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Grace Norwood is a child of privilege, though she struggles to admit it. She grew up with everything she could want despite the death of her mother when she was young. Her sister stepped in, made life idyllic for Grace. How could she have known the price her sister paid to do so? When Eve went missing two years ago, Grace fought to get the police to take her pleas seriously, but everyone told her that Eve had just had enough of all the responsibility. She ran off of her own free will. Was it true? Would she do that? Grace has one last chance to learn the truth, but she’s derailed by ...

Abri Mola is called into the police station and questioned about a body dumped near one of her favorite bars, the Molotov Cocktail. The cops don’t appear to have any real evidence against her, but Manny Tafoya, Abri’s boss, suggests she stay close to one of the cops on the investigation because this particular body could be an issue for him and the Tijuana Cartel. Abri seduces Detective Barnes Guillet, beginning a torrid love affair that takes Abri by surprise with its intensity. As Abri works to keep Barnes in line for the cartel, he becomes wrapped up in a personal issue that plays ...

The boys from Golden Sphinx Ranch are trying to have a quiet breakfast in the local diner when one of them sees a man pulling a woman out of her car by her hair. Unable to let that pass, Westin rushes outside to defend the woman, his friends close behind. Before they can figure out what’s happening, the man jumps into the car and takes off. Lea Adams is now penniless, homeless, and stuck in the middle of nowhere. She convinces the ranch hands to take her back to their ranch and give her shelter until she can figure out what to do next. The only problem is, they think they’re helping a ...

Rock Steel was a sniper under Kai Gabriel’s command when he had to make a split-second decision to take a child’s life or allow that child to take his commander’s life. Rock made the choice, but paid a stiff price. Rock has spent the years since blaming Kai for his ruined career. Therefore, when a client contacts him and asks that he plant a bomb in Kai’s office, he jumps at the chance to get a little revenge back on his old pal. Cady Miller is the receptionist at Barracuda Security. She loves her job, but she wants to know what it’s like to be an operative, to share in the ...

Maclean Harris is a man who lost everything that mattered and is trying to put his life back together the best that he can. A former cop, he’s recently taken a job with the brand-new security firm, Barracuda Security. He’s handed a new case, one that seems simple enough: keep a lady attorney safe from a potential stalker. But what starts as simple becomes complicated when Maclean meets Rylee. Rylee Gruffydd is a demanding, high-spirited woman who is fiercely protective of what’s hers. When she catches some guy following her around town, she confronts him, demanding to know what his ...

Dixie Till was once a happy, go-lucky girl with her whole life in front of her. But life has a way of beating a person down. Her father’s death left her with few choices in life. She chose the Army, chose to do something honorable, but that took her into a nightmare that came very close to breaking her. She thought she was strong, thought she was well enough to help a boy who needed her, but she wasn’t. She failed him, and her entire community turned on her, accused her of unthinkable crimes against a boy she cared deeply for. When the boy’s body is found, Dixie finds herself in the ...

Rufo Carranza never wanted to be in the cartel. He kept his nose clean, studied hard, and had plans to go to university. But he fell in love with the wrong girl, and found himself in a mess that he couldn’t control. Facing decades of prison time in a Mexican jail, Rufo has no choice but to accept help from the cartel and pledge his life to them in payment. He couldn’t bring his girl down with him, so he broke it off with her, unknowingly sentencing her to a life of misery.

Esmer Giron is a young innocent who finds herself in over her head when she takes a job working in the kitchen of Manny Tafoya’s home. Esmer’s uncle isn’t thrilled with the idea because Manny has a reputation back in his native Tijuana. But Esmer finds him exciting, this soft-spoken gentleman who loves classic novels and exotic art almost as much as she does. While they share a love for everything artistic, it’s tragedy that brings them together. When Esmer finds herself in trouble, it’s Manny she reached out to for help. But will the price he wants her to pay be too high?

