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Saving Leather
Jen Talty - 2021
He’s at the top of his game and he’s not about to let a couple of death threats stand in his way. However, he will do what he always does; he’ll hire a bodyguard.However, he’s not prepared to come face-to-face with the woman who stole his heart, twice, and trust her with his life.But he’s left with no choice. Not if he wants to play and no way will he let the enemies of the past ruin his future.Lacey “Lace” Brown had only ever wanted to be a sailor, so when her career in the Navy comes to an abrupt halt, she opts to take a job with the Brotherhood Protectors. Her first assignment is to protect the infamous gambler, Leather Wellington, which goes against everything she believes in, but she will do exactly what she’s hired to do, even when she finds out the truth, because sometimes it is the truth that will set you free from the scars of the past.
A SEAL for Raven
Julia Bright - 2021
She has no time for a boyfriend, even when the guy is as sexy as Zachary.Zachary “Mist” Fennel doesn’t know if there is a woman out there for him. When he meets Raven, he’s hooked. She doesn’t seem convinced, though. When she goes missing, he vows to rip apart the world to find her. But what if she doesn’t want him to find her?
SEALed With a Twist
Rachel McNeely - 2021
Becky will do just about anything to champion the downtrodden, and that has landed her in some serious trouble on the streets.
Tyler Howis loves his life as a bachelor almost as much as he loves being a Navy SEAL. While everyone around him seems to be getting married and settling down, casual relationships are his standard operating procedure—until now. He can’t seem to keep his heart safe around a certain woman with fire in her eyes and danger at her back.Experience has taught Becky that putting her faith in a man is a fool’s game, and she’s no fool. It should be easy to resist Ty’s strong arms and commanding presence. It isn’t. Especially when a deadly threat follows her home.
Protecting Sara
Lorelei Confer - 2021
Left with a bionic shoulder and no clear future, he spends his days alone. But he’s forced back into action when the apartment building next to his explodes and he witnesses a female fleeing the scene.
Sara Nelson lives under an alias, in constant fear from threats to her life. But three years of frequent moves have her longing for a forever home, so she settles in North Carolina. After a year of normality, an unexpected threat forces her to trust a handsome stranger.
Jake’s attraction to Sara is immediate, but the sole thing on her mind is staying alive. He wants to protect her but can’t do it alone. Jake calls on his SEAL brothers to help him. But when their circle is penetrated, all hell breaks loose, and Jake must choose her life over his and the lives of his Team.
Protecting Harper
Olivia Michaels - 2021
A former teammate gives Flint a new lease on life when he offers Flint a job in Colorado with Watchdog Protectors, a security company with its own secrets. Flint has the chance to meet and learn from Tex Keegan for a week while the computer genius and his wife Melody are visiting—Tex for work and Melody for a much-deserved vacation. Flint is no stranger to Colorado. It’s where he met, loved, and lost the woman of his dreams ten years ago.
Harper Marling knows she’s a dead woman walking. Her charming narcissist ex-husband has done his best to ruin her life from the minute she reached for freedom. Now, she’s on the cusp of taking down the powerful multi-millionaire and reclaiming her life, if she can keep her plans a secret. Blackballed from her job as a medical researcher, Harper’s just taken a temporary job with Watchdog Protectors when she runs into the man who broke her heart a decade ago. Harper isn't sure if she’s ready to love again, but Flint gives her a reason to try as he stirs a slumbering passion deep inside her.
James isn't done trying to destroy Harper. If he can't have her, no one can, let alone a retired SEAL-turned-bodyguard. Can Harper trust Flint, Tex, and Watchdog Protectors to have her six? Or will James’ deadly game of cat-and-mouse end Harper’s life—in service to a darker purpose?
Protecting Harper is the first book in the Watchdog Protectors Series which branches off from the Watchdog Security Series by Olivia Michaels. Each book can be read as a standalone with an HEA but they do have reoccurring characters.
Wyatt
Leanne Tyler - 2020
Colleen Summers is out on the town with her three friends when she’s attacked in the lady’s room of the Pied Piper Bar.Ex-SEAL Wyatt Kincaid and his three teammates are in Chicago promoting Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors to the metro police department when he’s recruited to keep Colleen safe.Can this ex-Navy SEAL protect Colleen from the mysterious eyes that haunt her nights and more importantly keep her safe from the threats that prevent her from living her life fully? Or will he take her to the one place that brings her face to face with her past?
Securing Willow
Annie Miller - 2021
When she discovers he is not only alive but has been searching for her the last fifteen years. The foundation of her entire life rapidly changes and she finds herself unsure how to life a normal life.
Tyler Ellison lost his team in an ambush and struggles with what is next in his life. When he is sent on a mission with his new team to extract a woman from a survivalist camp, he soon finds himself in a different kind of struggle.
Can Willow find love after she’s returned home to a father she doesn’t know? Can Tyler move past his guilt and grief from losing his team? Can he work with his new SEAL team?
Will these two find something they are both missing? Can they find forgiveness and trust each other with their insecurities?
Can Tyler take on his most important mission, Operation: Securing Willow?
Dangerous Rescue
Linzi Baxter - 2021
A SEAL who could make her forget everything in the world with one look. Until he disappeared, and she never expected to see him again.
When Siena finds out about a million dollar bounty on her head, she knows she’s in too deep. She didn’t expect to need help from the one person who could destroy her, but she will risk everything to protect her daughter—even if that means opening up doors she closed years ago.
In order to keep their daughter safe from the cartel, they have to work together. They’re attracted to each other, but the emotional wounds from their past haven’t healed. Can they save their daughter and rekindle their love, or will something outside their control pull them apart again?
