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Hero's Touch by Janie Crouch Series: Linear Tactical: Oak Creek #6
Published by Calamittie Jane Publishing - Protector Romance Circle on February 6, 2026
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He’s spent his whole life knowing everything.
Every variable. Every angle. Every threat he could calculate faster than most people could blink. Lincoln Bollinger built two fortunes before thirty, mastered the dark web, and designed systems that made governments nervous.
But the one thing he couldn’t solve?
People.
Emotions.
Her.Mercury—the brilliant stranger he’s traded secret coded messages with for two years—vanished months ago. The quiet mind hidden inside poetry and algorithms was suddenly gone… until she sent him a desperate SOS encoded inside Emily Dickinson. A message only he could read.
Rescuing her is easy.
Surviving what comes next won’t be.The trafficking ring wants her silenced. Corrupt officials want her erased. And the only person she trusts is a man who barely knows how to hold a conversation without someone telling him to use his “inside voice.”
But with Mercury beside him—quoting poetry when she’s scared, reorganizing his library when she’s overwhelmed, matching his brilliance with her own—Lincoln finds himself facing something he’s never been able to compute.
A woman who sees him.
A woman he’ll burn the world to protect.And the enemy closing in fast.
A tumultuous thrill ride! Crouch is thrilling her Linear Tactical fans time and again as we get a glimpse of all of our old favorites as their kids settle into life with their forever loves one at a time in the Linear Tactical: Oak Creek spin-off. Next up is Lincoln Bollinger. Baby and Quinn’s son does not disappoint one bit! He’s amazingly smart and successful but so socially awkward … but that technical devotion is what led him to his secret, coded chats with an internet friend for the last couple of years. When he receives a cry for help, he will stop at nothing to get to her and make sure she’s safe.
Morgan has her own idiosyncrasies that often leave her on the outside looking in throughout her life, but the relationship she has developed with Linc means a lot to her. When danger comes knocking, she knows he’s her only chance of getting away from the bad guys.
Overall the book is fraught with tension and danger as they race against time to stop a plan of destruction. The characters are well developed and the plot is spot on. I loved the action, but also the gentle passion as they eased into knowing each other in person after so much time without faces or names. They make a really great couple, and the addition of his friends and family as a support system is really fun. I loved every minute of their story and highly recommend the entire series as well as the original Linear Tactical series to anyone who loves lots of danger and mystery wrapped up into a romance filled with passion and camaraderie.
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