New Releases by Elle James

After completing a difficult and secret task to eliminate the leader of a Russian terrorist organization, former Navy SEAL and expert sniper, Dane “Striker” Ryan, is booted from his SEAL team, destroying his reputation as a trusted servant to his country. Burned, angry and out of work, he agrees to taking a job with Brotherhood Protectors International. His first assignment is to eliminate a dangerous assassin by any means necessary. With no other job prospects, and with no means to make his next rent payment, he accepts the job. Alex Sokolov, self-trained assassin, is on a mission of revenge for her parents’ deaths, a mission that has spanned two years. As she nears her ultimate target, the hunter becomes the hunted. When Striker realizes the Brotherhood Protectors are being ‘played’, he and Alex join forces in this international intrigue to discover the kingpin who orchestrated the murders of secret agents, including Alex’s own parents. The two assassins risk their lives and hearts in this action-packed thriller sure to keep you turning pages. Note: This book was previously published as Shadow Assassin but has been revised and improved with added content.

Landry Laurent turned his back on his billionaire father’s expectations—and his manipulations—when he chose the Navy over the family empire. Now a member of Brotherhood Protectors, Landry thrives on camaraderie and making a difference, but his troubled childhood has left him swearing off marriage and family. Camille Catoire clawed her way back from rock bottom, building a thriving candy shop in Bayou Mambaloa while raising her daughter alone. Fiercely independent after being burned by her ex-husband, she’s determined never to rely on anyone again. When sabotage threatens her business and danger lurks too close to home, Landry steps in to help. As sparks fly, Cam and Landry must confront their fears and past wounds, risking their hearts to save her dream—and her daughter’s future.

FBI Agent Paul Fletcher thought the Dakota Strangler case was closed, the notorious serial killer presumed dead. But when a chilling note surfaces, threatening survivor Elise Johnson and the new life she''s built, Paul finds himself pulled back into a nightmare he thought was over. With the danger closing in on Elise''s quiet Texas town, Paul’s only option is to stay close—very close. Moving into her home to protect her and her two boys, the no-nonsense agent becomes a part of their world. As Paul fights to uncover the killer’s identity, he also battles Elise’s emotional walls, built high to guard her wounded heart. But as their bond deepens, so does the killer’s deadly game. Paul must risk everything—not just his career, but his newfound hope for a future with Elise—to stop a murderer who’s determined to shatter the family Paul is desperate to protect. NOTE: This book was previously published as Operation XOXO by Harlequin Enterprises. It has since been revised and improved with new content.

Sachie’s Hero is Sachie and Teller’s story, Book 6 in Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii Series.

When former U.S. Army Ranger Jack Collins is sent to Dublin on an undercover mission for Brotherhood Protectors International, he expects a routine operation to discover the source of internet propaganda linked to a dangerous black-market network stirring up hatred in Dublin. What he doesn’t expect is Emily O’Brien—a fiery Irish bartender with a quick wit and a past tangled in the web of the city''s criminal underworld. Emily has fought hard to escape her family’s connection to the Irish Travelers, but when Jack walks into her pub with questions she can’t answer and enemies closing in, she realizes her quiet life is over. Together, they navigate a treacherous maze of deception, betrayal, and danger, where every ally might be a foe, and every step could be their last. As the stakes rise, so does their undeniable attraction. But with a deadly conspiracy closing in, they must trust each other long enough to survive—and uncover the truth before Dublin’s dark secrets destroys them both and threatens a quarter-century of tenuous peace. In this thrilling international action-adventure, love and survival hang in the balance in the heart of Dublin’s streets.

