Dark Ascent
He’s the only man who can survive the dive, but she’s the only one who knows why he has to come back alive.
Dr. Camille Laughton has one rule: never trust a diver. They are reckless, transient, and dangerous—everything she shields her four-year-old son from. But when a mysterious replacement diver arrives on the DSS Leviathan to handle a critical deep-sea manifold, Camille is confronted with Jasper "Zero" Reynolds, the man she shared one unforgettable night with four years ago. The man who doesn't know he's a father.
Jasper is a man with nothing to lose, seeking the crushing silence of the North Sea to drown out the echoes of a military mission gone dark. He doesn't want connections or redemption; he just wants the payout to disappear. But the moment he sees Camille, the icy walls around his heart begin to crack. When he discovers the secret Camille has been guarding, his mission shifts from simple survival to a desperate reclamation of the life he never thought he deserved.
As a cyber-terrorist attack cripples the ship’s systems and threatens to sever the divers' life support, Jasper and Camille are forced into a high-pressure alliance. Between the lethal depths of the ocean and the explosive secrets in the medical bay, they must rely on each other to survive. When the mission turns into a suicide run, Camille must decide: protect her heart, or give Jasper the one thing worth fighting his way back to the surface for.
The Blurb
Dr. Camille Laughton has one rule: never trust a diver. They are reckless, transient, and dangerous—everything she shields her four-year-old son from. But when a mysterious replacement diver arrives on the DSS Leviathan to handle a critical deep-sea manifold, Camille is confronted with Jasper "Zero" Reynolds, the man she shared one unforgettable night with four years ago. The man who doesn't know he's a father.
Jasper is a man with nothing to lose, seeking the crushing silence of the North Sea to drown out the echoes of a military mission gone dark. He doesn't want connections or redemption; he just wants the payout to disappear. But the moment he sees Camille, the icy walls around his heart begin to crack. When he discovers the secret Camille has been guarding, his mission shifts from simple survival to a desperate reclamation of the life he never thought he deserved.
As a cyber-terrorist attack cripples the ship’s systems and threatens to sever the divers' life support, Jasper and Camille are forced into a high-pressure alliance. Between the lethal depths of the ocean and the explosive secrets in the medical bay, they must rely on each other to survive. When the mission turns into a suicide run, Camille must decide: protect her heart, or give Jasper the one thing worth fighting his way back to the surface for.
"An absolute pressure cooker of a romance! The 'surgical intimacy' scene kept me on the edge of my seat, and the chemistry between Jasper and Camille is visceral. This is the best book in the series so far!"— S. Miller