Page 24 of Riggs (The Maddox BRAVO Team #2)

He tracks ghosts. She’s living as one.

Jaxson Calder is brAVO Security’s quiet bloodhound. He’s the guy who can find a burner phone in a blizzard and make a city sing its secrets. When his oldest friend, Seth, calls in a favor. Find my sister. She ran with her kid. Her ex won’t stop until he owns what’s left of her. Jaxson can’t say no.

The trail to Valor Springs is a lattice of false names, dead cell towers, and safe-house whispers.

Single mom Maya Brooks has been one step ahead for months, surviving on cash, caution, and a promise to her child that no one will ever hurt them again .

But someone’s closing in, and it’s not just the charming monster she left.

Her ex is backed by a shadowy network that wants more than custody.

They want the evidence Maya yanked out from under them the night she ran.

To keep her breathing, Jaxson does what he swore he wouldn’t.

He steps out from behind the screens and into her life.

A fake boyfriend at a roadside motel. A father figure in the bleachers.

A man sleeping light beside a door he wedges with his boot.

Chemistry flares, trust treads carefully, and every breadcrumb they follow feels like it was planted to pull them into the kill box.

As threats tighten, Jaxson has to flip the board. Hack the hunters. Smoke out the network. Put the ex in handcuffs or a hospital. And convince Maya that the safest place left is the heart of a man who never wanted to feel this much.

High-stakes action, layered mystery, and a slow-burn that detonates. JAXSON is a pulse-pounding romantic thriller in the Maddox brAVO Team series. When the only way out is through, love becomes the most dangerous op.