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Ranger In Charge: Brotherhood Protectors World


Layla Chase - 2017
    As the testimony date approaches, the vague email threats she’s been receiving turn serious and personal enough to send her heading for the safety of her cousins’ Montana ranch. Providing distance surveillance on a single female is a cupcake assignment for special reconnaissance expert Rhys “Radar” Morgan. Especially since she has city girl written all over her designer clothes, perfect makeup, and manicured nails. Still new at Brotherhood Protectors, Radar takes his assignment of monitoring the lady 24/7 seriously--meaning he’ll be her shadow. Sparks fly, but he’s stuck between revealing his role or succumbing to his desire. To flush out the suspect, Caitlyn is used as bait during a wedding reception. Although the worst happens and she disappears from Rhys’ sight, the city girl possesses surprises. What remains unknown is if they can co-exist living a quiet, normal life? Note: This book was previously published through Amazon Kindle World.

Saving Christmas


Michele E. Gwynn - 2019
    Shane McCall wanted for Christmas…was to save her from the mafia!
 Left on the doorstep of an orphanage Christmas morning, Christmas Jones grew up knowing nothing about her biological parents. But on the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, everything changed. A letter delivered by a lawyer reveals her origins but opens a Pandora’s box of danger!
 
Home on leave for the holidays, Lt. Shane McCall, codename Badger, looked forward to spending time with family, especially his cousin Dude. Little did he know, a quick detour to his favorite diner would end in meeting a beautiful girl and then saving her life!Drawn in by her fiery spirit and endearing vulnerability, Shane can’t resist. When Chris insists on pursuing answers arising from both events, he knows he can’t let her go it alone. But will the stubborn woman let him help without bucking him every step of the way? As each answer leads to more questions, Chris discovers her past is inextricably tied to two feuding mafia families and a cold case of missing millions of illegal gambling money.Each new clue reveals even more danger, and somewhere between butting heads and running down leads, love blooms. But some bad relationships in her past are preventing Chris from accepting Shane’s incredibly sexy attention in the present. And the guilt he carries deep inside for so many of the things he’s done may stop any shot at a future with the beautiful, feisty Christmas Jones. When she goes missing, Shane must go dark to save her from unscrupulous criminals convinced that she alone is the key to the stolen millions. Will he save Christmas in time?

Protecting Cassie


Desiree Holt - 2019
    Without the Team he is lost, but a bad injury to his left arm ended his career. His rehab is slow and he resents everything. The tiny isolated cabin in Maine former SEAL John “Tex” Keenan found for him is just what he wants.

 Frightened and in hiding…
 Physical therapist Cassie Malone had a job she loved, great friends and a man in her life she thought was Prince Charming. Until by accident she discovered he’s one of Boston’s drug kingpins. Now she’s hiding out in tiny Castile and scared he’ll find her.

 When Fate throws Cassie and Sam together, it’s a battle for him to let her help him relearn everything. His surliness is in high gear and she’s always looking over her shoulder. But neither of them counted on or expected the hot, hot attraction blazing between them.

 When drug smugglers show up and put everyone in danger, including Cassie, it’s up to Sam to use his skills to take them down and save the woman he’s come to love. But can he do it before it’s too late?

Saving Satin


Rose Smith - 2018
    Faulkner “Dude” Cooper convinces Wolf, Mozart, Abe & Cookie to join him on a week long High-Roller-Holiday to Sin City—all expenses paid. His friend, Chloe Stevenson, who now calls herself Satin, is a hostess at Chance’s Casino Royale. She’s been asking Dude and his friends to come as the guests of her billionaire boss, but Dude senses there is something she’s not telling him. If it weren’t for her, he’d never have met the love of his life, Cheyenne. Now, it looks like it’s his turn to help his friend. Satin has it all. Looks, a glamorous job at a fancy casino, and more money than she’s ever had in her life. So what is making her so miserable? ‘Whatever happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas, but what happened in San Diego has followed her here and now threatens her livelihood. She’s tired of running. Jeffrey “Canyon” Williams is on the hunt for the truth about what happened to Chloe Stevenson. The girl he fell in love with 10 years ago. The one who calls herself Satin and hides her pain behind her theatrical makeup and crimson lipstick. He knows she’s running from the truth about what happened in San Diego the night her life turned on a dime. And he knows if she keeps running from the truth, she’ll destroy any chance she has left of happiness. And just when things look like the SEALs are going to get the fun in the sun they need—Satin and her friend, Kelly, go missing. Can Canyon and the SEALs save them in time? Saving Satin is a new book in Susan Stoker’s Special Forces World written by author Rose Smith. It is a stand alone, but for maximum enjoyment for those of you just discovering this fabulous world it’s recommended you read: Protecting Caroline (the story of Matthew “Wolf” Steel and Caroline—Book 1) Protecting Alabama (the story of Christopher “Abe” Powers and Alabama—Book 2) Protecting Fiona (the story of Hunter “Cookie” Knox & Fiona—Book 3) Protecting Summer (the story of Sam “Mozart” Reed and Summer—Book 4) Protecting Cheyenne (the story of Faulkner “Dude” Cooper & Cheyenne—Book 5)

