Book 3 in Charlie Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
A biochemist with proof of a nuclear weapons plot. A Navy SEAL with a dive boat. Nowhere left to run.
Mia is brilliant, beautiful, and marked for death.
She's a biochemist who found something inside her own company she was never meant to see — a nuclear weapons plot buried under a hundred layers of corporate paperwork. So she took the evidence and ran, straight for asylum and the protection of the United States government, with people who kill for a living already three steps behind her.
Her cover is a cruise ship of adventurous divers bound for Australia. Her only ally is Rigel — a former Navy SEAL turned underwater photographer who signed on for reef shots and instead finds himself hiding a woman the world wants dead.
He didn't ask for this. He falls anyway, hard, and long before she lets herself look back.
Trapped together on open water with nowhere to disappear, they navigate a web of deception, betrayal, and international intrigue — and an attraction neither of them has the sense to fight.
Charlie Team is inbound. Elite private military operatives from Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, they'll help Rigel and Mia rip her company's secrets into the daylight before a global catastrophe becomes the evening news.
But the deeper they go into the conspiracy, the clearer the math gets. The truth has a price. And no one has told Mia yet who's expected to pay it.
Two hearts forged in steel. One mission with the whole world on the far side of it.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: former Navy SEAL underwater photographer, biochemist heroine, fugitive with the evidence, forced proximity on a dive cruise, he falls first, corporate conspiracy
- Heat: steamy
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Rigel and Mia
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: gun violence, pursuit, a corporate and international conspiracy, a weapons-of-mass-destruction threat. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
Rescuing Mia is book 3 of 8 in Charlie Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, the third team in Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists.
- Before it: Rescuing Stitch (book 2).
- After it: Jenna's Protector (book 4).
Questions readers ask
Can I read Rescuing Mia as a standalone?
Yes. Rigel and Mia's story is complete in this book. Characters from the earlier Charlie Team books show up, so reading in order helps.
How spicy is Rescuing Mia?
Steamy.
Does Rescuing Mia end on a cliffhanger?
No. Rigel and Mia get their happily ever after.
Is Rescuing Mia in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every Charlie Team book is in Kindle Unlimited.