Valentin Vachon, former Navy SEAL, loves women but is allergic to commitment. Trained and highly effective in extraction operations, he left the military when the Navy decided he should be a training instructor for fresh recruits to the BUD/S program. With no patience for wet-behind-the-ears kids, he opts out of the military and joins his old friend Remy as a mercenary and then as part of a team of Brotherhood Protectors in the Louisiana bayous. His determination to avoid kids backfires when he’s assigned to secretly protect a schoolteacher. Eighth grade science teacher, Ouida Mae “Miz Mo” Maudet, is the target of protests and strange threats at school. Between defending her curriculum and protecting her students, she struggles to determine the source of the threats and remain safe in her work environment until a gruff, new teacher comes to her rescue. Valentin’s undercover persona as a P.E. teacher to non-athletic eighth graders is more of a challenge than facing rabid, drug-running guerilla fighters in the jungles of South America. Even more challenging is his unwarranted attraction to the feisty science teacher he’s been sent to protect. As threats increase and protests become more violent, Valentin is forced to go 24/7 with the beautiful Miz Mo and fights to keep her safe while struggling against his growing desire for the teacher, edging ever closer to that cursed C-word...commitment.

From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Elle James Captured as a young college coed on vacation while in Honolulu, Emi Sands is held captive for eight years, drugged and abused. Using her daughter born in captivity as leverage to control Emi, her captor takes Emi for an outing on his yacht, knocks her off the boat and leaves her to drown. Afraid her daughter will fall victim to her captor’s abuse, she fights to stay afloat in a churning sea, desperate to get back to her daughter and rescue her from the monster. Former Marine Force Recon, George Ingram, gladly accepts a position with the Brotherhood Protectors in Hawaii. It’s Hawaii, after all. Who wouldn’t? Having already participated in a couple of protector efforts, he’s between assignments, and taking advantage of his location to get in some fishing on a rented boat. When finds a woman floating in his path, barely keeping her head above water, he pulls her aboard and rushes to shore for medical help. She refuses to go to the hospital, insisting she remain dead. Confused by her request, George takes her to his cottage and nurses her back to health. Once he learns her story, George insists he can help her rescue her daughter and bring her captor to justice. Having been abused for years, Emi doesn’t trust easily but has no choice if she has any chance of saving her daughter. Welcome back to Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii! Fighting men and women, chosen for their skills, recommended by their peers and trained to protect, guard, extract and rescue. These agents are the elite, strong and determined, perfect for their assignments. Former military, special operations, use their combat and intelligence skills to assist those in need. Brotherhood Protectors, the brainchild of Hank Patterson, has established an operational base in the tropical islands of Hawaii, where trouble can lurk, even in paradise.

Get ready to fall in love with two charming, witchy romance novels by Elle James! When undercover office Cal Black took on the mission of investigating the youngest of the Chattox witch sisters’ disappearance, he never thought he was going to experience the paranormal—or have to work side by side with the ex that broke his heart. But as Deme and Cal follow the young witch’s track, danger brings them together and rekindles the existing feelings they have for each other. • Selene Chattox’s telepathic powers tell her there is danger, and when she finds shape shifter Gryph Leone injured by the river she does everything she can to help him heal. Before Selene found Gryph, he was fighting a wolf shape shifter that intended to attack an innocent woman, both Selene and Gryph realize fate brought them together to track the threat still loaming. But as they get close to the killer, passion and danger accompany them in their quest. Discover all 3 spellbinding titles in The Bewitched Collection: I Put a Spell on You A Hex Gone Wrong Seduced by the Enemy

Reid Bennet and Maliea Kaleiopu''s story from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Elle James Welcome back to Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii! Ex-Navy SEAL, Reid Bennet left the military after his wife left him and took their daughter. Now in Hawaii, he’s working for Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii division. With no intention of remarrying or having children he’s content with his current assignment on Oahu, providing security for a film crew. Maliea Kaleiopu works two jobs to support herself and her three-year-old daughter. When Maliea arrives home to find it ransacked and her daughter’s room destroyed, she’s shocked and scared. Luckily her daughter was with a friend. Worried the attack on her home isn’t random, she seeks help. Her friend, Tish, sends her to the Brotherhood Protector who’d looked after her in her own time of need. If anyone could protect Maliea, it was him. After a long week of running interference between curious tourists and the temperamental cast and film crew, Reid returns to his cabin for much-needed rest. Rest isn’t in his cards when he discovers a woman and her child have taken up residence, claiming they need protection. Knowing the little girl will stir too many memories, Reid suggests they be assigned another protector. While waiting for his replacement, Reid helps the woman wade through her father’s effects only to find his apartment has been ransacked as well. When they’re followed back to Reid’s cabin, he’s worried Maliea and her daughter are in physical danger. Once the little girl wraps her arms around his neck, Reid’s hooked. He can’t let someone else take over the responsibility for her life and that of her beautiful mother. Reid works with the brotherhood searching for the stalker behind the attacks. He hopes to stop the aggressor before he brings harm to the mother and child who come to mean everything to Reid, despite his desire to leave his heart out of the equation.

