New Releases by ELLE JAMES

Former Marine Force Recon operator George Ingram and Emi Sands story From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Elle James Welcome back to Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii! Fighting men and women, chosen for their skills, recommended by their peers and trained to protect, guard, extract and rescue. These agents are the elite, strong and determined, perfect for their assignments. Former military, special operations, use their combat and intelligence skills to assist those in need. Brotherhood Protectors, the brainchild of Hank Patterson, has established an operational base in the tropical islands of Hawaii, where trouble can lurk, even in paradise.

On his first solo mission with Brotherhood Protectors International, former British SAS operative, Fearghas Gordon is attacked and left for dead, floating in a canal in Bruges, Belgium. He’s fished out by the Russian spy he''s tried so hard to forget. In search of the truth about the murder of her family, Catya Romanov follows a trail of lies, deceit and cover-ups exposing the corruption of governments and people in power. The path of deception has led her to a picturesque town on the coast of Belgium and the man she reluctantly betrayed. When she pulls Fearghas out of the water, she leads him into danger in her attempt to capture an MI6 agent gone rogue. She’s certain he might be the key to discovering who was behind her family’s extermination and why. Together, Fearghas and Catya navigate a hostile trajectory on trains across Europe and a passion that threatens to crash through the barriers of their hardened hearts.

Get ready to fall in love with two charming, witchy romance novels by Elle James! When undercover office Cal Black took on the mission of investigating the youngest of the Chattox witch sisters’ disappearance, he never thought he was going to experience the paranormal—or have to work side by side with the ex that broke his heart. But as Deme and Cal follow the young witch’s track, danger brings them together and rekindles the existing feelings they have for each other. • Selene Chattox’s telepathic powers tell her there is danger, and when she finds shape shifter Gryph Leone injured by the river she does everything she can to help him heal. Before Selene found Gryph, he was fighting a wolf shape shifter that intended to attack an innocent woman, both Selene and Gryph realize fate brought them together to track the threat still loaming. But as they get close to the killer, passion and danger accompany them in their quest. Discover all 3 spellbinding titles in The Bewitched Collection: I Put a Spell on You A Hex Gone Wrong Seduced by the Enemy

Reid Bennet and Maliea Kaleiopu''s story from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Elle James Welcome back to Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii! Ex-Navy SEAL, Reid Bennet left the military after his wife left him and took their daughter. Now in Hawaii, he’s working for Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii division. With no intention of remarrying or having children he’s content with his current assignment on Oahu, providing security for a film crew. Maliea Kaleiopu works two jobs to support herself and her three-year-old daughter. When Maliea arrives home to find it ransacked and her daughter’s room destroyed, she’s shocked and scared. Luckily her daughter was with a friend. Worried the attack on her home isn’t random, she seeks help. Her friend, Tish, sends her to the Brotherhood Protector who’d looked after her in her own time of need. If anyone could protect Maliea, it was him. After a long week of running interference between curious tourists and the temperamental cast and film crew, Reid returns to his cabin for much-needed rest. Rest isn’t in his cards when he discovers a woman and her child have taken up residence, claiming they need protection. Knowing the little girl will stir too many memories, Reid suggests they be assigned another protector. While waiting for his replacement, Reid helps the woman wade through her father’s effects only to find his apartment has been ransacked as well. When they’re followed back to Reid’s cabin, he’s worried Maliea and her daughter are in physical danger. Once the little girl wraps her arms around his neck, Reid’s hooked. He can’t let someone else take over the responsibility for her life and that of her beautiful mother. Reid works with the brotherhood searching for the stalker behind the attacks. He hopes to stop the aggressor before he brings harm to the mother and child who come to mean everything to Reid, despite his desire to leave his heart out of the equation.

Former Navy SEAL Ace “Hammer” Hammerson, on security detail in Jordan, corners a thief, who is vaguely familiar, absconding with portions of an ancient copper scroll. When the thief is attacked and the scroll is stolen, Ace is drawn into a dangerous quest to retrieve the priceless antiquity. Former Israeli Sayeret Matkal, Jasmine Nassar, is forced to steal an ancient copper scroll from a museum in Amman Jordan to save her son’s life. After she successful retrieves the scroll from the museum, she’s knocked out by two men. They take the scrolls, leaving her without the bargaining chip she needs to save her son. She has forty-eight hours to retrieve the scroll, or her son will be killed. When Ace finds the semi-conscious thief and learns of her dilemma, he joins her in a mad dash across the Mediterranean to Athens, following a trail of intrigue that leads to danger and rekindled love that wasn’t in his original Brotherhood Protectors mission statement.

