COOPER Cooper is shocked when Sonnie walks into the firm. He recognizes her face from the back of his daughter’s favorite books. They install a security system for her and he thinks he won’t see her again. An emergency call comes in one night and he rushes over to her house to find her roughed up and terrified. Thrust together, it’s hard for them both to ignore the attraction that grows between them with each passing moment. Things only intensify and then a body is found in town that threatens to bring down the firm. Will Cooper help keep Sonnie’s head above water or will they all sink together? BRANSON Elizabeth Shore made the simple mistake of going back to work late one night. Instead of getting her work done, though, she caught her boss spread eagle on the conference room table with a stunning man between her legs. Freaked out, she fled the scene before being spotted. No one seemed any the wiser about what she’d seen and things went back to normal. Until she saw the man’s face in the newspaper a few days later. Dead. Branson has his hands full. He’s working on a case for a local celebrity and trying to figure things out with another brother from SEAL Team Two. The last thing he needs is the seemingly ball-buster Elizabeth on his back. There’s something about her that gets under his skin and it’s not just the way her eyes trail over his damaged skin with interest instead of horror or pity. TUCKER Local internet celebrity Charlie Crier has had a stalker for so long that it’s almost normal at this point. Her manager brought in security part time when it first started, but Charlie hates it. She needs time to herself. It’s hard to work with people around. Not to mention, she has an act to keep up. Charlotte Crier-Banks is freaking Martha Stuart, if Martha Stuart lived in Arkansas and hated her life. With a forced and fake family, and a set instead of a home, she’s close to her breaking point. Tucker Fields is about as classy as a Budweiser at a dirt track race. Raised in the swamps, he’s more animal than man some days. Sure, he’s refined his act some, but he still eats over the kitchen sink and doesn’t put the toilet seat down. He’s not big on prissy ladies, either. He knows women like Charlotte are too much work. But with Branson working another case and the guys all tied up, worrying about Mercer, when Charlie’s stalker gets too close for comfort and her manager decides to play it up, Tucker has no choice but to become her full-time guard. VINCE Vince Hart is no stranger to killing men. There’s something dark in him that feeds on it. He’s bored with civilian life and lives life a little like an adventure junkie. Hook-ups, taking chances, adventure trips, anything to quiet the ghosts. He doesn’t think he could ever settle down, but watching all of his brothers do it makes him feel a little envious. He figures he’ll just live until he dies and be better for it. He’ll never have to lose anyone like Luke again. He’s broken from it. MERCER Mercer Dunn has spent time in prison before. One much worse than whatever they could offer in their sleepy little town. He still won’t go back, though. On the run and away from all the family he’s ever known, he ends up at the little hunting spot that Luke kept hidden away while he was alive. With his skills, he could easily hide and live out the rest of his life there. He’d have everything he needed but the one thing he seemed weak to. Lauren. She was all wrong for him. She was his brother’s baby sister. They’d rescued her from bad places more than once.

PART ONE: Gretchen Sinclair is on the run from a man she refuses to name, moving from place to place so quickly that she has no chance to put down roots. But when she moves in next door to Shane Camper, she’s immediately drawn to his cowboy style, and his gentleman’s ways. She sets down the rules, explains that he can’t ask her any questions, but is still caught off guard by how quickly he sweeps her off her feet. She should move on, should have left the moment she realized Shane was different from anyone she’d ever known before, but she waited too long and her past catches up to her. Will Shane buy into her lies and walk away, or will he be the one thing she’s never had, a white knight in shining armor, the only person who can save her from her worst enemy: herself. PART TWO: Edie Watson fought and scratched her way to the top in six very short years. As senior director of operations for a major food manufacturer, she had everything she’d set out at eighteen to achieve. No one could call her the prisoner’s daughter now. But when an assignment brings her right back to where it all started, the last thing she expected was to end up in the company of the man who shattered her heart eight years ago. She would have thrown it all away eight years ago just to be with Cohen. How ironic was it that he was the only one who could help her keep it all on track now? PART THREE: Jasper Upshaw didn’t do anything wrong, yet he’s in jail facing fifteen to twenty years in prison. The accusation was attempted murder of a sheriff’s deputy, but the truth was very different from what they were saying. This was a vendetta that had nothing to do with Jasper, yet he was the one about to pay the price. The only thing standing between him and a lifetime behind bars is a beautiful, ambitious lawyer who is everything he’s been running from since he was a small child. PART FOUR: Virgil Holt was the undersheriff for Sheldon County when its sheriff, Jacob Hayes, was revealed to be corrupt. Upon Hayes’ arrest, Virgil was forced to take over a department that was divided in its loyalties, half the deputies still committed to the corruption Hayes poisoned them with. With Finley McHale, Hayes’ right-hand man, campaigning against Virgil for the position of sheriff, those divided loyalties have grown stronger and more dangerous. To this end, he’s brought in someone he can trust to protect the innocent men and women of Black Dog Security, to keep them from being harassed any further by McHale and his minions. A local murder, and rumors of mobsters taking over a local strip club, complicate things in ways Virgil couldn’t have predicted. PART FIVE: Mabel ‘Maybe’ Dulaney is stuck in Miami with the hottest guy she’s ever met, but a guy who can barely stand to be in the same room with her. They bicker constantly, fighting over things as simple as a box of Twinkies. Why can’t he let her have a drink, let her dance once in a while? Why does he have to keep such a tight leash on her? Yeah, some mobster who had a thing for her aunt is hunting her down, but what did that matter? She can handle herself. Until she can’t. When danger comes, it’s Eric who saves her. But was he only doing it because it was his job? Or was he lying to them both? If he didn’t care about her, why was his next instinct to pretend she was his wife?