Best Selling Books by Elle James

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.

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.

A mother’s hunt for her kidnapped son leads her to a wealthy Texas rancher in this romantic suspense adventure by a New York Times–bestselling author. Sylvia Michaels had raised her son for four short months before he was cruelly snatched from her arms. Desperate and alone, her investigation led to Texas and the ranch of multimillionaire Tate Vincent. The ruggedly handsome bachelor was an intriguing man . . . and the father of a child who looked suspiciously like hers. But what was supposed to be a joyous reunion was shattered by a hail of gunfire—and an empty cradle. Now both parents were on the hunt for the kidnappers and the child they each claimed as theirs. Tate couldn’t deny that Sylvia fought with a mother’s passion, and Sylvia couldn’t help but notice that the protective man made the perfect father. But would their dream of a family be shattered before it even began?

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.

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.

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.

Former D-Force bodyguard, protects mega-star’s body double from a predatory stalker’s deadly hunting game Fresh out of the military, John Wayne “Duke” Morrison is back in his home state of Montana, starting a new job in the Brotherhood Protectors security service. First assignment, protect film star and diva Lena Love from a stalker leaving her threatening messages. After fighting terrorists in the Middle East, Duke assumes this assignment will be a walk in the park. Angel Carson, lovingly known as “The Angel of Death”, is a woman with a death wish. Her main claim to fame is her uncanny resemblance to Lena Love. Prior military, she’s seen combat, lost friends and now works as the stunt woman for the mega-star. When Miss Love is threatened, Angel steps in as bait to draw out the stalker on the diva’s 6,000-acre ranch in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains. To cover Angel’s back, Lena has engaged a bodyguard to watch her six and be there when the stalker reveals himself. Unable to tell Duke she isn’t the real Lena, Angel must perform like a diva. As the stalker closes in, she reluctantly accepts Duke’s help to stay alive. In forced proximity, tempers and passions ignite, leaving Duke and Angel struggling to resist an irresistible attraction while alluding the stalker’s predatory game. When the stalker becomes the predator, the power of Delta Force brotherhood becomes a force to reckon with.

The Delta Force team is sent to tumultuous Turkey to protect the American Embassy from a distance, undercover. Craig “Bull” Bullington is assigned inside the embassy to provide intelligence and protect the ambassador''s daughter, acting as her American fiancé. As the daughter of a Turkish mother and the American ambassador to Turkey, Layla Grey, knows her place, but refuses to stand by and do nothing about injustices toward women in her mother’s country. Hosting dignitaries by day, she runs covert operations at night to free women captured to be sold into the sex trade. Having a bodyguard assigned to her cramps her style and she chafes at the constraints. After her enemies compromise her cover, all hell breaks loose, and Layla’s life is on the line. Bull is forced to go rogue in order to get Layla out of the country alive.

A former Army Ranger and the love of his life, strengthen their bond with each other when their furry friend and retired Military Working Dog goes missing Kujo and Molly want to further their relationship with a baby, but they’re having no luck. With Christmas fast approaching, they opt to relieve their stress over missed-conception and head into the Crazy Mountains for a winter escape. When Six, Kujo’s retired Military Working Dog, disappears into the wilderness, Kujo and Molly realize their love for each other is their strength, and the life of their best furry friend takes precedence. They call on the Brotherhood Protectors to help them search for the missing canine. Christmas wouldn’t be the same without Six.

FBI agent Melissa Bradley and reinstated SEAL James Monahan must work together to find their missing friend in southern Mississippi.

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.

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.

US Marine, Colin McKinnon, fell in love with Emily in high school, but when he elected to join the Marine Corps, Emily chose to marry Colin’s best friend, Alex, preferring a safe and secure life. Brokenhearted but resolute, at their wedding, Colin promised Alex he’d take care of Emily if anything ever happened to Alex. Though Emily loved Colin, she married Alex, one of her best friends. She couldn’t abide the heartache of Colin marching into harm’s way. Alex was the safe choice with a career in accounting. When someone runs their car off the road, Alex is killed, and Emily miscarries their baby. In her search for answers to who would want them dead, Emily realizes Alex was into something deeper than simple accounting. Her search for the truth, lands her in danger. Colin, on leave to search for his missing father, remembers his promise to Alex and is set on keeping Emily safe. Together, they unravel the mystery of who wanted Alex dead. In the process, they rediscover the love they never forgot, and uncover another clue in the quest to find Colin’s missing father.