Clint Grooms has just been arrested for a crime he could never in a million years even contemplate committing. His only thought is that he fought for months to get visitation with his daughter, and now this was going to ruin everything. He didn’t care about his reputation or his job. Never mind his freedom. All he cared about was his daughter. If he lost her, his life wouldn’t be worth living. Parker Quinn is the lawyer assigned to Clint’s case. Everyone says he’s a good guy, but the charges against him are compelling. Can she prove Clint’s innocence before they both lose ...

Lonzo Montemayor’s life is rapidly falling apart. His mother died, his father has disappeared into his grief, and he’s suddenly become the father or four kids. At the same time, his uncle seems to have allowed his grief to color his decisions, taking Lonzo with him down a path of destruction. The only bright light in Lonzo’s life is the pretty girl he met at his favorite bar. She breathes new life into his world, giving him a beacon to work his way toward. But when his uncle’s business interferes, Lonzo finds himself on the outside, looking in, not sure how to get back into the light.

Former army and explosives expert Oscar Cortada is rumored to have one or two screws loose due to his infatuation with making things go Boom! But when he and the team stumble upon a container of women, Oscar is tormented by his memories. Oscar volunteers for the job to help Shadow Force uncover the missing people. Ivy Bell never stopped loving her husband while she pursued a career in acting and modeling. Still, after eleven years apart, it seemed they would never find their way back to each other. But when a new role opens up in Atlanta and Ivy arrives on set, she realizes things aren’t ...

Milo “King” Kingsolver knows that Cassia Cafaro cannot keep a secret to save her life. Not that he minds; he’ll listen to her babble any day. But the beautiful, bubbly baker in a family of hard-asses has been off-limits from day one. But when Cassia asks him for one itty-bitty favor—to be her bodyguard for a long weekend—Milo discovers no good deed goes unpunished. Especially when that deed involves the Cafaro sisters breaking the One Cafaro Family Rule while big brother Roman is away. No, not breaking. Already completely broken. Smashed to pieces. For the first time, Milo wishes ...

Luther Meyers lost everything the night a drunk driver hit the car his wife was driving. His wife and his child both gone in the blink of an eye. It changed everything. Five years later, he’s working a respectable job with Two Bears Security, protecting people where he once wouldn’t have thought twice about breaking into one of these rich people’s homes and robbing them blind. But he promised his wife once that he’d get out of the business, and that’s what he’s done. The only problem is, the job wants him back. The art-loving mob boss he once worked for is looking for him, ...

Kemp Byler, the quiet, unassuming owner of Two Bears Security, has a warrant out for his arrest on drug possession with intent to sell. Everyone knows Kemp was set up by city councilman Timothy Van Cleave, but knowing and proving are two very different things. To keep his freedom, Kemp knows that he has to prove that Van Cleave is behind the charges, and the only way he knows how to do that is to go back to his past. Van Cleave is afraid of Kemp because he knows that Kemp will not stop trying to learn the identity of the man who murdered two young women, and one of those young women just ...

Ryder Blake is grateful Shadow Force scooped him up before he died a slow death at his desk at the CIA headquarters. After running for his life during a long-term undercover op, Ryder is convinced he’s put his clandestine days behind him. But when a large shipment of drugs and guns goes missing and the Russian Mafia boss who tried to have him killed is implicated, Ryder agrees to take on his old persona and enter a string of underground fights. Only, Jolie Phillips, the office manager for Shadow Force and a woman determined to be an operative, is assigned to the case with him, and Ryder ...

Enjoy a thrilling, standalone romantic suspense novel with no cliffhanger and a happily-ever-after (over 50,000 words). If you enjoy this first book, you can read more in the Caballo Security series. Valerie Cole is a pediatrician looking forward to her summer break. She dreams of beaches and martinis, of good books and sunbathing. Instead, her charming brother coaxes her into a two-week working vacation in a remote Mexican city where his nonprofit has just opened a free clinic. Something goes wrong almost immediately, and Valerie finds herself locked in a dingy trailer in the middle of ...