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SILVER SOLDIERS: A BOYS BEHAVING BADLY ANTHOLOGY will satisfy the reader who craves stories with older alpha male heroes...This collection features "silver soldiers"-those salt-and-pepper hotties with crow's feet earned through rugged training and years of combat. Former soldiers finding their footing after their first careers, or current soldiers nearing the end of their military careers. Table of ContentsFight Like Cats and Wolves by A.J. Harris - After their helicopter is forced down by a rogue war machine, an Army veteran must use wits and fangs to survive with his mysterious pilotHandfasted to the Highlander Warrior by Aurora Russell - A hardened warrior reluctantly prepares to release his vivacious bride from their handfasted union...until a sweet, sexy surprise changes everything.SNAFU-Situation Normal, All F***ed Up by Ava Cuvay - A sidelined Army cyborg's only joy is the dimpled smile of a curvy Pentagon admin until she offers him a proposition he should refuseOperation Purple Sparkle Diamond by Brenda Margriet - A resolute Afghan veteran deploys on his most desperate mission yet-wooing the hesitant heart of his daughter's kindergarten teacherRipples by Delilah Devlin - A former Special Forces soldier, looking forward to the peace and quiet of his new houseboat, finds his solitude shattered by the arrival of his neighbor and her kid.SEAL in Distress by Denise De Marco - While dealing with an unwanted inheritance, a former SEAL confronts his toughest battle yet against an unexpected womanStorm on the Bayou by Elle James - A retired Navy SEAL and a pretty parish deputy hole up in a bayou fishing shack, weathering a violent meteorological and unexpectedly passionate stormStar Diplomacy by Kimberly Dean - With the threat of an interplanetary war looming, a hardened military negotiator must find a way to connect with the enemy's beautiful ambassadorTake Me to the Water by Michal Scott - An unexpected dare holds the key to a second chance with the disgraced Buffalo soldier she's never stopped lovingThis Time Forever by N.J. Walters - A retired Delta Force operator thwarts a holdup, saving the life of the woman he left behind twenty-seven years agoWeathering the Storm by Natasha Moore - During a violent storm, a stranger walks into a woman's bar who reminds her of the lover she lost who died behind enemy lines years agoSarge in Charge by Reina Torres - When lowlifes threaten the curvy bar owner in his Arizona town, the president of the Broken Arrow MC proves he's the sarge in chargeBroken Trust by Rhonda Lee Carver - A retired SEAL must protect an old flame who's feisty and more dangerous than any criminal-and dead if he can't earn her trustClear to Engage by Sukie Chapin - One struggling bookshop owner, one hot-as-hell former SEAL-turned-carpenter, one line drawn in the sand-until the job is done, they're not clear to engage

Renvoyé de l'armée pour raisons médicales, Tate Bear Parker, ancien soldat de la Delta-Force, travaille désormais comme garde du corps pour Brotherhood Protectors. D'apparence rustre, mais avenant, il affiche un visage souriant au premier regard, qui cache des blessures invisibles de l'extérieur. Il espère garder ces cicatrices secrètes et poursuivre sa vie et son job sans que personne ne s'en aperçoive. Mia Chastain a grandi à Eagle Rock, dans le Montana. Aujourd'hui scénariste à succès, elle se heurte à un mur alors qu'elle écrit le scénario d'un film à propos d'une jeune femme qui lutte pour reprendre sa vie en main après avoir subi une violente agression. Mia retourne dans sa ville natale pour affronter ses propres démons et écrire ce scénario, dont elle sait qu'elle doit l'écrire. Un secret qu'elle a gardé enfoui pendant très longtemps lui fait craindre d'affronter seule son retour au pays. Lorsque sa vieille amie d'école lui suggère d'engager un garde du corps, elle saute sur l'idée, déterminée à garder le cap grâce à l'aide d'un protecteur robuste et à la beauté sauvage. Dans l'exercice de son service de protection, ce soldat, marqué par la vie, tombe sous le charme de la timide scénariste. Il se forge entre eux un lien improbable lors de cette mission où il doit protéger la jeune femme, alors que les secrets de son passé reviennent la hanter et menacent de détruire la vie qu'elle a construite.

Former Green Beret Max Thornton's career ended when he fell two hundred and fifty feet during a training exercise and broke nearly every bone in his body. Left with a permanent limp and in need of a job, he is recruited by Brotherhood Protectors where he can use his combat training and skills to protect, guard and rescue others. He didn't expect his first assignment to be the resident mechanic. Nor did he expect the mechanic to be a spitfire of a female with a whole lot of anger.Josephina Angelica Barrera-Ramirez or JoJo, as her friends call her, prefers to be left alone with the work she does on the machinery and vehicles of the Lost Valley Ranch. Suffering from situational amnesia brought on by an attack she sustained during a deployment to Afghanistan, she's touchy about being touched and doesn't take flak from anyone. When she becomes the target of a killer, a former Green Beret is assigned as her bodyguard. Forced to have the Green Beret around, her distrust of men is challenged and the wall around her heart crumbles. When danger threatens, Max and JoJo must fight their own fears to defeat evil while losing the battle of their hearts to win a future together.

