Katya “Butterfly” Amerson lived her life as the cloistered daughter of the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. Always correct, always guarded, and never inciting a scandal, she’s had to be the perfect woman. What she really wants is to blow-up her castle and find a life free from inhibition and full of passion. A chance encounter at a dark club in Dubai gives her just the wildness she craves, if only for one night. Xavier “Heim” Spencer lives for being a SEAL. Dangerous missions, high-stakes assignments, and pleasurable nights all blend together in an adrenaline-laced life he’s addicted to. Until the faceless women who parade through his bed blur into sandy horizons and forgotten moments. One beauty challenges him to accept someone just as scrappy as he is, and more dangerous to boot. Then she is taken. Katya’s disappearance, and the reality of who she is to the military community, he never expected. Nor the lengths he would be willing to go to get her back. Now it’s a race against time to save the woman who snatched his heart right out of his chest as terrorists threaten to kill a prisoner for every day the government doesn’t meet their demands. But SEALs don’t break. They improvise, adapt, and overcome. And Heim risks it all, for his heart and his country.

Thomas “Welsh” O’Connor is in a tailspin. He’s been detained for treason, been a CIA asset—twice—to save his neck, and fought all over the globe for his country. Now he’s stuck with mandatory protective detail assignment. Welsh would rather be doing anything than assisting a Special Operations Surgical Team and Médecins sans Frontières. Like fighting a war to get the inescapable anger out. Dr. Rose Delgado can feel the rage surrounding the SEALs who protect her and her team of doctors as they provide medical attention to refugees, amid bombings, attacks, and lack of authorization to operate in the county. But there is pain there too, and her nurturing heart can’t ignore her urge to heal one SEAL in particular. His smiles and jokes hide sadness and tears, and she’s determined to provide what she can to help him. But Aleppo is no place for romance, and she finds herself caught in the center of a deadly game meant for the very men she’s come to respect. Maybe love is just what will save them all.