The Bends
She’s the one thing her brother forbade him to touch, and the only one he’d risk his life to save.
Axel 'Breach' Hammer is the DSS Leviathan’s most promising saturation diver, a man who owes everything to his superintendent, Daxton Harland. But when Dax’s sister Clara arrives on the ship fleeing a violent past, Axel is given a impossible order: protect her at all costs, but do not touch her. As Axel is 'blown down' into the saturation chamber for a month-long stint, he finds himself separated from the woman he desires by three inches of reinforced acrylic and a barrier of lethal pressure.
Clara Harland is a brilliant marine biologist who thought the middle of the ocean was the only place her obsessed ex-boyfriend couldn't find her. But as she conducts research on a mysterious bio-corrosive bacteria found on the ship's hull, she realizes the danger has followed her offshore. Her only comfort is the scarred, silent protector she speaks to through the glass of the habitat—a man who uses a scrambler to bypass his helium-distorted voice just to whisper his secrets to her.
When her past catches up and a corporate saboteur threatens to sink the Leviathan, Axel is faced with an unthinkable choice. To save Clara, he must trigger an emergency rapid ascent, ignoring the nitrogen bubbling in his blood and the agonizing 'bends' that could end his life. In the crushing dark of the abyss, Axel Hammer will prove that loyalty to a brother is nothing compared to the primal need to protect his woman.
The Blurb
Axel 'Breach' Hammer is the DSS Leviathan’s most promising saturation diver, a man who owes everything to his superintendent, Daxton Harland. But when Dax’s sister Clara arrives on the ship fleeing a violent past, Axel is given a impossible order: protect her at all costs, but do not touch her. As Axel is 'blown down' into the saturation chamber for a month-long stint, he finds himself separated from the woman he desires by three inches of reinforced acrylic and a barrier of lethal pressure.
Clara Harland is a brilliant marine biologist who thought the middle of the ocean was the only place her obsessed ex-boyfriend couldn't find her. But as she conducts research on a mysterious bio-corrosive bacteria found on the ship's hull, she realizes the danger has followed her offshore. Her only comfort is the scarred, silent protector she speaks to through the glass of the habitat—a man who uses a scrambler to bypass his helium-distorted voice just to whisper his secrets to her.
When her past catches up and a corporate saboteur threatens to sink the Leviathan, Axel is faced with an unthinkable choice. To save Clara, he must trigger an emergency rapid ascent, ignoring the nitrogen bubbling in his blood and the agonizing 'bends' that could end his life. In the crushing dark of the abyss, Axel Hammer will prove that loyalty to a brother is nothing compared to the primal need to protect his woman.
"The tension between Axel and Clara behind that glass partition was absolutely suffocating in the best way possible! I’ve never read a hero so willing to literally destroy his own body to save the heroine. The 'Glass Kiss' scene is burned into my brain!"— DeepSeaReader