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Sacrifice: Shadow Syndicate: Shayla and Matthew
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Series: Vanguardians, Book 8
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ISBN13: 9798274348058
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
SACRIFICE: SHADOW SYNDICATE
He saved her life when she was a child. She spent years searching for him. Now he's finally found her again-with orders to kill her.
Matthew Burt has always known when Shayla Renn needs him.
He felt it first during a tornado.
Matthew was a foster kid with no family of his own when something pulled him out into the storm. He found a little girl separated from her parents' car and brought her to safety.
He saved her life when she was a child. She spent years searching for him. Now he's finally found her again-with orders to kill her.
Matthew Burt has always known when Shayla Renn needs him.
He felt it first during a tornado.
Matthew was a foster kid with no family of his own when something pulled him out into the storm. He found a little girl separated from her parents' car and brought her to safety.
Shayla survived.
Her parents didn't.
From that moment on, Matthew became the one constant in her shattered world. Her protector. Her rock.
Until he graduated from high school and disappeared into the military.
Shayla never forgave him for leaving.
She never stopped looking for him either.
Years later, she finally finds Matthew again while building the legal career she hopes will give her the power to uncover answers no one wants to give her.
They make a date for New Year's Eve.
Matthew never shows.
Again.
What Shayla doesn't know is that Matthew hasn't abandoned her.
He's been taken.
Recruited into an off-the-books government program hunting people with abilities no ordinary human should possess, Matthew is transformed into an elite weapon-trained to follow orders, eliminate targets, and never ask why.
Except Matthew and his fellow soldiers have started asking questions. The missions don't make sense. The targets aren't always threats. And something inside their supposedly untouchable special-operations unit is beginning to fracture.
Then Matthew receives his next assignment.
Shayla Renn.
The girl he walked into a tornado to save.
The woman he's spent his life trying to protect.
The attorney he's been ordered to kill.
Shayla has spent years building a career around the belief that knowledge and the law can uncover the truth.
Finding Matthew changes everything. Because this time, he's the one who needs rescuing. Shayla is willing to sacrifice the career she fought to build if that's what it takes to expose the people controlling him and bring Matthew home.
Matthew is willing to sacrifice considerably more.
His life.
He saved Shayla once.
She refuses to lose him again.
And when the people who turned Matthew into a weapon threaten the woman he loves, they discover exactly how dangerous their perfect soldier can be.
Touch her and die.
Even if Matthew has to die first.
But some bonds are older than governments, stronger than orders, and considerably more stubborn than death.
Matthew may be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The Moon Goddess has other plans.
SACRIFICE: SHADOW SYNDICATE is a science-fiction/paranormal romantic suspense featuring childhood bond, lifelong protector, fated mates, second chance, super-soldier hero, attorney heroine, touch-her-and-die devotion, secret government program, forced separation, rescue mission, mutual sacrifice, found family, the Zing, and a guaranteed HEA.
SACRIFICE is a standalone romance in the interconnected Vanguardians series. Shayla and Matthew get their happily-ever-after, so you can begin their story here. Want the complete Vanguardian experience? Start with NOMAD: FORSAKEN LORIAN.
Her parents didn't.
From that moment on, Matthew became the one constant in her shattered world. Her protector. Her rock.
Until he graduated from high school and disappeared into the military.
Shayla never forgave him for leaving.
She never stopped looking for him either.
Years later, she finally finds Matthew again while building the legal career she hopes will give her the power to uncover answers no one wants to give her.
They make a date for New Year's Eve.
Matthew never shows.
Again.
What Shayla doesn't know is that Matthew hasn't abandoned her.
He's been taken.
Recruited into an off-the-books government program hunting people with abilities no ordinary human should possess, Matthew is transformed into an elite weapon-trained to follow orders, eliminate targets, and never ask why.
Except Matthew and his fellow soldiers have started asking questions. The missions don't make sense. The targets aren't always threats. And something inside their supposedly untouchable special-operations unit is beginning to fracture.
Then Matthew receives his next assignment.
Shayla Renn.
The girl he walked into a tornado to save.
The woman he's spent his life trying to protect.
The attorney he's been ordered to kill.
Shayla has spent years building a career around the belief that knowledge and the law can uncover the truth.
Finding Matthew changes everything. Because this time, he's the one who needs rescuing. Shayla is willing to sacrifice the career she fought to build if that's what it takes to expose the people controlling him and bring Matthew home.
Matthew is willing to sacrifice considerably more.
His life.
He saved Shayla once.
She refuses to lose him again.
And when the people who turned Matthew into a weapon threaten the woman he loves, they discover exactly how dangerous their perfect soldier can be.
Touch her and die.
Even if Matthew has to die first.
But some bonds are older than governments, stronger than orders, and considerably more stubborn than death.
Matthew may be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The Moon Goddess has other plans.
SACRIFICE: SHADOW SYNDICATE is a science-fiction/paranormal romantic suspense featuring childhood bond, lifelong protector, fated mates, second chance, super-soldier hero, attorney heroine, touch-her-and-die devotion, secret government program, forced separation, rescue mission, mutual sacrifice, found family, the Zing, and a guaranteed HEA.
SACRIFICE is a standalone romance in the interconnected Vanguardians series. Shayla and Matthew get their happily-ever-after, so you can begin their story here. Want the complete Vanguardian experience? Start with NOMAD: FORSAKEN LORIAN.
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