Book 7 in Cerberus Personal Security · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
A tactical operative. The woman who bankrolled his daughter's infection. One financial trail left to trace.
Thorne raised his weapon the moment he understood what she built.
He lowered it when he understood she was the only person who could save his daughter.
THORNE is a Guardian HRS operative. He has killed men in six countries, buried teammates, and made peace with the cost of the job. Nothing prepared him for standing in the wreckage of Phoenix's control room, listening to a woman describe the pediatric compassionate-use trials his daughter enrolled in — and understanding in real time that Lily's bell-ringing wasn't a cure. It was a countdown.
JULIANNA STRATTON built the financial architecture that funded everything — the AI, the bioweapon program, the shell companies, the clinics. She didn't design ML-273. She designed the system that paid for it. The distinction stopped mattering the moment she understood what the system became.
He zip-tied her wrists in the Nevada desert. She reconstructed the ASHFALL architecture from memory. Neither of them planned on what happens when the only person standing between you and oblivion is the man who hates you — and the only person who can save a child is the woman who never meant to endanger one.
Julianna has rebuilt empires. She can trace every patient, every corrupted dollar, every node in the network she designed.
Some debts don't clear. Some men don't forgive.
Even the ones who touch you like they want to.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: enemies to lovers, slow burn, forced proximity, protection detail, touch her and die, single father, child in danger, morally gray heroine, captive dynamic, found family
- Heat: explicit, with a dark edge
- Point of view: dual first person, Thorne and Julianna
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: a child with a dangerous illness, a captive dynamic, violence. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
THORNE is book 7 of 7 in Cerberus Personal Security.
- Before it: TORQUE (book 6).
- After it: nothing. THORNE is the last book in the series.
Questions readers ask
Can I read THORNE as a standalone?
Yes. Thorne and Julianna's story is complete in this book. It follows straight on from TORQUE, so reading TORQUE first makes the opening clearer. Thorne is a Guardian HRS operative, so readers of that series will know him.
How spicy is THORNE?
It's explicit, with a dark edge.
Does THORNE end on a cliffhanger?
No. It ends with a happily ever after.
Is THORNE in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every book in Cerberus Personal Security is in Kindle Unlimited.