Tarnished

Logan Haines spent years as a Navy SEAL, and the battlefield hardened him further. Long before that, he learned that love meant violence, deceit, guilt, and blame. To him, affection was an act people put on to control the ones closest to them, so he kept his relationships casual and light.

Then he started work at Triple Canopy and met Lauren Saunders, the receptionist. No other woman interested him. Lauren, however, wanted what Logan had always refused: a marriage, children, and an ordinary family life in a house with a yard. She wanted that life with him. He pushed her away, and now he lives with the misery he created. Lauren wants nothing to do with him, yet he sees her every day at the office, and someone is trying to kill her.

When Lauren goes missing, the men of Triple Canopy launch a search. She is one of their own, a fellow team member, but for Logan the stakes are personal and far higher than for anyone else. He is determined to find her, even if the search costs him his life, because she taught him that love brings peace rather than pain.