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ICEMAN IS RELEASED!

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Rose and Iceman have been dancing around each other since the day they met under very difficult circumstances. Now he's been assigned to her as a result of a stressful global attack on Americans with dire consequences if they can't figure out who's behind the violence. There's no time for personal feelings or relationships. Definitely no time to give into the chemistry that's sizzling between them whenever they look at each other. Ice has to stay focused on the mission and the goal and it isn't getting skin to skin close with Rose. That would be too...damn...distracting. He's going to need every ounce of his self-control to keep his hands and his body and his mouth to himself. God he only hoped she had the same self-discipline or both of them would be lost.

 

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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 20, 2021

Description: Master Chief Christopher “Iceman” Snow and his team are tasked with gathering intel on a terrorist group that is targeting American citizens overseas. They have hit a tour bus and a private residence so far. It’s a routine mission until he comes face-to-face with the tantalizing woman who has been heavy on his mind. He wonders how he can keep his hands off her to focus on the job at hand.

CIA Officer Rose Sinema is heading up the taskforce to root out the people responsible for murdering American citizens. Gathering intel is her bread and butter, but a vital mission takes on a whole new meaning when Iceman and his team show up as part of the solution. She’s encountered him several times in the past six months, each fraught with a lot of chemistry. Her greatest worry is how she’s going to keep her mind off him and her hands to herself to focus on the lifesaving operation.

 

PROFESSOR IS RELEASED!

 

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Professor is dealing with a lot of personal issues, so why not have Julia Whittley show up and tell him that she's no longer a nun. The forbidden woman is not off limits anymore, but this SEAL is deployed to a volatile area and now added into the mix is the woman of his dreams. She comes with baggage, so much baggage, but the most devastating revelation of all is can he forgive her for cutting him out of her life so ruthlessly? Julia knows she hurt him, badly, but she has a terrible secret she's been keeping for him for a long time. It's time to tell him why she left him. It's time to not only be honest with him, but with herself, even if it means losing him. 

 

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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: February 21, 2022

Description: When Professor and his team  are sent to support a mission in Niger with the UN, Professor has to deal with not only a new CO, but the aftermath of being in Afghanistan and dealing with a buddy’s wounding. That mission makes him realize he needs to reach out to his family, but his parents can’t seem to understand him or why he gave up so much to serve. Frustrated and struggling, he comes face to face with Julia Whittley. Intellectually, Professor knows that having the secret hots for a nun wasn’t going anywhere, so after a seeing her in Kenya, he had tried to put her out of his mind. That’s until he finds her at the US Embassy and is no longer a nun. This information throws Professor into a tailspin. He and Julia have unfinished business which is then compromised by the unrest in the country. It’s one man against all odds, who goes to any lengths to save a woman who has the courage and fortitude to match him in both strength and smarts.

Julia has never forgotten Professor and the way he lived with a purpose, along with his extraordinary leadership and his plain badass warrior vibe. But Julia has just left the order and she’s struggling with so much uncertainty in her life. Is it fair to get involved with a man who will demand everything she has, not only because he deserves it, but because he’s worth it? It isn’t until things escalate in a war-torn country that Julia comes face to face with her choices and the experiences that sent her fleeing to a convent. Finding her own personal happiness seems both reckless and just as dangerous as the country embroiled in war. When it comes down to survival, losing her heart to Professor happened a long time ago. But working out her own tangle of personal emotions and principles becomes all the more complicated until she finds the courage to be honest with herself. Hopefully, it won’t be too late.

GRACE UNDER FIRE IS RELEASED!

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Grace Addison and her two colleagues were deliberately trapped by the arsonist who has been holding La Rosa, California hostage. This time he murdered two of her friends and Grace had gotten out just barely. With burns and nightmares plaguing her, she is requested by the mayor to join the task force to track him down. Except the leader of the task force is way too distracting and protective. Jordan Kelly does have something to prove, but what will it cost him...and her.

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 Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 26, 2022

Description: An arsonist, out to get her, was more than enough to handle. . .

La Rosa firefighter Grace Addison is currently on disability as she recovers from the deadly fire that killed two of her colleagues and trapped her inside an inferno where she barely escaped with her life.  When a call from the mayor turns into an offer to head the arson task force, she faces resentment from the current task force members who don’t like this female “taking over.”  This includes the drop-dead-gorgeous former task force leader, tough ATF agent, Jordan Kelly, a man with something to prove.  Before she gets to the bottom of things she has to contend with politics, resentment and passion.

