Special Agent James Knox
Moving from the FBI Forensic Response Team to the K9 unit wasn’t my best idea.
My partner hates me and he’ll hate me even more if he finds out the secret I’m keeping. I’ve spent weeks winning my partner’s respect, and as an added bonus, the sexual tension built on the foundation of his hate is so arousing I almost forget we’re just fucking with each other.
Straight guys love to see how far they can take this shit.
I couldn’t take it seriously—or so I thought until he kissed me.
Only we don’t have time to process any of it because we’re thrown into the middle of a raging forest fire, to try and find a missing hiker before it’s too late.
At the worst possible time, I figure out the case, but if I tell Hayes how I know, he’ll know I’m responsible for what happened to his partner and I’ll lose his trust forever. If I don’t tell him, we all might die in the woods.
How to tell your partner you nearly killed his last partner when you want to keep fucking him, while dodging bullets, was not covered in the FBI training academy.
Maybe I’ll write a how-to guide if I make it out of here alive: A special agent’s to not dying at the hands of your partner.
I’ll be out of a job if he doesn’t kill me first.
Special Agent Nolan Hudson
At seventeen, I ran. I joined the military and planned to never step foot in my home town again. Nothing could make me return to that hellhole and the pain I buried there, or so I thought— until I found myself on a plane to that very place.
Almost two decades later, I’m forced home to help find a missing nine year old. As a member of the most elite K9 special unit in the country, it was my job and you can’t exactly say no to the FBI. It should be easy, and I won’t have to face what I ran from.
However, the case is anything but simple and to make matters worse, I’m faced with the last person I ever wanted to see again: Officer Callum Stone— the sheriff’s son and the town’s golden boy. Only he’s not anymore—he’s a ruin of what he once was.
It’s Callum’s kid who’s missing, and all the feelings I’d spent almost twenty years running from rise to the surface.
As secrets come to light, we realize our small town is hiding a lot more than we thought, and we’ll have to follow the trail of deception to get justice and maybe a second chance at love.
J.R. Gray 