When Sergeant Rowan Blake, a battle-hardened British Army medic, is deployed on a six-month operational tour to northern Iraq, she expects heat, long nights, and the familiar chaos of keeping her lads alive. What she doesn’t expect is to be embedded alongside UK Special Forces—or to come face-to-face with Staff Sergeant Callum Ward, her ex-partner and the man who broke her heart by disappearing into the shadows of Special Ops two years earlier.