Former Marine Force Recon, Devlin Mulhaney left the military when politics interfered with the mission, and he lost a friend. He quickly realizes that navigating civilian life can prove to be just as dangerous. When her high-class fiancé absconded with all the money she’d worked so hard to accumulate, fashion model, Kiana Williams, left the catwalk in Honolulu and disappeared to Maui to start a new life in a less dangerous field. A call from a former roommate drags her back to search for a missing friend. This time, she’s not going in alone. She hires Brotherhood Protector Dev Mulhaney to ensure her safety and to help her locate her missing friend. Her conditions: “I don’t need a date. I don’t want a relationship. I’m not going to fall in love with you.” Together they navigate a growing attraction in the midst of the dangerous world of high fashion and elite escorts, where money can buy beautiful things or get you killed.

NOTE: Kalea’s Hero was previously published as Hot SEAL Hawaiian Nights. Since it really is the first book in the Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii series, it has been rebranded and a new epilogue has been included. I didn’t want those who hadn’t read Hot SEAL Hawaiian Nights to miss out on the book that laid the groundwork for Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii! Former Navy SEAL’s first assignment as a Brotherhood Protector is to secretly guard a Hawaiian cattle baron’s daughter from a kidnapping threat Jace Hawkins (Hawk) thought he was headed home to Montana after leaving the Navy SEALs, but his first assignment at the Montana-based Brotherhood Protectors is to fly to the Big Island of Hawaii to secretly protect a cattle baron’s daughter. His goal is to keep the lady alive while pretending to be a ranch hand. The ranching is second nature since he grew up on a ranch in Montana. Protecting the daughter is where the challenge lies. Kalea Parkman has had free rein of the 130,000-acre Parkman Ranch since she was big enough to fit her feet into stirrups. She refuses to curtail her freedom just because she’s had a couple of near-misses with a potential kidnapper. But when a mainlander cowboy hires on as a ranch hand, he manages to shadow her every move. And the man has skills…with the animals…and with her. Even though he’s as sexy as sin, he’s no less annoying. When attempts to take her increase, the new cowboy insists on protecting her at all costs. They must rely on each other to stay alive until the threat is neutralized, while hopelessly resisting a desire that rivals the heat of the Kilauea volcano.

After leaving the military, Former Delta Force Operator, Lucas LeBlanc, joins Bayou Brotherhood Protectors where he hopes he can put his combat training and skills to work helping others. He’d especially like to help the pretty florist he’s had his eye on since arriving in Bayou Mabaloa. As the only florist in Bayou Mambaloa, Feline Faivre is responsible for providing flowers for her best friend’s wedding. Never mind her best friend is marrying Felina’s ex-boyfriend. Stunned by his betrayal, Felina is in no hurry to trust another man in her life or with her heart. A murder, a break-in and a hysterical bride threaten the wedding and the annual historical event crucial to the florist’s business. Felina hires Brotherhood Protectors to help see her through the events but only if the man they assign goes undercover as her new boyfriend and wedding date. After all, she has a wedding and her ego to save. Lucas eagerly accepts the assignment to protect Felina and be the best fake-boyfriend she’s ever had. In the process, he hopes to convince her their relationship has the potential to be real. First, he must ensure a hitchless wedding. Together, Felina and Lucas wade through troubled waters and a brewing storm only to discover a murderer among them and a passion that could reduce to rubble the wall Felina has built around her heart.

Disillusioned by the government running the country he loves, Navy SEAL Angelo “Angel” Cortez leaves the only job he knew to join the civilian world working for Brotherhood Protectors as they staff the Hawaiian branch of Hank Patterson’s brainchild. His first assignment literally lands in his lap when a local tour guide slips from a rocky ledge as she guides a tour group at a local waterfall. Leilani is desperately working multiple jobs to earn enough money to rebuild the business her family had owned and operated for over 100 years. Fires decimated buildings and inventory, but not her spirit. Now big businesses want to claim the real estate when natives can no longer make a living on their own property. Some big businesses are more aggressive in their tactics to force out locals. Angel and Leilani navigate turbulent waters while trying to save her family heritage and expose the source of its sabotage. Int the process, they reveal a growing attraction neither anticipated and neither may survive to take it to the next level.

