The One Thing Worth Protecting

Colonel Cassandra Blackwell has spent her life defined by discipline, duty, and control. As the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, she has no room for distractions—especially not someone like Major Shae Carter. A legendary Special Forces operative with a reputation for accomplishing the impossible, Shae is brilliant, reckless, frustratingly charming, and completely unlike anyone Cassandra has ever met. What begins as a professional partnership quickly evolves into something neither woman expected. Beneath Shae’s confidence lies a lifetime of scars, secrets, and sacrifices. Beneath Cassandra’s composed exterior is a woman learning, perhaps for the first time, what it means to let someone in. As military investigations, dangerous missions, and the ghosts of Shae’s past threaten to pull them apart, the two women find themselves drawn together in ways neither can ignore. Forced to navigate duty, trust, vulnerability, and an attraction that grows stronger with every passing day, they must decide whether the risks of opening their hearts are worth the possibility of losing them. Set against the backdrop of military life, international operations, and impossible odds, this is a story of loyalty, healing, found family, and discovering that sometimes the bravest thing a soldier can do is allow themselves to be loved. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The One Thing Worth Protecting — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