Throwing in a too hot to handle ATF agent was tinder for a flash fire. . .

Jordan Kelly lives with his failure to save hostages when he was a negotiator.  His sensitivity to being replaced by Grace brings back all his doubts and sense of failure.  But as the serial arsonist stalks Grace and La Rosa, Jordan discovers the scars he carries are a potent barrier until one woman explodes into his life making him face his past, a past he’s not sure he can overcome.

In a powerful tug of war between deep emotion and hot needs, Grace and Jordan must work together against a ruthless killer and learn that nothing, and no one, is as it seems.  To triumph they must each overcome their personal guilt and fear as their lives and their happiness hang in the balance.

 

FAST LANE IS RELEASED!

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Fast Lane often wondered if he believed in second chances. Of course, second chances had to be a mutual thing and he wanted his ex-wife SOAR pilot Solace Mitchell to think that second chances were possible. After getting entangled with her during another mission, this time in Afghanistan, life and death take on a new meaning. The showdown between his team and Zasha were going to be a fight to the death with the only outcome her total annihilation. There would be no quarter. He could only hope that Solace would give him the opening he needed for he's discovered that living without her isn't something he wants to do. Can they overcome years of separation and pain and reaffirm the love he knows still beats in both of their hearts? 

 

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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 20, 2021

Description: After Somalia and the mission that had thrown him once again into the same orbit as his ex-wife, Solace Mitchell, Fast Lane is struggling with his emotions and his love for her. But too soon, before he’s even nicked the surface of his torment, he finds himself working with her in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Together they’re assigned the highly classified mission to take down Zasha Vasiliev coalescing into a terrible and deadly encounter with the vindictive woman and her terrorist allies, leaving the team devastated.

Solace can’t believe she’s once again working with her estranged ex-husband. Ford had always been a force to be reckoned with when she was married to him, but as the years have passed, her memories of him have started to dominate her mind. After seeing him during that harrowing time in Somalia, she hasn’t been able to go back to forgetting him. Now they were thrown together in the scariest, most hostile, and dangerous place on the face of the earth. They must fight for their lives even as she starts to reconnect to him, discover that he still loves her and deal with the fact that her heart had been blown to pieces when they separated. Could she trust that he has changed and if they don’t die, would a future between them be possible?

 

FINDING NOVA IS RELEASED!

 

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One wrong move on the Bering Sea could mean death to the countless fishermen who make it their livelihood. That's why Lieutenant Commander Nova Michaels does what she does. She's a search and rescue helicopter pilot whose own father is one of those fisherman, something she's had to grow up with and detests. So, when she meets Captain Logan Buchanan and sparks fly between them, she discovers he's just like her dad. Unable to resist the sexy captain, Nova finds that she is entangled with not only Logan, but a slew of mishaps that may not be random. Is someone stalking them?

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 Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: July 26, 2021

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On the Bering Sea…a deadly catch…

Seasoned helicopter search and rescue United States Coast Guard pilot Commander Nova Michaels has been sent for her second tour to Air Station Kodiak located near Dutch Harbor and her home town of Unalaska, Alaska. Flying helicopters is what she is born to do and no matter how much she detests the profession, pulling fishermen out of the Bering Sea is her mission, but what she doesn’t expect is sexy, charming Logan Buchanan. His boat sinks and it’s her quick thinking and skill that saves the day. But, with the loss of his livelihood, he signs on to work her father’s boat. She can’t seem to shake him or the danger that he unwittingly brings into her life. Problem is she is all about leaving and he is all about putting down roots. They don’t see eye to eye, but there’s enough heat generated to melt the ice in the frozen waters of the perilous Bering Sea.

SAINT IS RELEASED!

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Zach "Saint" Bartholomew wasn't going to stop at anything to get ATF Agent Aella Mikos back from the warlord who had kidnapped her and was holding her hostage. The problem is, once the team got to Mogadishu in Somalia, there were signs that their old nemeses, Darko Stjepanić and Zasha Vasiliev were up to no good. After a harrowing attempt to find her, all hell breaks loose and Mogadishu is in a full blown coup from warlords who had joined forces with terrorists. When Saint gets separated from the team, he convinces his CO to let him go after her alone against some heavy odds, while they deal with an attack on the Special Forces Base. It's a night of full of danger and a race against time to save allies and Aella before it's too late. She is worth the risk to his life, but would they discover that each other was worth the risk to their hearts.

