Crossfire Creek Hideout

When Avery Hastings's carefully hidden life in Witness Protection is ripped apart, she has only one place left to go. Years ago, she testified against the man who murdered her husband, and now someone has uncovered her new identity and wants her silenced for good. With nowhere else to run, Avery turns to the last man she ever expected to need: Jackson Ward, Crossfire Ops specialist and her late husband's best friend. The reunion is strained, painful, and complicated by grief neither of them ever fully faced, but the threat closing in on Avery leaves no room for distance.

As attacks escalate and the killer targets Crossfire Creek, Avery and Jackson are forced into close quarters and closer truths. Old loyalties shatter, hostages are taken, and the past collides violently with the present. What begins as protection becomes something far more dangerous-and far more intimate-as Jackson and Avery fight not just to survive, but to reclaim a future neither believed was still possible. Because when everything burns, love may be the only thing left worth saving.