Mortimer said we should be looking for a mailbox with an old tire attached to it.” Jillian shook her head and chuckled. “That shouldn’t be hard to see.” Chance slowed as they neared the area Mortimer had indicated. They’d climbed a rocky hillside, and the road clung to the...
What he’d shared had touched her so deeply, she could barely swallow past the lump in her throat. The things he’d endured as a soldier in the war were far worse than anything she’d had to go through. How did you compare a broken fingernail to losing men you care about because of bombs and gunfire...
The senator insisted he needed to meet with him in person. In the meantime, Sawyer still had an unidentified assassin after him. All the way back to the resort, Sawyer told himself he would get the fingerprints he needed and leave. Staying with Jenna wasn’t an option. Bein...
In a heartbeat. But she didn’t. When his lips touched hers, there was no going back. He claimed her mouth, tracing the seam with his tongue until she opened to him and met him halfway. Becket slid his hands down her back, cupped her ass, and lifted her. She wrapped her legs around his waist and h...
Though she’d done everything she’d trained for in the Air Force Pararescue unit she’d been recruited from, the landing knocked the wind out of her. She lay for a moment, rocks pressing into her sides, the colorful, woolen native dress she’d been given to wear hiked up around her thighs. With her ...
She turned away her face, a crick in her neck causing her to flinch. “Get off the bed,” she muttered.Nelson licked her again and jumped to his feet, toenails clicking across wooden floors.Emma opened her eyes, the gray haze of pre-dawn illuminating the fact she’d slept on the floor. Photos and me...
A wrought-iron fence surrounded a cemetery filled with grave markers and headstones with the names of people who’d been a part of the Eagle Rock community as far back as the eighteen-hundreds. Mia sat staring at the view out the window of the pickup, her cheeks streaked wi...
Brandt Lucas caught up with him in front of the barn and half jogged to keep up with Duke, a grin on his handsome face. “I take it you met Miss Love.” “I did.” “She push you in the pool, or did you decide to cool off?” “I mis...
Demi juggled her cell phone against her ear as she balanced her purse on one arm and dragged her suitcase with the other toward the hangar at the Chicago Midway International Airport. “He wasn’t in bed when I woke up this morning. He left a note to meet him at the airport. That’s all I know.” “Oh...
Her husband had died a month prior of a heart attack brought on by picking his parents unwisely—genetics. Mrs. Felding had been attacked on the street as she’d climbed out of her limousine to enter her apartment building. “I’d just returned from vis...
She’d chosen them for a reason. She was done spending her nights alone. If the man in her thoughts was of the same mind, they’d share a bed that night and whatever else came along with it. Noah had let her go first in the shower while he checked the...
Ten years in the Navy, most spent with the elite brotherhood of SEALs, Axel Svenson “Swede” has dodged so many bullets, he knows his luck will someday run out. With younger blood pushing to take over for the older guys, and an injury that marks him for discharge, he takes the plunge into the civi...
Hank shrugged into the leather jacket Tuck had found in his closet and brought to the hospital in Bethesda, where he and Swede were being treated for their injuries. Swede sat in a sterile, white hospital bed, wearing a faded gown with the ties in the back, while eating th...
They were poised to do another commercial, and Janine was still with him. The sales force had reported increased sales, and his father finally saw him as something more than a total screw up, without Tanner’s having to tell him he’d scored big on the stock market. Life was certainly looking up.I ...
Ben’s seat. For every bump, she banged her knees into Ben’s back through the cushion. Deliberately? Maybe. She held onto the roll bar and set her teeth against the jolting ride—mad because she’d been chased out by reporters, madder because she had to leave her Mustang, and maddest because she’d h...
Leigha Fields stood in the break room on the first floor of the Orthopedics & Rehabilitation building at Walter Reed Bethesda National Medical Military Center, her heart pounding, her hands sweaty. This case would be her first amputee on her own since she’d completed her training. Yeah, she’d...
She wore a pale green nightgown that only covered her to just below her hips, leaving her shapely legs exposed. The fabric was so light and sheer, her taut nipples made little points, the rosy-brown areolas a tempting shadow beneath. His groin tightened. He wanted to leave...
