Wild Silver and Lead: A Dark Military Romance (Snake Ops)

Ten years into the apocalypse, surviving a zombie horde is terrifying. Surviving the man who puts a bullet through your chest? That's a different kind of nightmare entirely.

When the Raven virus resurrected the dead as monsters, it also resurrected the worst impulses in the living. Ex–Delta Force captain Slade Reece is proof of that. Cold, ruthless, and commanding an elite classified military unit called Snake Ops in the frozen North, he operates by one rule: outsiders don't get to walk away. So when he finds a fierce, battle-scarred survivor trespassing near his fortified base — a woman desperately searching for the family ripped from her in a brutal raid — his instinct isn't mercy. It's a bullet.

Except she doesn't die. And something about her refusal to break, even bleeding out in the snow, ignites an obsession in him that discipline alone can't extinguish.

His solution is as brutal as the world they inhabit: marriage. Her body for his protection. Her compliance for her life. It's a transaction dressed up as a lifeline, and they both know it.

But somewhere between the frozen wasteland beyond the walls and the monsters pressing in from every direction, something far more dangerous than hatred begins to stir. Because when two people built for survival are forced together, the line between enemy and ally becomes leth