Book 2 in Charlie Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
An FBI most-wanted hacker. Twenty to life. Or a Guardian contract and a self-defense instructor built like a wall.
When Stitch was a little girl, she had a lot of dreams. Topping the FBI's most-wanted list for cybercrimes and terrorism was not one of them. She got cocky. Cocky made her sloppy. Now she's looking at twenty to life, and sentencing is this afternoon.
Then an organization she's only heard whispered about in the darkest corners of the web throws her a lifeline. Or a leash — depends how you look at it. Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, of all people, want her skills badly enough to conscript her.
Tech genius turned forced hero. A role she never asked for and definitely never wanted.
Hacking for the good guys is culture shock enough. Then they assign her mandatory self-defense training with one of their grunts. Jeb, they call him — a towering mass of muscle and Guardian pride, everything her keyboard-warrior physique is not, and, she assumes, more brawn than brains.
She assumes wrong.
Their sessions are a collision of worlds: his physical prowess against her sarcastic resistance. But somewhere between the sparring and the sweat, something shifts. There's a sharp mind under all that muscle, and a gentle soul, and a man who keeps looking straight past the facade she's spent her whole life building.
He challenges her — in combat, and in every assumption she's ever held. Every grueling session turns their banter into something realer than she's prepared for.
But trust in this world is a house of cards. And Stitch has never once been the person anyone was right to bet on. She came here to dodge a prison sentence. She stayed because of him — and now she's starting to wonder whether her life finally took the right turn.
More than a story of redemption. A story about two people from opposite worlds finding each other in the least likely place on earth.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: criminal hacker heroine, gentle-giant hero, forced recruitment, enemies to lovers, forced proximity in training, opposites attract, banter
- Heat: steamy
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Jeb and Stitch
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: prison sentencing, forced recruitment, references to cybercrime and terrorism charges. It's lighter on danger than the other Charlie books. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
Rescuing Stitch is book 2 of 8 in Charlie Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, the third team in Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists.
- Before it: Rescuing Rebel (book 1).
- After it: Rescuing Mia (book 3).
Questions readers ask
Can I read Rescuing Stitch as a standalone?
Yes. Jeb and Stitch'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 Stitch?
Steamy, with a lot of banter. It's lighter than the books around it.
Does Rescuing Stitch end on a cliffhanger?
No. Jeb and Stitch get their happily ever after.
Is Rescuing Stitch in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every Charlie Team book is in Kindle Unlimited.