SIGNAL & SURRENDER: A Novel of Science, Secrets, and Surrender

She messaged him at midnight. She told herself it was professional.Two people. Two marriages that were over in everything but name. One signal neither of them planned to follow.What began as forbidden became something darker - a surrender neither of them saw coming.When Atlas News anchor Cassandra Mercer reaches out to UCSF geneticist Dr. Daniel Ashford after a late broadcast, she tells herself she's interested in the science. But what begins as professional curiosity becomes something she hasn't allowed herself in years: a connection that sees past the performance.Daniel is brilliant, precise, and direct about who he is and what he needs. When he tells Cass who he is - what he wants, how he operates - she discovers something about herself she had stopped looking for. Neither of them is free. Neither of them stops.But Daniel's research has a classified government application. And the story Cass is developing will lead her directly to his laboratory.When a leaked file lands on her desk that traces back to Daniel's lab, she faces an impossible collision: the biggest story of her career, and the first man she's trusted in longer than she can remember.Some signals are worth following. Some surrenders are the bravest thing you'll ever do.Signal & Surrender is a slow-burn, emotionally grounded medical romantic suspense novel about two people who find each other in the margins of lives they're ready to leave behind - and the secrets that threaten to undo everything before they can name what it is.Heat level: Steamy. Includes BDSM elements.For readers of Sylvia Day, Anne Rice, and Penelope Douglas.Book 1 of The Signal Series.