Love Under Fire

The fire never truly died... it was just waiting for the perfect moment to erupt. Julian Vane and Leo Thorne thought they had finally locked down their digital infrastructure, burying the ghosts of the past deep within their quarantined servers. But a sudden, menacing breach in their United Kingdom regional node changes everything. Someone is utilizing legacy encryption keys—the very metadata supposed to be incinerated a year ago—to weaponize their decentralized e-commerce platform against them. Stepping into the high-frequency trading arena, they face Marcus Vance, a cutthroat billionaire competitor ready to force a regional mismatch, choke their global payout schedules, and execute a hostile corporate takeover by noon. With no time and zero liquidity to expand their defenses, Julian is forced to deploy a maximum-risk counter-protocol, turning the network into a vacuum to trap their rival's rogue servers under the gun. From the high-tech boardrooms of London to a freezing maritime data vault anchored in international waters, Julian and Leo are pulled into a chaotic, fast-paced game of digital survival. But as the physical and digital standoffs intensify, Julian realizes Marcus is just the hardware. The software directing the attack belongs to Maya—and she has just bypassed their unhackable perimeters to launch a terminal purge on his private sanctuary. With the countdown ticking and the air thick with smoke, Julian must look past the code to perform a radical piece of hardware maintenance on his heart. To survive a burning ledger and an absolute system meltdown, he will have to decide exactly what he is willing to leave behind in the ashes. Love Under Fire is the fourth book in The Glitch Chronicles**, a gripping, high-stakes romantic techno-thriller that proves true loyalty is only forged when the pressure is highest.**