Slowburnwithheat Stories

One night. That was all Lena Ryker allowed herself when she moved back to Coronado, California-grieving, exhausted, and desperate to be closer to her brother after their father's death. A night of heat. A night of reckless, nameless passion. She never expected those steel-grey eyes to haunt her. To burn into her memory like a bullet she couldn't dig out. It was supposed to mean nothing. Until she learns the man she gave herself to-without names, without promises-is her brother's team leader. Lieutenant Knox Calder: off-limits, unreadable, and impossibly dangerous. Now, all Lena can do is ignore the pull. The way he watches her. The way he already knows her body better than any man ever should. Everything about him should warn her away. But that night already happened. That line's already been crossed. Now, tension brews beneath every glance. Heat simmers where silence stretches. But something else stirs beneath the surface too. Something watching. Waiting. Lena tries to move on, to keep her secrets buried and her desires in check. But the danger doesn't knock first. It slips in quietly. And when it finally shows its face-nothing, and no one, will be the same.

He ruined her life. Now he's her only escape.