Sinner's Redemption


Kate Mckeever - 2018
    His job now, that of a rehabilitation counselor at the Brighter Days Ranch outside of Eagle Rock, Montana, keeps him busy and is fulfilling his desire to be of service. He’s put his past behind him. Or so he thinks until Vanessa “Van” Hastings shows up at the ranch with PTSD and memory loss after being held hostage in the Middle East. As Cole tries to put his resentment of her role in his career-ending mistake on the back burner, Van’s beauty, bravery and vulnerability make him rethink this woman’s purpose, both in his life and for her own. As Van recovers her memory, the couple realize more may be at stake than their affection for each other. Can they stay alive long enough to find out if love is possible for them?

Protecting Hawk


LeTeisha Newton - 2017
    She explored her creativity, lived her life on the edge, and never apologized for it.Needless to say, she made enemies along the way, and now one of them wants her dead. Eric “Hawk” Standing can’t get the screams out his ears, or visions of what he’s done out of his head. When a string of missions hits too close to home, he loses the thin hold he had on his spiraling PTSD. Under Medical Review, and faced with losing his military career, he’s offered a job by Brotherhood Protection to get away and relax. But a rich socialite isn’t what he finds in Lana, nor the easy mission he originally thought it’d be. Instead, he finds a temptress with the heart of an eagle, and a blazing love that singes away the pain. He just has to keep her alive long enough to keep what he’s found.

Elite Protector


Donna Michaels - 2017
     Lured to the mountains of Montana, under the assumption her uncle and her godfather recommended her as a bodyguard for Brotherhood Protectors—an agency started by one of their former SEALs—Kat Crawford, former NIO, discovers too late, she’s really there as a client. Former DEVGRU SEAL, Brogan “Sonic” O’Neal, dropped his packet to return to Montana to take over his grandfather’s wood shop and care for the dying man. A deathbed promise to “not” return to the teams sentences him to life without the adrenaline rush he craves, until an old SEAL buddy hires him as a part time bodyguard for Brotherhood Protectors. A request to protect the niece of a former CO lands Brogan his first assignment, but it could be his last. Keeping objective is impossible. He’s watched the woman grow up through pictures in the commander’s office. Now she’s at Brogan’s cabin. Their chemistry is off the charts. And giving into their attraction is as inevitable as a Montana sunrise. But when Kat suggests the Brotherhood uses her as bait to end the threats once and for all, Brogan realizes his feelings for the woman run deep. Can he resist the alpha need to protect her? If he does, will she survive? If he doesn’t, will their relationship?

Protecting Ava


Jillian Anselmi - 2018
     Ava Giordano never stood a chance. After a big break-up, she finally got her life together, but the past still looms in her not so distant future. Master Chief Special Warfare Officer Cody Dalton of SEAL team Alpha has always been the ultimate fan of one-night stands. But one glimpse of Ava has him rethinking everything. It's love at first sight, but now their feelings will be put to the test. One train. One meeting by chance. One hour to get it right. When danger surrounds them, does Dalton have what it takes to protect Ava?

Nate and Skye


Maddie Wade - 2018
    But everyone knows a wedding never runs smoothly, especially when you have assassins, secret agents, and elite special forces on the guest list. Skye is ready to say yes to the man she gave her heart to, with the hen party underway, and her oldest friend in town, everything is set. Except her friend is hiding a secret, one which could cost them all more than they ever thought possible. With a hostage situation threatening the lives of the most important people in his life, Nate will do anything to stop Skye or Noah from coming to harm. Even making his bride a widow.