Delta Fierce! On loan for a local assignment, Max "Caveman" Decker already feels at home in the backcountry of Wyoming. Protecting one woman—even petite spitfire Grace Saunders—is a vacation to the Delta Force warrior. But Grace thinks something darker is at work than the murder she witnessed. It wasn''t a case of the wrong place at the wrong time—it was her "curse." Every man she gets close to dies. Now she''s saddled with Decker, her sworn protector, who won''t leave her side. Any hope for a simple assignment will change once they''re living under the same roof, where Grace''s curse will be just as inescapable as the crosshairs of a killer.

Il team Delta Force viene inviato nella tumultuosa Turchia per proteggere, con un’operazione sotto copertura, l’Ambasciata Americana. Craig “Bull” Bullington lavorerà dall’interno, con il compito di passare informazioni al resto della squadra e di proteggere la figlia dell’ambasciatore, fingendosi il suo fidanzato americano. Di madre turca, Layla Grey sa muoversi nel mondo della diplomazia, ma non può stare a guardare di fronte alle ingiustizie di cui sono vittime le donne nel paese di sua madre. Se di giorno è la perfetta ospite per i dignitari in visita all’ambasciata, di notte partecipa a operazioni segrete per liberare le donne destinate a essere vendute nel giro del commercio sessuale. La nuova guardia del corpo è un inconveniente che rischia di ostacolare le sue attività segrete. Quando la sua identità viene scoperta, la vita di Layla è in pericolo. Bull però è pronto a tutto, anche ad affrontare un nemico potente e subdolo, pur di tirare fuori Layla viva da un paese sull’orlo della rivolta.

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.

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.

Ryan “Dash” Hayes è famoso per infrangere le regole. Soprattutto se non hanno senso e ci sono valide ragioni. A suo parere le regole sono comandi da usare per tenere in riga il gregge, non sono fatte per lui. Il suo comandante è comunque disposto a dargli il beneficio del dubbio perché è bravo nel suo lavoro di operatore Delta Force. Veloce, efficiente e disposto a sacrificare la sua vita per salvare gli altri. Dopo che il partner con cui duetta come cantante resta ucciso in un incidente, Sunny Daye entra nell’USO, che si occupa di organizzare spettacoli per le truppe, e parte per un tour in Afghanistan. Quale modo migliore per punirsi di essere sopravvissuta se non mettersi a rischio in un paese pieno di conflitti? Quando tentano di rapirla, le viene data una scelta: lasciare il paese oppure accettare una guardia del corpo per il resto del tour. E quale candidato migliore all’incarico di Dash, lo spavaldo, irriverente operatore Delta Force che sembra comparire nei momenti migliori/peggiori per salvare la situazione. Se proprio dovrà avere una guardia del corpo, Sunny ha delle regole da fargli rispettare: Uno: mani a posto Due: niente baci Tre: non innamorarsi della star Con un gran sorriso e una strizzatina d’occhio, Dash accetta le sue condizioni. D’altronde, lui non ha mai incontrato sulla sua strada una regola che non fosse disposto a infrangere.

Betrayed by his wife and filled with self-loathing, he joined the Army on his path to self-destruction Fin McClain left Montana to escape his past. He joined the US Army to fight enemies of his country and his own internal demons in an attempt at redemption or suicide. On a mission in Syria, he fought alongside a woman they called the Angel of Death, a woman as fierce as she was beautiful. Mission complete, he never learned her name or where she was from. Finally coming home to Montana for the first time in years, he’s unsure of his welcome. When he finds an injured woman staggering alongside the road, he’s shocked to discover she’s the woman from Syria. And she has no memory of him or their mission. She woke in the arms of a stranger… They called her Jane Smith. Found on a roadside, bruised, bloody and devoid of all memories, she’s desperate to know her real name, where she’s from or how she ended up in the arms of a man who claims he knows her but not her name. With a feeling of impending doom, she struggles to learn the truth about her existence and why she feels compelled to run. With Fin’s help, Jane recovers from her injuries in time to fight an elusive enemy and discover why she ended up in Fin’s arms and why she finds his damaged soul so compelling.

