When underground fighter Jaxon Cross walks away from the violent world that built him, he believes he’s finally freeuntil the woman who saved his soul is taken. Now trapped in the Syndicate’s brutal arena, Lena Rivers becomes the bait in a deadly game run by the ruthless Viktor Kale. To save her, Jaxon must survive a gauntlet of killers, outsmart a monster who knows his every weakness, and unleash a fury he swore he’d buried. Every punch brings him closer to freedom. Every strike brings him closer to losing the only person he’s ever loved. In a world where mercy is weakness and loyalty is a weapon, Jaxon has one final chance to protect her. One fight. One promise. One last strike for love

When a storm tears through the skies above the Korean Peninsula, South Korean heiress Yuna Seo is swept into the unknown crash-landing deep beyond the border she was never meant to cross. Lost, terrified, and alone, she’s found by Captain Ryu Jun, a disciplined North Korean officer whose life has been defined by duty, silence, and shadows. Hiding her in his remote mountain village, Jun finds himself torn between obedience to his country and the strange, undeniable pull of the woman who fell from the sky. As danger closes in on patrols searching, whispers rising the fragile connection between them grows into something forbidden, powerful, and impossible to forget. In a world divided by wire and war, love becomes their rebellion. But when every heartbeat is a secret and every glance could be betrayal, how far can fate carry them before the wind changes again? “He was the calm before her storm and the storm that changed his heart forever.”