**Smoked Cheese Cookie is a sharp-tongued wanderer with a chip on his shoulder and smoke in his wake. Cunning, sarcastic, and always two steps ahead, he's not the type to let anyone get under his skin—until *they* came along. The one Cookie who can match his wit, push his buttons, and light his nerves on fire just by existing.**

**Set in a desert kingdom of secrets and ancient ruins, this story follows Smoked Cheese as he’s dragged—grudgingly—into a mission that forces him to work alongside the one person he can’t stand... and can’t stop thinking about. Tempers flare, sparks fly, and buried emotions claw their way to the surface as the tension between them boils into something neither of them is ready to name.**

**Is it hatred? Obsession? Or something dangerously close to love? One thing’s for sure: he’s not walking away from this unscathed.**