A brooding hero collides with the one woman who upends his control in this hate-to-love military romance by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin.
Hollis Avery has always been untouchable. A woman who’s never needed saving—born into wealth, power, and a family history steeped in secrets.
Until she wakes up with no memory of who she is.
The only thing that feels familiar is Jason Reed, the Delta Force operator who insists they were never friends and nothing more than teammates. Guarded and closed off, Reed keeps his distance, even as Hollis can’t ignore the pull she feels toward him, or the way his gaze lingers like he’s already lost her once and refuses to survive it again.
While they work to uncover who took her memories and why, Hollis begins to change. Stripped of the armor that once defined her, she becomes open, trusting, and dangerously honest. And Reed finds himself falling for the woman behind the legend—the one he was never meant to touch but can’t stop wanting.
As pieces of Hollis’s past come to light, so do the truths Reed has kept buried—and the fear that what they’re building belongs only to the woman she is now.
Restoring her memories is the key to protecting the legacy she was born to defend. But with time running out and danger closing in, Hollis and Reed must choose what’s worth saving: her past…or the future neither of them was ever supposed to want.
© 2026 by Brittney Sahin, all rights reserved.
A Note From the Publisher
Brittney Sahin is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Costa Family series, Falcon Falls Security series, Dublin Nights series, and many other novels of romantic suspense. She began writing at an early age with the dream to be a published author before the age of eighteen. Although academic pursuits (and later, a teaching career) interrupted her aspirations, she never stopped writing, never stopped imagining. It wasn’t until her students encouraged her to follow her dreams that Brittney said goodbye to Upstate New York in order to start a new adventure in the place she was raised: Charlotte, North Carolina. Here, she decided to take her students’ advice and begin to write again. When she’s not working on upcoming novels, she spends time with her family. She is the proud mother of two boys, and a lover of suspense novels, coffee, and the outdoors. For more information, visit www.brittneysahin.com.
🧡Review🧡
Hollis is strong, fierce and is a force to be reckoned with and never allows anyone to see her vulnerabilities. When she disappears, Delta Shield Security and Jason are determined to find her but that is only the beginning. She has no memory of what has happened and who is responsible but the biggest question is why the only man who makes her feel protected also the man who wants nothing to do with her.
After his military career ended Jason transitioned into joining the Delta Security Shield team. He has always been drawn to the formidable personality of Hollis but was determined to keep his distance however seeing her vulnerable side creates a crack in the walls around his heart that only get wider as they find themselves spending time and working together to uncover the truth of what Hollis has been through.
This story is an opportunity to see Jason and Hollis in a different light and allows us to catch up with the other characters we have come to know. Emotional, suspenseful and action filled as Jason and Hollis will be forced to face the feelings they have for each other that they have tried to deny.
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