 

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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 28, 2021

Description: Zach “Saint” Bartholomew has always followed the rules—does what’s right. But when Special ATF Agent Aella Mikos is captured and held by a Somalian warlord, all bets are off. As he and his team navigate the ranks of the brass, the mission to release her hits several snags and is called off. Saint is ordered to stop his reconnaissance and return to the team. An order he disobeys. He cuts all communication and goes after Aella himself, right into the jaws of the enemy. He will rescue her or die, risking his life, his career and his honor. Against all the odds, he will rescue the woman he hasn’t been able to forget.

Aella, in the tight grasp of the warlord, is forced to fight against many opponents to keep control over her body. If she loses, she forfeits her right to say no. While in captivity, she discovers that the warlord has taken hostage three young girls, kidnapped from a grade school to serve his lascivious intent. Aella desperately needs to escape, but she won’t leave the girls behind. When Saint finds her, they team up to get the girls back to their village and parents, even as the ruthless warlord pursues them. As they fight for their safety and the safety of the girls, they discover a deep bond that each had ignored, but are their complications too numerous to allow love to claim them and lead them into a forever after.

PROTECTING JENNA IS RELEASED!

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NCIS Special Agent Austin Beck had known Jenna Webb from his past when he was a Marine guard and the situation had been both mentally and physically dangerous. He'd protected her during a U.S. Embassy breach in a foreign country when all she could depend on was him, but she had been married and he'd been engaged. An impossible situation until six years later when he comes face to face with the woman of his dreams...as his next NCIS case. Jenna's thrown back into a volatile situation with Austin, only this time they are free to explore a relationship, but was there really a spark there in the past or was it all about the adrenaline rush of danger. Could history repeat itself?

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 Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 9, 2021

Description: Who wants her dead…

Special Agent Austin Beck, out of the San Diego, California NCIS Office is sent to speak to an events coordinator who witnessed the murder of her sister who was a Blue Angels pilot. Her sister was just assigned to the all-male team and was scheduled to fly with them the next day. Austin is shocked to find out the witness is Jena Webb. The last time he saw her, he was a marine guard for the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait where there was a hostile takeover. Only she’d been married and he’d been engaged. They had spent three harrowing days together and he’d almost lost his life protecting her. Now she’s the target of a killer and Austin is assigned to protect her once again. He struggles to remain neutral, at least as long as the case is active—professionally, he’s duty bound to her safety and had to be his number one priority, but privately he wonders if what they felt was heightened by the very real threat of death, nothing but a consequence of their harrowing experience.

Jenna Webb never thought she’d see Austin again. During those three days they were together, there was a strong attraction that she fought. Once she got home with her diplomat husband who is ten years her senior, their relationship wasn’t the same. She felt guilty over the fact that she couldn’t forget Austin and ached for what could have been if only they’d been free. Now after meeting him again, Jenna fears exploring their attraction, unwilling to confess her feelings and risking that, not only didn’t he feel the same way, but that what she experienced was more about the traumatic events than it was about a genuine and promising connection. 

MANAGING EMMA IS RELEASED!

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Derrick Gunn's new case comes with a private investigator that has a major stake in the investigation. Emma St. John's sister has been assaulted and her nephew is missing. In the feverish rush to discover who has taken the boy, Emma and Derrick clash over procedure, until finally NCIS approves Emma and Derrick to go into Mexico and search and retrieve the boy. Working together becomes a matter of life and death as they are hunted until Derrick and Emma discover who's really behind the boy's kidnapping and it's even more chilling than they could imagine. But through it all they draw closer together challenging both of them to see how they feel about each other and maybe make a life together if they can put away their differences.





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 Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: February 17, 2021
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Gone without warning…

NCIS agent Derrick Gunn is called to a crime scene where a U.S. Navy petty officer is found dead. Her death is odd, but it appears nothing is missing until Emma St. John, the woman’s sister shows up and alerts Derrick to the fact that her nephew is gone. Alarmed for the child’s safety, he insists that Emma leave the case up to NCIS, but she stubbornly defies him. She follows her own path, and she doesn’t want to listen to him. In the past that led to disaster and he won’t work with someone who doesn’t follow his lead, no matter how many sparks fly off from their friction.