An executive must protect his secretary first from scandal and then a deadly killer in this suspenseful romance by a New York Times bestseller. Scandal could not touch the Kendall family—not with the unsolved Christmas Eve murders looming over their heads. So, when eldest son Devin was caught in a compromising situation with his executive assistant, he decided to turn tabloid news in his favor. If Jolie Carson posed as his fiancée, the press would leave him alone and he could conduct his own investigation. Of course, Jolie agreed to Devin’s proposition—she’d secretly loved her boss for six long years. Being so close to Devin only made her desire grow stronger, though the danger was not just to her heart. Because someone was after the Kendall family, and Jolie’s pretend engagement had made her the next target.

Injured on a mission gone bad, Cory “Reaper” Nipton’s Navy SEAL career is over. With only one arm, he can’t join his fellow teammates, or even his fiancé, the Special Ops helicopter pilot who flew him in and out of harm’s way. Relegated to life as a civilian, and angry at his lack of choices, Reaper goes through rehab with a petite, soft-spoken physical therapist with two iron fists. He’s forced to face an uncertain future and learn how to live without the use of his right arm. Ex-cop, Leigha Fields, lost her career due to a gunshot wound that destroyed her knee. Retrained and refitted with different skills, she has reimagined her world, dedicating her life to helping wounded warriors find their way. Until someone from her past seeks revenge. Leigha and Reaper join forces to untangle the mystery and free her from the web of crosshairs aimed squarely at her. In their struggle to find and neutralize the culprit, they realize their own capabilities and how they will fit in their future together.

Here comes the bride…gun at her side Navy SEAL "Rip" Cord Schafer is officially missing and presumed dead. It''s the perfect cover until he can catch the traitors supplying Honduras terrorists with American arms. It''s not a one-man operation, but never in his wildest dreams did he imagine teaming up with a woman—Covert Cowboy operative Tracie Kosart. Posing as wealthy newlyweds, Rip soon discovers Tracie is as skilled at playing his sensual "bride" as she is at covering his six. Despite their jungle-hot attraction, Rip senses Tracie''s reluctance to trust him. But when her cover is blown, Rip knows her life depends on his SEAL instincts and her love depends on his unwavering commitment as her "husband."

A Special Forces soldier meets the baby girl he never knew existed in this book in Elle James''s Covert Cowboys, Inc. series. In a small town in Texas, everyone has a secret. Especially Chuck Bolton. Formerly a Special Forces soldier, Chuck now poses as a ranch handyman. His real mission? To protect his ex-fiancée, and the baby girl he never knew they''d created, from a malevolent masked man. Who is behind the attack—and what could they possibly want with Peggy Jane ("PJ") Franks? While the answer remains unclear, one thing is certain: Chuck never stopped loving PJ after she left him. And PJ, afraid of falling for the same man who broke her heart, doesn''t want to repeat history. But that''s the least of her worries when her enemy''s motive is finally revealed.

People have been known to perish at McGregor Manor... Opening her B and B to a group of ghost hunters, Molly McGregor hopes the spirits rumored to be there will appear. She needs the weekend to be a financial success. But when disembodied voices and hazy images nearly lure her to her death, Molly''s driven straight into the arms of a sexy but mysterious guest--Casanova Valdez. Nova knows what it''s like to be haunted--by memories of a case gone bad. As a secret agent, he''s confident he can protect Molly but is not exactly sure he believes in ghosts. As the mysterious incidents targeting the gorgeous redhead become increasingly more dangerous, Nova must question if it''s the handiwork of a ghost...or a killer.

Brotherhood Protector and former Navy SEAL reunites with his lover when tasked to protect her and her baby girl when killers seek to silence her testimony After the sudden disappearance of the amazing woman he fell for on vacation in Cozumel and nearly losing his own life on a politically volatile mission in Syria, Brandon Rayne “Boomer” leaves the SEAL brotherhood and signs on with the private security agency Brotherhood Protectors in Montana. Determined to forget the girl and maybe even try for a real life and start a family, he embraces his new life. While on vacation in Cozumel, Daphne Miller fell in love with a sexy SEAL. On the verge of committing her heart and life to him, she becomes the unwitting witness to murder. Forced into witness protection, she doesn’t realize she’s pregnant, the product of the hot fling with the sexy SEAL. A year later, still pining for what could have been, with a baby girl to protect, Daphne’s safe house is compromised. In an attempt to evade the people trying to kill her to keep her from being a star witness in a big court case, she heads to Montana to find the only person she knows can help, the baby’s father. Determined to put his desire for Daphne on the back burner, Boomer focuses his skills and cunning on keeping her alive long enough to testify. Together, they vow to protect baby Maya from being used as a pawn to control the outcome of a critical court case.