Former Delta Force Operator, Nash Nelson, is out of the Army after fourteen years of giving his all to his country. With both external and internal scars, he’s struggling to find his place in a civilian world where his combat skills seem to be more of a hindrance than an asset. Recruited by Hank Patterson and Stone Jacobs, he’s skeptical about his first assignment as a bodyguard to an actress on a set in Wyoming. Has all his special combat training been downgraded to being a babysitter for a spoiled young woman? Londyn Tyler-Lovejoy is reluctantly following in her mother’s. As the daughter of actress Dana Tyler, she’s spent her life avoiding attention, preferring to live her life on their Montana ranch. Now, as the lead in a movie she’s the target of the paparazzi and someone who wants her to fail or...die. When her mother hires Brotherhood Protectors to safeguard her only daughter, Londyn chafes at the interference. Life on the ranch forged her independence. Having a man follow her everywhere she goes is frustrating in more ways than one. As her privacy is invaded and attempts on her life increase, the need for her to stay close to her bodyguard inspires a new range of emotions and unexpected passion neither asked for nor can deny.

Former Navy SEAL Ace “Hammer” Hammerson, on security detail in Jordan, corners a thief, who is vaguely familiar, absconding with portions of an ancient copper scroll. When the thief is attacked and the scroll is stolen, Ace is drawn into a dangerous quest to retrieve the priceless antiquity. Former Israeli Sayeret Matkal, Jasmine Nassar, is forced to steal an ancient copper scroll from a museum in Amman Jordan to save her son’s life. After she successful retrieves the scroll from the museum, she’s knocked out by two men. They take the scrolls, leaving her without the bargaining chip she needs to save her son. She has forty-eight hours to retrieve the scroll, or her son will be killed. When Ace finds the semi-conscious thief and learns of her dilemma, he joins her in a mad dash across the Mediterranean to Athens, following a trail of intrigue that leads to danger and rekindled love that wasn’t in his original Brotherhood Protectors mission statement.

Former Marine Force Recon, Devlin Mulhaney left the military when politics interfered with the mission, and he lost a friend. He quickly realizes that navigating civilian life can prove to be just as dangerous. When her high-class fiancé absconded with all the money she’d worked so hard to accumulate, fashion model, Kiana Williams, left the catwalk in Honolulu and disappeared to Maui to start a new life in a less dangerous field. A call from a former roommate drags her back to search for a missing friend. This time, she’s not going in alone. She hires Brotherhood Protector Dev Mulhaney to ensure her safety and to help her locate her missing friend. Her conditions: “I don’t need a date. I don’t want a relationship. I’m not going to fall in love with you.” Together they navigate a growing attraction in the midst of the dangerous world of high fashion and elite escorts, where money can buy beautiful things or get you killed.