Ex-Navy SEAL, Gus Walsh, convalescing at the Brighter Days Rehab Ranch prior to reporting for duty as a Brotherhood Protector in West Yellowstone, postpones his departure from the ranch when he discovers a damsel in distress, hiding out in the barn. Survivor of human trafficking, Peyton Running Bear needs a place to hide from the people who abused her and don’t want her to reveal their dirty, dangerous secret. When notifying law enforcement isn’t an option, she is forced to accept the protection and assistance of a stranger with broad shoulders and a smile that reminds her that there are good people left in the world.

After shrapnel hit his leg during battle, Gerard Guidry is medically discharged from Marine Force Recon and is recruited by Bayou Brotherhood Protectors. After a short assignment, he’s ready for his first major solo assignment. Gerard has sworn off love, afraid his father’s abusive gene was passed on to him. Widowed and childless, Bernadette “Bernie” Bellamy single-handedly runs a small farm on the edge of Bayou Mambaloa, raising and selling fresh vegetables to stores and the farmers’ market. When someone kills her friend Gertrude, she goes to Bayou Brotherhood Protectors for help. Gerard is a fish out of water on a farm, surrounded by animals. He’s never had a pet, nor dealt with animals on a one-on-one basis. Teamed with Bernie, he’s tasked with keeping her and her menagerie safe while determining who has it in for her little animal family. As they work together, danger and passion escalate, forcing Gerard to rethink his stance on love.

They called him a hero… Lauded for his daring rescue of a medical team captured by Islamic State terrorists, Navy SEAL Enrico “Rico” Cortez feels like anything but a hero. His friend and fellow teammate lost his life during that rescue. Plagued by PTSD, Rico leaves the Navy. Reluctantly, he accepts his only job offer, joining the Brotherhood Protectors in Colorado. War veteran Laurel Layne came home to Fool’s Gold Colorado, the only place she’d ever felt safe. Having survived terrorist torture and captivity, she only wants to feel sunshine on her cheeks and be surrounded by beautiful flowers and the people she loves. Her happy façade hides deep scars she’d hoped to bury with the barrel in which she’d been held captive. When Laurel becomes the target of a stalker, the Brotherhood Protectors step in with a bodyguard to provide her twenty-four-seven protection until the perpetrator is caught. Enter Rico Cortez on his first assignment… How hard could it be to protect a beautiful, small-town florist? Rico is reminded all too soon that when he allows emotion to intrude, the level of difficulty and danger expands exponentially. Before he realizes what’s happened, he finds himself falling for his pretty client who is caught in a killer’s sights.

FBI Special Agent Jenna Jenkins needs help finding her half-sister’s newborn baby stolen from a Bozeman, Montana, hospital. Ex-Navy SEAL Cliff Cranston left the Navy after witnessing too many atrocities he could do nothing to stop. Having lost faith in humanity, he accepts a job offer from an old teammate Stone Jacobs. His first assignment is to help an FBI agent find and rescue a newborn baby. After placing the mother in a safe house Cliff and Jenna hunt down the kidnapper to bring the baby home. Working closely together they discover secrets that could kill them and a passion they cannot deny.

Retired Navy SEAL Remy Montagne left the Navy to take on a career where he could make a difference. After a short vacation to his old hometown of Mambaloa Bayou and a casual hookup with local woman, Shelby Taylor, he joins Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors in Montana. Sheriff’s Deputy Shelby Taylor grew up in Mambaloa Bayou and chose to work for the people of the parish by protecting them from criminals. Attacked and left for dead in the bayou, she’s rescued by an old fisherman. She has no memory of what happened and no memory of her hookup with Remy. When her safety is compromised, her sister calls on Remy to protect Shelby until whoever tried to kill her is caught. Remy returns to Mamabloa Bayou to protect Shelby and is shocked that she has no memory of him or the passionate night they spent together. Together, they struggle to discover the identity of whoever is after her and why someone would want to kill her. In the process, a fresh flame of passion ignites between them but might be extinguished if the killer makes good his threats.

Former Delta Force Operative Joe "Judge" Smith came to work at the Lucky Lady Lodge to help rebuild the old girl to her former glory. Tired of killing, he wants to shoot a nail gun, not a military-grade rifle. Since arriving at the lodge in Montana, he and his team have been embroiled in one dangerous mission after another, unable to avoid using their combat training to help people defend themselves against a radical organization, The Chosen Way. Determined to locate their latest compound and find their leader, Judge goes undercover to infiltrate and gather the intelligence needed to bring them down. The Chosen Way''s assassin, PJ, is tasked to train Judge, their newest recruit. Like many members of the organization, she was coerced into submission to protect her family and friends. Saddled with a new recruit, she''s surprised at his skills and physical abilities and more than a little attracted. When Judge escapes with another recruit, PJ is given 48 hours to eliminate Judge and bring back proof that he is dead, or she and everyone she loves will be killed. With the clock ticking, PJ can''t bring herself to murder Judge, a man she''s falling in love with. Together, they devise a plan to take down the TCW''s radical leader and dismantle the group forever. Only then can they give in to their growing passion.

