Torch: A Ghost Division Novel

Torch A Ghost Division Novel Ryan "Torch" Calloway has one rule about women: don't start something he can't finish. For a Navy SEAL who lives on six hours' notice and an early expiration date, that rule has served him well. Missions come first. His team comes second. Everything else stays temporary. Then he meets Olivia Monroe.

Olivia is a bestselling romance novelist who would rather disappear behind a stack of books than spend an afternoon making small talk at a charity event aboard the USS Midway . She isn't looking for excitement, complications, or a man who can see straight through the walls she's spent years building. What she gets is Torch.

He is steady, impossible to rattle, and far too easy to trust. He is also the first man in three years to look at Olivia like she is worth the risk. For one afternoon, the attraction between them feels harmless. But Torch knows better than to let it become anything more.

His life is built around sudden departures, classified missions, and an expiration date that seems ever impending. So he leaves before either of them can want too much. What he doesn't know is that someone else has been watching Olivia. Someone who believes he knows her better than anyone else. Someone who has already decided she belongs to him.

By the time Torch learns about the letters, the threats have become impossible to ignore. The danger is real, closing in, and far more personal than Olivia ever understood. Torch doesn't hesitate. He puts himself between Olivia and the man hunting her, determined to keep her safe no matter what it costs.

Protecting her should be another mission, clean, controlled, and temporary. Instead, every hour at her side forces him to face the truth he tried to outrun. Leaving her never made her safer. It only left her alone.

Now Torch is fighting on two fronts: against the threat determined to claim Olivia, and against the feelings that make walking away impossible a second time. He thought leaving her was the same as keepin