The Baker's Assassin: A Second Chance Black-Ops Romantic Suspense

She baked to forget the past. Now, the past is bleeding on her kitchen floor.For five years, Elara Vance has been a ghost. Once the CIA's most lethal off-the-books operative, she orchestrated her own fiery death to save the only man she ever loved. Today, she is "Ellie Thorne," the soft-spoken owner of a vanilla-scented bakery in the snow-choked isolation of Frostpine, Montana. It was supposed to be a quiet, peaceful penance.Until he stumbles through her back door.Kaelen Cross-her brilliant former handler and the man she sacrificed everything for-is bleeding out on her prep tables. He's stolen an encrypted ledger from the agency mole who framed him, and he brings a terrifying warning: a twenty-man elite mercenary unit is tracking him right to Frostpine.Trapped by a massive, grid-killing blizzard, Elara has no choice but to drop the disguise. Retreating to her isolated, heavily fortified A-frame cabin, she prepares for a brutal, asymmetrical war against the agency's deadliest Fixer.But the encroaching mercenaries aren't the only spark in the dark. As the siege begins, the emotional dam between Elara and Kael shatters. He spent five years on a suicidal downward spiral believing she was dead. Now, discovering the truth behind her sacrifice transforms his furious grief into a fierce, consuming devotion.If they want a second chance at a real life, they won't just have to survive the night. Elara will have to unleash the very monster she tried so hard to bury.The Baker's Assassin is a gripping small-town romantic suspense thriller packed with lethal domesticity, forced proximity, and an explosive second-chance romance.