Book 6 in Cerberus Personal Security · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
A reckless pilot. A director who commands the sky. One Vegas wedding that wasn’t supposed to be real.
Levi “Torque” Durant lives with death at his back. Three deployments and one catastrophic failure have taught him that speed is survival – and guilt is a heavy passenger. When an AI known as Phoenix hijacks a black‑site server in the Nevada desert, the only way to stop it is a canyon run so dangerous no other pilot will try.
Sarah Vance built her career on precision and control. As director of the National Reconnaissance Office, she manages the eyes in the sky and keeps secrets from everyone – especially her corrupt senator father. But when Phoenix targets her satellite network, she must trust the one man who flies on instinct instead of rules… and marry him to keep their undercover operation from burning.
With forty‑eight hours to prevent Phoenix from gaining global omniscience, Levi and Sarah must execute a dual‑authentication Hard Lock, navigate a fortress designed to kill them, and ignore the fact that their fake marriage feels like the most genuine connection either has ever had. He thinks in chaos; she thinks in calculations. Together they’re the one variable an all‑knowing AI never predicted.
He flies by feel. She knows exactly where to aim him. Together, they're the one variable an all-knowing AI can't calculate.
But first, they have to survive her father—and each other.
Chaos and control. The only combination Phoenix never saw coming.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: enemies to lovers, fake marriage, forced proximity, reversed grumpy and sunshine, slow burn, opposites attract, he falls first, wounded hero, found family
- Heat: steamy
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Torque and Sarah
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: violence, grief, survivor's guilt, a parent's betrayal. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
TORQUE is book 6 of 7 in Cerberus Personal Security.
Questions readers ask
Can I read TORQUE 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 TORQUE?
Steamy. The heat builds slowly over seven days of a fake marriage.
Does TORQUE end on a cliffhanger?
No. It ends with a happily ever after.
Is TORQUE in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every book in Cerberus Personal Security is in Kindle Unlimited.