Targeted: Best Friends-to-More, Slow-Burn, Clean Romantic Suspense

by C.D. Gill

They weaponized the news. He will find the truth, no matter the cost.Investigative journalist Savannah Blake swore she was done chasing after hard-hitting stories. But when her former sources start turning up threatened—or silenced—she’s dragged back into a world where the news is engineered and the truth has a body count.

Elijah, a covert counter-espionage operative, discovers a joint Russian–Chinese propaganda machine seeding disinformation through compromised media outlets. His only way in is Savannah—the woman with fingerprints on the story and a target on her back.

As Savannah and Elijah close on the architects of the network, heat sparks between them—dangerous, undeniable, and exactly what their enemies will exploit. To dismantle the machine, they’ll have to outmaneuver a hydra of front companies, burn the lies to the ground, and risk the one thing they can’t their hearts. Because the final play won’t just decide the story—it will decide who gets to tell it.


Second-Chance
Best Friends to Lovers
Best Friends to More
Slow-Burn
Protective Hero/ Protector Hero
Found Family
Undercover Mission
Redemption
Race Against Time
Espionage
Alpha Male

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 18, 2026

About the author

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C.D. Gill is the award-winning author of The Freedom's Cry and Against All Odds series. As a midwestern transplant living in the south, she traded the wide-open spaces for more sunshine and warmth year-round. Her insatiable love for travel and exploring new places finds a home in her action-packed fiction where times get hard for the characters but they're never left without hope.

Reviews

[Rhondia Cannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unfortunately, this is my first book in the Carter Counter-Espionage Unit series so I was somewhat lost at times. However, the core story was riveting and uncomfortable in its plausibility. The cherry on top of the book is the relationship between Elijah and Savannah. Each of them was established and independent in their careers. Elijah knows who he is but recognizes he could be so much more, especially when Savannah approaches him in the opening scene. Their mutual past makes for a solid background in this budding romance but of course life isn’t smooth sailing and Savannah’s job puts her in need of Carter Security. Eventually my frustration with lack of backstory gave way to just enjoying this book. Then the writer put two chapters of the next book at the end of this one…and I’m hooked!

[Allyson Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fantastic addition to the Carter Counterfeit-Espionage Unit series. I enjoyed Elijah and Savannah's story, their backstory, and the way they and the team worked together to try to bring down an organization of disinformationists. Targeted is a fast-paced, slow-burn, enemies-to-more, Christian romantic suspense read.