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Avenging Julie
K.D. Michaels - 2018
Being the daughter of a prominent Senator, she's learned corruption often lurks around every corner. However, when someone hell-bent on killing her comes out of the woodwork, she learns a whole new meaning of evil.Commander Hurt will do anything in his power to protect his wife. When her life is threatened, he knows exactly who to call to save her, the men of his SEAL team. With the help of the Alpha Squad, the two deadly teams join forces and zero in on the threat. Innocent people are being gun downed. History is relearned. Secrets are exposed.Can the group rescue Julie in time or is it already too late?
Going to the Chapel: The Wedding Chapel Series, Book 1
Mary Jane Morgan - 2016
Custom builder, Sam McGinnis, has sworn off rescuing women in need. That is, until he finds a beautiful blonde sobbing her heart out in his almost-finished chapel. The woman is obviously in a world of hurt, and no way can he walk away from the heart-broken lady. But will rescuing Claire put Sam’s own heart in jeopardy? Books in the CRYSTAL SPRINGS ROMANCES series: Book 1: Long Road Home Book 2: Coming Home Book 3: A Home For Haley Book 4: Home at Last Book 5: Going to the Chapel Book 6: Since I Found You Book 7: Dare To Love Book 8: Choices Of The Heart Book 9: Healing Hearts Book 10: Secrets of the Heart
Cooper's Promise
Caitlyn O'Leary - 2016
Even though the girl is now a woman, he still feels she is too young and inexperienced, and needs to be protected from everything and everyone, and that includes him. Brenna moved across the country to be close to Cooper two years ago, and despite her best efforts, he has kept her squarely in the friend zone. When a stalker threatens her safety, all of Cooper’s pent-up emotions break free. Is there a way to keep her safe from both the stalker and Cooper’s own need to dominate?
Ravished River
Lindsay Cross - 2016
He’d seen the wreckage of his Task Force brothers' attempts and had no desire to put any woman through the hardship. He had one purpose – serve his country and protect his teammates. Then Celine Latimer walked into his life and turned his world upside down.Celine Latimer thought she’d hit the jackpot when hunky SF operative Aaron Spears asked her to accompany him to the high-profile wedding of Senator Cotter’s daughter. They’d get to spend two weeks together while Aaron pulled guard duty for Caroline Cotter and Celine intended to use every spare minute, seducing the man she’d had a crush on for over a year. The time and place proved to be more of a barrier than either of them realized. With his commander watching his every move, Aaron couldn’t afford to show any weakness. That meant ignoring Celine.Rejected and hurt, Celine packed to leave only to be caught in a kidnapping plot against the Senator. Here she sat, in a hut in the Middle East, waiting on a rescue that may never come.He'd sworn to protect and he'd failed. Now Aaron lived for one purpose- to rescue the woman he lost before she’s sold into slavery and spend the rest of his life making her see how much he loves her.***This book was previously published as the short novella Aaron's Honor in kindle worlds and has now been reverted back to me. I have added over 20,000 new words to lengthen this into a novel and retitled it Ravished River.
Xavier: The Contract
Miranda P. Charles - 2018
Now, Xavier not only needs to watch his back--he also has to watch his heart.When Xavier Stirling's father suddenly confesses to fraud, Xavier suspects he's being coerced by a notorious criminal. Then Xavier finds himself the target of false accusations that threaten to ruin his own business. With the police suspecting him of wrongdoing, he desperately looks elsewhere for help. Enter the Indie Rebels--a secret group unsanctioned by law enforcement agencies. But to get their help, Xavier has to become an Indie Rebel himself. His first assignment is to keep journalist Eve Marrin safe--without Eve knowing she's being protected. He's surprised by the strength of his attraction for her. Now Xavier not only needs to watch his back--he also has to watch his heart.For Eve Marrin, her new job as co-lead reporter for a popular public affairs program is a dream come true. She loves nothing more than to uncover scams, unfair business practices and other matters that the public has the right to know about. When she's given a tip to investigate the fitness training business of Xavier Stirling, she soon realizes she needs to build a wall around her heart in order to do her work.***Xavier: The Contract can be enjoyed as a standalone novel in the Indie Rebels series, where steamy, heart-melting romance meets danger, mystery and suspense.
