Zara Cole isn't who she says she is. Under a false identity, she infiltrates Meridian — a private intelligence firm in Lagos — chasing the truth behind her brother Marcus's death. What she doesn't expect is Kael Rhys, the senior operative assigned to watch her closer than anyone.The attraction is immediate. Unwelcome. Impossible to ignore.As a mission forces them into the field together, the walls between them fall — but Kael discovers who Zara really is, and makes a choice that will cost him everything. Betrayal cracks open what they built. Hunted by the very organization they once served, Zara and Kael must decide if the truth is worth burning it all down for.A slow-burn romantic suspense about identity, betrayal, and the dangerous cost of getting too close to the truth.

In Berlin's quietest archive, sound remembers what people try to forget.Evelyn Hart restores damaged audio tapes for a living — she listens so others don't have to. But when a decades-old recording surfaces with a frequency that shouldn't exist, she can't explain it away. Enter Jian Ostrand, a forensic acoustics specialist with his own reasons for wanting the anomaly solved quietly.What starts as a professional collision becomes something neither of them can mute: late nights in soundproofed rooms, a mystery tangled in old secrets, and a pull between them that grows louder the closer they get to the truth.Some things are heard before they're understood. Some feelings are the same.A slow-burn mystery romance about sound, secrets, and the space between two people learning to listen.