Lily & Dax)Content Notes: Depictions of abduction, violence, and intense action sequences.
