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Guilliam watched his long-term relationship dissolve, and, to a certain extent, he understood it. He knew when the time was right, he would try again. He didn’t expect to see her immediately upon arrival at the hospital though, as he joined Jasper’s investigation team. Janelle walked away from Guilliam to nurse her sick mother. It was supposed to be temporary, but the cancer was deadly, and Janelle now remains in the hospital room, knowing this is her mother’s last days.

Doreen is slowly recovering from the mad yet joyous ending to last year, as she faces the new year and what it might bring. Since she’s now engaged to Mack—and everyone around her is pressuring her to pick a wedding date and hopefully soon—she yearns for another case to keep her busy. So, when an older gentleman calls and needs help fulfilling his wife’s last wish, Doreen is right there to help.

Born with the ability to see psychic abilities in others, Alex finds himself called to help out a mutual friend, someone with similar abilities to Alex’s. Plus this mutual friend is on a mission to save innocent children. No way Alex can say no to that. Taryn is desperate to save two children—both with abilities—from a greedy family member. Taryn needs help, so she contacted Levi, looking to see if he had men to spare. Of course that took her to Terk, with a similar request. In Taryn’s world, anyone with similar talents who needs help gets it. Period.

In a world where diplomatic immunity can shield the darkest of sins, a sinister pattern emerges where wives mysteriously vanish without a trace. When MI6 finally connects the dots, even their hardened agents are disturbed by the implications. Terkel's team faces their most challenging mission yet—navigating international politics, while racing against time to prevent another tragic disappearance. The clock ticks by even faster when they discover the diplomat’s latest target: the missing sister of dead wife number four.

Tristan had volunteered his assistance on Mason’s case, as Jasper needs men he can count on. Tristan wasn’t expecting to meet the very interesting new coroner, but, as the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Tristan appreciates her expertise … and the spark between them. Amarylis had no idea working on Coronado base would be so interesting … or so dangerous. Apparently someone watched her during her work at the scene of a shooting, noting she had picked up something which someone wanted … badly.

Finding a missing K9 dog is a great way to give back to both the people and the animals who have helped Cage over the years. He didn’t expect his actions to help someone else—maybe even himself. Yet that’s the likely outcome when he realizes the dog belongs to a little boy who suffers from spina bifida and who lost his parents in a car accident. Now Cage must save a little boy and his dog, who need each other more than ever.

Gideon immediately returned to Coronado base at the call for help. After hearing the issues facing him, he dove right in, knowing that he could bury the pain of his past broken relationship the same as he always had. The fact that they’d lived here in this city years ago didn’t make it harder. Yet, once he caught sight of Pearl, it made it almost impossible. Pearl broke up their relationship years ago, only to realize almost immediately that she’d made a major mistake. She quickly returned to Coronado, only to find that Gideon had shipped out overseas.

A trip to overseas would be a great idea, as long as it didn’t include a stop in Scotland. He’d do a lot to visit his brother, but he could cheerfully never see the woman he used to love at the same time. But somehow an American War Dog was shipped overseas and Badger tagged him for the job.

When one door closes...second chances open another.... Ethan was lost after a major accident abruptly shifted him from a military life to a civilian one, from working with dogs to odd jobs.... In that time, he’d spent months healing from his physical injuries. When he connects with Badger and the rest of his Titanium Corp. group of former SEALs, Badger offers Ethan an opportunity he can’t refuse. A chance to do the work he used to do...with a twist.

Detective Kate Morgan arrives at a broken-down house, supposedly the site of a suspicious death, only to receive a screaming warning from Simon not to enter the building. Turns out, she had been given the wrong address but does find a dead body at the corrected address. As Kate sorts out whether she has a Black Widow on her most recent case, Simon tries to help a homeless man, who ends up in the morgue—now one of Kate’s newest files because that poor man’s body had been found in the broken-down house. That’s nothing compared to what else she finds on the premises.

