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Soon-to-be-Dr. Emily Shade never planned to collide, literally, with a Navy SEAL in the middle of the Ecuadorian jungle. She was there to study jaguars, to finish her dissertation, and to avoid human entanglements of any kind. But Christian “Brawler” Beckett, all storm-gray eyes and stubborn authority, isn’t the kind of man easily ignored. He’s the K9 handler who's part of a covert team sent to recover downed weapons, not babysit a fiery redhead with a death wish and a penchant for arguing about everything. Yet when gunfire erupts and the jungle turns into a battlefield, Brawler has no choice but to bring Emily into his world—one built on discipline, danger, and the unyielding bond between a man and his dog. She’s chaos wrapped in sunlight. He’s control forged in war. But somewhere between the firefights and the falling walls, they’ll have to face the wildest truth of all: sometimes the heart is the most unpredictable terrain of them all.
Release Date: October 4, 2025
Description:
A mission to recover lost weapons. A redhead running through the jungle. And one SEAL about to face something he can’t explain.
Petty Officer Christian “Brawler” Beckett and his team are covertly deployed to the Ecuadorian jungle to locate the crash site of an unmanned aerial vehicle and the Marine chopper that went down searching for it. It’s up to them to recover the weapons and the men. But deep in the rainforest, where the air hums with something ancient and unseen, nothing goes to plan.
Before they reach the wreckage, they stumble across something unexpected: a furious young redhead running from armed men. Soon-to-be-Dr. Emily Shade is a Zoology graduate student studying jaguars. She’s brilliant, stubborn, and utterly determined to finish her dissertation—even if drug runners and military “Neanderthals” keep getting in the way.
Brawler doesn’t have time for distractions. Especially not the five-foot-two firecracker with a temper, a pixie grin, and a habit of arguing with him in the middle of a tactical op. She’s not his type. She’s trouble. So why is his K9 partner, Beast, suddenly obsessed with her and, as the mission deepens, so is he?
Unable to extract her safely, the team is forced to bring her along. But as danger closes in and the jungle itself seems to come alive, survival becomes more than a mission. Because some battles aren’t fought on any map. Some are written in the space between heartbeats and some are destined long before the first shot is fired.
