The Broody Ex-SEAL's Broken Vows
(2026)(The second book in the Ashborn Security series)
A novel by Ivy Snow
An FBI agent who lets no one close.
An ex-SEAL who has never touched a woman.
And a marriage neither of them can walk out of.
Agent Wren ‘Kestrel’ Calloway doesn’t do partners. She decodes micro-expressions in milliseconds and lives for one vow: to deliver justice to the syndicate that destroyed her family.
When an embedded mole triggers a kill order on her, her only way out is the deadliest shadow in the valley.
Known as the Basilisk, former Navy SEAL Troy is the black-ops demolitions specialist for Ashborn Security. Six-foot-five, covered in scars, and built for cold violence, he’s the monster the entire town steps off the sidewalk to avoid.
He doesn’t do attachments, he doesn’t do rescue, and he has never let a woman breach his perimeter.
Until he decides to contain her as his wife.
Troy insists the vows are purely operational, hiding the dangerous truth: she already belongs to him, and he has no intention of letting her walk away.
Locked inside a cabin with a touch-starved giant, Wren’s instincts do the unexpected—they clear him as safe. Behind closed doors, she discovers the quiet sanctuary beneath the scars.
Every graze of skin strips her control. Every shared breath detonates the lines Troy swore never to cross.
As the three-decade conspiracy explodes… if Troy can’t keep her safe, Wren will be buried before she uncovers the truth.
Tropes:
An ex-SEAL who has never touched a woman.
And a marriage neither of them can walk out of.
Agent Wren ‘Kestrel’ Calloway doesn’t do partners. She decodes micro-expressions in milliseconds and lives for one vow: to deliver justice to the syndicate that destroyed her family.
When an embedded mole triggers a kill order on her, her only way out is the deadliest shadow in the valley.
Known as the Basilisk, former Navy SEAL Troy is the black-ops demolitions specialist for Ashborn Security. Six-foot-five, covered in scars, and built for cold violence, he’s the monster the entire town steps off the sidewalk to avoid.
He doesn’t do attachments, he doesn’t do rescue, and he has never let a woman breach his perimeter.
Until he decides to contain her as his wife.
Troy insists the vows are purely operational, hiding the dangerous truth: she already belongs to him, and he has no intention of letting her walk away.
Locked inside a cabin with a touch-starved giant, Wren’s instincts do the unexpected—they clear him as safe. Behind closed doors, she discovers the quiet sanctuary beneath the scars.
Every graze of skin strips her control. Every shared breath detonates the lines Troy swore never to cross.
As the three-decade conspiracy explodes… if Troy can’t keep her safe, Wren will be buried before she uncovers the truth.
Tropes:
- Enemies to lovers
Marriage of convenience
Protector romance
Forced proximity
Small town secrecy with hidden conspiracy
Dangerous hero + competent heroine
Touch her and die
He falls first and harder
Touch-starved hero meets touch-averse heroine
Hot spice
SLOOOOW burn
HEA
No cheating
No cliffhanger
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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