Ethan 'Ace' Matthews spent over a decade as a Navy SEAL. He captured terrorists, took down human traffickers, dispatched the most evil from this world and saved countless innocents. After being captured and tortured, along with the other members of his team, Ace took a job with a former Navy SEAL and billionaire, Malcom Ravenstone. The company Malcolm created, Ravenstone Security, based in Wilmington, NC is exactly what Ace and his men had been looking for. The past three years they had rescued numerous people, assisted in search and rescues, tracked stalkers, worked for corporate entities and so much more. Then POTUS came along and asked them to be his personal action team handling the missions the government couldn't technically be seen to be involved in. It was an interesting opportunity, one they took. Over the years, Ace has settled into a comfortable life in Coastal Carolina. He has great friends, a wonderful job, a beautiful home and a family that support him. But something always seemed to be missing. Adelaide Montgomery has spent years working as a paramedic in cities all across the country. She wasn't one to stay in one place too long, but the Wilmington, NC area gave her a peace she hadn't know she was missing. It might have to do with the hot, strong, alpha former Navy SEAL she met while on a humanitarian mission in Miami a year earlier. When she found out that Ethan and his team were based in the same area as her, Adelaide had been nervous but happy. The past year she spent getting to know those men and building wonderful friendships. As much as she was attracted to Ethan, Adelaide always felt she he was out of her league. She was just the nice friend, but nothing more. When Ace gets a call in the middle of the night to come to a hospital. He fears his friends or someone close to them had been hurt, but that's not what he finds. Instead, a week later he comes home with a daughter. Over the next few months, Ethan and Adelaide work together to navigate the nuances of having an infant around. Adelaide doesn't mind stepping up for her friend and his beautiful little girl, hoping maybe things between her and Ethan will evolve the more time they spend together. Will that be the case? Will Ace finally take the chance he has wanted to desperately with Adelaide? Will he finally call her 'his'? Or will it all come crashing down around them? Before he knows it, Adelaide is gone. She's disappeared from their lives. His daughter desperately misses her, but Ace misses her more. When trouble overtakes her life, Ace steps into help her. He protects Adelaide. Gives her safety...or so he thought. One phone call changed his life for the better, now a phone call could bring his destruction. And Adelaide's, too. Trigger Though this book has themes of love, happiness, friendship and joy there are also darker more intense themes that include SA/rape, descriptive words of violence and what some may find to be torture like and domestic abuse. While they may be a part of the story, the story flows without out them and they can be skipped over. You'll find love, happiness, spicy-sexy intimacy and of course, a HEA is guaranteed.