Captured in a forbidden war zone with stolen intel in her pocket, Vivian Cross expects execution—until three members of the shadow task force R.I.S.E. decide she’s more useful alive.
Colter Briggs is brutal discipline. Theo Maddox is cold precision. Rome Wilder is danger with a grin. They don’t interrogate her for answers—they condition her for obedience, locking a collar to her throat and throwing her into “the loop”: tests, missions, silence, and commands she’s not allowed to refuse.
Vivian fights them at every turn… until survival starts to feel like surrender, and surrender starts to feel like power. Because the more she resists, the more the system adapts—and the more the truth emerges: she wasn’t just caught in the wrong place. She was delivered.
To earn her freedom, she has to outlast the program and uncover who set her up. To keep her heart, she has to decide whether the men breaking her down are the only ones who can rebuild her.
Honor. Control. Repeat.
A dark, high-heat why-choose military romance with coercive power dynamics, captivity, and romantic suspense. For mature readers only.