The Sentinel Security Trials
A Romantic Suspense Novel

About this book:

Forty operatives. Seven days. One impossible cut. At Sentinel Security’s remote Blackwood Compound, the annual Trials aren’t just an evaluation—they’re a legal bloodsport where the top five command the future and the bottom ten lose everything. Maya Vance has spent three years matching Vance Cross bullet for bullet, promotion for promotion, but this year the competition is about to get personal.

Maya and Vance are rivals with a spark hotter than live ammunition, and when she beats his elite time on the stress course with a reckless tactical slide, the tension between them snaps. He’s cold, composed, and infuriatingly brilliant; she’s fast, fearless, and determined not to come in second. But as their banter turns into something dangerously close to trust, Director Reed locks down the compound with a grim announcement: a system anomaly in Sector 7, a restricted facility that was never supposed to be part of the game.

The real test has begun—and it’s far deadlier than the scoreboard. Now Maya and Vance must decide whether to keep fighting each other or start fighting side by side before the Trials claim their careers, their lives, or the fragile heat burning between them. In a world of cold eyes, high stakes, and burning friction, survival means trusting the one person you were trained to outrun.