Haven Advanced Operations & Combat Training School

At HAVOC Tactical, elite operators find purpose after war, redemption after loss, and the one thing they never expected to fight for: love. Set in a remote lakeside training facility in the wild heart of Haven, this off-the-books school is home to ex-military men with nothing left to prove—and everything left to protect. Bound by loyalty, haunted by the past, and sharpened by the missions no one talks about, these are the men you call when the rules don’t work.

Welcome to Haven.
Where the ghosts don’t always stay buried—and love might be the most dangerous mission of all.

📍 Camp Chickapoke, Haven, NC

She signed up for survival training. 
He didn’t sign up for her. 
Birch Hawker, a former black-ops ghost, just opened HAVOC Tactical—an off-the-books survival training camp built on trauma, sarcasm, and the occasional s’more. His first clients? A cast of influencers auditioning for a reality show. He’s unimpressed. Until she walks in. 
Kenzie Frazier is a chef-turned-podcaster with sharp opinions, sharper knives, and zero patience for men who underestimate her. She came to prove herself. She didn’t expect the gruff, growly instructor who keeps watching her like she’s a problem he can’t solve. 
Their chemistry is combustible. Their banter, lethal. But when an extremist with a ring light and a grudge sets his sights on Kenzie, survival stops being a game. 
The cameras are rolling. The threat is real. And the man trained to save others is about to risk everything for the one woman who refuses to be silenced.