He plays to win. She refuses to be a prize.

Macs Newstead is a Navy SEAL who thrives on control, precision, and staying unattached. Combat is his comfort zone, and love? Just a liability he's never had time for. With charm as sharp as his aim, Macs lives for the mission-and nothing else.

Teala Smart built her yoga studio from the ground up, trading emotional entanglements for ambition. Fiercely independent and laser-focused, she doesn't do drama-or relationships. But when fate throws a certain cocky SEAL into her path, everything she's sworn off starts to look dangerously tempting.

The ruthless SEAL finally meets an enemy he can't defeat, and both Macs and Teala find, against their wishes, and despite atrocious circumstances, a chemistry so explosive it leaves nothing but deconstructing love in its wake.