No one is truly safe. Anywhere. That was a lesson she'd learned a long time ago. Dr. Finley Coulter does her best to hide from the world behind a bubbly exterior. It's hard to keep that up knowing someone is out there watching every move she makes—and has been for weeks. She's already gone to the police, but they weren't taking the threats seriously. She is on her own... Surgeon Virat Patel is the born protector type. When he learns that colleague and friend Fin is being stalked by an unwanted admirer, Virat is not about to let her face the threat alone... He'll stay by her side as long as it takes for the culprit to be found. As long as it takes for Fin to finally feel safe. Even if that means he stays by her side forever. But another rage is building around—a storm they might not survive. \\\A SHORT prequel to the FINLEY CREEK: DISASTER quadrilogy.\\\

She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again. After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn’t let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn’t a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgical resident at the best teaching hospital in Texas, Nikkie Jean knows there’s nothing she can’t make it through if she just keeps going. Even an F4 tornado bearing down on the hospital she loves so much. Even falling for Dr. Caine Alvaro, Chief of Medicine at nearby Barratt County General Hospital. Caine—identical twin to one of the few men Nikkie Jean half-way trusted. Caine, the one man she doesn’t fear. The one man she had almost let in. Almost. Just when he got close to her, they both retreated behind the walls they’d erected years ago to protect their hearts. Caine’s past was just as painful as Nikkie Jean’s. They were two wounded people surviving in a world of hurt. As Nikkie Jean fights the instincts telling her to run from the one man she could love, and Caine fights the urges to protect the first woman to break through the shell around his heart after the loss of his wife two years earlier, the pain swirls around them like the storms bearing down on Finley Creek. Until the only ones they can turn to are each other. But actions have consequences—a lesson Nikkie Jean and Caine had learned long ago. Their actions have led to a very big consequence for both of them, and for Caine’s three young children. Nikkie Jean and Caine have just changed everything for everyone. But the actions of another physician are far more sinister—and Nikkie Jean just might become a victim once again. Unless Caine could keep her safe from the one threat they couldn’t see coming.

Annie had learned long ago that she could get through just about anything life threw her way. She can even get through being forced from the home she's lived in since she was a child. She has one more chance to convince the mayor to knock down some other neighborhood for his shopping malls and banks—or she and the three little boys she's in the process of adopting are going to end up homeless. For shy Annie, the thought of confronting one of the wealthiest men in Finley Creek—one of the handsome, charismatic, larger-than-life Barratts—has her shaking and ready to flee. If the fight weren't so important, Annie would turn and run, avoiding the fire altogether. But Annie can't run this time. She's running out of options. She just has to get through this one meeting—and convince Mayor Turner Barratt to listen to her. Somehow. Turner Barratt takes one look at Annie Gaines, his last appointment of the day, and can't look away. Innocent, sweet, determined—Annie is one of the strongest, bravest women Turner has ever met. And he feels compelled to help her in any way he can. Then, the storm hits. The world explodes around them, throwing Annie and Turner into a nightmare neither expects. Long after they're pulled from the rubble, something makes it impossible for him to get her out of his head—even when he should be focused on helping his city recover from the F4 tornado that nearly destroyed Finley Creek. Now the entire city has to recover, and it's Turner's job to help the citizens do just that. But someone on the city council would rather profit off the disaster than help Finley Creek heal from the storm. And he will stop at nothing to keep Turner from succeeding. Even if it means someone Turner loves will pay the price—someone like Annie.

★ ★ ★ A DOCTOR. A NURSE. DANGER ON HER FOOTSTEPS. ★ ★ ★ When an F4 tornado strikes the hospital, nothing will ever be the same for the two of them again. Despite Dr. Allen Jacobson rescuing her, ER nurse Izzie MacNamara doesn’t trust him one bit. He is too arrogant, too charming—and too many nurses have fallen for him before. She has other things to focus on—like getting her life back to normal. And standing on her own two feet again. IZZIE REMINDS HIM THAT HE’S NOT DEAD. Events in the last year have changed Allen in ways he is still trying to identify. But there is one woman who doesn’t tiptoe around him at the hospital now. Allen needs that. When someone nearly kills her, Allen is there to protect her once again. Allen will always be there when Izzie needs him—and he will always protect her, no matter what the cost. That’s a promise he makes himself—and intends to keep. But danger is getting closer and closer; if Allen fails, Izzie’s going to be a victim once again. ★★★★★THIRD in the FINLEY CREEK: DISASTER quadrilogy.★★★★★