Talon Lore, a former SEAL, has spent the last two years recovering from the damage done when his squad’s truck drove over an antitank landmine...in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap set to take them out. A year ago, Talon walked away from his girlfriend, Clary Witcher...Clary is the sister of his best friend killed in the hit-and-run. Determined to tell Clary in person that her brother’s death was no accident and keep her safe from those now targeting her, Talon struggles with the haunting prospect of a reunion.

Delta is always eager to help animals in need, especially when the request comes from Kat and Badger. Learning the animal is a retired K9 dog, now serving as a comfort animal for other injured dogs, Delta’s determination only increases. However, arriving in town, Delta’s contact has now vanished, and Delta discovers the War Dog is missing as well. Although Delta had looked forward to dinner with the woman he’d spoken to frequently on the phone, he now finds himself entangled in a disconcerting theory that extends beyond just one War Dog.

Mountain hit the Arctic, knowing full well they would have to drag his dead body back out of the tundra before he ever quit on his little brother, Teegan. Theirs hadn’t been the easiest of upbringings, but, when times had been tough, there’d always been the two of them. Yet the series of events so far has gone from mysterious to downright deadly, and just what is the elusive Dr. Amelia’s part in all this anyway? Like a ghost, she slips in and around everyone. What is her problem with the base, and, more important, what is her end game?

When things go bad, in Michael’s world, things go horribly, terrifyingly bad. It’s been a year since the hardened Navy SEAL Michael Stanton walked away from his career. He never thought to go back. But then, his former commander calls with the news that an old friend was murdered while undercover, and he needs Michael’s help. Knowing the next dead body might be his, Michael takes his friend’s place at the home of a terrorist. His official mission is to find all he can to bring the man’s operation down. His personal mission is to find out who murdered his friend.

Detective Kate Morgan is stumped, trying to decide when a case is really a case and when it belongs on her desk or someone else’s. She’s homicide and this? … This is something else, right? Following up the leads doesn’t help, only confuses the issue—until someone slips up or slips away literally. Simon wakes, choking on water, drowning in the darkness of his night, struggling to understand what madness he is connecting to now. As usual, he has few answers, and the ones he does find make no sense.

The hurricane devastated more than just Baron’s world. It hurt so many other people too, including Baron’s brother, who died trying to rescue dogs caught up in the storm. One of the missing dogs is a War Dog, Kingston. Now Baron is put on the spot to see if he could find the War Dog again … Brittany’s grandmother’s house was destroyed in the hurricane, so Brittany has been searching for her grandmother’s little dog, Pocket. When Baron comes to her aid, Brittany remembers her grandmother’s warnings about those who take advantage during disasters …

Rhys hadn’t expected a trip to Cottage Grove, Oregon to start with a house being shot. If it had stopped there, it would have been manageable. A drive-by shooting that the cops should be able to chase down. But nothing was easy in his world. Taylor, an army vet herself, was struggling to regain a normal life after an injured while serving. Taking on a war dog appealed, as it gave her a connection, but she had to pass some kind of interview before she could keep Tallahassee. An interview with someone with a prosthetic just like hers. Only he was far more capable than she was.

Shit happens, but at the arctic camp, it’s happening too much and too often for Egan. The mess from the scientist camp has left a pall over the training camp. And still there is no sign of Teegan, Mountain’s brother. The surrounding tundra has been gridded and searched, but so far, nothing—except another body....

Two years earlier, Erick Fuller, a former SEAL, was severely injured when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine. He lost his lower leg and two fingers. He's filled with steel plates and titanium pins...along with the driving need for answers and justice. After joining the team in England and finding a link to the antitank landmine used in the explosion, Erick heads to Kabul-to the site where the original incident took place-for more intel. What he discovers there blows him away....

Detective Abigail Cartwright has earned a reputation for solving weird homicide cases, but when she’s called to a lecture hall at the local university, she faces the oddest one yet. During a What If… lecture, run by soon-to-be-retired Professor Gertrude Milligan, two students died. Without any signs of how or why. Confused, Abby digs in to solve the mystery, only to find several old cases connect—or do they? Were the two students murdered, or was something else going on? When the past collides with the present, the stakes are higher than ever.