Broken Chains

An EMT who can feel death. An angel who chose to live. A city breaking apart beneath them.

Emma Walsh doesn't talk about the pressure in her chest. The one that builds when someone nearby is dying. The one that made her the best diagnostician in Boston EMS, and the loneliest woman in the city. She's carried it since she was eight, and she's never told a single person.

Then she touches a stranger's wrist at a car crash, and the pressure goes silent.

Azrael has been the Angel of Death since before humanity existed. He chose a mortal body, a Boston neighborhood, and a life built on patience and midnight pasta. He leads the Fallen Response Unit, a team of supernatural operatives who maintain the invisible ward system protecting three million people. He wasn't looking for a fated mate.

But Boston's wards are failing. A trusted ally has gone rogue. Something ancient is stirring beneath Commercial Street: a century-old wound in reality that watches, feeds, and hunts. And Emma's death-sense is the only thing that can close it.

If she stops running from the gift that terrifies her most.

Broken Chains is a standalone paranormal romance set in Boston, Book 4 of The Fallen Response Unit, with a happily-ever-after. Each book features a different Fallen angel, a different city, and a different love story.

Reading order. The first Fallen Response Unit series is six books and complete. Each book stands on its own except Enduring Light, which finishes the story Rising Storm begins.

Heat: 3 of 5. Explicit heat. Found family. A hero who cooks like it's worship.

Content warnings: Explicit sexual content (M/F), graphic supernatural violence, grief and loss (parental death from cancer), strong language, alcohol consumption

What readers say

Quoted word for word from public reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

“I have never read S.D. Maynard before. What a wonderful discovery! I was grabbed by the detail and the almost poetic descriptions of her characters.”

lisa, Amazon review, advance copy

“It's not often you get to meet a black male character that is so vulnerable and has the patience of time itself. I loved the relationship between Emma and Azrael. This was a story of love, redemption, and forgiveness.”

Jenelsia Parham, Goodreads

“The writing, the plot, the characters - do not disappoint. The world is vivid and alive. The reader becomes immersed in it.”

Avid reader, Amazon review, advance copy

Keep reading

Next in the series is Rising Storm, the first half of a two-part finale, or choose the six-book ebook bundle.

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