NOTE: Kalea’s Hero was previously published as Hot SEAL Hawaiian Nights. Since it really is the first book in the Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii series, it has been rebranded and a new epilogue has been included. I didn’t want those who hadn’t read Hot SEAL Hawaiian Nights to miss out on the book that laid the groundwork for Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii! Former Navy SEAL’s first assignment as a Brotherhood Protector is to secretly guard a Hawaiian cattle baron’s daughter from a kidnapping threat Jace Hawkins (Hawk) thought he was headed home to Montana after leaving the Navy SEALs, but his first assignment at the Montana-based Brotherhood Protectors is to fly to the Big Island of Hawaii to secretly protect a cattle baron’s daughter. His goal is to keep the lady alive while pretending to be a ranch hand. The ranching is second nature since he grew up on a ranch in Montana. Protecting the daughter is where the challenge lies. Kalea Parkman has had free rein of the 130,000-acre Parkman Ranch since she was big enough to fit her feet into stirrups. She refuses to curtail her freedom just because she’s had a couple of near-misses with a potential kidnapper. But when a mainlander cowboy hires on as a ranch hand, he manages to shadow her every move. And the man has skills…with the animals…and with her. Even though he’s as sexy as sin, he’s no less annoying. When attempts to take her increase, the new cowboy insists on protecting her at all costs. They must rely on each other to stay alive until the threat is neutralized, while hopelessly resisting a desire that rivals the heat of the Kilauea volcano.

Disillusioned by the government running the country he loves, Navy SEAL Angelo “Angel” Cortez leaves the only job he knew to join the civilian world working for Brotherhood Protectors as they staff the Hawaiian branch of Hank Patterson’s brainchild. His first assignment literally lands in his lap when a local tour guide slips from a rocky ledge as she guides a tour group at a local waterfall. Leilani is desperately working multiple jobs to earn enough money to rebuild the business her family had owned and operated for over 100 years. Fires decimated buildings and inventory, but not her spirit. Now big businesses want to claim the real estate when natives can no longer make a living on their own property. Some big businesses are more aggressive in their tactics to force out locals. Angel and Leilani navigate turbulent waters while trying to save her family heritage and expose the source of its sabotage. Int the process, they reveal a growing attraction neither anticipated and neither may survive to take it to the next level.

They called him a hero… Lauded for his daring rescue of a medical team captured by Islamic State terrorists, Navy SEAL Enrico “Rico” Cortez feels like anything but a hero. His friend and fellow teammate lost his life during that rescue. Plagued by PTSD, Rico leaves the Navy. Reluctantly, he accepts his only job offer, joining the Brotherhood Protectors in Colorado. War veteran Laurel Layne came home to Fool’s Gold Colorado, the only place she’d ever felt safe. Having survived terrorist torture and captivity, she only wants to feel sunshine on her cheeks and be surrounded by beautiful flowers and the people she loves. Her happy façade hides deep scars she’d hoped to bury with the barrel in which she’d been held captive. When Laurel becomes the target of a stalker, the Brotherhood Protectors step in with a bodyguard to provide her twenty-four-seven protection until the perpetrator is caught. Enter Rico Cortez on his first assignment… How hard could it be to protect a beautiful, small-town florist? Rico is reminded all too soon that when he allows emotion to intrude, the level of difficulty and danger expands exponentially. Before he realizes what’s happened, he finds himself falling for his pretty client who is caught in a killer’s sights.

FBI Special Agent Jenna Jenkins needs help finding her half-sister’s newborn baby stolen from a Bozeman, Montana, hospital. Ex-Navy SEAL Cliff Cranston left the Navy after witnessing too many atrocities he could do nothing to stop. Having lost faith in humanity, he accepts a job offer from an old teammate Stone Jacobs. His first assignment is to help an FBI agent find and rescue a newborn baby. After placing the mother in a safe house Cliff and Jenna hunt down the kidnapper to bring the baby home. Working closely together they discover secrets that could kill them and a passion they cannot deny.

Retired Navy SEAL Remy Montagne left the Navy to take on a career where he could make a difference. After a short vacation to his old hometown of Mambaloa Bayou and a casual hookup with local woman, Shelby Taylor, he joins Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors in Montana. Sheriff’s Deputy Shelby Taylor grew up in Mambaloa Bayou and chose to work for the people of the parish by protecting them from criminals. Attacked and left for dead in the bayou, she’s rescued by an old fisherman. She has no memory of what happened and no memory of her hookup with Remy. When her safety is compromised, her sister calls on Remy to protect Shelby until whoever tried to kill her is caught. Remy returns to Mamabloa Bayou to protect Shelby and is shocked that she has no memory of him or the passionate night they spent together. Together, they struggle to discover the identity of whoever is after her and why someone would want to kill her. In the process, a fresh flame of passion ignites between them but might be extinguished if the killer makes good his threats.

