Echo Team novella · Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists · Romantic suspense · Standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
A bomb-squad instructor built the perfect device. Now it's in a terrorist's hands — and only she can stop it. He's the Guardian sent to keep her alive long enough to defuse it.
Former Army EOD instructor Carolina Sutton has spent years haunted by the training accident that killed one of her students. She thought that was the worst day of her life. She was wrong. Because the dead man's bitter squadmate just weaponized her bomb design for a terror attack — and every device out there carries her signature.
The FBI needs the one person who can read her own work. So they send Guardian HRS operative Flint Morrison to bring her in.
Flint has ghosts of his own and a mission he can't afford to lose: track Carolina through the California backcountry, convince her to face her worst nightmare, and keep her breathing long enough to disarm the devices only she can stop. What he doesn't plan on is a woman whose strength matches his own — or a pull strong enough to crack the legendary control that keeps him alive.
As the bombs count down across California, Carolina has to do the one thing she swore she never would: trust someone. Trust him. But with assassins closing in and each device deadlier than the last, the most dangerous thing in the state might not be the explosives — it might be falling for the man willing to die to keep her safe.
He'll take any bullet to protect her. She'll face any bomb to save lives.
Together, they're combustible.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: protective hero, forced proximity on the run, competent heroine, ticking-clock bomb thriller, hurt and comfort, guilt and redemption
- Heat: steamy, with on-page scenes at a moderate level
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Flint and Carolina
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: terrorism and bomb violence, survivor guilt and grief, PTSD. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
FLINT is novella 1 of 5 in Echo Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, the fifth team in Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists.
- Before it: Delta Team, the previous Guardian team.
- After it: FROST.
Questions readers ask
Can I read FLINT as a standalone?
Yes. Flint and Carolina's story is complete in this book.
How spicy is FLINT?
Steamy, with on-page scenes at a moderate heat level.
Does FLINT end on a cliffhanger?
No. Flint and Carolina get their happily ever after.
Is FLINT in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every Echo Team book is in Kindle Unlimited.