Protectors at Heart

When an agent teams up with a local sheriff, she doesn't realize his secret could endanger their lives... With Homeland Security on high alert, Rylee Hockings heads into the field to thwart a foreign threat. But local county sheriff Axel Trace doesn't want the newbie federal agent treading on his turf. As he learns to accept her help, the stakes rise as he realizes he'll have to reveal a secret that could jeopardize her case-and cost them their lives.

In this romantic suspense novel of opposites attract, a daring CIA agent is rescued by a risk-averse woman he must then join forces with to survive. CIA agent Ryan Carr's mission is to deliver top secret intel-not guard IT expert Haley Nobel. Sure he owes the cautious woman his life for saving him during a shootout. Except the last thing he expects is to be forced to rely on a risk adverse woman for help-especially since Haley's vulnerability shakes him to the core. But once on the run together, they must combine forces to stay alive.

In this romantic suspense novel, a separated couple gets a second chance when husband and wife are forced to band together against dangerous terrorists. When Detective Dalton Stevens follows his estranged wife, Erin, to the Adirondack Mountains, neither of them expects to be entrusted with intel that must be shared with Homeland Security. Now they're forced to join together on a harrowing wilderness trek to outrun the terrorists who'll kill for the secret. Dalton's real objective-to reconcile with headstrong Erin-happens by chance . . . when one bullet changes everything.