Warrior's Heart (SEAL of Fortune)
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Ryker is quite for a moment, trying to decide how to answer. “Yes. It’s true. Fortunately it didn’t come to that.”
Julian smiles. “No. Fortunately not. Ronnie thinks you would have done it, too. Would you have?”
“Yes.”
Once again Julian smiles. “Thank you for telling me the truth. I wanted to tell you that I understand. I tried to explain to Ronnie that there are things worse than death. Being forced to create a bio-weapon would be one of those things. I wouldn’t have done it, but I suspect my death at the hands of my captors would be far more painful than at yours.”
Ryker holds his tongue. He doesn’t know what to say to that.
“May I ask you a personal question?” Julian asks.
“I might not answer, but you can ask,” Ryker says.
“Do you love Ronnie?”
Ryker doesn’t answer right away, thinking over his answer. “No. But—before—I think I was falling for her. But it’s over now. I’m sorry I hurt her.”
Julian nods. “I’m really sorry for what is about to happen. I know it must be hard. It would be like me having to work with my ex-wife. Except maybe worse. I can’t stand her.”
Ryker smiles slightly. “It’s just a job. I can handle it.”
Julian nods. “I’m sure you can. But Ronnie has been changed by all of this. I don’t know what has happened, but she isn’t the same daughter I left behind in Berkeley. Did you know she is down in the infirmary every day, reading to the Marines?”
“Yes. That is very kind of her.”
“Yes. Yes it is. But she would have never done that before. She wasn’t cruel before, but she seems to have… grown… from this experience. She isn’t as self-centered as she was.”
“Having your life threatened will get your priorities focused.”
“What do you mean?”
Ryker explains to Julian about the attack at the hotel, where he had to use the armored embassy car as a battering ram to escape an attempted kidnapping. He then explains how less than a week later, another attempt was made on her person. The first attack Ryker thought was aimed at him, but when they took Ronnie the second time, that is when it became clear that Ronnie was the actual target of the first attack. A large dollop of luck had been involved in allowing him to snatch her back from her kidnappers the second time.
Julian listens without comment as Ryker lays out the stories in broad strokes. He minimizes how near death Ronnie had come in the second attack, but Julian seems to be able to read between the lines.
“Thank you, Ryker. Thank you for saving my daughter. I feel better, having talked to you, and know that she will continue to be safe under your protection.”
“I will see that nothing happens to her, Julian. I promise.”
“Yes. I know that you will. She is the most important thing in the world to me.”
Ryker smiles sadly. “From the short time I have known her, she seems like she is an amazing woman.”
Julian smiles in return. “That she is, Ryker. That she is.”
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Book 1 of the Fallen Angels MC series
They’ll fight each other along the way, but she is the only chance he has to save both his name and his club.
Mason Butler is good with numbers. Tasked as treasurer for the Fallen Angels MC, he’s always been able to make the numbers add up, but when he discovers that a large chunk of money has gone missing, he decides to call in help to figure out where it could have gone.
Caroline Lewis is a computer whiz and a math genius, but she’s not great with people, especially incredibly sexy bikers who show up at her house unannounced. Working together is difficult, but underneath the hostility, there is plenty of sexual tension that threatens to explode.
As they fight the urges that keep bringing them closer, Caroline begins to find evidence that someone has been stealing from the club. To find the thieves and save the club, they’ll have to work together, but when Mace is forced to make a choice, the consequences will put everything to the test.
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Derrick Baker knew where his life was headed
Since graduation, his path had seemed straightforward. He enlisted in the navy, married his high school sweetheart, had a son, and now was expecting a second child, a little girl. He would have loved seeing his wife grow with their children inside her, but he’d always believed he had a duty to do his country, and he was determined to see it through.
Sarah Donovan had no idea what to do with herself.
Getting laid off from another job had convinced her than she needed to figure out where her life was going. Now, almost thirty with no career, no husband, and nothing to look forward to but growing old alone, she was starting to worry. Until she gets the phone call that changes everything.
They are brought together by tragedy
Even as they grew older and drifted apart, Sarah loved her sister more than anyone, so receiving a call telling her that both her sister and her unborn niece were killed in a car accident, Sarah races across the country to help her brother-in-law and her nephew.
Now, as they try to rebuild their lives, they just might create a future together.
Derrick, taking leave from the military to take care of his son, is devastated and turns to the sister-in-law he hardly knows to help work through the pain and anger of losing half his family. But as they mourn together, lust blooms between them, and continues to grow into something much wilder.
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Book 1 of the Iron Raiders MC series
She’s the only thing he’s ever wanted, and he’s the one thing she never saw coming.
Things have never been black and white for Ellie Carmichael. Growing up surrounded by the men of the Iron Raiders, the motorcycle club that’s been the only family she’s ever known, she’s always believed in the clubs mission, even when they’re activities weren’t entirely legal. But, as the daughter of a prostitute in their stable, who got herself knocked up and then locked up, she grew up thinking of the men of the club as uncles, and then brothers, and the president who led them all as the father she never knew.
