Geneva Goddess

Dominic Kendrick is in his early thirties, a deep-cover intelligence officer on mandatory leave. Isabelle Devereux is fifty-two, a consultant who deals in "acquisitions"... high-value, high-risk, and entirely off-the-books. When a paramilitary team storms their Highland spa retreat, they flee into the wilderness together, stripped of clothes, weapons, and cover. She swims a freezing loch without hesitation.
He navigates pitch-black terrain by memory alone. They build shelters, share body heat, and survive two days of bog and rain without a single complaint... or a single truthful answer. Because neither of them is who they claim to be. He is hunting the world's most elusive art thief. She is the phantom they've been chasing for a decade. Geneva Ghost is a slow-burn espionage romance about two highly competent professionals separated by a generation but united by skill.
He is younger, hardened by war and intelligence work. She is older, sharper, and entirely unapologetic about her age and body. Their intimacy is earned through shared survival, mutual recognition, and the terrifying vulnerability of being seen through every mask. Includes explicit verbal consent, sensory immersion, age-gap romance (male early 30s / female 52), survival-driven proximity, ordinary but capable bodies, mutual respect, and a twist that honours both characters' expertise.
For once in his long, rigid career... he didn't mind at all. Wordcount 14, 320