Echo Team novella · Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists · Romantic suspense · Standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
Kade Bishop is a Guardian HRS operator on leave. No ops, no mission, no complications — just a mountain bar, a bourbon, and one night that belongs entirely to him.
Then Wren Calloway walks onto that dance floor.
She moves like a siren—fluid, magnetic, utterly devastating. Every man in the room feels it. One of them decides it's an invitation he didn't need to wait for. When his hand closes around her wrist, Kade is already on his feet — not because it's his job, but because his protective instincts never clock out.
He steps between them. She looks up at him, and that's it.
What follows is inevitable. Incandescent. The kind of night that rewrites everything that came before it — her place, her hands, her heat, and a pull between them so immediate and overwhelming that neither one of them thinks to question it.
What he doesn't expect is a trained hit squad interrupting the best night of his life.
Wren Calloway was celebrating a fifty-thousand-dollar payday. Anonymous client, clean work, funds already cleared — exactly the kind of contract a freelance cybersecurity auditor takes without asking too many questions. She should have stopped digging the moment the money hit. Instead, she kept pulling threads, and the moment she cracked their data, she triggered a hit on herself. The client has a name: Black Helix. A criminal syndicate with surveillance reach into three governments, an international money trail, and a former FSB cleaner on payroll.
The men he sends don't knock.
In one breath, Kade is exactly where he wants to be. Next, he's pulling Wren out the back and running — and the only place they're going to survive the night is somewhere no one can follow. A mountain cabin. No cell signal. A professional killer hunting them through the dark, and a chemistry that started on a dance floor that refuses to let either of them think straight.
Thinking straight is the only thing keeping them alive.
He came looking for one night, but's never letting her go.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: forced proximity bodyguard romance, one night that becomes everything, instant chemistry, touch her and die, competent heroine, ticking clock
- Heat: spicy and explicit
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Kade and Wren
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: gun violence, action, explicit sex, threat to life. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
KADE is novella 4 of 5 in Echo Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, the fifth team in Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists.
Questions readers ask
Can I read KADE as a standalone?
Yes. Kade and Wren's story is complete in this book.
How spicy is KADE?
It's spicy and explicit.
Does KADE end on a cliffhanger?
No. Kade and Wren get their happily ever after.
Is KADE in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every Echo Team book is in Kindle Unlimited.