Crossfire by Eve Newton

He was sent to collect a hostage. I’m the mistake he can’t take back.

Aoife

I wasn’t taken because I’m important. I was taken because I was there. Wrong place. Wrong time. Wrong man.

Aran O’Neill doesn’t do confusion, and he doesn’t do mercy. When his family orders a prisoner exchange, he turns up to collect what he’s owed—clean, quiet, final.

Only the exchange goes sideways, and the woman he drags out of the chaos isn’t who he came for.

And the moment Aran realizes it, I become a problem with two prices on my head: the people who ambushed the deal and know what I saw… and the O’Neills, who don’t tolerate loose ends.

Aran thinks the simplest fix is to lock me down until he decides what to do with me. He thinks I’ll beg. He thinks I’ll break. He’s wrong.

Because the ambush wasn’t random. Someone wanted that exchange to fail. And if Aran wants the truth—if he wants to stop the next body from dropping—he’ll have to trust the woman he never meant to take.

In our world, love isn’t safe. It’s caught in the Crossfire.