Book 4 in Cerberus Personal Security · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
An analyst who won't speak. A soldier who can't feel. An AI hunting them both.
Three years of emotional abuse taught Talia Singh one rule: silence is survival. The former FBI behavioral analyst speaks in fragments now — two words, three if she's feeling reckless — and lets her data do the talking. Then she witnesses a professional hit, and the killers realize they've been seen.
What she uncovers next is worse: a corporate conspiracy that climbs all the way to the top, powerful enough to erase her before she can prove any of it. Now she has forty-eight hours to vanish before the kill order finds her. And the only thing standing between her and a bullet is a man who says even less than she does.
Jonah Jackson doesn't run rescues anymore. Not since a betrayal in Syria cost him his team, his trust, and every reason to care whether he lives or dies. As Cerberus Security's demolitions expert, he trusts C-4 over people — at least explosives are predictable. But the silent, infuriating analyst he's been sent to extract from Chicago is the one thing he can't defuse: a puzzle with no wiring diagram.
She reads patterns in data. He reads patterns in threats. And Phoenix — the rogue AI hunting them — reads patterns in them, predicting every move before they make it. Through compromised safe houses and corporate kill zones, the friction between the analyst and the operator ignites something neither one planned for.
But Phoenix is learning. Adapting. And the only variable left is time.
They're running out.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: grumpy and sunshine, bodyguard romance, forced proximity on the run, broken hero, touch her and die, brilliant heroine, hurt and comfort, AI thriller
- Heat: steamy, with on-page scenes at a moderate level
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Talia and Jonah
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: past emotional and psychological abuse, combat trauma and PTSD. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
FUSE is book 4 of 7 in Cerberus Personal Security.
Questions readers ask
Can I read FUSE as a standalone?
Yes. The love story is complete in this book. The team's fight against Phoenix, an AI built to find and kill its targets, builds from BRASS through THORNE, so reading in order helps you keep track of it.
How spicy is FUSE?
Steamy. The love scenes are on the page at a moderate heat level.
Does FUSE end on a cliffhanger?
No. It ends with a happily ever after.
Is FUSE in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every book in Cerberus Personal Security is in Kindle Unlimited.