Private Investigator Emma St. John refuses to take no for an answer and joins Derrick in the search for her nephew—an investigation that leads them into Mexico to come up against a dangerous drug cartel boss who may have taken the baby for his own personal reasons. Derrick is exactly the kind of man that she’s had to fight against all her life. The know-it-all bossy alpha male. One who thinks he needs to take control of everything. She’s not going to kowtow to him or his official badge when her nephew’s life hangs in the balance. She’d rather go it alone, but they join forces and race against the clock to save her nephew from a terrible fate.

2-STROKE IS RELEASED!!

 

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 Reuniting with former friend Chrysanthe Steele had been painful enough for Neo "2-Stroke" Teller, but nothing compared to the situation they now found themselves in. Kidnapped and held hostage by two ruthless international criminals. Tortured and terrorized, they work to keep their sanity during the captivity. Reconnecting and reviving their friendship leads to more intimacy and closeness as they support each other through their ordeal. Their only hope is either to be rescued or escape. Neither 2-Stroke or Chry will ever give up or give in. And in a bold move they escape and run for their lives.If they survive, will there be a future for them, or will their past be a formidable barrier they can't overcome?

 

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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 22, 2021

Description: Petty Officer Neo “2-Stroke” Teller and Officer Chrysanthe Steele have been taken by ruthless people who will stop at nothing to get what they want. 2-Stroke and Chry are trying to survive as they work to escape. During this time, 2-Stroke finds that he is reconnecting to emotions, memories, and relationships that he’d thought he’d left in the past. Could working through them all bring him back to himself, teach him something new, and lay to rest old ghosts. And can he reconnect with the woman he’d left behind from all the turmoil of the past?

Chry and 2-Stroke have history and their attraction got the better of them while captured, but while on the run after escaping, they draw even closer together and their revelations about each other begin to become clear. As their enemies close in for the kill, their only hope in in relying on each other. Can 2-Stroke trust her and open up about his past and let her in to help, or will he try to handle everything alone, effectively ruining any chances they have of finding forever with each other?

HANDLING NEVE IS RELEASED!

 

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Due to a rescue gone bad, Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Neve Michaels broke her collarbone and failed to save the people in the cold, turbulent ocean below her rescue chopper. Now someone is after her and her family. Targeted by a ruthless, shadowy figure, Neve must go to the wilds of the Darién Gap and track down this threat to her and her family. Feeling she must do this alone, she rejects any assistance, especially from retired Force RECON Marine and her brother's best friend and business partner, Russell "Rock" Kaczewski.But Rock wasn't very good at following orders...hers anyway. As she gets deeper into her mission, she's grateful that Rock is ignoring her request. Her life depended on it.





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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: December 14, 2020
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Stop at nothing…

Petty Officer Neve Michaels, USCG stationed in San Diego, California broke her collar bone during a search and rescue gone bad—the guy was dead before she got to him. Three weeks after the rescue, someone breaks into her apartment and tries to kill her. She lets the police, her brother and her friends think it was a home intruder when she knows it was an assassin sent specifically for revenge. The guy she couldn’t save is part of a family of arms dealers and his oldest brother is now gunning for her and her whole family. Her mission is clear—neutralize the threat and take him out. But, before she can go on the offensive, Russell “Rock” Kaczewski happens. He’s too smart to believe her story and once he sees all her gear, he makes her spill the beans. It makes it even tougher that she’s deeply attracted to him, but no way does she want a long distance relationship. She’d experienced what it was like to have a loved one constantly gone since her dad is a crab fisherman up at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Yeah, the best thing she can do is keep her hands to herself. But Rock is one huge, beautiful temptation.

Sporting goods store owner and former RECON marine, Rock has no intention of letting her go off to a foreign country to track down a gun runner alone. He just has to find a way to keep his hands off his best friend’s sister. Yeah, right, ignore all the signs that say Neve has a thing for him, too. Add into the mix the lady doesn’t want a long distance relationship and Rock is grounded in San Diego with his business. The hardest part of this trip isn’t the thick and dangerous jungle, the almost impossible op or the murderous weapon brokers—it’s the threat to their hearts.