Chase McCarthy: The Guardian Watches by C. T. Solon

He’s the most dangerous weapon the world will never see — and he’d rather heal than kill.

Carried across a world as a newborn and hidden on a quiet Oklahoma back road, Chase McCarthy grew up ordinary: Friday-night football, and the strange gift of feeling every heartbeat around him like his own.

Now he’s a Marine, deployed with a war dog who shares his mind and a power he has spent his life burying. He can pull the force out of a bullet, close a wound with his bare hands, end any fight in seconds — and that’s exactly the problem. Someone old and patient has built an entire war for one reason: to force him to unleash it, in front of enough witnesses that he can never disappear again.

Some heroes are defined by what they can do. Chase is defined by what he refuses to. His most dangerous choice will be mercy — and it will cost him everything.

Book One of The Azurendor Saga.