Gabriel is a man who has served his country in and out of the military. He has made a life filled with meaningful work and men he can call brothers. The one thing he doesn’t have is someone special. His past is too dangerous to let that happen, even if he wants one, which he doesn’t. A request for help to clean up a criminal family ends with Gabriel going undercover. He’s got to live the life of a Mafia capo. Once he gets to where he’s assigned, he lays eyes on a woman who he can’t forget. He watches her from the shadows, even though she doesn’t know it. He aches for her. Gabriel isn’t the only one who wants her. There’s another who thinks he has a prior claim to her, and he’s not willing to let her go. Gemma knows it’s time to walk away from everything she knows. This is no life. If she’s ever to have one, she’s got to leave. She’s planning her escape when a man who’s been after her for years becomes tired of waiting. She runs and ends up in the arms of Gabriel. She’s been fascinated with him since she laid eyes on him. Only he’s part of the world she’s running from. There’s no way they can be together. By rescuing her, Gabriel must reveal his mission in order to protect her. To protect her, he must claim her. He’ll have to use all his considerable savvy resources and lethalness to save and keep her. Will he lose her in the end when she finds out who the real Gabriel is? Or will Gabriel’s Retaliation not be an ending but the beginning of a beautiful forever?

Griffin “Wraith” Voss is a man who is always up for any assignment. He and three of his closest SEAL brothers-in-arms have formed the Dark Patriots to keep others safe and continue to use some of the skills he learned as a Navy SEAL. However, he’s feeling the need for a challenge, and a call from a mysterious friend within the government, Anderson, is just what he needs. While the Dark Patriots provide security and other services to many companies and individuals, they do more work both on and off the books for their government. This is why Anderson contacts them. He has a job, and they’re the only ones who will suffice to protect the US’s biggest weapons and biotech contractor, Gerard Industries. There’s a threat that has to be eliminated. Griffin takes a team to handle it but only knows he’ll be updated when he arrives. Imagine his surprise when he finds out the threat isn’t exactly what he or his team imagines. And the danger might pale in comparison to Hadley, the woman who walks in, reveals a secret, and takes Griffin by storm. Hadley has always had to hide who and what she is. To most, she doesn’t exist. To others, Hadley is a spoiled, rich girl with nothing to do but have fun and spend money. She hates it but knows it serves a greater purpose. Being blindsided by the threat she finds out about after the Dark Patriots arrive is second to her surprise at meeting Griffin. As they work to figure out who the threat is coming from, she and Griffin dance around each other. When a late-night caller takes them by surprise, she’s whisked away to safety, and things really begin to heat up. Only in the end, they get more than a few shocks and some heartache. All it takes is one revelation, Griffin’s revelation, to reveal a whole new future for both of them.

Beau and the Dark Patriots are used to cleaning up messes. Sometimes, they involve helping their friends in various motorcycle clubs complete work they can’t do or that requires greater reach and resources. While the Dark Patriots are working on one such case, they hear about the older sister of a woman who was taken. This older sister, Keeley, is searching alone to find and recover her younger sister from the people who took her. For Beau, cases like this are personal. He’s been on the end of being the family member of a victim. In his sister’s case, it turned out happily. Most of the time, it didn’t. Not wanting Keeley to be hurt or blow their assignment, Beau is sent to find Keeley, stop her dangerous search, and get her to let the Dark Patriots handle it. Beau has no clue what he’s walking into or how it will change his life. Keeley is more than she appears. She’s a mountain rescuer in Montana, which requires grit and strength of many kinds. However, in her case, she was raised by a former military man who became a survivalist. He taught her everything he knew. When her sister goes missing, Keeley will stop at nothing to find her and make those who took her pay. Beau and Keeley are two strong, skilled, and dangerous people who make a better team rather than working separately. Of course, that’s only after their rocky start. And that’s not the only thing they discover. It seems Beau has found what so many of his friends and his sister the one and only for him. Who knew Beau’s Retribution would bring him love and endless passion?

A rescue mission turns into a future, if this Dark Patriot can conquer her past and make her trust again. Ben never imagines he’ll walk into a prison and find a woman who impacts him like no other. He was here to help out a friend and colleague rescue his kidnapped woman, Keeley. Only they stumble into where Keeley’s sister, Kensy, has been held for months. Her rescue is the start of months of Ben building trust with Kensy. She has no reason to trust a man. Ben took Beau’s advice and was there for her in whatever capacity she needed, which has been mainly her friend and confidante. However, Ben has no idea how long he can hold out. He wants to let her know that he sees her as something more than a friend. Kensy has done a great deal of work with her therapist during those months. She knows she has to take control of her life and stop relying on her sister and others, so she drops the bomb. She’s moving out. And she sees it as a way to free Ben to have a life; even if, secretly, Kensy wants Ben in her life more than just as a friend. Their feelings erupt, and after a few bumps, they decide to see what a relationship between them can be like. However, before they get far, Ben and Beau are sucked into a mission. One that seems to echo what Kensy went through. Rather than run from it, she and her sister go with the men on the mission. And that’s just the beginning of expanding hearts, blossoming love, nightmares from the past, family secrets, and danger. By freeing Kensy from her past, Ben frees himself, leaving them both rejuvenated and claiming a future together.