A Heart of Stone

He keeps you whole, but you need me to keep you human.The government surveillance program was never meant to be discovered. Summer found it anyway.Now she has a job offer from Aaron Dubois she can’t refuse, a queen determined to protect herv own secrets at any cost, and a life Summer’s fighting to hold together - one built on a broken mate bond and everything that breaking it cost her.Because severing a bond that was never supposed to break doesn’t just leave scars. It leaves consequences. Without Dune close, Summer’s soul begins to harden - which means the man she once walked away from is now the only thing standing between her and losing herself entirely. What the three of them have become defies every category she has, and Koda, the man she chose, is the one holding them all together.Then Ashryn stops sending warnings and starts sending people.Summer handles it the only way she knows how. Quietly. Permanently. And with the growing certainty that staying near the two men she loves is painting a target on both of them.So the question becomes not whether she can stop Ashryn - but what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep the people she loves safe. Her career. Her reputation. Her carefully rebuilt sense of self.Or the two men who are the only reason she still has one.The hardest part isn’t choosing between them.It’s deciding what she’s willing to become to protect them both.