Austin Parker tried not to take anything too seriously. After getting out of his crappy trailer park on the back of his alcoholic father’s bike, he spent two years travelling around the country before finding the Iron Raiders. Something about the club convinced him to stay, and he took full advantage of the bonuses of the lifestyle, including the rotating door of women in and out of his bed.
Ellie and Austin have never gotten along. She can’t deny how attractive he is, but his couldn’t-care-less attitude when it comes to the club that raised her drives her crazy, as does his penchant for one-night-stands. But when a night of drinking leads to her waking up in his bed, she’s the one who can’t leave fast enough. Austin, for the first time in his life, can’t get her out of his head, and he decides to pursue her. Meanwhile, outside forces start to threaten the club, and it will take everyone to ensure the future of the Iron Raiders.
As Austin begins to fight for the only things he’s ever wanted, it will take everything he’s got to prove his loyalty, to the club and to Ellie.
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Derek Martinez isn’t looking for glory.
He’s never been one to lead the pack, and he hates responsibility; he just wants to lose himself in the roar of engines as he follows his brothers in the Black Brothers Motorcycle Club. Even the women in his life want more than he’s willing to give, so he takes them as they come and leaves them in the morning.
Danni Stewart has had more than enough bad-boy in her past.
After falling for a biker, and ending up alone with a broken heart and a baby, she’s sworn them off entirely. Raising her son on her own, she just wants to work and give h
er son the best life she can, even if she has to go it alone forever.
They couldn’t be more wrong for each other.
When they meet at the diner where Danni works, neither can deny the chemistry between them. Even though she wants him more than anything else in the world, Danni's past experience tells her that he’s dangerous. As she gives him her body, she keeps her heart locked away.
Derek can’t ignore the way Danni makes him feel, and for the first time considers the tantalizing possibility of something much more. They just might be what each other needs, but first they need to let themselves want it.
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They say that truth is stranger than fiction. But for Laura Turner it's also just as deadly...
Landing the lead female role in the latest blockbuster action film was a dream come true for the struggling actress and there wasn't anything she wouldn't do to keep it. But when the director insists on the input of a real-life Motorcycle Gang member for authenticity's sake she starts to wonder if maybe she has made a mistake.
Roman is gorgeous, mysterious, and thoroughly distracting. Swaggering around on set in his leather's and impressing cast and crew alike, Laura can't help but fall for his brooding charms, too.
But when their professional relationship starts to take a seductively delicious turn things start to heat up and not in the way Laura would like.
Someone out there has a problem with Roman revealing gang secrets. And because of her new-found status as Roman's old lady, that means someone out there has a problem with Laura, too.
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John Malcolm really missed his old life.
He’d never considered staying in the military past when he was due to be discharged, but now that he had walked away and was trying to rebuild his life, he was wishing he was back in uniform. No one wanted to hire vets, and his skills were somewhat specific. Deciding to take things into his own hands, he opens a Private Investigation business and prays that this will be the answer.
Becca McDermott just wants her crazy life to calm down.
As a McDermott, she knows that crazy is in their genes, but she’s really getting fed up. After her sister enthusiastically decides to become a stripper (with her parents blessing,) and her mother comes out as a closet bi-sexual who is ready to “explore a little,” Becca doesn’t know how to also deal with her insane brother, who has seemingly gone AWOL from the navy after a trip to see her. She knows she needs to find him and talk him down, but she has no idea where to start.
Becca’s so much more than John can handle.
After searching on the internet for a PI, Becca pays John a visit and begs him to track down her brother. John wants to take the job, but there’s one problem--Becca is insisting on coming along for the ride. After she makes him an offer he can’t refuse, they set out to find her missing brother. But spending so much time together is starting to affect them both, and they can’t ignore the sexual tension growing between them.
As their passion explodes and they try to find her brother, they might also find something no one expected.
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Lance Brewer has his own idea of justice, separate from the law.
It’s never been a problem. Miller is a small town with no police and an easygoing sheriff half a county away. Miller sees to its own affairs, and more often than not that means Lance sees to Miller’s affairs.
Katie Brighton has been trying for years to bring law and order to her town.
She doesn’t care for Lance’s methods, effective as they may be. Real justice shouldn’t be delivered with fists and it’s her mission to change Miller for the better.
Her efforts are finally about to pay off.
Katie’s cause has picked up steam. She secured the budget for Miller’s very own three-man police force and Lance is furious with the little troublemaker.
Because that’s all the law brings: trouble.
Katie laughs him off for all of five minutes before she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. Rather than law and order she brought corruption and greed to sleepy little Miller. Now she needs Lance’s help to fix it, but will he set aside his told-you-so’s in time to stop the crooked cops from destroying the town she loves so much?
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
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