Michaela Matthews was supposed to be dead. A STARR agent turned ghost, lost to Ashfall's most devastating neural variant until she was found, broken but breathing. Now she's awake in a recovery ward with no clear past, chemical scars in her brain, and only one man cleared to reach her.Dr. Joshua Brinkman doesn't believe in lost causes. A trauma psychologist with a Jell-O shot habit and a towel problem, he's known for pulling operatives back from the edge. But Michaela is different. She doesn't just carry trauma; she was engineered for obedience. And she's starting to remember.As Joshua unravels the code that nearly erased her, what begins as therapy turns into something more intimate, more dangerous, and utterly forbidden. The deeper they go, the more Michaela's instincts and feelings return. And the closer Joshua gets, the more he risks losing his license, his career, and his heart.Because healing her might mean breaking the only rules that kept her alive.They were programmed to forget. But some connections can't be erased.
