Dead Heat

When emergency room doctor Aria Malik saves the life of a gunshot victim brought in without ID, she thinks she’s doing her job. But the man she rescues—Matteo Ruiz—is no ordinary patient. He’s a deep-cover DEA agent whose identity has just been exposed in a bloody cartel war.

Moments after the surgery, assassins storm the hospital, and Aria’s world erupts in chaos. Forced to flee with Matteo into the blistering Arizona desert, she finds herself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse where every shadow hides danger—and every secret could kill them both.

As the heat rises and trust becomes their only weapon, Aria discovers that Matteo’s mission runs deeper than she imagined. Someone inside the DEA is leaking intel, and her hospital may be tied to the very syndicate hunting them. With bullets flying and loyalties unraveling, passion ignites between them in the one place love should be impossible—on the run.

But when Aria uncovers a truth Matteo never meant her to find, she must make an impossible choice: believe the man who saved her life, or expose the agent who might be using her to finish his mission.

From the author of Broken Trust and Devil’s Code comes Dead Heat—a pulse-pounding romantic thriller where love burns hotter than the desert sun, and every heartbeat could be your last.