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After surviving the mission that nearly ended her life—and her career—Cruz Manuelos finds herself thrust into a new role as station chief of the Lioness program. On paper, she’s moved up in the world. In reality, she’s battling demons that refuse to stay buried. Haunted by the trauma of past missions, struggling with PTSD, and sinking into self-destructive habits, Cruz is walking a razor’s edge between duty and personal collapse.
Her relationship with Josie, once forged in the fires of combat and shared purpose, is starting to crack under the weight of Cruz’s growing distance and Josie’s frustration at being sidelined during her recovery. As Cruz pushes away the people who care about her, she’s pulled deeper into a world of high-stakes operations and buried secrets.
When new intel surfaces linking rogue actors to the Amrohi family—a name Cruz never expected to hear again—it forces her to confront a past she thought was long behind her. As tensions rise and old wounds resurface, Cruz is torn between duty, love, and survival, knowing that every decision she makes could cost her everything.
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Cruz and Josie embark on a journey soon after Operation Sky Hawk ends. As they settle into a routine during an initial two month leave, they become very close and eventually fall deeply in love. As they navigate the waters of their new relationship, painful memories resurface for both of them as they learn to share and gain trust in one another, all while learning to be vulnerable and having the faith and hope in each other.
The journey will take them through self discovery, happiness, pain and heartbreak. Ultimately, both having to decide what is most important to them.....the mission or love for each other.
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- Part 1 of Love and Redemption
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Cruz and Josie are finally married.
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- Part 2 of Love and Redemption
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A sequel to For Mission or Love, 9 Months follows Cruz and Josie through the nine intimate, emotional months of Josie’s pregnancy leading up to the birth of their child. As they prepare for parenthood, Josie wrestles with the quiet fear that she's losing a part of herself, even as she embraces the joy of becoming a mother. Meanwhile, Cruz faces her own doubts, afraid of not being enough but determined to support Josie with everything she needs. They tackle everyday life, work, family visits, and quiet moments at home. Their love deepens through vulnerability, laughter, and the shared hope of the life they’re building. The story delves into transformation, resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to grow a family, together.
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- Part 3 of Love and Redemption
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Eighteen months after the fallout of Operation Skyhawk, the CIA activates its most elite black-ops team to intercept a growing threat in West Africa. A rogue private military contractor, backed by terrorist financing, is destabilizing Mali and Burkina Faso to carve out a lawless corridor for arms trafficking and extremist training. The Lioness QRF strike team is tasked with shutting it down, fast and lethal.
Cruz is now a rising CIA case officer and Josie is now a full fledged member of the QRF strike team. Once bonded by survival and now bonded by something deeper, Cruz and Josie must navigate the battlefield while guarding the trust and intimacy they’ve built. As the mission stretches them to the brink, love becomes both their shield and their greatest vulnerability. They fight to hold onto each other all while working together to take down the warlord, trying desperately to ensure what they have built doesn't burn down.
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- Part 1 of The Missions
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Fifteen months after the fallout of Operation Skyhawk, Josie and Cruz find themselves drawn back into each other’s orbit during a month of leave from their covert lives. What began as a casual, physical relationship rooted in survival and unspoken care has slowly transformed into something far more difficult to ignore. As they return to their respective hometowns: Josie to confront the fractured family she left behind and Cruz to face the ghosts of a painful past she’s long buried. They are forced to reconcile not only who they were, but who they’ve become. Amidst shared wounds, long silences, and slow revelations, Cruz and Josie come to realize that the connection between them is no longer just comfort or need....it is love.
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Six months after Operation Mali Veil, Josie is chosen for a deep-cover mission as the new Lioness, infiltrating a dangerous Venezuelan arms network. The decision shakes her relationship with Cruz, who knows firsthand the devastating cost of such missions.
As Josie is embedded under an alias and surrounded by enemies, Cruz must balance her role as case officer with the terrifying possibility of losing the woman she loves. Their bond is tested by secrets, duty, and the unrelenting pressure of life in the shadows, where trust is everything and survival isn’t guaranteed.