Vincent ‘Venom’ Jones, former Navy SEAL sniper, left the Navy after a Taliban kill resulted in collateral damage—the death of a child. Out of the military, and unsure of his future, he’s recruited by Hank Patterson and Jake Cogburn of the Brotherhood Protectors. He accepts the position on one condition…he refuses to protect children. At her former Army buddy’s insistence, Maria Elena Garcia left her boyfriend, the son of a drug cartel kingpin, in the Texas border town of El Paso and headed for Colorado. All she wants is a chance for her and her daughter to start over, free of the cartel and her daughter’s abusive father. Only the ex, like the cartel doesn’t let go of what he considers his. When Venom rescues a pretty woman and her child from recapture by a powerful drug cartel on his first assignment as a Brotherhood Protector, he can’t turn his back and let someone else take over. Against his better judgment, he stays with the pair to provide their protection where their lives and his heart are at risk of total destruction.

Confirmed bachelor Pierce Turner, aka UTAH, left active duty when politics cost his Marine Force Recon friend his life. An only child, Pierce didn’t have much of a childhood. He was an adult as soon as he learned to talk. Not a fan of kids, he thinks they’re messy, cry a lot and are extremely annoying. Tired of fighting and killing, all he wants is to work his construction day-job. When he’s off, he intends to enjoy the peace and quiet of the Montana Crazy Mountains and have a beer or two whenever the mood takes him. Forced to train as an assassin, Liza lives in constant fear for her daughter’s life. Her handler promises he’ll hurt her daughter if Liza doesn''t do what she’s told to do. Given her first killing assignment, Liza balks. When she can’t bring herself to make the kill, she takes her girl and makes her escape only to run out of gas on a deserted road in the Crazy Mountains. When he stops to help a stranded woman and her little girl, UTAH isn’t sure what he signed up for. Certainly not having to keep them safe indefinitely. And in his own home. Funny how a man who dislikes children is quickly wrapped around a little girl’s finger and how her mother finds her way into his stone-cold heart. He’ll do anything to keep them safe, even kill.

Devin Layne, Former Green Beret from 10th Special Forces Group, returns home after a disastrous mission. Feeling less of a man due to injuries, he struggles to navigate civilian life, avoiding his former fiancée, convinced she deserves better. Horse trainer and champion barrel racer, Mallory Watts, is heartbroken when the love of her life returns from deployment but wants nothing to do with her. When Devin’s undying love for Mallory makes her the target of a man bent on revenge, he will do anything to keep her safe.

Ex-Navy SEAL, Sean Murdock, is done with the Navy, done with being a bodyguard and ready to embrace construction as his new vocation. When he offers to ride shotgun with the local mobile veterinarian to deliver a horse to a client, he doesn’t expect the trip to turn into a rescue mission. Gabbie Myers grew up on a ranch in Montana and knew from her first pony that she would become a veterinarian. Now she has a mobile practice that takes her all over the county and sometimes further. When one of the new construction workers at the Lucky Lady Lodge offers to go along for the ride to deliver a horse, she accepts, knowing she’s heading into notoriously survivalist territory. She’s happy to have someone along who knows one end of a gun from another. At a truck stop to refuel, Gabbie hears pounding from the inside of an eighteen-wheeler’s trailer. The discovery of a teenaged girl inside, leads her and Murdock on a mission to free others trapped in the compound from which the girl escaped.

Abandoned by his mother, raised by a taciturn Marine, Dax joined the Navy to become a SEAL. Fast-forward twelve years later, he’s out of the navy, done time as a mercenary and now works for Brotherhood Protectors. Never trusted women. Never married. Never wanted to. Lawyer and motivational speaker, Liliana Lightfeather is running for the US house of representatives for the state of Wyoming. From the Wind River Reservation, she clawed her way out of poverty to become a lawyer representing her people and the rest of Wyoming. After attempts on her life, she turns to the Brotherhood Protectors Yellowstone to see her through her campaign. Expecting an older woman as his assignment, Dax is disturbed to find she’s not old and very pretty. Thankfully, he’s immune to love…until he gets a taste of the woman’s passion. Dax fights unknown threats to keep her alive and in the process falls victim to the curse of love.