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.

A kidnapping offers an FBI agent a second chance at redemption in Elle James''s Covert Cowboys, Inc. miniseries. After witnessing the murder of his partner, former FBI agent Zach Adams suffers the weight of his own guilt. An unexpected assignment hunting down the members of the Texas gang responsible—who have kidnapped a local woman—could offer long-awaited revenge. Zach understands the danger of tracking the cartel, but it''s his desire for the sister of the missing person that he fails to anticipate. Determined to find her twin, Jacie Kosart is as strong-willed as she is alluring. But when Zach''s ruthless search for the kidnappers lands Jacie in the crosshairs of deadly enemies, Zach realizes he''ll risk everything to keep her alive…even if it means confronting the demons of his own past.

Former Green Beret braves a tropical paradise to rescue a pretty airport receptionist from human trafficking He pushes limits, tempting death… Former Green Beret, Matteo “Tayo” Perez is a risk-taking adrenalin junky with a load of survivor''s guilt trying to find his way in a civilian world. He’s working in construction and moonlighting as a sky-diving instructor reluctant to accept a position with Brotherhood Protectors Colorado. Until he meets a pretty, homeless receptionist. Kayla Quinn left Florida for Colorado Springs to start over after grieving the loss or her fiancé. After landing a job as a receptionist at the general aviation airport terminal, she starts dating a sexy sky-diving instructor. Just when Kayla is getting her life back on track, a cagy plane owner accepts delivery of several crates that make Kayla suspicious. Snooping into the contents of the crates, her life goes from on track to derailed in seconds. She needs someone to save her from a fate worse than death… When Kayla goes missing from her post, Tayo makes finding her his first mission as a Brotherhood Protector. He and his teammates join forces to find the missing woman. Their search leads to a private island paradise where Tayo and his team parachute in for the rescue. He and Kayla escape through the jungle, unable to deny their growing attraction, while fighting to stay alive.

What started as a way to teach a young firefighter a lesson on what an older woman has to offer, Widow and designer shoe store owner Lola Engel’s hot little class on love has taken a turn for the worse. Her best and only student, Daniel Flannigan, drops out of school and avoids her altogether. Not that she intended on making her teaching career a fulltime job. But at least she’d hoped for a few weeks of distraction before classes ended. Unfortunately, her smokin’ hot firefighter has lost interest, now Lola is determined to turn that trend around, whatever it takes. When his past catches up with him, Daniel knows he must cut all emotional ties to anyone who means anything to him, or risk that person becoming a target of a stalker with a vendetta against him. If that means pushing the woman who lit a fire deep inside him to the back burner, so be it. Lola has never been relegated to back-burner status and has no intention of remaining on the sidelines. When she wants something, or someone, she goes all out, wearing her best designer shoes. Where Daniel is concerned, Lola knows she’s playing with fire and leaving her heart exposed to an inferno that could consume her.

Delta Force Operative John “Tank” Sanders is a few years away from retirement. The old man on the team, he keeps his head down and his heart guarded. Burned in a relationship as a young man, he’s sworn off getting involved. Love isn’t for him and no woman is worth the effort. To save money while building a house, he moves into his RV and parks it at a local trailer park. Collette McCallick has been fighting an uphill battle since getting pregnant at 16. After years scraping by, raising her daughter, she’s finally at a point she’s pursuing her nursing degree. Going to school full time and working part time leaves her teenaged daughter home alone more than she cares for. After her new trailer park neighbor, a quiet Delta Force soldier, comes to their rescue with his plumbing skills, she’s hopeful that someone in her neighborhood can check in on her daughter while she’s away. When Collette’s daughter disappears from a church parking lot, Collette turns to the Delta Force soldier for help, knowing the longer the teenager is missing, the less possibility of finding her alive. Together, they follow a trail of clues and discover a passion neither wanted nor can deny.

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.

