Important: This is a revised and re-written version of the first edition, Bound by Valor by Bakul Sharma (AJ Bishop’s previous pen name)—released back in 2024.

"Let me decide whom I choose to lose."

Leora
A single misstep to save a stranger thrusts Leora from her role as a psychologist at the Toronto South Detention Center into a shadowy world of espionage. She finds herself entangled with Zarek, a covert intelligence unit leader whose presence sparks a fire within her. He’s everything she shouldn’t want—distant, secretive, and haunted by something beyond the battles he fights.

Zarek
Control is everything in Zarek's line of work, but Leora disrupts it all. Technically, she did save his life, but she also dragged herself into the line of fire. She becomes his obsession before she becomes a mission he can’t afford to fail. As their desires collide, the lines between duty and passion blur, making her safety his biggest gamble yet.

A high-stakes story of danger and desire, set in a world where heroes aren't meant to win.

This is the first book in the Squad Six Series by AJ Bishop. An action-packed, semi-dystopian, steamy action romance.