Navy SEAL Zack Pritchard is home on leave determined to avoid his brother’s girlfriend, Chloe La Ruse, the object of some pretty erotic fantasies. If he can just avoid her, then walk his sister down the aisle everything will be great or so he thinks. Unbeknownst to him, his brother, Gordy’s life is in the toilet. He’s dropped out of college, is broke and frustrated. All he wants to do is drive for NASCAR, but in the meantime he’s picked up a gig that promises quick money and is only a little illegal. Chloe La Ruse’s life involves around graduate school. Every so often she raises her nose out of a book to notice that her boyfriend hasn’t been around in months, his family hates her, her thesis is incomplete and men only ask her out for one reason. She teaches sex education. She’s counting the days until she can leave. Many love triangles involving thwarted ambitions, fraternal competition, drugs and racecars work out well. Unfortunately this one has some problems.

What if everything you knew about your marriage and your husband was wrong? And what if that knowledge put your life in danger? And what if the man sent to rescue you was a hunky alpha male who only had one flaw? He thought he was the one in charge.By the time Abigail Brooks discovered her husband was an international assassin, she was already up to her neck in trouble. Her tenant’s boss had been murdered and her duplex had been burglarized. Travis Stevens, the sexy, overbearing former SEAL turned security specialist rides to the rescue, expecting everyone to follow his lead. Instead Abby sees him as just one more man she can’t afford to trust - a bruise to his alpha male ego.While Travis has been trained to see what others miss, his encounter with the mystery writer is as far from the script as one can get. He is intrigued. Forced to work as a dysfunctional team they first have to figure out who is truly the villain and which version of her husband is the truth.Unlike her novels, Abby discovers that even the most self-assured heroine occasionally must accept a helping hand. And a plan of action never prevents fate from smacking a person on the head. Life is truly what happens when we’re making other plans.

It’s Christmas. Detective Grant Matthews’ three-year-old daughter fights a losing battle with leukemia. Work is imploding while he’s holding his life together with duct tape and chewing gum. All he wants is a healthy daughter and a normal life - or as normal as it gets for a cop. He never thought being an ex-SEAL would have been an easier time in his life.The burglary ring he’s investigating has morphed into possible homicide with the potential of a cop on the take. The lynch pin of this scenario is Dori Connors, ex-wife to the dirty cop and caterer to the thief.Grant wants to believe she’s innocent, but her name appears at all the wrong moments. Dori can’t believe her ex-husband is back in her life and not in a useful way. All she wants is a Mexico vacation littered with golden skinned cabana boys and a serious amount of tequila. She’s earned it. Instead, her last catered party ends with red and blue flashing lights and the host arrested. Her one sanctuary, her home is burglarized and the police are eying her with suspension. This is not good - not good at all. The one thing she knows for sure is cops protect their own and she’s on the wrong side of the blue line.

Marshall and Lily are too old, too busy, and much too clever to fall in love. The oceanographer Marshall views women as a wonderful recreational pastime. Lily the successful caterer seeks a fantasy man for one steamy, passionate night. This was the perfect arrangement. What could possibly go wrong?

Nicole Layton is a desperate woman. Her husband, Senator Linus Layton, not only abuses her, but holds Nicole's brain-damaged niece hostage to keep Nicole in line. The teal-eyed beauty is no dumb blonde. Her plan to escape during their up-coming anniversary cruise in the Mediterranean and hide out in Spain goes array when the cruise ship wrecks off the coast of Italy.With a leap of faith, she jumps early and rows for hours. Later, weary and exhausted, she drags her inflatable raft onto the Italian mainland having no ID nor a way to get home. She's come so far on her wits and planning, but she's out of ideas.Austin Stevens knows when a woman is in trouble. Hired by the Senator's insurance company to prove foul play, Austin Stevens of Stevens Security hunts for the presumed dead woman. He’s on a race against time and pitted against a clever enemy.To collect on the multi-million dollar Insurance policy, Layton must produce the dead body of his wife. He hires Black Adder, a private paramilitary operation to ensure that her body will be delivered.Monumental forces are at work. With chaos at every turn will Austin rescue her before Black Adder finds her? Even if he does, will her husband ever stop hunting her?This is not the first woman Austin Stephens has helped, but she is the only one who has him spinning in the wind.

Sam Samson is a hero. He’s a former Navy SEAL, a former security specialist, and a former decorated police detective - a man successful by everyone’s standards but his own. Five years earlier his life fell apart. Sam has spent time in the most dangerous places in the world. Fought for his country. Protected his teammates. Put lawbreakers in prison. But it is tiny Crenshaw Valley, Missouri, home of Driscoll Produce, featuring Imogene’s Jams and Jellies, where everything went wrong. Imogene “Cricket” Driscoll is in big trouble. Someone is stalking her. The windows of her home have been shot out while her kids were in their beds. The production facility of her produce company has had waves of sabotage. She’s broke and sees only bad news ahead. Most of the county works for her. If she goes under so will their jobs and the community. Cricket needs help. The sheriff, a drunken fool, has refused. Whoever is behind her problems, is no stranger. But while Sam appears to be the answer to her prayers, he could open an entirely new can of worms. Even in small towns people’s lives are built on lies. And why hasn’t the five years since he last visited turned him into a troll instead of the handsomeness man she knows?