Sanctuary of Ash
He has 48 hours to save the woman who created the weapon that’s killing her—and the only antidote requires a touch he’s spent a lifetime avoiding.
Malachi Blackwood, the reclusive medic of the Blackwood brothers, has spent years atoning for his past as a military interrogator by saving lives in the high desert. He avoids touch, hides behind sterile gloves, and believes his hands are capable only of causing pain. But his solitude is shattered when he discovers Dr. Amara Kente dying at the gates of their fortress, carrying a stolen biological weapon in her blood—Protocol Ash.
Forced into a level-five quarantine within the Sanctuary’s medical bunker, Malachi and Amara engage in a desperate race against time. As the poison burns through her system, Malachi must use every ounce of his skill to keep her alive, forcing him to break his own rules about physical contact. The clinical intimacy of medical care soon evolves into a raw, desperate passion that threatens to consume them both amidst the sterile silence of the Clean Room.
While the shadow organization known as the Obsidian Directorate lays siege to the Sanctuary’s perimeter, the real battle happens inside the bunker. To save Amara, Malachi must embrace the violent side of himself he hates, proving that his touch can heal as well as destroy. In this high-stakes survival story, the only way out is a connection that neither of them expected to survive.
The Blurb
Malachi Blackwood, the reclusive medic of the Blackwood brothers, has spent years atoning for his past as a military interrogator by saving lives in the high desert. He avoids touch, hides behind sterile gloves, and believes his hands are capable only of causing pain. But his solitude is shattered when he discovers Dr. Amara Kente dying at the gates of their fortress, carrying a stolen biological weapon in her blood—Protocol Ash.
Forced into a level-five quarantine within the Sanctuary’s medical bunker, Malachi and Amara engage in a desperate race against time. As the poison burns through her system, Malachi must use every ounce of his skill to keep her alive, forcing him to break his own rules about physical contact. The clinical intimacy of medical care soon evolves into a raw, desperate passion that threatens to consume them both amidst the sterile silence of the Clean Room.
While the shadow organization known as the Obsidian Directorate lays siege to the Sanctuary’s perimeter, the real battle happens inside the bunker. To save Amara, Malachi must embrace the violent side of himself he hates, proving that his touch can heal as well as destroy. In this high-stakes survival story, the only way out is a connection that neither of them expected to survive.