Handling Haven by Samantha Cole

Hobnobbing with the elite around the globe, Haven Caldwell does things other people can only dream of, but it’s all a cover. As a covert operative of Deimos, a US black-ops agency, she knows how to handle herself in any given situation, even if it requires killing someone. But when her latest mission goes awry, leaving her in a wheelchair, she feels she has nothing left to live for.

Delta Force member, Sergeant First Class Lucas “Frisco” Ingram, will never forget the day he met the pretty spy whose life was turned upside down in a split second. Torn and bleeding, she begged him to leave her to die, but he refused. Now he can’t get her out of his head, and she wants nothing to do with him. But when a terrorist threatens an attack on American soil, Haven might be the only one who can help him and his teammates stop it.

While forced to work together, Lucas tries to convince Haven that his feelings for her are not a result of guilt or pity—that she has something worth fighting for staring her right in the face. But will their chance for a happy-ever-after be blown to hell?

***In addition to being part of Susan Stoker’s Special Forces: Operation Alpha World, Handling Haven is Book 1 in the Deimos series, which is a spinoff of Samantha Cole’s popular Trident Security series.