Mavericks

Book 1: The Mavericks On the precipice of change … Just not the way he'd expected … Kerrick is tagged to join a new elite group, where he'd have more say and less rules on missions. Working mostly alone, he's to track down a kidnapped victim suspected of being in England, and likely she's not the only one. This is his kind of job; finding out a longtime friend is his backup makes this mission a go. Amanda is snatched at the end of her workday while walking to her vehicle. Days later she wakes to find she's imprisoned, alone in a small cement cell. One rotting meal a day is provided, and that is it. Once she realizes someone else is here–a young boy-she's even more determined to escape. And to take him with her. Running into Kerrick wasn't the plan … Escaping is only one part of the puzzle as the truth drags them to Europe and beyond as they sort out how the two kidnappings are related, who's behind it all and why … Before they are run aground and imprisoned all over again …

Book 2: The Mavericks Helping Kerrick was one thing, getting tagged for a mission of his own quite another … His heart ached to hear a young girl had been kidnapped while at a hotel in Thailand, waiting for her father to arrive. But nothing is ever as it seems, and this case isn't even close to simple. Lorelai spent the last seven years enjoying her young charge, Amelia Rose. Tutoring the daughter of a wealthy business owner added perks to the job, like holidays around the world. In all these years Lorelai had never once seen the downside to having big money–until the holiday in Thailand where Amelia Rose is targeted, and they were both kidnapped. Griffin managed to rescue the kidnapped victims, but tracing the kidnappers was a whole different story and brought the group a little too close to home …

Book 3: The Mavericks No time to rest. The world is a mess … He'd barely made it home from helping Griffin only to find himself called to rescue a doctor on a cruise ship overtaken by pirates in their search for Abigail Dalton. The pirates had no trouble killing passengers until they found the right woman. With one man at his side, Jax sneaks onto the ship to rescue her. When she heard the gunfire, Abby hid in the venting on the ship. When a man susses out her hiding place, she's sure her world is about to end. Only Jax is on her side; yet he came with just one man to help. Stunned, she stays close as Jax frees the ship and keeps her safe-until they find out the real reason for this nightmare, when she's forced to England to face the two-legged monster of her nightmares ... The safest place is at Jax's side, but Abby knows all too well how slippery this monster really is and how easily he steps from the shadows to grab his victims …

Book 4: The Mavericks Not the size to blend in anywhere … Not that he cared … Beau heads to Alaska to a cult that kidnaps women to flesh out its numbers. One woman in particular has gone missing. When her father calls in a favor, Beau is asked to fit into the cult community. Only his style is guns blazing, and he doesn't bother counting the dead … Danica was late for her college class when a hood was thrown over her head, and then she was tossed into the back of a vehicle. Days later, she wakes up on a dirt floor of a cell with only a grate above her head. But she'll take it as she's nothing if not innovative. As soon as she escapes her prison, she runs into the brick wall that's Beau. He'd good at giving orders. She's not so good at following them … With dozens of lives at stake in a sex-trafficking scheme, neither Beau nor Danica had expected it would be action all the way for them as they battle to free other women and to stay alive–together.

Book 5: The Mavericks A born protector, Asher signs up for jobs even the most trained men won't take … But finding a set of female autistic twins in mainland China-after someone has gone to a great deal of effort to make sure they are never found-isn't easy. Finding those responsible behind the actual kidnapping is even harder … Mickie, hired to look after the twins for the last six months, is still recovering from the trauma of being beaten and drugged, waking to find her adult charges gone. Beside herself already, then seeing Asher, her ex from ten years ago, is another sock to her gut. And to her heart. … She's not the same person she was back then and, being with him again, shows her just how much she'd screwed up her relationship with him. Yet betrayal, deceit and bodies litter their pathway as they struggle to save the missing women before the kidnapper's assassins get close enough to take them out instead …

Book 6: The Mavericks After his last assignment, Ryker is ready for a rest. And he gets it-but only a few hours … That's even too long for a geologist kidnapped by guerrillas in the Columbian jungle. Ryker has plenty of experience in jungles around the world but, keeping Manila safe-along with the two men she's traveling with and their injured guide-exposes them for who they are. It quickly becomes apparent, under these most gruelling conditions, which of her party steps up and which plan to step out. Manila's life has become one of never-ending misery at the hands of her captors as they await word from their bosses, who decide her ultimate fate. That she's hunting platinum doesn't matter to them. Nor that she's fighting against the invasive illegal gold mining taking over parts of the area. When Ryker rescues her from her prison tent, she places her trust in his ability to get her and her team safely away. Not yet realizing she'd be gifting him both her body and her heart too. Ryker needs to keep them all alive and together long enough to get them out of this hellhole-hopefully alive …

