The Protector’s Mark
Reynolds Recoveries, Book 6
A second-chance military romantic suspense where a battle-scarred operator who failed to protect the woman he loved gets one chance to make it right — when she walks back into his life carrying intel about a bioweapon his team has been hunting. Six years of silence stand between them, but stopping the smugglers means sharing a Naples villa, sharing intel, and sharing the same air while pretending he doesn’t still want her.
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Six years ago, I failed to protect the woman I loved. Now she’s back in my life—and I’ll die before I let it happen again.
I took four bullets trying to shield Brooke from a chemical weapon on a classified mission. When I woke up weeks later, she was gone—scarred, recovering, and unreachable. So I did what any broken soldier would do. I let her go.
Now the brilliant biochemist has arrived with evidence that the smugglers my team has been chasing have gotten their hands on something far more dangerous than stolen artifacts.
Working together is the only way to stop them. That means sharing a villa in Naples. Sharing intel. Sharing the same air while pretending I don’t still want her.
The mission has to come first, but six years of silence stand between us—and she’s still all I can think about. The last time I got distracted on a mission, people got hurt. And this time, thousands more could pay for my mistakes.
The Protector’s Mark is the sixth and final installment in the Reynolds Recoveries romantic suspense series. Each romance is a standalone, but the series is designed to be read in order.
Perfect for readers who love
- The ache of a second-chance romance
- A scarred scientist heroine as brilliant as she is guarded
- A wounded protector who never stopped loving her
- The high-stakes tension of a race to stop a bioweapon
- Hurt/comfort earned in dangerous conditions
- Dual first-person POV
Tropes & content tags
Genre: Romantic suspense, action-adventure romance, second chance romance
Tropes: Reconciliation / second chance, protector, forced proximity, slow burn
Content tags: STEM heroine; former military hero; competence porn; hurt/comfort; found family; gadget/gear tropes; “Don’t you dare die on me”; villain knows the hero’s weakness; wounded heroine with physical scars; he thinks he’s too damaged to love her; wounded protector; biothriller
Quick facts
| Heat tier | Steamy (3/5 chili peppers) |
| POV | Dual first-person |
| Tense | First-person past |
| Setting | Naples villa, with backstory references to a prior classified mission |
| Series | Reynolds Recoveries, Book 6 (series finale) |
| Read order | Must be read in order |
| Length | Full-length novel — 396 pages |
| Formats | Ebook, paperback |
| Language | English |
| HEA | Yes — guaranteed happy ever after, no cliffhanger, no cheating |
| Status | Published December 27, 2025 |
About Reynolds Recoveries
Reynolds Recoveries follows a tight-knit crew of professional thieves who only steal one kind of thing: items that were stolen first. They return what was taken to its rightful owners, take on the jobs official channels can’t touch, and keep each other alive in the process.
A completed six-book romantic suspense series. Each book features a different couple from the crew, but the world and timeline are continuous — best read in order. The Protector’s Mark is the series finale.