Bang for the Buck


Margaret Madigan - 2016
    He grew up on a thoroughbred farm in Kentucky, but he joined the Navy to escape the pain of watching his mom die a long, slow death of cancer. Since then he’s lived with the guilt and dedicated his life to protecting others, carefully guarding his heart along the way. Melinda Emerson loves chemistry but isn't so crazy about people. A pharmaceutical chemist with social anxiety, she’ll happily climb through a jungle canopy in search of medicinal plants, but put her in the middle of a party and she passes out. As the only child of older parents, she struggled watching her father fall victim to Alzheimer’s, and is determined to find a cure. Instead, she discovers a cognitive enhancer that has everyone from the CIA to the Russian mafia after her and her new invention. When Melinda's social anxiety spikes at a friend’s barbecue, she lands in Buck’s arms. After their one-night stand, Melinda makes a desperate call to Buck for help when her lab is attacked by Russian terrorists intent on kidnapping her and stealing her drug research. He blasts in guns-a-blazing, but under his watch, the relentless Russians manage to kidnap both of them, holding them hostage on board a container ship steaming toward the motherland. Now Buck must protect Melinda, her research, and his heart as he embarks on the mission of his life.

Avenging Angels


K.D. Michaels - 2018
    Their fight for survival gives them a new objective to fulfill. A Navy SEAL and a Delta Force wife are kidnapped during the ambush and sending them into a feeding frenzy.
 The men of Delta force and the Navy SEALs get the dreaded call that two of their own have been kidnapped and all hell breaks loose. The fight is on to rescue their women. Alpha Squad, Delta Force and the Navy SEALs are teaming up to find the women who are missing before it’s too late. 
 Someone wants the men of the Special Forces community on their knees and no one has a clue who it is. Can Alpha Squad help these men who protect their country save their reason for living or will it all be a lost cause and they arrive too late?

Pitbull


Kendra Mei Chailyn - 2018
    With Tex and Mozart in tow, he jets off to adventures in Canada. When he receives a phone call that plunges him back into his past, he is beyond livid. ​ Anke Fisher's best friend is missing. To make matters worse, the cops around her area are no help. Frustrated and with nowhere else to turn, she puts in a call to Daniel Hunt. But the sexy, stud of a man wants nothing to do with her or her problems. ​ With bullets flying, Anke begins seeping beneath his skin. But Pitbull knows, no matter what happens, he cannot fall for Anke for about to be drawn into a past he's been running from. Those who pull him in will learn, when Pitbull gets angry, things go boom!

Hot SEAL, Single Malt


Kris Michaels - 2018
    He meant to surprise Pops with the news he’d retired and was home to stay. It didn’t exactly work to plan. Pops had hired a tiny fireball by the name of A.J. Erickson. Before she’d even learned his name, A.J. managed to sic the local police on him, drown him in dirty mop water and crush his privates, and to his chagrin, she wasn’t going anywhere. Pops had sold her twenty percent of his bar. After she healed enough to leave the east Texas hospital and testify against her ex-boyfriend, A.J. packed up and drove west. Answering Silas Kincade’s help wanted ad seemed an answer to a prayer. The old gentleman needed her skills and it didn’t hurt they got along like a house-a-fire. She settled in and made Half Moon Bay and the Walrus her home. After the physical abuse she’d suffered in Texas, she’d honed her ninja skills and though tiny, she stood her ground and defended the Walrus from a trespassing, six-foot-four, muscle-bound, hulk. When Silas introduced the hunched over male, the one cradling his balls, as his son, Gunner, she about died from mortification. Things went downhill from there. What’s an ex-SEAL to do when a diminutive fireball worms her way past all the bruises she’s inflicted and into his unwilling heart?

Double Jeopardy


KaLyn Cooper - 2017
    Guarding a billionaire couple on a fix-it or forget-it vacation, at a highly-exclusive resort on a remote island was Ryleigh Davenport’s dream assignment. Except, she’d been partnered with her former lover, Blake Albright, the soldier she’d been forced to leave behind without a word. When the threats against the CEO and his wife turn to murder attempts, will Riley and Blake find comfort in each other once again? Double Jeopardy is the Guardian Elite novella #3 that includes characters from KaLyn Cooper’s popular Black Swan series. If you enjoy the strong female characters in books by Susan Stoker, Sharon Hamilton, and Cristin Harbor you will love this Special Forces trained heroine.

Dangerous to Hold


Denise A. Agnew - 2018
    . . Terra Fitzgerald craved peace. A pay cut and looking over her shoulder all the time wasn’t ideal but she’d take it to escape a dangerous situation and make a fresh start. Former Delta Force operative Dylan “Big Saw” Westcott made it home from war when others didn’t, and the survivor’s guilt is riding him hard. He doesn’t trust many people and finds his life at a standstill. When their paths cross, Dylan’s steady and strong presence threatens to overturn Terra’s resolve to keep him at arm’s length. But she excites him on levels he’s never experienced before, and he’s determined to break through her defenses. When danger finds them both, they’ll need to rely on each other in order to stay alive.