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Former Special Forces brother-in-arms now working together to provide an elite security service in the Southern city of Richland. Tony Alvarez, former Special Forces captain, now owns his own security agency. Once destroyed by loss and grief, his business is his life. Working to keep others safe, he safeguards his heart as well. Until he met her. Sherrie Mullins had been rescued by Tony a year earlier as part of a mission. But to her...he was the prince she had always wanted.

Military duty called them away to war zones, but after tours overseas, the group of friends found their way back home as men, seeking the peaceful little seaside town. Now, the band of brothers, together once more, work to provide a place for less fortunate veterans to call home. Colt Hudson, Sheriff of North Heron County, has little time for anything other than his job…and keeping an eye on the pretty waitress at The Diner.

Gabe Malloy, dedicated to his brothers, spent his weekends with cheap booze and easy women. When some of his friends finally settled down, he wondered if he would ever find the woman of his dreams. He just never expected to encounter her in an alley.

With the threat of terrorists developing means of biological warfare, retired Navy SEAL Logan (Preacher) Bishop jumped at the chance to run a mission in Alaska, monitoring the activities of a newly established ISIS cell. Vivian Sanders, a biologist with the Department of Homeland Security, was tasked with finding out what the terrorists were creating. Assigned to work with an agent on a cell in Alaska, she was stunned to find she was being paired with a security specialist, and he knew nothing about their cover - living next door to the terrorists and pretending to be married.

Mace Hanover, former Special Forces and CIA Special Ops, filled his security company with other men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and AF Special Ops. All having been trained in CIA Special Ops, his Keepers were the best of the best. His focus had been on building his security company and the missions they undertook. A relationship was not on his radar.

Grant Wilder, one of the original Baytown Boys, came back from the war a changed man, walking away from his hometown and the girl he left behind. Jillian Evans worked for years to hide her broken heart, especially when Grant moved back home to become one of Baytown’s police officers. He wanted friendship only, and that’s what she’d give him. But when Jillian is threatened, Grant has to fight his wartime demons to save her...and finally declare his love.

Military duty called them away to war zones, but after tours overseas, the group of friends found their way back home as men, seeking the peaceful little seaside town. Now, the band of brothers, together once more, work to provide a place for less fortunate veterans to call home. Mitch Evans left his career as an FBI agent after his father retired as the Baytown Police Chief. Returning home to take up the mantle, he was glad to be back with his family and the Baytown boys. The bonus? Reuniting with his childhood friend and teenage crush.

Nathan Washington loved his job as a tracker, training his faithful bloodhounds. He had no idea the enigmatic woman he saved two years ago - and had not forgotten - would become part of his life again. When he learned she was in danger, he joined his friends, the Saints, to find her once again. But she was right under his nose.

Sophie Bayles was devastated by grief when her beloved brother, a soldier, had been killed in action when she was a teenager. Guarding her heart, she left Baytown and the boy she had loved...her brother’s best friend Ten years after she left, Sophie is older, wiser, missing home, and jumps at the chance to return to Baytown for a temporary job. As she and Callan grow closer, she stumbles into suspicious activity near her work. Having promised to guard her heart, Callan and his friends work to make sure Sophie is safe before someone decides to quiet her permanently.

Military duty called them away to war zones, but after tours overseas, the group of friends found their way back home as men, seeking the peaceful little seaside town. Now, the band of brothers, together once more, work to provide a place for less fortunate veterans to call home.

Marc Jenkins is a true outdoorsman preferring to hike, camp, and fly his plane. His Saints’ protection assignment appears easy: Fly to Alaska and escort Dr. Rhodes, a renown microbiologist working with Homeland Security against terrorism. He never expected to find a beautiful woman as his charge. Kendall finds the enigmatic pilot fascinating, but more comfortable in the laboratory than the outdoors, she settles in for the flight, until sabotage causes them to crash in the Canadian wilderness in the middle of a blizzard.

Belle Gunn has watched all her friends find love in Baytown, but love has not yet come her way. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, she throws herself into her job in a nursing home and continued studies. Watching the sun rise each morning, she looks for the new day, with all its possibilities, to begin. Hunter Simmons, landed in Baytown, having heard of the welcoming attitude toward veterans. Since leaving the Navy, he had drifted until finding work in the little coastal town’s nursing home. Working with and living near the beautiful Belle makes him wonder if he can finally settle down.

Jack Bryant left the Special Forces to begin his private investigation business. Pulling together like-minded men from the CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, Border Patrol, SEALs, and police, they were devoted to the missions that no one else wanted or could solve. When the campus killer strikes again, Jack's team is tasked by the governor to find the killer, using whatever means they can.

Love had never worked out for US Navy SEAL Commander Eric Lopez during his 25 years of active duty. Now, with a forced medical retirement, he was bored...and still alone. When asked to work for a DHS Secret Division Command, he jumped at the chance...Dr. Lydia Hughes, a veterinarian at the new National Bio and Agro-defense Facility in Kansas, had been a widow for years. She spent more time with the animals she was in charge of than looking for a man. Meeting Eric knocked her on her ass...literally.

Annie Donavan's life as a veterinarian is safe. And boring. Between focusing on keeping her small, inner-city clinic running, paying off student loans, and living in the tiny apartment above the clinic, she has no time for fun or dating and certainly not for anything adventurous. Then one night, danger and surprise show up in the alley behind her clinic. And Annie is in for the ride of her life.

Former SEAL and CIA op John “Rank” Rankin did not mind playing hard, but when it came to missions, he prided himself on always delivering. When the Feds ask for assistance in investigating the possible link between a US senator and a member of the Russian mafia, Rank volunteers for the job.

Cam Perez left his juvenile delinquent years behind to become an undercover detective and then accepted a job with Saints Protection & Investigations. When a friend's sister, a Red Cross nurse, was kidnapped, Cam eagerly stepped up to take on the rescue mission. The right man for the job, he was focused on what needed to be done - until he lay eyes on her. And then not only saving her life but winning her heart became the new mission.

The Baytown Boys Military duty called them away to war zones, but after tours overseas, the group of friends found their way back home as men, seeking the peaceful little seaside town. Now, the band of brothers, together once more, work to provide a place for less fortunate veterans to call home. Zac Hamilton, one of the original Baytown Boys, had returned from the Navy to become the Fire Chief for the small town. But, the Eastern Shore was gripped in fear as an arsonist continued to set fires all over the county just after sunset.

Brogan MacFarlane, a former marine, filled his days with hard work at the family bar and his nights running along the shore to rid himself of the war memories he would rather forget. But there was one thing in town that provided a distraction…the pretty cop with the haunted eyes. Ginny Spencer loved the small, shore town and her job, as long as she could keep people at arm’s length. Former Army Military Police, she carried her own battle scars deep inside and that was just where she planned on keeping them. If only the bartender with the Irish blue eyes did not make her long for more.

After leaving the Army, Zander King wants nothing more to do with being a hero...Old habits die hard, though, so when a beautiful stranger walks into the bar to drink alone, his protective instincts kicked into high gear. When a man won't take no for an answer from her, Zander kicks him out, but he sends the woman packing too. Too late, he realizes his mistake in releasing the petite, vulnerable woman out into the neighborhood alone, when he finds her near death outside the bar at closing time. He vows to help her...but would regaining her memory only put her in more danger?