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  • Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Echo Team has a new addition—a K-9, and he’s in need of training . . .Eight-plus years as Echo Three and Chris Hunter is still as mission-focused as ever, continuing to fight for his country as part of a secretive team of operatives serving the President.When Chris decides to rescue a dog for the team, he soon discovers he and the guys are far from K-9 whisperers, and they need help...
  • Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My code name is Aries.The stars say I’m aggressive, dominant, first in line to lead.The stars aren’t wrong.Zodiac Tactical is my company. It’s run by those I’ve chosen for their skills and ability to outmaneuver adversaries. We guard, protect, rescue…assist on the side of the angels.We eliminate the threat when nobody else can...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Memento Mori by Lexi Blake

    Memento Mori by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Six men with no memories of the past One leader with no hope for the future A man without a past Jax woke up in a lab, his memories erased, and his mind reprogrammed to serve a mad woman's will. After being liberated from his prison, he pledged himself to the only thing he truly knows-his team. Six men who lost everything they were...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  abuse  action-adventure
  • Shielding Riley by Susan Stoker

    Shielding Riley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Porter “Oz” Reed knew better than most how words could hurt just as much as a fist. He never planned on getting married or having kids, but all that changed when his nine-year-old nephew was dropped off on his doorstep. Riley Rogers is done with men. But her plan to stay single takes a hit when her tall, dark, and very handsome neighbor needs assistance with his nephew...
  • The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a serial killer strikes a small Alabama town - anyone could become the next victim, or the main suspect . . . Ben Logan, a former soldier, and now the successful owner of a private security firm, can handle just about anything. Well, anything except a run-in with Riley Carpenter. When Ben joined the Marines, he never looked back, and he broke his best friend's heart in the process...
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    crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Freedom: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Freedom: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s game changer he wishes he’d never met. Nolan Clark is the last man standing. While he is happy his teammates have found love, he’s even happier to be single. But fate is a funny thing. When a one-night stand turns into a friends with benefits agreement, he starts to question why he’s holding the beautiful Reagan at arm’s length...
  • Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when a woman who’s done the unthinkable needs protection—can a man who’s lost his belief in humanity keep her safe? Max Brown doesn’t trust anyone but his team. The former SEAL learned early in life that people let you down—they lie, they steal, and they lie some more. Love is a word that is used to manipulate. Family is meaningless. Max is an island and he prefers it that way...
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    alpha-mc  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Owen by Riley Edwards

    Owen by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Cullen was a dream. Not a dream come true because I’d never dared to dream. He was my wildest fantasy, a hallucination, a delusion. The handsome man who’d saved my life—twice. He was a real-life hero, and I was…what was I? Filth, that was what I was. The daughter of a gangster, the niece of the reigning king of Chicago’s underground. I tried my best not to fall in love with Owen...
  • Freeing Jasper: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Freeing Jasper: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The moment Jasper heard Emily Jenkins' sultry voice he was transfixed. An instant and heated reaction that wound its way through his soul and warmed his skin. The inexplicable connection was broken as fast as it began. Emily has a son. Jasper doesn't "do" kids...
  • Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker

    Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Kinley Taylor witnesses what was possibly the last few minutes of a young girl’s life while in Paris, she realizes exactly how alone she is in the world. The only person she has to turn to for help is the one man who she feels is completely out of her league. Gage “Lefty” Haskins liked the personal assistant the first time he met her...
  • Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I left here a man but came back a beast CHANCE A shoulder-fired missile broke my body. But betrayal obliterated my heart. For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed. Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  soldiers  suspense  war  abuse
  • Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Discovering your ex is a serial-killing religious zealot would put anyone off dating for a good long while. That’s where Hudson “Taco” Vines’s head is at when he meets Koren, a woman who looks a little too much like his ex for comfort. But he can’t deny their attraction, and the more he gets to know her, the more Taco realizes how different Koren is from his ex, in all the best ways...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ember Harris has sworn to save lives. Joseph King is an assassin. Death is their common ground, only they stand on opposing sides. A dead man’s plea pushes Dr. Ember Harris headfirst into a swirling mire of drugs, death and political corruption. The Cartel boss who murdered Ember’s friend will stop at nothing to get the information entrusted to her...
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    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two Estranged Hearts. One Second Chance. An Unknown Enemy Threatening to Destroy It.

