The Two-Person Rule
A Minuteman Missile Romance

About this book:

Sixty feet beneath the Montana prairie, the only thing more dangerous than the ten armed Minuteman III missiles surrounding them is the silence between shifts. Captain Maya Lin has the protocols memorized, the checklists perfected, and a carefully maintained distance from her new crew commander—until a twenty-four-hour alert traps them in a steel capsule the size of a camper van with nothing but red status lights, stale coffee, and the unyielding requirement that every critical action requires two people. Two keys. Two codes. Two witnesses. The Two-Person Rule was designed to prevent accidental nuclear launch. It never accounted for what happens when the only other soul in the bunker is the one person who makes you want to break every regulation in the book.

Logan Ross has spent years mastering the art of stillness—steady hands, calm voice, the kind of operational perfection that earns top evals and keeps the world from ending. But Maya Lin watches him like she's reading a classified file, and every shared shift strips away another layer of the armor he's built. Between false alarms and frozen ventilation, midnight confessions and the terrifying intimacy of holding someone's life in your hands while the world sleeps above, professional detachment becomes the first casualty. In a place where a single mistake means millions dead, the only thing more dangerous than the weapon systems is the way they're learning to read each other's breath in the dark.

*The Two-Person Rule* is a high-stakes, close-quarters romance where duty and desire share a console, and the countdown to relief crew feels less like salvation than a deadline. For readers who love competent professionals falling apart at the seams, atmospheric tension thick enough to cut with a launch key, and the electric charge of two people discovering that mutual assured destruction might just be the only way to survive each other.