Not even a second later, thunder boomed so loud, it made her jump. As protective as Otis was, he was a big scaredy-cat when it came to thunderstorms. Decker stuck his head inside the apartment and called out, “Otis, come!” No...
Flat plains...check. Storm clouds rolling in...check. Like ticking off his preflight checklist, Dante Thunder Horse reviewed what was in front of him, a typical early winter day in North Dakota before the first real snowstorm of the season. It had been a strange December. ...
“A fine bit of earth you have, Konrad.” Thorsten strode alongside him, his bravest soldier and friend since they were small children. “Fortunately, the village is intact, save only one cottage that burned to the ground. The men are content to have women to see to their needs and you have a ready-...
“Come in, come in, Katya. What’s wrong?” “Where’s Alex?” My father glanced at a clock on the wall. “Out with friends.” “This late?” The man shrugged. “He’s an adult. I can’t forbid it or ground him.” &...
At one point she thought she heard the thumping of rotor blades. Wind whipped her hair across her face, the strands lashing her skin. Fade out. How long she’d been out, she didn’t know. She bounced back to a semiconscious state when her body flopped...
Delaney was there when his eyes blinked open three hours later. "O'Connell?" "Yeah, Cory. I'm here." She leaned over his bed and smiled downward. The nurses had done a good job bandaging his face. Thankfully, none of the shrapnel had hit his eyes, but he'd have scars on his forehead, nose, cheeks...
Once Emma left, he gathered binoculars, his cell phone and his computer and headed back into Cape Churn, determined to find out who owned the yacht anchored in the bay. If it was Phillip, the race had begun and he didn’t have much time to find what cargo was on board the Pelageya. &nb...
The door hadn’t budged an inch. She’d been on the verge of tears when she’d heard the voices murmuring outside, carrying through the thick wood doors of the barn. Pierce’s voice called her name. She forced herself to answer as loudly as she could, and was startled by his r...
Quentin shouted. Becca ducked as a round shattered the window she’d been looking through only a moment before. Quentin’s insides bunched. “Brakes! Hit the brakes!” Royce slammed his foot on the brakes as the man fired again. ...
“Leave my father out of this. I’m not a halfling. You’re wrong.” “But he could have been a demon.” Blood thundered in my ears and I raised my hands to cover them. “I don’t want to talk about that man. He deserted us when we n...
“Where did you get this?” “Just for grins, I sent the information about our victim to a buddy of mine in the regional FBI office. He entered the data into their Violent Criminal Apprehension Program database and came up with these cases.” A cold chill slithered down Gabe’s spine. Three young wome...
“Is this what FBI agents do? Follow clues, one step at a time to find a missing person or apprehend a suspect?” “Yes.” Her hands twisted in her lap as she studied Zach, hoping to catch a glimpse of the former agent in him. Perhaps that would help he...
Craig!” The loud screech of the screen door heralded Uncle Joe’s arrival at the marina. Since he’d woken after sunup, all green and slimy, Craig had paced the floor. Well, as much as a frog could pace. He’d hopped a path back and forth across his bedroom throughout the day...
Movement to his rear made him look back at the silhouette of a large man carrying a rifle on a bipod. Pain stabbed through him like a red-hot poker, blinding him. When his vision cleared, he focused on the big man standing beside him. Big Bird leaned over him. “Nacho, you need a hand?” Relief flo...
He’d almost passed on the strip club, but the thought of returning to an empty apartment when he’d had such high hopes for the night was too much to consider. So he’d gone to the Naughty Ladies Lounge and watched as the guys made fools of themselves over the women dancing, drooling over the women...
Michael shouted. The last thing she wanted to do was abandon him to the man with the gun, but instinct compelled her to protect the child in her arms. Propelled by the urgency in Michael’s voice, she turned and fled, running hunched over to shield the baby, darting and wea...
As tunnel lights zipped past the train windows, he couldn’t keep the knot from forming in his gut. The more he thought about it, the more he was convinced they would get themselves thrown into some godforsaken Saudi prison. Or, worse, start an international incident between the U.S. and the Saudi...
The group gathered in the middle and ducked low to the ground, hopefully out of range of sniper fire. With a long stick, Dave drew in the dirt and gravel, laying out his plan. “It’s simple, really. We split up and hopefully whoever is following us will chase after the car ...