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What happened to Troy Davis? That's what Becks is determined to figure out. When life takes an unexpected turn and plops her in the middle of the Afghan desert, the hotshot journalist finds herself surrounded by bullets, grenades, and a grumpy Army captain with a chip the size of Texas on his...

I fell for Connor Drake. I didn't want to; I fought against it, but I fell in love with him anyway. With his words. With his poetry. With him. The gentleness and beauty of his soul that speaks directly to mine. He writes as if he can feel my heart, hear its cadence and compose the exact right lyrics to accompany every beat and flow.

Growing up, Jude McCallister was the bane of my existence. My best friend. Fiercest ally. The most annoying boy in the world. At 18, the boy I loved to hate became the man I couldn’t live without. We were young. Madly in love. Invincible. Strong enough to weather any storm. Cocky enough to believe that no amount of time or distance could destroy us. When Jude finally returned home from overseas, it should have been cause for celebration. But the man I’d fallen in love with was gone, and in his place was someone I no longer recognized.

As a healer for Praiton, Deya believed there was no higher honor in the realm. When Deya is imprisoned after learning an enormous secret that threatens the regime, her love and loyalty for her kingdom are shattered. Beaten, and tortured, a new, terrible power is unleashed inside of her, a power that she cannot control. Forced outside of the only kingdom she has ever known, Deya has no choice but to team up with a band of unlikely rebels who all have one thing in common: the desire for the destruction of Praiton. One of those rebels is Caelum, a male who spent most of his life inside a prison.

October 1943. Nancy Dalton, working at the RAF base at Scampton in Lincolnshire, has been holding vigil for the Lancaster bomber pilots whose missions seem endless. But her watchfulness has not prevented her own pilot brother from failing to return. In the midst of mourning him, fresh recruits arrive to continue the war effort, among them charismatic Canadian Steve Allard. The months ahead will be long and hard, with danger a constant companion, and although both Steve and Nancy never intend to complicate wartime life with romance, their attraction becomes impossible to ignore. 

Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend to her roommate, Elodie, Karina always puts the needs of others ahead of her own and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things—whether it’s the house she’s just bought or the fragmented family she works hard to keep intact. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war.

She has two million followers. One wants her silenced. Not on his watch. As a rising influencer in Los Angeles, Charlotte seems to have it all – the followers, the likes, the sponsors. But it’s not all roses behind the filters. And when an online cult targets Charlotte with chilling threats, her picture-perfect world starts to crumble. Her only hope? Grayson, an ex-CIA agent turned bodyguard from Platinum Security. Grayson is everything Charlotte is not – secretive, intense, and deeply guarded. From the moment they meet, the attraction is undeniable, but so are their differences.

Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend, she always puts the needs of others ahead of her own, and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war. And when she meets Kael, a soldier on the cusp of discharge, she’s immediately intrigued by his brooding presence and enigmatic silence.

Ridge McCallister: King of the junkyard. God of the gridiron. Cypress Springs’ beloved bad boy. With just a wink and a smile, he has most girls at his beck and call. Good thing I’m immune to his (debatable) charms. Don’t get me wrong, he is beautiful. With the body of a Greek god and the face of a fallen angel, who could resist? Too bad he’s so…Ridge. Every time he opens his mouth, I want to punch him. Or kiss him. No, I don’t want that. Not at all. Not even a little bit. Yet here I am in a no-strings-attached summer fling with the guy I love to hate.

When does a man have enough? When his wife is viciously attacked, what comes next? Well, if the woman attacked is Katherine Anderson, beloved wife of Joseph Anderson, what comes next is a nightmare for anyone foolish enough to harm the single most important person in his world. Joseph Anderson is the patriarch of the world-famous Anderson Empire who believes in family above all else. There’s nothing he hasn’t accomplished, and now he has a new mission — to take down the scum of Seattle.