Warning – All bets are off in this fast-paced, second chance, secret child romance from Linzi Baxter. If instalove, SEALs, and strong heroines aren't your thing, look away! All Linzi Baxter’s books come complete with a guaranteed HEA
Guarding Cherish
Rose Smith - 2020
When super sexy ex-Navy SEAL Riley “Bulldog” Rousseau flirts with Cherish Reynolds on the train to Paris, the one thing he does instantly… is turn her off.
On her way to marry her dream man in the most romantic city in the world, some stereotypical French Casanova flirting with her is just an annoyance.
Cherish can’t wait for her happily ever after to begin. She just knows that after all she’s been through the last couple of years, life is finally smiling down on her.
But soon Cherish becomes embroiled in danger along with the nice American couple she meets on the train.
The last thing she needs now is for her world to be turned upside down by imminent danger. But, as Cherish Reynolds full well knows, life doesn’t always give you what you want.
Freeing Fatima
Michele E. Gwynn - 2019
He never believed himself a hero. They were both wrong.When Fatima Ali was taken by terrorists, she thought her life was over. When they took her mother away too, she lost all hope, until she saw the tall man with warm amber eyes.Sgt. Marcus DuBose, codename: Skyscraper, never allowed himself to grow attached to hostages. His job was to get in, rescue, and return them home with the greatest efficiency. The deadliest of his Spec Ops team, Skyscraper is cold and calculating, but beneath the icy surface beats the heart of a musician, and oddly enough, a man who believes he’s unworthy of love.In a shootout in Old Town Bucharest, he sees her for the first time. The high-value hostage is the daughter of the Islamic State’s newest bomb-maker. But she’s not the little girl he expected. Instead, he discovers she’s a young woman. A beautiful and brave young woman!When their eyes meet, something inside Skyscraper awakens, and when she screams for help, he comes running. With his captain and teammates at his side, he’s hot on the trail of the kidnappers in a race across Eastern Europe. With a mole leaking information inside their own command blowing their cover, time is not on their side. The clock is ticking as Skyscraper lets down his guard and breaks his own rule to free Fatima. Will she reject the highly-trained killer or will a fairytale finally come true for the star-crossed lovers?
Saving Lauri
Jestina Michaels - 2021
The change of pace helps his recovery and focusing on the job is a great distraction from his lackluster personal life. So when he’s tasked with a job from an old Army buddy, Mav expects it to be plain and simple. But he arrives to find the client is anything but plain or simple.Thanks to traumatic events of her past, Lauri Hart has been battling PTSD and anxiety for years, keeping mostly to herself and her work as a comic book creator and online streamer. When a crazed stalker sends flowers to her home address, Lauri hops on a plane to Montana to an old family cabin, in hopes of hiding out. After all, running away from her problems has always been her strong suit. She never expected her stalker might find her out in the woods, or that she’d fall for her sexy new bodyguard sent by a friend to check on her.It isn’t long before Mav and Lauri give into their attraction and realize there’s a lot more going on between them than just sparks. Leaving once the job is done isn’t a priority for Lauri anymore, but when she comes face to face with the stalker, she might not have that choice.Saving Lauri is Mav’s mission, but loving her is his privilege, and nothing is going to stop him from doing both.
Montana Delta Rescue (Brotherhood Protectors World)
Debra Parmley - 2021
Protecting Bria
Keke Renée - 2020
Finally, all the years of law school and countless hours dedicated to studying are over and she’s working the case she hoped she’d get. This could make or break her career. She’s ready for it. What she doesn’t expect is the ominous threats and the very real possibility she could lose her life because of it.Cairo sacrificed everything for his career. Now it’s time to say goodbye and walk away with his head held high. That is, it will be after one final case, but this is no ordinary case and the attorney is no ordinary woman. She’s smart, sexy, and naïve about the danger she’s in.Notorious mob kingpin Moses Giovanni never loses. People are expendable to him. And the hot young attorney with a chip on her shoulder is next on his list of people who need to be erased.Find out how one case brings Bria, Cairo, and Moses face-to-face. The fight is on. Will Cairo’s last case end in disaster? Can he keep Bria safe from harm or is he in over his head?
Morgan
Deanna L. Rowley - 2021
With no place else to go, she went home to her rescuer’s ranch. She didn’t know if she’d worked on a ranch before, but she settled in with no problems. Until she fell for the ranch’s owner.Wyatt Erwin knew spending time with his house guest, Jane Doe would be a huge mistake. However, he couldn’t seem to stay away from her. Every time they were together, he told her how bad it was. Until one day, he returned from the range and found her missing. The only sign where she’d gone was a brief note telling Wyatt she had regained her memory, and she went home. He was happy for her, but with her gone, it left a lot of unanswered questions.Will they be able to put their differences aside and realize they love each other? Or was Wyatt’s treatment of Morgan, when she was Jane, too deplorable to accept?
Persuading Piper: Brotherhood Protectors World
Susan Boles - 2018
She lives in a planation home that’s been in the family for generations with her overprotective father and Ham, the family guard dog. She dates, but keeps her broken heart under lock and key. Nobody will ever hurt her again like Ian Elliot did. Ian “Hawkeye” Elliot lives his lifelong dream of being a Navy Fighter pilot until a busted eardrum clips his wings forever as a pilot. Brotherhood Protectors, Inc. throws him a lifeline working with other retired veterans offering valuable skills honed by military service. Until his latest assignment, nothing shakes him, but this job threatens not only the life of the woman he loves, but also his heart. Using a visit to his mother as cover, Hawkeye arrives back in town to provide bodyguard services to Piper’s father. His challenge is to keep his charge alive while avoiding the glares and hostility from the girl he left behind. Complicating his job is Ham-the-guard-dog, who hates him. The question is which is more deadly? Bullets, a mean dog, or emotions? Only time will tell.