The Lion and The Ghost
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The Lion and The Ghost
Paddy Mayne x OC • Slowburn • SAS Rogue Heroes
Personnel File - Classified
Name: Isabella Rose Maitland
Status: Discharged - Extremely Dangerous. Do Not Approach.
Isabella Maitland was once the British Army's sharpest weapon, trained from childhood by a legendary soldier, lethal by sixteen, feared by enemies and superiors alike. But after her father was brutally killed on a mission gone wrong, she vanished into silence, whiskey, and rage. The Prime Minister himself marked her unfit for human contact.
For the world, Isabella died the day her father did.
What's left is a ghost with a knife in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
When Winston Churchill and Dudley Clarke appear on her doorstep with a classified file and a plea she never expected to hear, Isabella is dragged back into the war she tried to walk away from. Her father's creation, L Detachment, has come to life, and they want her to oversee it.
What she doesn't expect is him.
Paddy Mayne, the Lion of the SAS.
Brutal, brilliant, explosive. A man who thrives in chaos, who laughs in the face of danger, and who refuses to be intimidated... even by her.
Thrown into the desert with nine men and a mission built on madness, Isabella must confront the ghosts of her past, the fury in her chest, and the one soldier who sees straight through her armour.
He's fire.
She's ice.
And war is about to thaw them both.
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