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.
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.
Justice for Sloane
Reina Torres - 2018
Defending those in danger comes as easily as breathing.
As a Special Agent for the FBI, Vicente was treated to a front row seat to see how those ‘with’ have an easier shake than those without. Instead of letting it shake his convictions, he’s worked hard to even the odds and make sure that Justice is blind to more than color, it’s also the size of their bank accounts and social status.
Sloane King ticked all his boxes. Born a Texas Princess with money and beauty to spare, she didn’t want for anything… at least from what he could see. Debutante turned charity maven, everyone sings her praises, until someone wants her dead. Charged with keeping Sloane alive until the threat to her is neutralized, Vincente finds himself up to his neck in contradictions, including how much he wants more than just a few breathless moments with the feisty woman who challenges everything he’s come to believe about the world around him.
As the search for the source of danger comes to a head, it will take the combined resources of San Antonio’s best first responders to protect and save the woman he’s come to love. Will that be enough?
Discovering Beauty
Robyn Peterman - 2018
After too many tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, I’d checked out—on everyone and everything—on life. Ex-navy SEAL. Totally broken man. I’d hit rock bottom so many times, I was sure I was about to fall straight to hell. It would be a welcome reprieve. Then she found me. Beautiful, insane and more broken than I was. She needed my help. I needed her humanity.How she found me was anyone’s guess. But she had. She needed rescuing. She needed a hero. I was none of those things. But for the first time in many years, I wanted to be. I wanted to be her hero.Georgia…Becoming an undercover agent for the CIA had been my dream until everything went wrong—wildly wrong. Trapped in a cage with nothing to do but anticipate more torture from the ones I was supposed to trust, I had no choice but to escape—again. This time I’d succeed or die trying.They’d turned me into a beast and it was time to show them exactly what I could do.Finding the beautiful man who could help me end my pain was something I’d never expected—or wanted. It was a complication for normal people. I wasn’t normal. I would never be normal.Could two broken pieces make a whole? Could we truly disappear with the government hunting us down like animals? He was Beauty and I was the Beast. Happily ever afters didn’t happen for people like us.Or did they?
Becoming Me
Staci Stallings - 2018
Just ask her. She’ll tell you. After all, he is her sister’s best friend, “royalty” in her high school, a senior, and so talented he would never notice a nobody like her. So Paige resorts to pouring her non-existent feelings for Nelson into a very special notebook, a notebook of the words that cascade through her without her knowing how or where they come from. She’s always been like that, writing words that are poetic, ephemeral, and too precious to share with anyone else. But what happens when she loses the notebook that contains the words that are such a part of her? Worse, when Nelson starts to want to hang out, can she play it cool or will he learn all the secrets she’s been keeping from everyone, even herself? Nelson Samuels knows he’s always been a little weird. For as long as he can remember, he’s done his best to keep just how weird a secret from those closest to him. Yes, they know he writes music. What they don’t know is that he hears music in haunting melodies all the time. Having learned to capture some of them into notes on a page, he struggles to share just enough of his talent without risking anyone knowing all of it. It’s only when Nelson starts to notice his best friend’s younger sister that life is about to dare him to open the deepest secrets he holds about himself to someone else. Will he be brave enough to share the imagination side of him, or will he forever stay trapped in knowing he has this amazing gift but being too afraid to share it with anyone? “Becoming Me” begins The Imagination Series by USA Today Best-Selling Christian author Staci Stallings. This set of stories begins in the very real world and takes the reader on a journey to learn that we all have gifts and talents, and those were placed inside of us by a God Who loves us and wants us to learn to use them—for ourselves, for our friends and family, for the world, and for His Kingdom. Come along on this journey that dares to ask what would happen if we all stopped judging our differences and started celebrating them instead.