Rising, audiobook number two in the Anderson Special Ops series continues where audiobook one left off with the mission to purge evil from Seattle just getting started. Katherine comes home, but not all is well in the Anderson world as she battles an enemy Joseph can’t put his hands around. While Joseph can’t purge the cancer, he can support this team who attacked the woman he loves. And that’s exactly what he does. This story continues investigating the drug cartel impacting Seattle, while the team continue to grow stronger together.

As the second-in-command of Olympus Station, Captain Hadley Wells is usually too focused on her career to worry about romance. That changes with the arrival of Prince Nykal of Jroj, a planet that’s recently joined the Coalition. Their attraction is immediate and fierce, but too many rules separate them to let them have more than one stolen night.

1944, New Mexico: Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famous Dr Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country's call to go deep into the desert and lend her skills to a secret project at the heart of the fight against Germany. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb, who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have left their ordinary lives behind.

Eyes gets in deeper than he thought with a battle he never imagined he'd have to fight - in the arena of love. Will he be able to focus on the mission at hand while this breathtaking woman is now front and center in his life? Follow Eyes, Sleep, Brackish, Smoke, and Green on the last steps of this journey - showing what a team of true alpha males can accomplish when their focus is on the same goal and have all the resources they ever want.

Kane Turner is a simple man who cares nothing for riches. Scarred both physically and mentally from his tours as a marine, all Kane cares about is his bike, beer, and dog Bud - and not necessarily in that order. Lexi Gray-Rockefeller has it all. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, she’s rich, one of the most stunning women in the world with parents who dote on her. Yet Lexi is lonely. All she wants is to work with animals. Following a series of threats, Kane is hired to protect Lexi, yet despite their world of differences the two of them find themselves falling in love.

Cody was held captive by insurgents after his helicopter went down. When he finally gets home a year later, he’s battling a severe case of PTSD along with partial amnesia. He has no memory of being involved with his buddy’s sexy little brother with the cute-as-a-bug baby.

Politically controversial and pragmatic, witness an unlikely duo in their quest for the White House. A former president is assassinated. Rocky is disowned by members of his family. Uncommon heroism is sullied by the most powerful man in the world. Rocky is the man most men would like to be. He is the epitome of what many women would want in a man. But things are not what they appear to be. He is harboring a deep dark secret that could destroy his military career and that of the one he loves most.

Brian Monroe hat endlich die Navy hinter sich gelassen und kehrt als Zivilist nach New York zurück. Doch der Frieden währt nicht lange, als eine Mordserie seine Heimatstadt erschüttert, die ihn persönlich betrifft. Der Ex-Seal schwört Rache. Die Mission lautet: den Täter dingfest zu machen, egal, was es ihn kostet. Dabei trifft er auf Alexa Hudson - jung, schön, reich und... die Tatverdächtige. Bei dem Versuch, sie zu überführen, muss Brian erkennen, dass mehr hinter alledem steckt, als es auf den ersten Blick den Anschein macht. Vor allem weckt sie in ihm Gefühle, die er bis dato nicht kannte.

... und manchmal passieren doch Wunder. Während eines Einsatzes stößt Brian Monroe auf ein Obdachlosen-Lager voller Leichen. Angelockt von leisem Geschrei, entdeckt er unter dem Mantel einer der Toten ein Baby. Ein winziges Geschöpf, das Brian so hoffnungsvoll mustert, dass der Ex-Seal ihm erliegt. Für die Gruppe aus ehemaligen Seals steht fest, dass der Winzling ein liebevolles Zuhause bekommen muss. Deshalb machen sie sich nicht ausschließlich auf die Suche nach den Mördern, sondern auch nach Verwandten des Kindes.

Barriers is book three in the Anderson: Special Ops series written by Melody Anne and John Henley that continues the journey of former military men now working to purge Seattle and her surrounding areas of drugs and crime - which is no easy feat. We’ve all watched as two of the team members have busted the bad guys while also managing to fall in love. Now it’s Green’s turn to step up to the table.