Former Delta Force Operative Joe "Judge" Smith came to work at the Lucky Lady Lodge to help rebuild the old girl to her former glory. Tired of killing, he wants to shoot a nail gun, not a military-grade rifle. Since arriving at the lodge in Montana, he and his team have been embroiled in one dangerous mission after another, unable to avoid using their combat training to help people defend themselves against a radical organization, The Chosen Way. Determined to locate their latest compound and find their leader, Judge goes undercover to infiltrate and gather the intelligence needed to bring them down. The Chosen Way''s assassin, PJ, is tasked to train Judge, their newest recruit. Like many members of the organization, she was coerced into submission to protect her family and friends. Saddled with a new recruit, she''s surprised at his skills and physical abilities and more than a little attracted. When Judge escapes with another recruit, PJ is given 48 hours to eliminate Judge and bring back proof that he is dead, or she and everyone she loves will be killed. With the clock ticking, PJ can''t bring herself to murder Judge, a man she''s falling in love with. Together, they devise a plan to take down the TCW''s radical leader and dismantle the group forever. Only then can they give in to their growing passion.

Vincent ‘Venom’ Jones, former Navy SEAL sniper, left the Navy after a Taliban kill resulted in collateral damage—the death of a child. Out of the military, and unsure of his future, he’s recruited by Hank Patterson and Jake Cogburn of the Brotherhood Protectors. He accepts the position on one condition…he refuses to protect children. At her former Army buddy’s insistence, Maria Elena Garcia left her boyfriend, the son of a drug cartel kingpin, in the Texas border town of El Paso and headed for Colorado. All she wants is a chance for her and her daughter to start over, free of the cartel and her daughter’s abusive father. Only the ex, like the cartel doesn’t let go of what he considers his. When Venom rescues a pretty woman and her child from recapture by a powerful drug cartel on his first assignment as a Brotherhood Protector, he can’t turn his back and let someone else take over. Against his better judgment, he stays with the pair to provide their protection where their lives and his heart are at risk of total destruction.

Confirmed bachelor Pierce Turner, aka UTAH, left active duty when politics cost his Marine Force Recon friend his life. An only child, Pierce didn’t have much of a childhood. He was an adult as soon as he learned to talk. Not a fan of kids, he thinks they’re messy, cry a lot and are extremely annoying. Tired of fighting and killing, all he wants is to work his construction day-job. When he’s off, he intends to enjoy the peace and quiet of the Montana Crazy Mountains and have a beer or two whenever the mood takes him. Forced to train as an assassin, Liza lives in constant fear for her daughter’s life. Her handler promises he’ll hurt her daughter if Liza doesn''t do what she’s told to do. Given her first killing assignment, Liza balks. When she can’t bring herself to make the kill, she takes her girl and makes her escape only to run out of gas on a deserted road in the Crazy Mountains. When he stops to help a stranded woman and her little girl, UTAH isn’t sure what he signed up for. Certainly not having to keep them safe indefinitely. And in his own home. Funny how a man who dislikes children is quickly wrapped around a little girl’s finger and how her mother finds her way into his stone-cold heart. He’ll do anything to keep them safe, even kill.

The Protector Former Air Force Pararescue Specialist, Morris “Moe” Cleveland might be smaller than the other members of his team, but size, in his case, certainly matters. He can fit in places his counterparts can’t and his body is wiry, streamlined and fast. The perfect choice when it comes to proportional matches. Thankfully, his new client is nine inches shorter than him. Assigned to protection duty for a rich man’s daughter seems a waste of his skills. But he’s getting paid well for babysitting duty and wouldn’t complain. At least he isn’t dodging bullets in the Middle East. Instead, he’s dodging his growing feelings for the feisty redhead. The Client When her little brother died of leukemia, Breely''s parents hovered over her, refusing to let her do things for fear of losing their only living child. Breely rebelled against the suffocation, moved off the family ranch and into her own place in Eagle Rock. She lives a double life. By day she''s the face of Brantt enterprises, managing her father''s philanthropic ventures. At night she moonlights as Bea, the feisty waitress at the Tumbleweed Tavern. Breely made a vow to herself to live a real life, not one cocooned in bubble wrap, protected from every which way the wind might blow. When she''s targeted by kidnappers, she is forced to accept help from a regular at the bar who, with his Brotherhood Protectors team’s blessing is assigned as her bodyguard. As Breely’s world goes sideways, she learns she might live longer if someone with mad combat skills has her back. Surrounded by danger, she finds safety, warmth and heart in her protector’s arms.