Grieving Navy SEAL widower, John Decker, commemorating the two-year anniversary of the day he lived and his wife died, is dragged back into life by a riptide and a blonde he can''t get out of his thoughts. Plagued with survivor''s guilt, he''s reluctant to enter a new relationship, until he meets a feisty bartender with attitude and curves to go with it. Roxi Lanierwas the typical young teen in the city, happy, full of life and bulletproof, until she became the victim of a violent crime. Her mother moved her to Wellfleet on Cape Cod, away from the scene of her misfortune to start over. Fourteen years later, she''s still afraid to date and be intimate with a man, the scars of her past overriding the happiness she craves. Though she''s an independent owner of a thriving beach bar, she has yet to find success in love. Tides change when she witnesses a suicidal widower diving headfirst into a riptide. Decker and Roxi struggle to stay afloat through the wreckage of their pasts and the storms of the present to sail into a future together.

A Navy SEAL bodyguard and his client’s bride struggle with rising desire while fighting to stay alive in the mountains of Montana Ten years in the Navy, most with the elite brotherhood of SEALs, Axel Svenson “Swede” has dodged so many bullets, he knows his luck will someday run out. With younger blood pushing to take over for the older guys, and an injury that marks him for discharge, he takes the plunge into the civilian world. Since desk jobs aren’t what he’s cut out for, he checks on the pet project of one of his former teammates—Brotherhood Protectors. Providing personal security to rich people sounds like a walk in the park compared to where he’s been. Prospective bride, Allie Patterson, thinks she’s marrying the man of her dreams. He’s rich, he’s handsome and mysterious—everything a woman should want. Until his secrets threaten her life. After several near misses, Allie reluctantly allows her fiancé to hire one of her brother’s bodyguards. The big, sexy, tattooed SEAL assigned to protect her is the kind of guy women drool over, and makes Allie question her decisions. Perhaps she’s marrying the wrong man for the wrong reasons. But her brother’s gruff friend can’t possibly be Mr. Right. Together, they traverse a dangerous journey to get Allie to the church on time…and alive.

As a cop, his job was to capture the killer who''d stirred fear in the citizens of fog-shrouded Raven''s Cliff. But Andrei Lagios had his own agonizing reasons for bringing this criminal to justice. And the return of beautiful, pregnant Jocelyne Baker was a distraction he couldn''t afford. Yet the moment her life—and that of her unborn child—was threatened, he insisted on working undercover and being her personal bodyguard. Getting close to Jocelyne stirred a desire that pushed aside his pain. But the unrevealed secrets of her well-guarded past made him suspect there was more to this homecoming than she claimed.…

Caught in a web of danger A SEAL will risk everything Sexy SEAL “Harm” Harmon Payne isn’t looking for love…or trouble. Until he encounters the prettiest creature on the savanna, Talia Montclair. The safari resort owner has been plagued by a series of threatening incidents. This kind of trouble Harm can handle. But when Talia mysteriously disappears, Harm’s SEAL instincts kick in. His new mission: find the only woman he has ever loved. Mission: Six

Former Navy SEAL, Sawyer Johnson’s career as a SEAL is over. He’s the survivor of an attack that killed two of his buddies and cost him the use of his left hand. Out of the military and aimless, he receives a job offer and a ticket to fly to Colorado Springs. On the flight, he meets a woman who is moving to Colorado to free her brother from a militant group. Intrigued, he realizes her problem is a perfect challenge for the Brotherhood Protectors, his new place of employment. Kinsley Brothers is a take charge, Physician Assistant and devoted big sister. When her brother gets caught up in a radical survivalist group, she pulls up stakes and moves to Colorado to rescue her sibling from the dangerous and charismatic leader of the cult. In over her head, she gladly accepts an offer of assistance from the Brotherhood Protectors. Assigned to aid and protect Kinsley, Sawyer has his job cut out for him with the headstrong woman who is used to doing things her way. To get her brother out, they must infiltrate the cult’s mountain hideout. The ticking timebomb they discover will take the entire team to diffuse.

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.

To protect their future, a Texas bodyguard must revisit his past After taking justice into his own hands, Austin police officer Ben Harding faces an unknown future. But a new job referral carries the possibility of salvation. His mission seems simple: protect a woman and her young daughter—recent residents of the Flying K Ranch who have become the target of threats. When Ben meets Kate Langsdon, he is immediately struck by her beauty…and by the memories of the tragedies that touched his own family. Resolved not to become emotionally invested, Ben protects the pair as new dangers—and old ranch secrets—emerge. As enemies draw closer, can Ben keep this family alive long enough to explore a future with Kate?