To Kiss The Thistle (SELF PUBLISHED)

Who would have thought that a single ice cream could make Celestine's life flip in an instant?

One moment, she is a clinical psychologist living a quiet, orderly life in a major hospital. The next day, she is pulled into the military's shadowed world as an embedded civilian advisor tasked with psychological and ethical oversight for AFP's most elite military unit: SINAG.

There, she meets the men who live in the margins of war: Rowan, the smooth-talking sniper who never misses; Silver, the sharp-tongued and brutally honest EOD expert who sees explosions as equations; and Kai, the youngest sharpshooter, fierce in combat yet awkward with anything resembling affection. And at their center stands Commander Captain Tres Levi-disciplined, impenetrable, and carved from duty.

In stolen glances after missions, in quiet debates about morality, in the fragile silence where fear lingers unspoken, their guarded hearts begin to shift.

To Kiss The Thistle is a slow-burn romance about restraint, trust, and the kind of love that blooms not in softness-but in survival.