Every breath she takes is a fight. He's about to make it the fight of his life.

Rico Roma has been alone for 280 years and calls it preference. A former Roman police officer living in the 24th century, he's built an identity around rational objectivity and solitude — the confirmed bachelor who needs no one. It's a comfortable lie, and it's survived centuries without being tested.

Then he lands in 1945 Missouri on a mission to save five children from a Christmas Eve fire, and a kindergarten teacher with ruined lungs and a stubborn smile breaks every wall he ever built.

Meg Graham has never been chosen. Raised in an orphanage where the sickly girl was always passed over, she learned to make herself useful instead of wanted. She teaches other people's children, loves them fiercely, and goes home each night to an iron chest that might stop her breathing before morning. She has made peace with a small life. She has not made peace with a small death.

Rico is here for the children. Protocol is clear — retrieve the targets, leave everyone else to their timeline. But the Key bond doesn't care about protocol, and the woman whose survival is now tethered to his own is slowly suffocating in a century that can't save her.

He can save the children or he can save Meg. The law says he can't do both. And on Christmas Eve, with arsonists circling a sleeping house and the woman he loves fighting for air, the law is about to become irrelevant.

A man who chose numbness for three centuries. A woman who never stopped fighting to breathe. And a Christmas Eve that demands they both choose life.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.

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