Her Mercenary Husband (The Silent Protectors #11)

One secret cost her brother his life. To survive the fallout, she’ll have to marry the deadliest man in the Sierras.

Seismologist Dr. Mara Valdés came to the isolated Ridgeline Field Station Seven for peace, quiet, and data.

Instead, she uncovered a deadly conspiracy: a high-stakes corporate cover-up by Nyx Geodynamics—the very company responsible for her brother’s fatal "accident".

Now, she’s holding seven terabytes of undeniable proof, and Nyx’s kill squad is closing in fast.

Enter Major Elias Ward.

A battle-hardened ex-Ranger turned private tactical contractor, Elias doesn’t do rescues, and he certainly doesn’t do marriage. But when a standing Pentagon extraction order lands on his desk, he has seventy-two hours to get Mara off that ridge alive.

There’s only one legal shield strong enough to stop Nyx’s high-priced lawyers and bullets in their tracks: a corporate immunity umbrella under Afterlight Defense.

The condition? Mara has to sign a marriage license and put his ring on her finger.

Forced into close quarters inside Elias’s mountain compound, the friction between them is as volatile as the fault line below. Mara is fierce, brilliant, and determined to get justice for her brother. Elias is stoic, lethal, and dangerously protective.

As the ground begins to shift and the threat breaches the perimeter, the lines between a fake arrangement and real passion shatter.

Elias will break every rule he’s ever lived by to keep his wife safe—and Mara might just risk her heart on a mercenary who refuses to let her go.