Book 7: The Mavericks When his call came, the mission was the opposite of what he expected… Returning to his hometown of London, UK, was a happy surprise, until he realized what-and who-was involved. Out of his comfort zone when dealing with women sold into sexual slavery or even "collected," regardless Miles was determined to dig in deep, when he realized he knew the latest kidnapped victim. A woman who'd touched him years earlier. To think she might be suffering at the hands of a deranged serial kidnapper or, worse, could be sold in some human trafficking ring… Vanessa, tied up and blindfolded, has no idea why she'd been kidnapped. She does her best to obey her captor, even as she plots her escape. Her hope is that she's been reported missing and that the cops are looking for her. … They are, but so is someone else… Keeping Vanessa safe at his side, Miles is taxed to the limit to unravel and to capture a serial killer who's lain undetected for decades, disguised as a serial kidnapper…

Book 8: The Mavericks With barely enough time to recover from helping out Miles in London, Nico is off to Australia … and a secret mission involving a US covert operative … When an American undercover operative's sister goes missing in Australia, Nico has to find out if this is connected to the operative or to the sister's own activist background. Apparently she made enemies easily. Charlotte hadn't wanted to make this trip in the first place, preferring to communicate her polarizing messages through writing her books now. But, bowing under pressure, she finally arrives in Australia, only to be attacked within minutes of reaching her hotel room for the night. After her rescue, she's forced to dig deep into her family and public life to find the mastermind kidnapper and to stay safe as the bodies pile up. Nothing makes sense in this twisted mission, but Nico is determined to keep Charlotte safe, even as things take a more personal turn …

Book 9: The Mavericks Heading out on a last-ditch rescue mission to Puget Sound one day after two women go overboard in a sailing accident isn't exactly what he'd expected … But Keane is nothing if not adaptable. He can only hope the two women are alive and doing everything they can to stay that way. Hearing from the local coast guard that more may be involved than just a rescue mission, he and his partner load up and head out to search the waters around the smaller islands off the coast. They have the GPS of the missing women's last-known location, but storms could have sent them anywhere … Lost, alone-except for her best friend, who's unconscious with a head wound-Sandrine wakes up in a small shelter to find they are locked in. When the door is finally opened, an armed stranger dressed in fatigues dumps a small amount of food and says they are on their own. Finding the women was one thing, keeping them safe something else again. More is going on in this small island that any of them were expecting … or had planned for …

Book 10: The Mavericks Planning to meet his sister in Germany, but, when she's a no-show, Lennox has his first inkling that trouble has come home in a big way … When his sister and her best friend go missing, Lennox is determined to find and to keep his only family member safe … and her best friend. They were both doctors, traveling the globe with the UN. Lennox was proud of his sister's accomplishments. He'd never tried to hide their relationship, thinking no one from Lennox's Navy SEALs past cared-or was still alive. Only now someone has decided to use Lennox's only family as a way to exact revenge. Helena is caught up in a kidnapping of Lennox's sister, all designed to get back at Lennox-the most infuriating man she's ever met. And one she's cared for since forever. Now to know she was used as a trap to kidnap his sister and to take him out was the worst kind of punishment. But she knew this man. Knew him intimately-if only once-but also knew he was coming to rescue them, even if it meant losing his own life. Lennox wasn't letting the only two women in his world be taken out without a fight, … especially one who didn't even know how he felt …

Book 11: The Mavericks When four members of one family-owned corporation are kidnapped off the streets in Honolulu, Gavin's intel says this is a corporate espionage case … but is it? There's not much to like about this case. Too many people are involved, … including an old friend of Gavin's. But, as Gavin digs deeper into the motives of the suspect pool, events get uglier, and bodies start to fall. Rosalina has no idea how she ended up in this nightmare, but all she cares about is her ailing parents who have been separated from her and her sister. Even when she and her sister are freed, Rosalina finds no sign of their mother or father. Trying to rescue them means deciphering friend from foe … It comes down to the wire as this close family corporation falls apart, revealing the core of darkness inside, … and leaves Gavin and Rosalina struggling to stay safe as enemies work to take out them both.

