The Man from Sanctum

A painful past

Deke Murphy and Maddie Hill should never have worked as a couple in high school. She was the class valedictorian and he the jock who took nothing seriously…except her. Together they formed an amazing team, and young love blossomed into something that strengthened them both. Until tragedy struck and Deke made a sacrifice that split them up forever. 

An unexpected reunion

Seventeen years later, Maddie is living her dream working for a brilliant tech guru in the beauty of Southern California. She’s made a life for herself and it’s first class all the way. She rarely thinks of the jock who dumped her all those years ago. But when Maddie realizes her boss might be part of an international conspiracy, she can’t deny Deke might be her best bet to solve the mystery. Her one-time sweetheart works for one of the world’s premiere security and investigative firms. She’ll hire him and prove to herself their relationship could never have worked. 

A dangerous future

As Maddie and Deke begin to uncover her boss’s secrets, they can’t deny the chemistry that has reignited. But before they can explore the connection growing between them, they must survive the deadly forces hunting them down.

Main characters:

Deke Murphy

Maddie Hill

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Deke has been around for a long time. He showed up with Theo and Case and Ten's men. I think his first real appearance was in the scene where Ten storms MT to get Phoebe out. He shows up and announces how cute the babies are and ends up talking about how he got through his trauma. His sisters kept putting babies in his arms. This was nothing I intended to do anything else with. I often just let the dialogue flow and end up with something I can use later, as I did with this. I worried how to open the book given this was a second chance romance. I found the answer in those words I wrote years before and in the story behind them that Deke did not know.

In this one the bad guy amps up the pressure and Kyle does something dumb. At least everyone else thinks it's dumb. And Boomer gets to show off his skills.