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- Part 2 of The Missions
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After Operation Skyhawk leaves them physically and emotionally wrecked, Cruz and Josie are sent to a medical recovery mansion with the QRF team for four months of mandatory healing. The house becomes a space where bonds are tested and slowly formed and where Cruz and Josie navigate their growing love with quiet tension, mutual care, and emotional and physical restraint.
Surrounded by teammates who move from wary detachment to real camaraderie, Cruz grapples with her fear of intimacy and her own painful past. While Josie, unsure of where she fits, finds strength in the team and security in Cruz.
As the group heals through shared pain, humor, and loyalty, Cruz and Josie come to trust not just each other, but the family forming around them, and they begin to believe in a future built on more than survival.
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- Part 1 of Recovering
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"Come here."
She sees the outline of the pilot's arm reaching for her through the dark. Josie's voice is low and seductive, and Cruz is never going to win against that. Her body twists as if she's a puppet, and Josie pulling the strings.
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Months after Operation Silent Shadow, Cruz and Josie continue their high-stakes work with the elite Lioness/QRF strike team. When a new target emerges—Tariq Al-Hamdan, a Saudi financier with ties to international arms trafficking, Cruz is forced to confront the most unexpected connection: his wife, Aaliyah Amrohi, the woman Cruz once loved while undercover as a Lioness.
As the team sets up operations in Istanbul, Cruz must balance the precision of the mission with the emotional turmoil of unfinished history. What begins as tactical surveillance turns into a reckoning with the past, threatening the hard-won peace she and Josie have built.
In this blend of covert operations and intimate reckoning, Cruz explores the cost of closure, the strength of chosen love, and the haunting pull of a past never dealt with.
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- Part 3 of The Missions
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If years of exposure to loud blasts of gunfire hadn’t blessed Cruz's ears with persistent ringing, she would describe the tension inside the car as absolute fucking silence.
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After the harrowing events of Operation Skyhawk, Josie lies critically injured in a Kuwait hospital, and Cruz refuses to leave her side as she fights for her life. In the aftermath, they are both offered new paths, career-defining roles that pull them in separate directions. Where they make the decision to prioritize their call to duty over the growing feelings developing between them.
When fate unexpectedly reunites them on a vacation, their connection reignites with a passion too powerful to ignore. But in a world where life and death are constantly put to the test, they begin to realize love is both a risk and a lifeline.
As they face all they’ve survived, they must decide whether to keep running from what they feel or finally surrender to it.
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Josie, now flying with the 160th SOAR and Cruz now a full QRF team member, share a small apartment which has been a sanctuary for them in between their constant deployments. As their love for each other deepens, the apartment becomes too small for them and no longer feels like enough. They both want something with more space that they can grow in together.
They unexpectedly find a weathered farmhouse on a stretch of land that stirs different feelings, at first, in each of them: Fear for Cruz and strong possibility for Josie.
Undeterred by its peeling paint and overgrown fields, they take the leap and make it theirs. What begins as a renovation becomes a shared adventure, revealing new sides of each other between demolitions and deployment schedules. The farmhouse becomes more than walls and a roof as they begin to build a home, a future, and a love that feels unshakable no matter where life takes them.
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Cruz, Josie, and the elite Lioness QRF team have spent years on the front lines together. They have been forged into a family by missions that tested their limits and have developed a bond that has kept them alive.
What begins as a rare afternoon of normalcy, is cut short by a mission alert tied to escalating Russian aggression. But when one of their own is killed in action, all their lives change. The tragedy forces Cruz and Josie to confront the reality of their dangerous world and question what they want from their future. Grieving and unwilling to keep living on borrowed time, they walk away from the CIA and set out to build a new life together.
Yet even as they try to leave that world behind, their past catches up to them, pulling them back for one final mission that will test their love, their loyalty, and their resolve to leave it all behind for good.