Ghost Protocol - Black Ops, #1

Dax Callen is a ghost.

No name. No past. No attachments. Just one job: eliminate the target and vanish.

But his new assignment isn't a kill order—it's a protection detail. And the target is Dr. Lark Winslow, a brilliant scientist who leaked classified data she shouldn't have and now has a price on her head.

She's sharp, stubborn, and entirely too curious about the man hired to keep her alive. And Dax? He's trying not to notice the way she fills the silence in his carefully controlled world.

Trapped together in a remote safehouse, every shared glance and quiet moment chips away at the walls he's built. She sees through the operative to the man underneath—the one haunted by the team he lost and the memories he can't trust.

But the people hunting Lark aren't just trying to silence her. They're weaponizing the very research she exposed—a mind-control program that turned soldiers into weapons and erased everything that made them human.

Dax knows what they're capable of. He's one of their experiments.

Now he has to decide: stay the ghost he was trained to be, or become the man she believes he still is.

Because if he fails, Lark dies. And if he succeeds, he might finally remember what it means to be alive.

Perfect for fans of romantic suspense with heat, dangerous heroes, and the kind of slow-burn tension that ignites when two broken people choose each other over survival.

Ghost Protocol is Book One of the Blackout Ops series. Each book features a complete romance with series-wide plot threads. For mature readers.