Charm School Christmas Karma
Lynn Garcia Carmer - 2019
One bad decision, years ago, and fate has made her pay ever since.Sebastian Jacobs never believed in destiny--until he met Ai.She's talented and guarded, with a soft streak a mile wide. He plans to wear down her defenses using wicked words and a little holiday magic.If she agrees to a date, his plans go beyond one night--his plans last a lifetime.
Mr. Mystery
Melissa Williams - 2021
Then, in a cruel twist of fate, she was gone. Even with all the evidence telling me otherwise, I know she’s out there. My heart can’t let her go. And I won’t rest until I find her. IsabellaLosing your memory is scary. Especially when every night you dream of being held in the loving, strong arms of a mystery man only to wake up alone. Is he a figment of my imagination or a tempting spark of memory? Even after all this time I don’t remember who I am. Or was. And I don’t have time to waste on dreaming and what-ifs—it’s not just me I have to look out for.Then he’s there—flesh and bone, standing in front of me. A dream come to life in the middle of a burlesque club. I don’t believe billionaire Cyrus Meinhold was ever mine—a man like him is too good to be true. Until he says the three words that echo in my dreams: Dance for me.More Than Money series will have you swooning over these sexy billionaires with big wallets and even bigger hearts this July! Grab a fan and a cool drink, it's about to get hot in here!
SEALed Fate
Becky McGraw - 2015
He never thought he’d have to leave the civilian job he got after the teams in the same way, but that’s exactly what happened. To keep his friends at Deep Six Security from losing their biggest contract, he takes the blame for an assignment gone bad. The SEAL mentality drilled into him for years won't let Jaxson give up though, so he goes to work for Guardian Angel Protective Services, a new security firm started by his former SEAL teammates, hoping yesterday would be his last bad day. His first GAPS assignment tells him more bad days are coming however, when he is charged with protecting the woman directly responsible for his exit from the teams. Frumpy Fallon Sharpe is now a federal judge, and the big-mouthed redhead has taken on an East Coast mafia family who wants her dead. She will only accept a SEAL to protect her and his new boss insists that he's the man for the job, but Jaxson isn't so sure since he'd been dreaming of killing her himself for five years. He takes the job, because he has no choice, but the last thing Jax expects to feel for Fallon Sharpe when he sees her again is attraction. Even though her waspish mouth is the same, the thick glasses and frizzy red hair are gone and those damned spindly legs that reminded him of a flamingo before have toned up and end somewhere near her ears now. Dealing with his old hatred and this new attraction while trying to protect her was going to make the assignment the perfect storm that could lead to a Charlie Tango Foxtrot of epic proportions if Jax wasn't careful. Maybe the last one of his life.
Protecting Sarina
Brenda Rothert - 2016
A research scientist, she lives to search for cures that will save lives. And if she doesn’t have much of a life herself? Well, that’s par for the course for the introvert who prefers the company of dogs to people. Her life is just fine, albeit a little predictable, until it quite literally blows up in her face. Ford Allen is a chameleon. He can be whatever a situation calls for, which makes him great at his work. Charming and outgoing are in his bag of tricks, but deep down, he’s a brooding man of few words who knows things always run smoother when he’s in charge. When Ford ends up protecting Sarina from danger, they both realize she’s not such a wallflower after all. The fireworks between them are all verbal until one night, they explode into a physical connection neither of them have felt before. But if Ford can’t save Sarina from the people hunting her, he’ll lose the only woman he’s ever truly revealed himself to.
Reviving Emily
Becca Jameson - 2018
People to revive. A disease to cure.Emily has a blank slate. She can go anywhere. Do anything.She can’t stay in the bunker. It casts a pall over everyone.Now is not the time for distractions.Now is not the time to fall in love.“Becca Jameson does it again with this amazing concept. I love all things Project DEEP...this book grabs you and won't let go.”—SexyReadsBlog, verified purchaser“Becca Jameson has penned an absolutely fascinating story combining sci-fi and romantic suspense. These characters are so well crafted, richly layered, and emotionally charged. The story is evenly paced with some edge of your seat moments that keep you turning the page to find out what happens next.”—Mel M, verified purchaser