Raised inside the secret society of a hidden cult, Ace Myers has dedicated herself to exposing the crimes of her enemies…an endeavor she expects will cost her her life. Before her time runs out, there’s a wrong she must set right…a mission that causes her to cross paths with Valentino Parker and his team of counterterrorist operatives. Gorgeous, seductive, and way out of her reach, Val shows her another side of life, one of light and hope and possibilities, that wakes her heart and makes her dream of things that can never be—not in her world, not in her lifetime. Val Parker is pulling apart the mysteries woven around him, the puppet strings that prescribe his choices, which are slowly choking him. Nothing in his life was truly as he believed it, and his discoveries may cost him everything he holds dear—his family, his team, and Ace Myers…the one woman he wants to keep forever.

The Covert Operative… Kelan Shiozski wasn’t looking for a girlfriend or a wife or any other sort of female in his life, but he found her hiding in his enemy's home...and he knew instantly she was his soul mate. Patience has long been part of his warrior ethos—until it meant waiting for his woman to come of age. Now that time is here, and he’s about to spend three days alone with her, away from his team, away from their mission tracking a homegrown terrorist group operating out of the Rocky Mountains. He has three days to show her, with his heart and his body, what it means to be his other half. But when she’s kidnapped before their celebratory weekend, Kelan must track her into the dark depths of a hidden crime world, which few ever experience or exit alive. …And the Innocent At just twenty-one, Fiona Addison has lived a sheltered life that began unraveling a year earlier when her mom and her friend died in two separate car accidents the same week. The layers are peeling away, revealing who she really is, culminating in a truth she cannot accept. And now, everything she learns about herself imperils the future she hoped to have with Kelan, a man whose fierce warrior nature will not let her go despite the cost to himself. They’ll either live together or die together...a fate they cannot let be decided by a madman.

The only truth Owen Tremaine’s certain of is that everything in his life has been a lie. Not only is his former fiancée alive, but so is their son…a child he never knew existed. Raised as a fighter in the resistance against a violent and secretive cult, Owen abandons his team, his family, everything to extract the woman he once loved and the son he’s never met from the clutches of his enemy. Adelaide Jacobs has only loved one man…Owen Tremaine. She grew up in the long shadow he and her brother cast, toddling after them as much as her brother tolerated. Owen’s visits were the best memories of her childhood…until the day he saw her as a woman. They had one night together before hell took over her life in a war that’s framed her world ever since. Now she’s a fighter too, battling an unknown disease that consumes a little more of her each day. She'll never forgive her brother for bringing Owen into her hell. Is there enough time to find the cure so they can have the future they both thought they’d never have? Or is now—this very moment—all the time they’ll have?

A Mission Gone Awry A wounded friend’s inexplicable death gets Navy SEAL Nash Thompson entangled in a mystery with hooks all the way up his chain of command. His enemies not only shut all doors on him, they board them up and nail them closed, leaving him out of a job, a home, a future. Even his brotherhood shuns him, proving he’s gotten too close to the criminal ring of thugs he’s been hunting. Run to ground, there’s just one path open to him—a quid pro quo deal offered by a shadow vigilante that provides him a lead in his investigation in exchange for his help in a decade-old case the FBI hasn’t been able to close—one eerily similar to his own investigation. It’s shady as hell, but it offers him the justice he’s after. Who Doesn't Have Secrets? An ex they hope to never see again…an error in judgment that haunts them…a past they can’t put behind them. Annie Bergen has eaten a cold diet of shame her entire life. Harmony Falls is where she went to hide and maybe start living again, if she can put her life back together. But the guy with the scarred hand who comes to the diner makes her realize this is where she’ll die… Until another man shows up, one with hard eyes, secrets as dark as her own, and a shadow big enough to hide hers.

Virginia financier Julian McCaid has put his troubled past behind him. His plans for the future don't include Audrey Sheridan, the extraordinary frontier woman he met just once. But it's because of her that he's come to the Dakota Territory to investigate problems at his ranch. And it's all the more surprising when he discovers she isn't the innocent he believed. Now nothing but her complete surrender will purge her from his soul. If it weren't for the children she cares for in her makeshift orphanage, Audrey would have left Defiance long ago. Now the sheriff is blackmailing her to distract the man who might derail his corrupt schemes - a man who can offer Audrey not just protection, but a passion bold enough to make them claim their place in this harsh and beautiful land... Note: This story was originally published by Zebra Books. Reading Order for The Men of Defiance Series: #1 RACHEL AND THE HIRED GUN #2 AUDREY AND THE MAVERICK #3 LEAH AND THE BOUNTY HUNTER #4 LOGAN'S OUTLAW #5 AGNES AND THE RENEGADE

Love Isn’t a Battle… Kit Bolanger, ex-spec ops soldier, has followed the trail of an international drug lord back to his childhood town, the one place he swore never to return. He and his team of terrorist hunters are the only thing standing between the town’s residents and the evil threatening them. It doesn’t help to know that she’s here—the woman who betrayed his trust and shredded his heart. …It’s a War and He’s Offering No Quarter Deciding to put roots down, Ivy Banks has brought her daughter home to the sleepy ranching community of Wolf Creek Bend, Wyoming—the one place where she was certain she’d never run into her high school flame. But he’s back, fighting a global enemy and homegrown terrorists in a hidden war that puts their lives and their hearts in jeopardy. He was bad news in high school, and he’s even worse news now. Surrendering to him is not an option…but it’s the only thing he’ll accept.