FREE SHORT STORY - the prequel to PLAYING WITH FIRE is included in this book. HELLFIRE IN HIGHHEELS >PLAYING WITH FIRE >When his past catches up to him, Daniel knows he must cut all emotional ties to anyone who means anything to him, or risk that person becoming a target of a stalker with a vendetta against him. If that means pushing the woman who lit a fire deep inside him to the back burner, so be it. Lola has never been relegated to back-burner status and has no intention of remaining on the sidelines. When she wants something, or someone, she goes all out, wearing her best designer shoes. Where Daniel is concerned, Lola knows she's playing with fire and leaving her heart exposed to an inferno that could consume her.

Former Army Ranger Chance Grayson takes chances like his name. He's the wild child of the Grayson brothers. After his 4th tour to Afghanistan and Iraq, he left the military and returned home to Hellfire, TX. An adrenaline junky he's afraid to slow down, afraid the memories of war will catch up. He rides a motorcycle and lives at the ranch when not at the fire station. Army dog handler, Kate Bradley, left the military and adopted her military war dog. She hired onto the sheriff's department on the condition the dog came with her. New in town, she moves into a garage apartment and goes to work retraining her bomb-sniffing dog to find drugs. Chance teams with Kate to find a local arsonist bent on blowing up Hellfire. They work close together to determine if their bogey is just burning buildings or creating a distraction in order to find something else. Meanwhile, the firefighter and the deputy spark a tinder of desire that threatens to go up in flames.

Her groom was a no-show at her wedding. Dallas debutante Phoebe Sinclair isn't going to face her family and the hundreds of guests with the news. Taking nothing but her wedding dress, her grandmother's locket and her fiancé's rented convertible, she leaves the church, determined to get away and start a new life free of her society status. Foiled by a flat tire near Hellfire, Texas, she opens the trunk for the jack, only to discover her missing groom, just as a sheriff's deputy pulls up behind her. When sheriff's deputy Nash Grayson, lends a helping hand to a runaway bride, he doesn't know half of what he's getting himself into. Not only is she sassy and independent, she's beautiful, sexy and wriggles her way past the protective wall he's built around himself since he returned from the war. When she's targeted by a shooter, he's assigned protective duty until the culprit can be caught. Close quarters and hot Texas nights bring the unlikely pair closer to the truth about the dead fiancé and their own burgeoning desires. Warning: Things are heating up in Hellfire, Texas.

The witch is back

Divorcee Rider Grayson left his high-powered job at a multi-million-dollar firm in Dallas, retreating to his hometown of Hellfire, Texas to start over. A mechanic in his own auto repair business and a volunteer firefighter, he just wants to be left alone to do what he does best, fixing things. Selena Sanchez has daydreamed about Rider Grayson since she was a little girl growing up on the Grayson Ranch as the foreman's daughter. She accepts she'll never have him as they come from completely different backgrounds and cultures. They are worlds apart even though they work practically across the street from each other. When a turf war flares around the convenience store, Rider steps in to protect Selena and discovers the little girl who dogged his teenaged footsteps is all grown up and one hot little spitfire. Together they feed the flames of their passion while fighting the factions who would tear them apart in Hellfire, Texas. Warning: Flames are spreading in Hellfire, Texas.

An elementary teacher during the school year, Lily Grayson hires out as an au pair during the summer order to travel expenses-paid to exotic locations with wealthy families with children. When one of her students suggests she apply for a summer job with his family going to Costa Rica, she jumps at the chance. Despite her immediate clash with his father, she agrees to accompany him and his two children to the central American country. Rich Texas rancher, originally from Costa Rica, Antonio "Tony" Delossantos, knows money can't buy everything. He lost his wife to violence and he's determined to save his children from a similar fate. He learns his son's school teacher is skilled in Krav Maga military-style self-defense and available for the summer. Tony hires her to accompany the family to Costa Rica. When the drug lord Tony helped send to prison escapes, what started as a summer vacation in a tropical paradise soon becomes a race to survive in the jungles of Costa Rica.

Conard County: Mistaken Identityby Rachel Lee A stalker is on her trail and he won't stop at getting even

After years of resisting his teammates' good intentions, big, bad and cranky Delta Force soldier, Magnus "Duff" McCormick, agrees to a blind date. Memories of his wife who died on their honeymoon derail his date with the beautiful redhead his friends introduce him to. When his date is attacked and almost stolen away, Duff comes to the rescue and sticks to her like glue, memories be damned.Newly free-spirited Ivy Fremont, daughter of a senator, gave up her career as a lawyer to own and operate a gift shop, where mistakes won't cost anyone his or her life. When her world is turned upside down and her life is threatened, her blind date and his team of Deltas launch a mission to Costa Rica to save her.During their escape from a gnarly drug cartel, Ivy and Duff learn they have more in common than just their friends' desire to get them together. Passions flare and walls around one intrepid soldier's heart come tumbling down. They find in each other a reason to live and fight to give love a chance.** Ivy's Delta is the 4th book in the Delta Team Three Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.** Operation Alpha is a fan-fiction world for Susan Stoker's novels. The characters in this series were introduced in Stoker's Delta Team Two series, specifically, book two, Shielding Kinley. You don't have to read that book to be engrossed in this series, but why wouldn't you want to? Enjoy!

Impact Zone by Julie Anne Lindsey The killer has just made it personal