Delta Force Operative Levi Franks retires from the Army and joins the Brotherhood Protectors. Having lost the love of his life, he’s seen the best and worst of humanity and has no interest in love, marriage or a family. He wants to use the skills he’s honed to combat evil. After a messy divorce, Mattie McIntyre, rebuilt her life from nothing to something. As the owner of Mattie’s Diner in Fool’s Gold, Colorado, she chooses kindness and empathy. Her kindness pays off when she inherits the Fool''s Folly Mine from a customer at her diner. Unbeknownst to Mattie, the mine comes with a curse. She doesn’t believe in curses or bad luck. But she might need help from the Brotherhood Protectors to claim her inheritance and live to appreciate it. Levi accepts the mission to protect Mattie and uncover the source of the troubles that plague the mine. Together, they search for answers and find a love so strong it could breach the walls around their hearts, if the curse doesn’t trump all.

Three unexpected protectors One desperate victim Former Delta Force soldier Parker Shaw won’t be sidelined by his horrific war experiences. Now he’s an Outrider security agent dedicated to safeguarding those in need. Having escaped abduction and imprisonment, Abby Gibson is hell-bent on rescuing the other captives. Trusting Parker is her only option. As they get closer to the dangerous truth, their attraction grows. Their choice may come down to saving themselves…or risking everything to save the hostages. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in The Outriders Series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Homicide at Whiskey Gulch Book 2: Hideout at Whiskey Gulch Book 3: Held Hostage at Whiskey Gulch Book 4: Setup at Whiskey Gulch Book 5: Missing Witness at Whiskey Gulch Book 6: Cowboy Justice at Whiskey Gulch

Il rubacuori Michael “Blade” Calhoun adora le donne. Scapolo incallito, sa bene che, quando si fa parte di una squadra operativa Delta Force, innamorarsi non è una buona idea. Per questo si è ripromesso di evitare qualsiasi tipo di coinvolgimento. Preferisce amare tutte le donne piuttosto che sceglierne una e spezzarle il cuore ogni volta che parte in missione. Vivere di fianco a Blade ha i suoi vantaggi ma è anche la rovina per Sophia Phillips, barista, che ha una cotta per lui e sa di non avere chance. Lui non cerca relazioni serie e romantiche, e lei non è il suo tipo. Confinata nella friendzone, Sophia si autoconvince che le vada bene così. Quando però si aggiudica un viaggio per due a Cancún, finisce con l’invitare proprio Blade a unirsi a lei. Dopo una serie ininterrotta di missioni, Blade coglie l’occasione di prendersi una vacanza senza preoccupazioni con un’amica. Pensando di ritrovarsi in un paradiso di margarita e spiagge, i due finiscono invece nel bel mezzo di un cartello della droga messicano. L’atmosfera rilassante del viaggio inizia a farsi bollente, come la passione che li travolge e che nessuno dei due si sarebbe aspettato.

For Ex-Navy SEAL, Carter Manning, nothing worthwhile is easy. Having lost the people he loved, he dedicates his life to the hard stuff to keep from looking back. The future is strictly about the next mission, not settling down or raising a family. When a rash of suicides plagues the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, teen counselor Amanda Small calls on the Brotherhood Protectors to help investigate what she suspects are murders. Manning and Small team up to investigate, discovering an attraction neither expected nor wanted. As they close in on the truth, they become targets and must decide whether their love and their lives are more important than stopping the next “suicide.”

This ex-soldier will break all the rules to see justice done… Shattering loss taught former Delta Force operative Becker Jackson to play things safe—and never risk his heart again. Still, he can’t turn down Olivia Swann’s desperate plea to find her abducted sister. Nor resist the instant heat with the beautiful artist as they go undercover. But with two mob families targeting them, can they save an innocent witness—and their own lives—in time? From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in The Outriders Series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Homicide at Whiskey Gulch Book 2: Hideout at Whiskey Gulch Book 3: Held Hostage at Whiskey Gulch Book 4: Setup at Whiskey Gulch Book 5: Missing Witness at Whiskey Gulch Book 6: Cowboy Justice at Whiskey Gulch

MONTANA SEAL DADDY Former Navy SEAL enters the fight of his life to protect the mother of his child from killers who wish to silence her testimony in a murder case MONTANA RANGER’S WEDDING VOW Hot Delta Force Cowboy and sexy female former Army Ranger plan a wedding to trap a killer MONTANA SEAL UNDERCOVER DADDY Woman hires an ex-Navy SEAL with Daddy skills to protect her and her niece until her twin can be found