Duncan McKinnon è in congedo dai Ranger dell’Esercito per aiutare i fratelli nelle ricerche del padre, scomparso. Un incontro casuale all’aeroporto con la donna che ha sempre considerato solo un’amica, fino a una notte durante il suo ultimo soggiorno a casa, riaccende in lui il rimpianto per quello che possono aver perso. Fiona Guthrie è orgogliosa della vita indipendente che si è costruita a Eagle Rock. Giostrarsi tra i turni di vicesceriffo e il suo nuovo ruolo di mamma single non è stato facile. E se prima c’era la nostalgia per Duncan a complicare le cose, e il dolore per quell’amore non corrisposto, ora che lui è tornato Fiona sa che non può continuare a tacere, e che presto dovrà affrontarlo. Una notte ha cambiato tutto tra loro, quindici mesi prima, e le cose stanno di nuovo per cambiare. Duncan ha appena il tempo di trovarsi di fronte a una bambina che gli assomiglia tanto, prima di scoprire che la bimba e sua madre, la donna che ha lasciato un vuoto incolmabile nella sua vita, sono in pericolo. Minacciate da qualcuno che, forse, sa qualcosa sulla sparizione del padre dei fratelli McKinnon.

Devin Layne, Former Green Beret from 10th Special Forces Group, returns home after a disastrous mission. Feeling less of a man due to injuries, he struggles to navigate civilian life, avoiding his former fiancée, convinced she deserves better. Horse trainer and champion barrel racer, Mallory Watts, is heartbroken when the love of her life returns from deployment but wants nothing to do with her. When Devin’s undying love for Mallory makes her the target of a man bent on revenge, he will do anything to keep her safe.

Ex-Navy SEAL, Sean Murdock, is done with the Navy, done with being a bodyguard and ready to embrace construction as his new vocation. When he offers to ride shotgun with the local mobile veterinarian to deliver a horse to a client, he doesn’t expect the trip to turn into a rescue mission. Gabbie Myers grew up on a ranch in Montana and knew from her first pony that she would become a veterinarian. Now she has a mobile practice that takes her all over the county and sometimes further. When one of the new construction workers at the Lucky Lady Lodge offers to go along for the ride to deliver a horse, she accepts, knowing she’s heading into notoriously survivalist territory. She’s happy to have someone along who knows one end of a gun from another. At a truck stop to refuel, Gabbie hears pounding from the inside of an eighteen-wheeler’s trailer. The discovery of a teenaged girl inside, leads her and Murdock on a mission to free others trapped in the compound from which the girl escaped.

Abandoned by his mother, raised by a taciturn Marine, Dax joined the Navy to become a SEAL. Fast-forward twelve years later, he’s out of the navy, done time as a mercenary and now works for Brotherhood Protectors. Never trusted women. Never married. Never wanted to. Lawyer and motivational speaker, Liliana Lightfeather is running for the US house of representatives for the state of Wyoming. From the Wind River Reservation, she clawed her way out of poverty to become a lawyer representing her people and the rest of Wyoming. After attempts on her life, she turns to the Brotherhood Protectors Yellowstone to see her through her campaign. Expecting an older woman as his assignment, Dax is disturbed to find she’s not old and very pretty. Thankfully, he’s immune to love…until he gets a taste of the woman’s passion. Dax fights unknown threats to keep her alive and in the process falls victim to the curse of love.