He thought leaving would keep her safe.Five years ago, Gabriel Dawson had it all. He was in charge of his own SEAL team, was married to the love of his life, and together, he and Elle were planning the future he’d always wanted...
  • Defending Morgan by Susan Stoker

    Defending Morgan by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Protection leads to passion in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s dangerously hot Mountain Mercenaries adventure.Dispatched to the Dominican Republic to rescue a kidnapped child, former Navy SEAL Archer “Arrow” Kane makes a startling discovery: another hostage—Morgan Byrd, a very beautiful and very well-known missing person who disappeared off the streets of Atlanta a year ago...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  abuse  action-adventure
  • Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Tortured Hero with a Heart of Gold Growing up on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Javier Almeida has only his older sister to protect him. When she’s sold to a human-trafficker, he vows to hunt down those responsible. Years later, Titan Group’s Delta team finds him, tattooed and brawling, a vigilante protector with information they want...
  • Storm by Janie Crouch

    Storm by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Breathe in. Breathe out. Survive.Marilyn Ellis is finally putting her life back together. The domestic abuse she suffered may be labeled textbook by therapists, but it’s the parts she’s never told anyone that haunt her.She refuses to get trapped in that hell ever again...
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    crime  dark  military  suspense  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Thin Ice: by Maryann Jordan, Suspense Sisters

    Thin Ice: by Maryann Jordan, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sleeper SEALs, are former U.S. Navy SEALs recruited by a new CIA counter-terror division to handle solo dark ops missions to combat terrorism on U.S. soil. Logan (Preacher) Bishop, retired Navy SEAL, flew tourists on helicopter rides over the mountains of Montana and occasionally rescued skiers from snowy slopes...
  • Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Collection One by Susan Stoker

    Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Collection One by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Books 1-4 in the Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Series Justice for Mackenzie Daxton Chambers, a member of the oldest and most distinguished law enforcement agency in the state of Texas, never understood why people killed. But this new case, where someone was kidnapping and burying women alive, is a whole new level of depravity...
  • Geir by Dale Mayer

    Geir by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Geir Winthrop, a former SEAL, has recovered from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine more than two years ago. Six other team-mates were also badly injured, the seventh--Mouse--dead, in what their team leader realized later had to be a trap. Geir has been trying to uncover details about Mouse’s history...
  • To the Xtreme by Em Petrova

    To the Xtreme by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    n the Alaskan wilderness, meeting their match takes on more than one meaning.Special Operative and second-in-command for the Xtreme Ops team, Harris Lipton, aka Lip, finds himself sidelined after an accident. While laid up, locating a loony in the national forest won’t be easy, especially by shooting off text messages instead of bullets...
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    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Weston's Treasure by Riley Edwards

    Weston's Treasure by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Silver Coyle thought she was doing the right thing—see something, say something. Now she finds herself kidnapped, chained to a pipe in the hull of a ship, and on a collision course with death. Her only chance of rescue is from the one man she never wants to see again—Weston Beil—the know-it-all former SEAL. He’s bossy, arrogant, and sexy all wrapped up in a tough-guy package. Untouchable...
  • Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kason “Benny” Sawyer was the last single man on his Navy SEAL team. He loved his teammates like brothers and respected each and every one of their women. They’d all been through hell and they deserved their current happiness. But seeing the love between his friends and their women made it tough to be the odd man out all the time. Jessyka Allen had a good life, until it wasn’t anymore...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  soldiers  suspense  war  abuse
  • Mason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Mason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Falling for each other was never part of the plan…Doctor Sage Porter has moved to Marble Falls to be the private physician for a group of men unlike any the world has ever known. But she has a second, secret reason for moving to the small town. A reason she can’t share with another living soul…Especially not the men under her care.Mason Ross is a born guardian...
  • Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Black's Bandits series! This book is about Colt and Angie...
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    crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A military widow reluctant to risk her heart again. After losing her soldier husband in combat, DEA agent Tess Dubrovksi swore never to fall for another man in uniform. The last thing she anticipates is for a sexy FAST agent single father and his young daughter to steal their way into her heart...
  • Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve spent the last several years building my company, having zero time for a social life. I preferred it that way. After the mess my ex-wife left me with, I have no interest in anything remotely close to a relationship. Until I meet my daughter’s new next-door neighbor. Harley is kind, beautiful, and she’s also an erotic romance writer. To any man, she’s the perfect package...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Hot Protector by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Protector by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the forbidden is impossible to resist… The 10th novel in the bestselling Hostile Operations Team series. Chase “Fiddler” Daniels finds himself on the run with Sophie Nash—the step-sister he loves to hate. Protecting Sophie from a Russian mobster shouldn’t be too hard...
  • Her Dominant SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Dominant SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Cry for Help It only takes one phone call, and Navy SEAL Drake Avery is rushing back to Tennessee in the middle of the night. His sisters are in danger, and he will do whatever it takes to protect them. A New Twist Now is not the time for a relationship, but damned if Drake doesn’t cross paths with a smokin’ hot kindergarten teacher named Karen Eastman...
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    crime  military  suspense  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book
  • King of Clubs by Sandra Owens

