Nora Whitfield left the army to care for her dying father, then stayed to care for her grieving mother, building a quiet life around protecting everyone but herself. When a bomb tears through a Toronto gala, instinct alone sends her across the room and puts her body between a stranger and the blast. That stranger is Julian Calloway, heir to one of North America's largest cross border fortunes, and the woman who saves his life is about to become the one thing his family never planned for.Julian is cold at first, trained since childhood to keep everyone at arm's length, but Nora refuses to flatter him, refuses to perform deference, and refuses to let him hide behind his name. Hired onto his personal detail, she becomes the only person in his life who wants nothing from him. Slowly, without either of them choosing it, distance turns into trust, and trust turns into something neither can afford.His parents have already arranged his engagement to secure the family business. Nora comes from a small apartment in Buffalo and a mother she supports alone. Julian defies his father anyway, and the cost is immediate and brutal. When a kidnapping strands him alone in the wilderness for four days, it is Nora's training, whispered to him in memory, that keeps him alive, and it is Nora who finds him. When an assassination attempt puts a bullet meant for him into her instead, his family turns on her before he even wakes.Every time the world tries to prove they do not belong together, Julian chooses her anyway, publicly, completely, at real cost to himself. Every time Nora tries to protect him by walking away, he refuses to let her carry that alone.Crossfire Hearts is a sweet, hook driven romance about a woman who has spent her whole life guarding other people's lives and a man who has spent his entire life performing someone else's. Set across the Canada United States border, it is a story about earning love instead of inheriting it, and about what it costs, and what it heals, when the person meant to protect you is the one you fall for.