Delta Force Operative Levi Franks retires from the Army and joins the Brotherhood Protectors. Having lost the love of his life, he’s seen the best and worst of humanity and has no interest in love, marriage or a family. He wants to use the skills he’s honed to combat evil. After a messy divorce, Mattie McIntyre, rebuilt her life from nothing to something. As the owner of Mattie’s Diner in Fool’s Gold, Colorado, she chooses kindness and empathy. Her kindness pays off when she inherits the Fool''s Folly Mine from a customer at her diner. Unbeknownst to Mattie, the mine comes with a curse. She doesn’t believe in curses or bad luck. But she might need help from the Brotherhood Protectors to claim her inheritance and live to appreciate it. Levi accepts the mission to protect Mattie and uncover the source of the troubles that plague the mine. Together, they search for answers and find a love so strong it could breach the walls around their hearts, if the curse doesn’t trump all.

Three unexpected protectors One desperate victim Former Delta Force soldier Parker Shaw won’t be sidelined by his horrific war experiences. Now he’s an Outrider security agent dedicated to safeguarding those in need. Having escaped abduction and imprisonment, Abby Gibson is hell-bent on rescuing the other captives. Trusting Parker is her only option. As they get closer to the dangerous truth, their attraction grows. Their choice may come down to saving themselves…or risking everything to save the hostages. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in The Outriders Series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Homicide at Whiskey Gulch Book 2: Hideout at Whiskey Gulch Book 3: Held Hostage at Whiskey Gulch Book 4: Setup at Whiskey Gulch Book 5: Missing Witness at Whiskey Gulch Book 6: Cowboy Justice at Whiskey Gulch

Il rubacuori Michael “Blade” Calhoun adora le donne. Scapolo incallito, sa bene che, quando si fa parte di una squadra operativa Delta Force, innamorarsi non è una buona idea. Per questo si è ripromesso di evitare qualsiasi tipo di coinvolgimento. Preferisce amare tutte le donne piuttosto che sceglierne una e spezzarle il cuore ogni volta che parte in missione. Vivere di fianco a Blade ha i suoi vantaggi ma è anche la rovina per Sophia Phillips, barista, che ha una cotta per lui e sa di non avere chance. Lui non cerca relazioni serie e romantiche, e lei non è il suo tipo. Confinata nella friendzone, Sophia si autoconvince che le vada bene così. Quando però si aggiudica un viaggio per due a Cancún, finisce con l’invitare proprio Blade a unirsi a lei. Dopo una serie ininterrotta di missioni, Blade coglie l’occasione di prendersi una vacanza senza preoccupazioni con un’amica. Pensando di ritrovarsi in un paradiso di margarita e spiagge, i due finiscono invece nel bel mezzo di un cartello della droga messicano. L’atmosfera rilassante del viaggio inizia a farsi bollente, come la passione che li travolge e che nessuno dei due si sarebbe aspettato.

This ex-soldier will break all the rules to see justice done… Shattering loss taught former Delta Force operative Becker Jackson to play things safe—and never risk his heart again. Still, he can’t turn down Olivia Swann’s desperate plea to find her abducted sister. Nor resist the instant heat with the beautiful artist as they go undercover. But with two mob families targeting them, can they save an innocent witness—and their own lives—in time? From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in The Outriders Series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Homicide at Whiskey Gulch Book 2: Hideout at Whiskey Gulch Book 3: Held Hostage at Whiskey Gulch Book 4: Setup at Whiskey Gulch Book 5: Missing Witness at Whiskey Gulch Book 6: Cowboy Justice at Whiskey Gulch

COWBOY D-FORCE Former Delta Force bodyguard, protects mega-star’s body double from a predatory stalker’s deadly hunting game MONTANA RANGER Former Army Ranger’s first civilian assignment is to protect a spunky physical therapist from an unknown threat at a rehab ranch for disabled veterans MONTANA DOG SOLDIER Prior service Army Dog Handler Joseph “Kujo” Kuntz and his dog Six team with a female FBI agent to locate and neutralize a terrorist training camp