Guardian Angel, Dark Water
A Pararescue Romance

About this book:

Master Sergeant Lucas Vance jumps into black water for a living. Technical Sergeant Maya Reyes teaches people how to survive in it. When a joint exercise strands them together on a life raft forty-eight miles from nowhere in the Philippine Sea—simulated enemy patrols hunting, a typhoon building, the trench dropping four thousand fathoms beneath their keel—their opposing doctrines become the only thing keeping them alive. He’s a Pararescue jumper: loud, aggressive, interventionist. She’s SERE: silent, patient, ghost. They hate each other’s methods. They can’t stop watching each other’s backs.

The attraction is a complication neither can afford. Every touch through wet neoprene sparks sharper than the bioluminescence trailing their fins. Every argument over watch rotations, sea anchors, and survival priorities is foreplay disguised as doctrine. But the Philippine Sea doesn’t care about tension. It serves up Sea State Four, radar-seeking cutters, and a dark current that drags them toward uncharted shoals. To make extraction, they’ll have to trust the one thing their training forbids: each other.

*Guardian Angel, Dark Water* drops you into the rotor wash and the abyss—authentic down to the last tourniquet and toggle pull—where two elite operators fight the ocean, the enemy, and the dangerous gravity pulling them together. For readers who want their romance forged in hypothermic water, their banter sharp as dive knives, and their happily-ever-after earned one brutal swell at a time.