Book 12: The Mavericks Her kidnappers demanded Shane arrive. Finding out his best friend was held as a pawn just pissed him off. Finding out rescuing her was a test made him seriously angry. He hates being used. These men mean business though, as Shane finds a body count too high for comfort. Shelly knew Shane would come for her. No way he wouldn't. She was lucky to have Shane there for her, especially when learning a second woman had been kidnapped and held for over six months. The simple rescue of Shelly turns into something more to find this second woman. But is there one killer boss out there or two? As the pair try to secure their own freedom, it gets even murkier, until finding a way through is paramount. Otherwise no one gets a happy ending.

Book 13: The Mavericks Traveling to China to retrieve a kidnapped scientist shows Diesel the depths of human depravity. Not that he needs more proof. He's been doing this type of work for a decade. This is the first time though the person he was rescuing was this interesting. Eva Langston had been kidnapped while walking across the street and then locked up in a lab half a world away. Joining two other scientists, both letting her know there was no escape, she refuses to give up hope. When the rescue does come, it wasn't smooth or easy. Still she was damn glad to be free. Until she realizes that freedom is a long way off, as, one by one, her science team is picked off, leaving her the last one to be dealt with.

Book 14: The Mavericks Jerricho didn't expect his first solo mission to send him to the Middle East nor to rescue his journalist ex-wife and her cameraperson. Finding out why they and the other women had been taken was horrifying in itself, but saving a larger group than he'd first expected then complicates the rescue in a much bigger way. Brenna had hopes that her ex would show up, as she knew the type of work he did. She'd always wanted a chance to show him how much she'd changed. This was hardly the ideal time, but she might not get a second chance. Rescuing the women and taking out the kidnappers should have been the end of it, until they realize it's not as simple as it first seems. The women were objects initially; now they're targets …

Book 15: The Mavericks Killian is called up to retrieve a woman who's been kidnapped, then escaped, only to be captured again. With a sketchy SOS coming in, Killian's tracking her from Vancouver to the far reaches of the Yukon Territory in Canada, right next door to Alaska, where the intel finally stops. The apple of her father's eye, Stacey was a late gift in his life. But, when it counted, he wasn't there for her, leaving her alone and unprotected. On the run from her abusive husband, she's kidnapped a second time by a seasoned negotiator, who can see she's in trouble. Only he plans to auction her off to the highest bidder. With several threads running together on this mission, Killian must find the predator in the middle and take him out, or Stacey will never be safe again.

Book 16: The Mavericks Hatch is more than happy to step up and to rescue the missing father-and-daughter archeological duo. Now if only it were that easy. They'd been questioned by the Egyptian government and released, with a warning to not leave Cairo. But, when their hotel room is found empty, most believe they took off ahead of punishment-but not Hatch's team. When the father's foreman turns up dead, Hatch investigates the body-dump location and finds the daughter, weaving through the sand, ready to collapse. Milly is shaken and grieving. During her captivity, her father dies, and she escapes, only to find herself lost in the sand dunes. She may be safe, but her father will never come home. Millie is determined to find the man responsible for her father's death and for the information that's changed her entire life.

Book 17: The Mavericks Corbin is tracking a cabinet minister's pregnant daughter, who'd been snatched off the streets several days ago. The incident followed several other missing women's cases, except those women already had given birth, and their children were also kidnapped at the same time. Then the body of one of the mothers is found … Nellie would do anything to save her unborn child, but finding herself a prisoner was never something she expected to happen. When one of her guards grills her over an image of someone asking questions about her, she realizes she isn't as alone as she'd assumed. Now if only a rescue could be mounted before any others die … A rescue is one thing, but getting to the bottom of this nightmare becomes even more urgent, as the kidnapper refuses to give up on Nellie's unborn child and the big payoff if he succeeds …

Book 18: The Mavericks Aiden has high hopes for his own mission, but Las Vegas and a woman accused of killing her own husband wasn't it. Then he finds out it's a special request from a man he's long respected and that the woman in question was his cousin. Even more confusing is the series of other murders that, according to the local law enforcement, are linked to her as well. Toby's life has been one long nightmare, and, just when a light shines in to save her, and she hopes she will survive this after all, the cops decide she's the one who murdered her husband. Hardly … but, if she'd had the guts and the lack of concern for spending the rest of her life in jail for getting justice, then she'd have done it. But, as it was, if they can't figure out who and what is going on, she'll be spending her life in prison regardless. And that would be a shame, considering she'd just met Aiden, one of the most interesting men to cross her path. Now if only he'd been here years ago, before her world went off the rails …