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Shadow SEALs Books

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Cover for Shadow Pawn

He'd spent his career hiding in shadows. Now they want to send him back into them. The question is, who are they? Is this job his saving grace or has he just made a deal with the devil? When the military makes Navy SEAL sniper Adam Nichols their sacrificial lamb just two years shy of his retirement, he has no more reason to follow their rules. So the offer the shadowy figure representing an undisclosed organization makes him looks pretty good. In exchange for more money than he ever made working for the command that betrayed him, Adam is to use any means necessary to free an American woman held hostage in China, without backup and without causing an international incident in the process. With the promise of possible redemption, in addition to his obsession with the intriguing damsel in distress who kicks his protective side into high gear, his choice is clear. But who is the tawny-skinned, sophisticated, captive beauty in the photo who rouses feelings he's long denied? The impeccably-dressed, ebony-haired stranger with the intelligent yet secretive golden-brown eyes who seems so completely opposite from his own beastly rough nature. He's to rescue her, and protect her, and nothing else. Easier said than done. And after he does free her, is he handing her over to the good guys, or the bad? Or, perhaps, she’s the one he should be worried about. He only knows one thing for certain—a SEAL who’s lost the ability to trust his gut instincts is, quite simply, lost.

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After completing a difficult and secret task to eliminate the leader of a Russian terrorist organization, former Navy SEAL and expert sniper, Dane “Striker” Ryan, is booted from his SEAL team, destroying his reputation as a trusted servant to his country. Burned, angry and out of work, he agrees to take an assignment from a shadowy organization recruiting this Navy SEAL for a special project. For a sizable sum of money, he is to eliminate a dangerous assassin by any means necessary. Unemployed, and with no means to make his next rent payment, he accepts the lucrative work. Alex Sokolov, self-trained assassin, is on a mission of revenge for her parents’ deaths, a mission that has spanned two years. As she nears her ultimate target, the hunter becomes the hunted. Striker and Alex join forces in this international intrigue to discover the kingpin orchestrating the murders of secret agents, including Alex’s own parents.

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After a disastrous career-ending mission, he never expected to be sent back into the shadows. For months Ajax has been languishing on his sister’s couch, drowning himself in beer and whiskey. It was the only way to bury the pain of losing his entire SEAL team during a mission he does not remember. Until he discovers everything he’s been told about that day was a lie. Now he'll jump on the first flight to Ethiopia with Ryker—his best friend, teammate, and foster brother—to rescue the rest of their team. Serena has a heart of gold and a desire to help people. She’s never physically met the woman she works for, but she knows every job she does saves lives and corrects injustices. Serena’s task is to dole out assignments, be the liaison. Participating in the missions themselves has never been required…until now. Her history has made her vital to the mission. Serena isn’t prepared for the brooding man who looks like he’s going to take down the next person he sees with his eyes alone. Nor is she prepared for the way his intensity makes her feel things she never expected in this lifetime. Ajax is not pleased that Serena will be accompanying them. She doesn’t belong in a war zone. But when the slight woman flattens Ajax on his back on day one, he has a change of heart. Maybe she’s not as soft as she appears. He needs her help, and she needs him. But will her presence endanger the entire mission?

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Another mission into the shadows was the last place he wanted to be. Last time it ended his career. This time promises death or salvation. Another mission into the shadows was the last place he wanted to be. Last time it ended his career. This time promises death or salvation. Ryker Tufano has spent the last several months drowning his survivor's guilt—and unexpected ejection from the Navy—in alcohol and self-loathing. His entire SEAL team, and his memory, were lost on their last mission. A phone call from the mysterious Charley changes everything. It was all a lie. When he discovers that his foster brother and SEAL teammate, Ajax, is alive, they must head back to Ethiopia to rescue the rest of their team. Xena Riggs is angry with “someone” in Washington DC. They were willing to let an entire SEAL team be erased for their mistake…her mistake. Offered redemption and retribution if she helps two of Charley's newest employees, she jumps at the chance. As Ryker follows his guide into the mountains of Ethiopia, he's not sure if she's Xena Warrior Princess, GI Jane, a wet dream…or walking him into an ambush. Xena is having trouble keeping her heart out of this mission. Lust doesn't belong in these mountains. If Xena survives this assignment without being captured or killed by the rebels, there's a good chance Ryker will kill her himself once he discovers the truth.

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Cover for Shadow of a Chance

Hand chosen to work a joint op with the CIA as a Navy deserter, Navy SEAL Chance Reynolds followed the rules, and got burned. Now his best friend is dead, and Chance is stuck with the ‘deserter’ label. The only reason he isn’t rotting in prison is due to the interference from a former retired commander. He owes the man. So when a mysterious woman contacts Chance and offers him a job to safely escort the daughter of a murdered scientist to several classified locations across the country, he agrees. Not because of the insane amount of money offered, but to repay the debt to his former commander. Knight, no doubt, had to be the one who tossed his name to the shadowy lady. No way would anyone trust a Navy deserter to protect an asset. Dana Spencer is no asset. She’s not the scientist’s daughter either, but she is under orders to keep it a secret and carryout the mission her dear friend and coworker would have…if she weren’t in a coma. Even though Dana hates lying, especially to her handsome, ex-military bodyguard, she has no choice. The fate of millions depends on her deciphering ciphers left by her friend’s murdered father before his secret NSA work falls into enemy hands. Dana is unlike any woman Chance has ever known, smart, beautiful, a crack shot, and even though he senses she’s hiding something, he doesn’t bother to fight their crazy chemistry. Chance deserves to know the truth. He’s kept her safe and amazingly satisfied but will he desert her when he discovers she’s CIA? Between her deceit and an enemy who always seems to be a step ahead, Dana’s not sure if their mission or relationship stands a shadow of a chance.

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Cover for Shadow of the Moon

Devlin Kreed used to be one of the best Navy SEAL snipers in the business. They called him Moon Devil, because he preferred to hunt his targets during the darkest part of the night. When he took out a high-value target, his career disintegrated. The SEALs kicked him out the door as a liability. It had all been a ruse, though, part of a CIA relocation op. The CIA promised him they would have his back, but they hung him out to dry, letting him take the fall for killing the target. Now, there's a voice on the phone offering him an astronomical amount of money to take out the same man again. Because the CIA messed up. While trying to extract information, the murderer escaped them, and the world is now a much more dangerous place. CIA agent Amberly Temple knew something was hinky as soon as the folder hit her desk. It was a cold case, but one of the most high-profile ones in her department, and she suspects a dirty agent. She must be getting close because as she tracks down witnesses and backtracks the investigation, someone tries to take her out. Luckily her former SEAL ex-husband is there to save her ass...

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A man broken by service to his country… Betrayed by the system who trained him… A chance at a HEA gone forever, her life slipping through his fingers… She was going to be Brady Rogers’ forever woman, but she was lost to him thanks to sex traffickers who kidnapped her mission group in Mexico three years ago. After six months pouring over intel, he’d found her, but was prohibited from engaging with the enemy by a fresh OIC, Lt. Rolland Stanley, straight out of the Academy via the Hamptons. Ordered to stand down, he’d taken a round to the hip by sniper fire. Plagued by painful night sweats and seething with thoughts of revenge, he later discovers she’d been murdered in a bloody cartel turf war the next year. Brady just barely completes his twenty and retires to the green triangle of Northern California to raise his CBDs off the grid, hoping to heal his physical as well as mental pain, but prepared to die in a shootout with the local authorities if it came to that. He’d done his duty and felt his life was basically over. Being antisocial wasn’t a problem. He knew he was a danger to everyone, and he could just cruise through life in a hazy fog until that day... But imagine his surprise when a strange woman calls and tells him Esquivel Rojas, the cretin who took Maggie’s life, was also now living in California? And, would he like the opportunity to cap that story? Hell, he didn’t need the ginormous amount of money they were offering him for the live capture. His biggest problem was going to be bringing in his prey alive! Find out all the clues that lead to this warrior’s satisfying ending in this action-packed thriller, full of cartels, comrades and traitors. If you dare!

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Cover for Not My Shadow

A Mission Gone Awry A wounded friend’s inexplicable death gets Navy SEAL Nash Thompson entangled in a mystery with hooks all the way up his chain of command. His enemies not only shut all doors on him, they board them up and nail them closed, leaving him out of a job, a home, a future. Even his brotherhood shuns him, proving he’s gotten too close to the criminal ring of thugs he’s been hunting. Run to ground, there’s just one path open to him—a quid pro quo deal offered by a shadow vigilante that provides him a lead in his investigation in exchange for his help in a decade-old case the FBI hasn’t been able to close—one eerily similar to his own investigation. It’s shady as hell, but it offers him the justice he’s after. Who Doesn't Have Secrets? An ex they hope to never see again…an error in judgment that haunts them…a past they can’t put behind them. Annie Bergen has eaten a cold diet of shame her entire life. Harmony Falls is where she went to hide and maybe start living again, if she can put her life back together. But the guy with the scarred hand who comes to the diner makes her realize this is where she’ll die… Until another man shows up, one with hard eyes, secrets as dark as her own, and a shadow big enough to hide hers.

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Cover for Cast in Shadow

Scapegoat. Fall guy. Puppet. Stooge. When a covert mission went full-on FUBAR, someone had to take the blame. Zeke Ericsson knows this. But he’d expected his CO—and the men he called brothers—to have his six. He was wrong. These days, his only allegiance is to himself. And if he’s using his special skills to line his own pocket? All the better. He’s vowed never put his life on the line for anyone ever again. Then she winds up in his crosshairs. And FUBAR doesn’t even begin to describe what happens next.

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Cover for Shadow Lies

She's a beauty. He's become a beast. Both fell from grace. Can a secret shadow organization help them rise from the ashes? Or is it all lies? She was the sister of his ex-girlfriend. He never expected to see her again, especially not all grown up and standing in the Shaolin monastery where he went to hide from the world…and from himself. She says she wants to save him. But why does she reek of CIA while claiming to work for an undisclosed organization that wants to hire him for a job that sounds like it could cost him what little is left of his soul? And why does he want her so badly?

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Cover for Shadow of Hope

A second chance to prove his worth leads to a love worth saving… Just when he starts to come to terms with the fact his life as an operator is in the past and it’s time to reinvent himself, Griffin Wolfe is pulled back into the action by a secret shadow organization. Just when she thought it was safe to return to the field, Dr. Hope Jones stumbles onto a plot to use artifacts to fund a series of terrorist attacks. Taking this assignment and working with the feisty archeologist could heal his soul…or cost Griff more than just his trident. Either way, he is going to be a shadow of hope.

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Former Navy SEAL Wyatt Thorn took the fall for a man he thought was his friend. But he was betrayed, charged with unspeakable crimes and tried by a court of his peers, where he was booted from the SEALs. Now Wyatt is hiding on this lonely mountain, trying to make a new life for himself. When he receives a call from a mysterious woman, he takes it with a grain of salt. He's been offered jobs with big payoffs before, because he'd been a damn good SEAL. Then she starts throwing out information that NO ONE should know about what went on in the desert. The man who betrayed him is dead, and the man's ex-wife, Rowan, is missing. It's a sucker punch to the gut, because in the depths of the night, he dreams of beautiful Rowan, the only person who didn't look at him like a criminal. He has a chance to clear his name and save her life, but it's going to come at a terrible emotional cost, for them both. Assuming she's still alive... Read the rest of the Shadow SEALs books! Shadow Lies - Cat Johnson- March 8th, 2022 Shadow of Hope - Donna Michaels- April 12th, 2022 Shadow Warrior - Sharon Hamilton- July 12th, 2022 Shadow in the Daylight - KaLyn Cooper- August 23rd, 2022 Shadow in the Darkness - Becca Jameson- September 13th, 2022 Shadow and Steele - Elaine Levine- October 18th, 2022

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Cover for Shadow Warrior

Following Maggie’s harrowing rescue , former SEAL Brady Rogers wants to finally settle down, drop his weapons and assume the role of husband, father, and country farmer. But Maggie isn’t done saving exploited women from abuse at the hands of dangerous and evil human-trafficking cartels. When Brady is given a mission he cannot refuse , can their little family and intense love survive as they’re driven in different directions? SHADOW WARRIOR is the continuation of the story SHADOW OF THE HEART, Sharon's new book in the Shadow Sisters multi-author series. If you've been wondering what these steamy SEAL heroes are up to, you don't have to wait much longer!

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Cover for Shadow in the Daylight

He was done with missions…but Charley wasn’t done with him. After he left the Navy, stripped of his SEAL Trident and his pride, Andrew did a quick covert job for Charley before parting ways. As the Security Officer aboard a cruise ship, he invited several SEAL friends to travel as his guests through the Panama Canal. He never imagined he’d need his highly trained skills for another of Charley’s missions in the middle of the cruise. Kendra had worked her way up the male-dominated bridge crew, first in the U.S. Navy then for Monarch Cruise Lines, to Staff Captain, second in command of a huge cruise ship. Her crew was well trained and respectful…except for the too sexy, bossy Security Officer who reported directly to her. After succumbing to him, she discovers she enjoys their life together. When all hell breaks loose, and Charley needs both of them for her next mission, will Kendra be able to keep him in her life with all the odds stacked against them?

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It was supposed to be a vacation, not a mission… When Grant takes off on a cruise through the Panama Canal with several of his SEAL buddies, the last thing he expects is drama. And he certainly isn’t prepared to find himself in a warzone. Callie is on a much-needed vacation with her girlfriends. Laughter, partying, drinking—maybe a bit too much drinking that first night. The sexy man who helps her back to her room might be a fun cruise hookup. When all hell breaks loose, the fun times come to a screeching halt. Apparently, the relaxed, easy-going man she’s been flirting with isn’t quite as average as she believed. But then again, neither is she…

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