Sole survivor of a mission gone wrong, Griff left the Navy to recover from his wounds and grief. The one woman he’d grown to love had left San Diego while he''d been deployed and hadn''t returned or reached out. When Jake Cogburn offered him a job in Colorado, he agreed to check it out, never expecting he’d find the one who ditched him upside down in a ditch near the headquarters of Brotherhood Protectors Colorado. When her sister was murdered in Colorado, Rachel West left her job as a California Highway Patrolman in San Diego and left the man with whom she’d been falling in love. In Fool’s Gold, she joined the sheriff’s department to protect others from a similar fate. In the background of doing her job, Rachel works the cold case of sister''s murder. Finally onto a clue, she has become the target of the killer. She turns to Brotherhood Protectors for help. On her way to meet with them at the Lost Valley Ranch, her car is run off the road and flips upside-down. The one person she never thought she’d see again pulls her from the wreckage. Though he’s still struggling with PTSD and afraid to expose his heart again, Griff can’t leave Rachel unprotected. He offers to take her as his first assignment. As they close in on the truth, their love rekindles, and danger closes in on them.

Ex-SEAL, then mercenary, Drake Morgan, is tired of war. He’s ready to make a life for himself building rather than killing. Hired as a carpenter by an old Navy buddy, he’s focused on rebuilding the Lucky Lady Lodge in Montana. When he discovers bones in one of the walls, his work site becomes a crime scene. After her best friend disappeared never to be found, Cassie Douglas chose law enforcement over law school. As a sheriff’s deputy, protecting her community is her passion and her job. When the call comes to investigate a potential murder at a local lodge, she is determined to solve the case, no matter how old. Drake teams with Cassie to find the killer. In their search, they discover clues leading to the answers and an attraction for each other neither anticipated. As they close in on the truth, the danger escalates. They must find the killer before he strikes again. Especially if the next targets are them.

Ryan “Dash” Hayes è famoso per infrangere le regole. Soprattutto se non hanno senso e ci sono valide ragioni. A suo parere le regole sono comandi da usare per tenere in riga il gregge, non sono fatte per lui. Il suo comandante è comunque disposto a dargli il beneficio del dubbio perché è bravo nel suo lavoro di operatore Delta Force. Veloce, efficiente e disposto a sacrificare la sua vita per salvare gli altri. Dopo che il partner con cui duetta come cantante resta ucciso in un incidente, Sunny Daye entra nell’USO, che si occupa di organizzare spettacoli per le truppe, e parte per un tour in Afghanistan. Quale modo migliore per punirsi di essere sopravvissuta se non mettersi a rischio in un paese pieno di conflitti? Quando tentano di rapirla, le viene data una scelta: lasciare il paese oppure accettare una guardia del corpo per il resto del tour. E quale candidato migliore all’incarico di Dash, lo spavaldo, irriverente operatore Delta Force che sembra comparire nei momenti migliori/peggiori per salvare la situazione. Se proprio dovrà avere una guardia del corpo, Sunny ha delle regole da fargli rispettare: Uno: mani a posto Due: niente baci Tre: non innamorarsi della star Con un gran sorriso e una strizzatina d’occhio, Dash accetta le sue condizioni. D’altronde, lui non ha mai incontrato sulla sua strada una regola che non fosse disposto a infrangere.

Rucker Sloan è convinto di essere bravo a fare solo una cosa: combattere, uccidere. L’ultima cosa a cui pensa è di potere avere una relazione seria con una donna. Finché non incontra un’infermiera pronta a rischiare la vita per qualcuno che neanche conosce… Dopo la morte della madre, Nora Michaels è entrata nell’Esercito per aiutare gli altri e sfuggire ai tristi ricordi. Inviata in Afghanistan, spera di poter fare la differenza, soprattutto quando si trova a curare un soldato ferito capace di spiazzarla e che ha vissuto la stessa sua perdita. Quando Nora e le bambine dell’orfanotrofio locale vengono rapite dai talebani per essere vendute nel circuito del traffico sessuale, Rucker e la sua squadra sono gli unici che possono salvarle. Isolati in territorio nemico, Rucker e Nora si ritrovano uniti dalla lotta per la sopravvivenza e da una passione che non avrebbero mai pensato di trovare tra le colline impervie di un paese dilaniato dalla guerra.