He signed away three years of his life to protect a dead man's legacy.
He didn't expect to fall in love along the way.
Wesley Creed was the most decorated soldier no one had ever heard of - the anonymous genius behind the most advanced military AI program in history, a man who walked out of a classified disaster as the sole survivor and straight into the only deal available: three years as a puppet CEO for the man who could make his false criminal record disappear.
Three years of taking orders from a woman who called him a dog.
Three years of building something extraordinary in the name of someone else.
Three years of watching Faith Locaro's company grow from a distance, telling himself it wasn't surveillance. It was just - making sure she was all right.
He was lying to himself.
When the contract finally ends, Wesley has forty-eight hours and one impossible task: build a working prototype of the technology he has been guarding for three years, win a billion-dollar government contract, and survive the most ruthless woman in the industry - his almost-ex-wife - who has decided that if she cannot own his work, she will destroy his name.
What he does not plan for is Faith.
Faith Locaro built her company without her father's money or her father's name - and her father is the President of the United States. She does not need saving. She does not need a hero. What she needs is a CEO who understands what the work is for.
What she gets is the man she has been waiting for since a garage, a circuit board, and one afternoon when she was fifteen years old and knocked on a door that changed everything.
They have five days to build something that has never been built before.
They have eleven years of unfinished business between them.
They have one dead friend whose name deserves to be on everything - and whose final letter is going to arrive at exactly the wrong moment and say exactly the right thing.
King of War Tech: A Crown Built on Broken Promises is a slow-burn military romance and drama for readers who like their heroes complicated, their heroines brilliant, and their love stories built on something more durable than attraction. It is a story about what it costs to keep a promise to someone who is gone. About the specific patience of a woman who builds something extraordinary while she waits. About a man who took the long route and arrived, finally, at the right door.
He is not a perfect man.
He is a man who kept his word.
That turns out to be enough.
This book contains: a forced proximity slow burn, a grumpy-competent hero with a hidden identity, a female lead who is every bit his equal, an enemies-to-lovers adjacent dynamic with a shared history, a villain who is terrifying because she is intelligent, grief handled with honesty, a robot dog who has excellent timing, and a love story that has been technically in progress since a garage.
Some promises are worth three years of your life.
Some people are worth eleven.
