Protocol: Protect
He built an impenetrable fortress to keep the world out, but she’s the only one with the code to break in.
Declan Graves lives by a code: Control the variable, control the outcome. As the CEO of Garrison Security, he operates out of a converted bank vault in Chicago, a fortress designed to keep the world at bay. But when a favor for the DOJ forces him to take in Vivian Alatorre, a cartel princess with a genius-level IQ for encryption, his fortress is breached from the inside. Vivian is chaotic, vibrant, and refuses to be a prisoner.
As a shadow organization known as Obsidian Defense closes in, hacking Garrison’s defenses to get to Vivian, Declan breaks protocol. He takes her on the run to a frozen safe house in the Michigan wilderness. Stripped of his high-tech surveillance and forced into a bed-sharing survival scenario, Declan’s professional distance shatters.
He must decide between the rules that have kept him alive and the woman who makes him feel alive for the first time. In a race against assassins and a mole within his own ranks, Declan realizes that protocol cannot account for the human heart, and breaking the rules is the only way to save the person who matters most.
The Blurb
Declan Graves lives by a code: Control the variable, control the outcome. As the CEO of Garrison Security, he operates out of a converted bank vault in Chicago, a fortress designed to keep the world at bay. But when a favor for the DOJ forces him to take in Vivian Alatorre, a cartel princess with a genius-level IQ for encryption, his fortress is breached from the inside. Vivian is chaotic, vibrant, and refuses to be a prisoner.
As a shadow organization known as Obsidian Defense closes in, hacking Garrison’s defenses to get to Vivian, Declan breaks protocol. He takes her on the run to a frozen safe house in the Michigan wilderness. Stripped of his high-tech surveillance and forced into a bed-sharing survival scenario, Declan’s professional distance shatters.
He must decide between the rules that have kept him alive and the woman who makes him feel alive for the first time. In a race against assassins and a mole within his own ranks, Declan realizes that protocol cannot account for the human heart, and breaking the rules is the only way to save the person who matters most.
"The 'Glass Wall' dynamic and the high-tech tension made this impossible to put down. Declan is the ultimate stoic protector, and Vivian is the perfect chaotic match for his rigid world. This is romantic suspense at its absolute finest!"— Ava Richards