The Safe House at Midnight
A Slow-Burn Witness Protection Romance

About this book:

Deputy U.S. Marshal Luke Calder has spent twelve years perfecting the art of invisibility—routine perimeter checks, window discipline, and the quiet certainty that boring keeps people alive. Then he’s assigned to Nora Vance, a forensic accountant with a sharp tongue, a target on her back, and the offshore ledgers to dismantle the Vasquez syndicate. Snowed into a remote Wisconsin safe house with nothing but a woodstove, a balky radio, and four months until trial, their arrangement is strictly professional: he protects the witness, she survives the wait. But in the suffocating silence of the pines, every creaking floorboard and shared mug of bitter tea chips away at the protocols designed to keep them strangers.

Nora didn't ask for a guard who counts her pulse by the tremor in her coffee cup, and Luke didn't expect a witness who matches his silence with spreadsheets and a stubborn refusal to break. As the syndicate’s net tightens and a leak in the Marshal Service turns their sanctuary into a countdown, the line between asset and adversary blurs into something far more dangerous: trust. With a cartel enforcer closing in and a trial date looming, the only thing more treacherous than the woods outside is the heat building behind the blackout curtains.

*The Safe House at Midnight* is a slow-burn, forced-proximity romantic suspense novel where survival isn't just about staying hidden—it's about deciding what, and who, you're willing to burn for when the dawn finally breaks.