𝐻𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒶 18+

Helena Rivero, a fierce and magnetic 24-year-old intelligence agent with a reputation for calculated risk-taking, has never let anything-or anyone-get in her way. Trained in Brazil's elite tactical division, she's been partnered with the enigmatic and razor-sharp Theo Valdez, 28, whose dark past is only matched by his lethal efficiency. Together, they've infiltrated the most dangerous factions of the criminal underworld... until one mission with Command Vermelho-the notorious Red Command gang-goes catastrophically wrong.

Forced into the shadows by the agency's witness protection program, Helena and Theo are exiled to a remote Illinois town on the edge of Chicago, where flat land and silence hide a thousand secrets. There, they're placed under the supervision of Ryan Mueller, 30, a stoic American spy with cold steel eyes and a military past that left more than scars. Ryan doesn't take well to partners, especially ones who come with heat, tension, and baggage.

But isolation has its way of pulling people together-and breaking them apart.

As Helena navigates the cold midwestern terrain and an even colder handler, she begins to uncover a web of betrayal, lust, and emotional warfare more intense than anything she faced on the battlefield. With enemies potentially closer than she thinks and alliances blurring the line between duty and desire, she finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of power, possession, and passion.

Torn between the man who's always had her back and the man who's determined to keep her at arm's length, Helena must confront not only the threat chasing them-but the fire smoldering within her.