The Breach

She has twenty-two hours to find her sister. He has one job—and it isn't her.

Harper Dalton used to pull people out of the worst water in the Gulf. Now she runs a salvage yard in a dying river town, coaching volunteer swiftwater rescues with a shoulder that never healed right. She's spent six years learning how to live small.

Then her little sister's truck is found nose-down in the Pallister spillway, blood on the wheel and no body in the cab.

The sheriff calls it an accident.

Harper knows better.

Ellie was a hydrologist. Ellie didn't drown.

Cole Bennett hasn't set foot in Hollis Ford since the summer the river took his brother—and his father blamed him for it. Fifteen years as a Marine Raider and FBI Hostage Rescue operator have taught him how to enter places nobody else will go.

They haven't taught him what to do with Harper.

The woman he left behind at nineteen is standing on the boat ramp, staring at him like he's just another piece of wreckage the current dragged back.

When Ellie disappears, Cole's FBI investigation uncovers something far more dangerous than a missing-person case: falsified core samples, a failing dam, and a corporation desperate to bury evidence of a fraud that could put eleven hundred lives at risk.

Someone intends to let Hollis Ford drown.

And Ellie is being held somewhere inside the disaster they're preparing to unleash.

With a storm cutting the county off and only twenty-two hours before the dam fails, Harper and Cole are forced together in a race against the clock. A safehouse leaves them with one bed. A killer leaves them nowhere safe. And fifteen years of unfinished feelings make staying apart just as dangerous as getting close.

Cole will put his body between Harper and anything that comes for her.

But Harper has never let a man decide what she's allowed to survive.

Fifteen years ago, Cole chose the door.

This time, he's not leaving without her.

Tropes: Forced proximity · Only one bed · Second-chance romance · Ex-special-forces FBI protector · Small-town conspiracy · Race against the clock · Touch her and die

Standalone with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhanger.