Victory (Damschroder)

After defeating a terrible enemy and suffering an equally terrible loss, Mayne Sobol is adrift. He needs to normalize his daughter’s life, but the one job he’s done his entire career is too dangerous to continue. Bailey Fleming loves her job at Victory—too much. Her plans for her own business are ready to launch, and she’s been procrastinating since finding the kind of work family she wants to build. It’s time to break free, but she lets herself be talked into one last assignment. Bailey and Mayne start with competing interests, but in the course of foiling a complicated plot against their clients, intrigue and attraction draw them together. Neither is in a position to start something personal when their careers are in such flux…but if they don’t explore the chemistry between them, they may regret it for the rest of their lives. Note: The Road to Victory is a standalone story between the Seismic Series and the Victory Series. It does contain spoilers for Aftershocks and Resonance, but you don’t need to have read those books to enjoy this novella, and The Road to Victory isn’t necessary to enjoy the upcoming Victory Series.

For Cade Balassone, maintaining the status quo with his best friend and partner Holly VanEvery has meant pushing his true feelings beneath the surface—without giving up hope of chipping through the granite casing around her heart. He knows her survivalist mother taught her to protect herself at all costs, but someday he’ll convince her she doesn’t need protection from him. Holly knows Cade doesn’t get it. She’s protecting him, knowing she’ll inevitably hurt him if she allows their relationship to become more. She forces her growing fear that it’s too late to take a backseat while they strive to save Victory, the business that has given them both purpose. After a saboteur nearly destroyed Victory, restoring its reputation is their number two priority. Number one is finding Niall Raff, the man seeking to destroy them. Following a lead to the Willow Farm Resilience Collective, Cade and Holly are sent undercover through the sustainable community’s “marriage repair” services. Their participation in the Farm’s soul-bearing activities works like acid on Holly’s stone walls and incites Cade to shift their relationship out of neutral. But when they unearth a sinister plot targeting not just Willow Farm’s residents but other, similar entities, including the one Holly’s mother runs, their feelings become a distraction that could put their mission—and their lives—in jeopardy.

The last two books in the Victory series in one bundle! Victory in Action Maybe she was really good at this. Digital dynamo Corin Faulkner has always worked behind the scenes at Victory, using her computer to help complete missions successfully. But being banned from searching for Victory’s nemesis has put her at a complete loss. When her vacation in LA starts out with action-movie hero Jace Weber asking her to help find his missing friend, she gets a chance to put her (lack of) field training to work. Her research uncovers a shady scam Jace’s friend might have been pulled into, and she and Jace follow a trail that leads them to a medical mastermind with dangerous intentions. She really was so not good at this. At first, the adrenaline of investigation is spiced with Corin and Jace’s immediate connection. More than just attraction, it’s something deeper that happens terrifyingly fast. But Corin’s first foray into field work lands her and Jace in the ER and then gets her caught by the bad guys. Tough to rescue someone when you need rescuing yourself. Jace has been along for the ride, deferring to Corin the way he defers to a director or stunt coordinator. With Corin’s life on the line, he’s pushed out of the lane he always thought he belonged in. He really needs to be good at this. Her straightforward “working” vacation gets complicated with the involvement of Corin’s imprisoned father. She’s forced to confront the family drama that disrupted her life before Victory hired her. Her too-intense, too-fast feelings for Jace are another disruption she doesn’t think she wants. But Jace’s go-with-the-flow perspective isn’t passive. He acts on his convictions, and his gut tells him he needs to keep Corin in his life—if he can save hers. Unwavering Victory Iain Fraser thought he understood his life. Then the brother he didn’t know existed turned it all upside down. Everything he has built, everyone he cares about, is under attack. And every choice he makes to defend it seems to be the wrong one. It’s time to go on offense, but it’s hard to take the fight to the enemy when you can’t find him. Cassandra Michaelson has been in a protective limbo since her husband was killed. Victory has been her entire focus, a cocoon wrapping her up, keeping her safe but also confining her. Fighting Iain’s brother, the man who stripped that protection away, has awakened her again—and made her see not only that she doesn’t have to be alone, doesn’t want to be alone, but also that she wants far more. She wants to fly again. And she wants to fly with Iain. Iain has always been waiting for Cassandra. He hadn’t put his life on hold —in fact, he’d thought he was building something new, away from Victory and from the partnership that shattered when his best friend was killed. But Cass refuses to stay away, stay safe, and now they must work together to trigger their enemy’s end game. What they can be after that will have to wait until—and if—they survive it.

The first two books in The Victory Series in one bundle!Victory on the EdgeMax drives Victory's success.Bas knows someone is pushing the company to fail.And he thinks it's her…Max Landford handles every aspect of operations for Victory, a company dedicated to helping people who fall through the cracks, so it's her job to deal with escalating problems that call into question Victory's reliability. When a near-fatal disaster occurs on Max's watch, it becomes clear that none of the problems are coincidental.Troubleshooter Sebastian Braga is hired to investigate a possible saboteur within the company, and Max is his prime suspect. He never expected to fall for the smart, challenging woman in charge, never mind for the family vibe at Victory itself. But the chemistry between the two of them keeps getting in the way of Bas's investigation, and Max, thrown off balance by his effect on her, worries the distraction is making her job suffer.Discovering she is her bosses' prime suspect and that Bas has been lying to her since they met sends Max into an unfamiliar tailspin. She'd resign, but the threat is growing, and she and Bas have to work together to save the company they both believe in. Forced to make decisions that could destroy Victory as thoroughly as their enemy, they have to face the possibility that their efforts-and their romance-are doomed. Can they keep Victory from going over the edge?Victory UndercoverFor Cade Balassone, maintaining the status quo with his best friend and partner Holly VanEvery has meant pushing his true feelings beneath the surface-without giving up hope of chipping through the granite casing around her heart. He knows her survivalist mother taught her to protect herself at all costs, but someday he'll convince her she doesn't need protection from him.Holly knows Cade doesn't get it. She's protecting him, knowing she'll inevitably hurt him if she allows their relationship to become more. She forces her growing fear that it's too late to take a backseat while they strive to save Victory, the business that has given them both purpose. After a saboteur nearly destroyed Victory, restoring its reputation is their number two priority. Number one is finding Niall Raff, the man seeking to destroy them.Following a lead to the Willow Farm Resilience Collective, Cade and Holly are sent undercover through the sustainable community's "marriage repair" services. Their participation in the Farm's soul-bearing activities works like acid on Holly's stone walls and incites Cade to shift their relationship out of neutral. But when they unearth a sinister plot targeting not just Willow Farm's residents but other, similar entities, including the one Holly's mother runs, their feelings become a distraction that could put their mission-and their lives-in jeopardy. Natalie J. Damschroder is an award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance, with an emphasis on romantic adventure. She has had 27 novels, 11 novellas, and numerous short stories published by several publishers, most recently with Soul Mate Publishing, Entangled Publishing, and Carina Press. She recently debuted her Fusion Series, a young adult paranormal adventure series, with Full Fusion, as NJ Damschroder. Learn more about those and other YA books here. Natalie grew up in Massachusetts, and loves the New England Patriots more than anything. (Except her family. And writing and reading. And popcorn.) When she's not writing, she does freelance editing and proofreading. She and her husband have two grown daughters, one of whom is also a novelist. (The other one prefers math. Smart kid. Practical.) If you have a problem no one else can fix, Victory can. Its clients can be found not only in the highest reaches of government and society but also the most ordinary of neighborhoods. Only one commonality has existed-if Victory takes your case, they will succeed.Until someone with a vendetta sets out to destroy Victory and everyone who is part o