Time has run out for Lissa Lopez. When the man who ruined her is freed from prison and begins stalking the daughter she gave up for adoption to the founders of the Covenant School, Lissa searches for a way to help. Desperate to protect the child, Lissa takes a job as a janitor in their institution to keep a watchful eye on the girl. War hero and Covenant School security guard, Chad Sagar isn’t easily fooled. Despite his growing attraction to Lissa, it’s obvious from her anxious glances and suspicious behavior that she’s keeping a secret. And secrets can be dangerous. With a predator stalking Lissa and her biological daughter, it takes everything Chad has to save them and protect a bond that's unbreakable—even in the hands of danger. This Christian romantic suspense novella kicks off the Sacred Bond Guardians, a darker spinoff of the Sacred Bond series of Christian romances. Look for more Sacred Bond Guardians Christian Romantic Suspense novels later in 2015. Meanwhile, If you like this book, and want to know how the brotherhood got started, try A Christmas Bond (Christian Romance): Sacred Bond Series Prequel Novella. And check out the rest of the Sacred Bond Christian Romance series, featuring alpha males who live to serve others. Reader comments on the Sacred Bond series of Christian Romance novels: “I haven’t been this excited since I discovered Dee Henderson’s O’Malley series!” “Wonderful stories on how to live Christ-like in the real world with real feelings." “This series is awesome and just seems to get better and better!” “An engaging romance series with strong used-to-be-bad-boy heroes that'll make any woman's heart beat faster.”

Stranded with the suspect… After rescuing a beautiful stranger from a seemingly random rock slide, a snowstorm leaves disabled veteran Adam Calloway no choice but to put her up at his remote mountain getaway. But when he realizes who Karen Smith is and why she’s here, all he knows for sure is that he has to get rid of her… and fast. Because Karen wants to find out what really happened to her younger brother, killed in these mountains nine years ago. And if she solves the cold case, she’ll destroy Adam’s fragile sister whom he’s vowed to protect with his life. As Adam and Karen wait out the storm together, they care for Adam’s sister and her child and face mysterious threats from the outside world. Why does Karen keep getting warning texts on her phone? Who would toss a brick through Adam’s picture window? And what kind of maniac would try to set fire to a house with four people inside, one of them a vulnerable child? Working together to keep everyone safe, Adam and Karen come to admire each other’s strengths, and the two loners begin to fall in love. But Karen is getting closer to the truth that could put Adam’s sister behind bars and leave her son without a mother. The threats keep escalating. And Adam starts to wonder if he can fulfill the vow to serve and protect that he made as a teenager at the Covenant School . . . and whether he really understands anything at all about what happened all those years ago… This Christian romantic suspense novel starts off the Sacred Bond Guardians series, a spinoff from the Sacred Bond series of Christian Romance novels. Featuring rugged heroes in military and law-enforcement careers, the Sacred Bond Guardians books combine romance and mystery, similar to Love Inspired suspense novels. Christian mystery and suspense for your kindle…with a strong element of romance.

Former police officer Travis Baudin blames himself for the murder of his wife and child, so he’s hiding out as a school janitor deep in the West Virginia mountains. His Guardian friends from the Covenant School remind him that he’s not fulfilling his vow to protect the weak and vulnerable, and his family thinks he’s wasting his abilities, but Travis fears getting involved will put others at risk. Until he encounters a beautiful young mother being pursued by a really weird guy…. Amber Beck hopes to evade her stalker and raise her daughter safely by taking a school aide job in the remote mountains where she grew up. Without the distraction of a love life gone wrong, she can focus on her career and her child. But when her violent ex seeks revenge, she’s forced to rely on the mysterious stranger who seems way more skilled than your average school janitor at evading criminals, using weapons, and breaking and entering. As the threats come closer, Amber continues to lean on Travis and their relationship begins to blossom. But when their most vulnerable loved ones are put at risk, will they be able to overcome their histories, end Amber’s stalker’s reign of terror . . . and maybe even fall in love? This Christian romantic suspense novel is book two of the Sacred Bond Guardians series of inspirational mysteries. These books are a spin-off of the popular Sacred Bond series of Christian romance novels.

Disabled veteran and former cop Jake Delno just wants to escape West Virginia, return to his hometown of Chicago, and try to put his life back together. He’ll do it as soon as he convinces his fallen comrade’s sister to put aside her quest for vengeance and find a safer place to live and work. Kendra Kennedy has no time for a handsome bad boy’s recommendations about how she should live her life; she’s too busy trying to figure out who killed her co-worker and keep local kids safe from the outlaw bikers who dominate the region. But as the threats against Kendra and her family escalate, Jake realizes he can’t leave this beautiful, prickly woman to fight alone. As they work together to find justice despite the corrupt local police force, both must come to terms with inner demons that rival the very real forces of evil threatening their lives. With God’s help, can justice . . . and love . . . prevail?

Facing the loss of his job and his self-esteem, police officer Hector Santiago has returned to the Covenant School to work security and pull his life together. What he doesn’t expect is for his old friend and onetime girlfriend Maria Moretti to move in next door. With a baby who looks a whole lot like him. Maria Moretti has had a crush on Hector Santiago ever since he saved her life when she was ten years old, and for a short time, when she was losing her mother and drowning in grief, protective Hector became more than a friend. For complicated reasons, Maria’s kept the child who resulted from their liaison a secret. But with him living next door, the secret becomes harder and harder to keep. Once the truth comes out, a marriage of convenience seems like the only way to give baby Jaxon the intact family he deserves. But that upsets a whole lot of people, including a lonely, easily-manipulated caregiver and a sketchy priest. When Maria’s biological father, the mad stalker who nearly killed her fifteen years ago, gets in on the conspiracy to kidnap the baby, things get too dangerous for even Hector to handle alone… Jump into the next Sacred Bond Guardians novel and find out what’s going on with Adam and Kendra, Travis and Amber, and Jake and Karen. Even Chad and Lissa get involved in the shattering conclusion of A Bond Fulfilled.

Back in Miracle, Montana after escaping her stalker boss on the east coast, Serena Harrington is in desperate need of a job to support her and her adopted son. As luck would have it, Mark Stern, her teenage crush, is hiring. As the new interim president of Agape College, Mark is on the hunt for a secretary. With the tarnished reputation of his womanizing predecessor, Mark needs someone who will make the right impression. And he needs to keep his past locked away. Serena and Mark working together is a perfect situation, until they uncover a link between them that might be the perfect storm to destroy Mark’s career. Will the secret they share bond them together, or tear them apart? This Christian Romantic Suspense novel is part of the Sacred Bond Guardians series of Christian romance novels. Check out the original Sacred Bond series of inspirational romances, also by Lee Tobin McClain.