The Return Home

Delta Force taught him to survive anything-except the guilt of coming home alive.

Major Dylan Sarich only ever believed in one thing: the mission. Delta Force was his identity, his purpose, his entire reason for breathing-until a top-secret operation went catastrophically wrong and left him bleeding out alongside the men he would've died for. Now he's back in Jupiter, Florida on medical leave, and the scars on his body are nothing compared to the ones tearing him apart from the inside. Physical therapy can't touch the guilt. Sleep can't silence the nightmares. And the rage simmering under his skin is winning. He's losing ground fast, drowning in the wreckage of the soldier he used to be-until his mother calls in the one person stubborn enough to drag him back from the edge.

Dr. Kinsley Maren specializes in PTSD and brain trauma, which means she's seen men like Dylan before-broken, furious, and determined to suffer alone. She's brilliant, patient, and not remotely intimidated by the shattered soldier next door. From the moment she meets him, she sees past the wreckage to the man buried underneath: disciplined, loyal, and hurting in ways he refuses to admit. Her goal is simple-help him reclaim the pieces of himself the mission destroyed. What she doesn't expect is how deeply he'll burrow under her skin...or how much of her carefully guarded heart she'll risk to bring him back. Because the hardest mission Dylan Sarich will ever face isn't surviving what happened overseas. It's learning to let someone save him.