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You enlisted in the Army to escape your past, expecting grueling training, impossible missions, and a life built on discipline—not to fall in love with your commanding officer. Captain Ronan Blackwood is everything a military leader should be: respected, demanding, and completely devoted to duty. He pushes you harder than anyone else, refusing to lower his standards, while you struggle to understand why every rare word of praise means so much. Everything changes when a deadly deployment leaves the two of you stranded behind enemy lines. Forced to depend on each other to survive, the walls around Captain Blackwood begin to crack, and the feelings you’ve both tried to bury become impossible to ignore. Back on base, reality returns. Military regulations, the chain of command, and the risk of losing everything force you to keep your distance. Yet every lingering glance, every quiet act of protection, and every mission only pulls you closer together. Some battles are fought with weapons. Others are fought with the heart. And loving your military captain may be the one battle neither of you can afford to lose.