Can the love of your life happen twice? Vice Admiral Trevor Maddox had continued to function for five years after losing his much-loved wife to cancer, but he hadn’t been living. His work had become his life. He went from one command to another, wherever the Navy sent him until he landed in the office behind her desk. Marta Merkel was a force to be reckoned in the SEAL world. For over twenty-five years, since her husband had been killed on a mission overseas, she could make or break a SEAL’s career. Even though they were both single adults past fifty, she worked directly for him, so dating was not a possibility. But they could be friends. With both of them carrying years of baggage, could they make this friendship work? Or would the embers between them light into fire?