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The IMA
Series · 4 books · 2012-2015

Books in series

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#1

Cloak and Dagger

2012

Michael Boutilier is a young assassin working for a mysterious organization of mercenaries called the IMA; an organization so powerful that government denies its existence. When a hacker breaks into their computer's mainframe, they send Michael out to finish off the loose ends. But so far, there's just one lead to go on. The hacker's daughter, Christina Parker. Christina seems like any other high school senior. And she is—until she gets kidnapped by a group of people who think she's the key to the malicious code that has infected their mainframe system and she is plunged into a world where the lines between right and wrong are blurred beyond all recognition and terror knows no bounds. What do you do when the odds are against you, and the stake is your life? As she quickly learns, there are good guys and there are bad guys. Sometimes Michael's one, sometimes he's the other—but usually he's both. And right now he's the only one who can save her. Cover design by Louisa.
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#2

Armed and Dangerous

2013

It's hard to adjust to the trials and tribulations of college when you've been the focal point in a web of intrigue and murder. Christina Parker, now a student at a small liberal arts college in central Arizona, is still trying to forget the man who took her through hell and back one year ago. She was doing just fine, too, until said man appeared again, out of the blue. On the doorstep of her new apartment. Unconscious. Suddenly, the brittle semblance of normality that Christina managed to construct after all this time is shattered. With a wounded man to contend with and the prominent threat of the ruthless IMA, Christina is forced to face all her old fears head-on. ...But this time, she'll be doing it on her own terms.
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#3

Locked and Loaded

2013

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Christina Parker agreed to go to work for the BN because she thought it would keep her and her loved ones safe. But the BN's training facility is more like a prison than a school, and rumors about her illicit relationship with an IMA assassin make assimilation difficult - if not impossible. At the same time, Michael Boutilier has his hands full trying to deal with his psychotic boss' latest sick and sordid plan to broaden his sphere of influence...through social media. In this age of six degrees of separation, their problems might be more connected than they think...
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#4

Cease and Desist

2015

Michael and Christina are back in the explosive conclusion to the IMA series. The IMA is an international group of mercenaries who deal in blood the way other businessmen deal in oil or diamonds. There is no commodity they will not provide; and now, their operations have expanded to include human trafficking. Public enemies of the IMA are disappearing, and when they're found again they're in third world brothels...or dead. AMI was created as a foil to the IMA's efforts; everything the IMA stands for, AMI is against. Everyone in the group has something to lose and the only goal that unites them is the desire for the death of the IMA's leader: Adrian Callaghan. But when one of AMI's operatives turns up dead, both Christina and Michael are forced to go undercover to infiltrate Adrian Callaghan's seediest venture yet. This time, it's personal.

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