    King of Clubs by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the second novel in acclaimed author Sandra Owens’s Aces & Eights series, passions—and tempers—flare as one star-crossed couple gets a second chance at love. Covert FBI agent Court Gentry loves his brothers, his job, and his Harley-Davidson. Once he loved a girl, too, but when she broke his heart, he put his emotions on lockdown…until she crosses his path again...
  • Her Steadfast HERO by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Steadfast HERO by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EARTHQUAKE! David Sloane is one of the Army’s top investigators. Convinced that two of his own have been framed by the tiny island government of Las Flores, he’s determined to do what it takes to prove their innocence. When a major earthquake hits the day he arrives all hell breaks loose. LOST LOVE In the midst of chaos, former army nurse Sarah Kyle arrives with Doctor Without Borders...
  • Nightstalker by Riley Edwards

    Nightstalker by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    asmin I was blissfully living my life as a tier one security contractor, shooting guns and killing bad guys. My life was perfect. Almost. I was missing something; a missing piece of time to be exact. For the last two years I have tried to remember the details of my capture and torture. Two years willing my brain to remember. Nothing. I could remember nothing...
  • Captivate Me by Ryan Michele

    Captivate Me by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who’s behind all the mayhem in the Ravage MC? Time to find out. **Please note, this is the last book in the Ravage MC series. It is told from several different points of view. Including, but not limited to: Buzz, Bella, Breaker, Pops and Ma. Of course in true Ryan Michele fashion, there are twists, turns and action to keep you on your toes and the pages flying.** Full blurb coming soon...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  abuse  action-adventure
  • Axel by Dale Mayer

    Axel by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life was never boring, but, for Axel, things kick up a notch when he helps in an underwater rescue of a downed submarine that’s low on oxygen. What they find is nothing like what they expected. All the crew but one was dead—as in shot to death. The last remaining crew member was alive but in rough shape...
  • Keane by Dale Mayer

    Keane by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    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...
  • Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The final "powerfully intense" (Romantic Times) Black Ops, Inc. novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard, featuring a covert private security team and electrifying romantic suspense. Black Ops, Inc. operative Joe Green is determined to bring to justice the man responsible for former team member Bryan Tompkins's death...
  • Guardian Angel: Callaghan Brothers, Book 5 by Abbie Zanders

    Guardian Angel: Callaghan Brothers, Book 5 by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They call him the Iceman. The eldest of seven brothers, he is the biggest. The coldest. The meanest. No one has been able to break through the icy shield Kane Callaghan has built around himself. No one except the tiny, stubborn woman willing to sacrifice herself for him. She haunts his dreams, but he has no idea who she is. Where she is. Or if he’ll ever see her again...
  • Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING HAS FOUND HIS MATCH Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it...
  • Billionaire Untamed ~ Tate by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Untamed ~ Tate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lara Bailey isn't in Rocky Springs for the hot springs, the resort activities or the fabulous skiing. She has come to Colorado for one reason and one reason only: to find and get close to Marcus Colter, the eldest Colter brother. Unfortunately, trouble finds her in the form of Tate Colter rather than Marcus...
  • Griffin by Dale Mayer

    Griffin by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
  • North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her...
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    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Harrison's Heart by Dale Mayer

    Harrison's Heart by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Harrison’s Heart, book 7 in Heroes for Hire, reconnecting readers with the unforgettable men from SEALs of Honor in a new series of action-packed, page turning romantic suspense that fans have come to expect from USA TODAY Bestselling author Dale Mayer. When a call for help comes from Ice’s father, Harrison steps up...
  • SEALs of Honor: Easton by Dale Mayer

    SEALs of Honor: Easton by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the next book in the SEALs of Honor series. Trips to Canada’s wilderness for joint military training are something Easton always enjoys. But meeting the photographer contracted to take pictures of the base and trainees for new marketing materials adds a whole new twist to the trip. A twist Easton quickly realizes has a dark undertone...
  • Eden by Nyssa Kathryn

    Eden by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The heart doesn’t forget…The memory of that day still haunts Shylah Kemp. Eden had asked her to wait for him, to remain at the safe house while he went on a mission. But when she learned he was being setup, she didn’t have a choice. She had to do something. It was a risk…and Shylah paid dearly. Eden Cole is not the man he once was...
  • Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This will be the 4th and final book in the Home Series, and focuses on Commander Michael Casiano and Lainey Riley. Mike Casiano has lived his life by a certain creed: take care of all those who depend on you and leave no man behind. He wanted more for his life than joining his family's law firm when he graduated college...
  • Hard Line by Pamela Clare

    Hard Line by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman dragged into danger…Dr. Samantha Park’s life is shaken when her best friend and research partner dies barely two months into their eight-month stretch at the South Pole. She hasn’t begun to face her loss when men from Cobra International Security arrive to recover sensitive military components from a crashed satellite—and ask her to come with them...
  • The Problem with Peace by Anne Malcom

    The Problem with Peace by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone expects the fairy tale from me. Because on the outside, I look like I live in a fantasy. I'm a hopeless romantic. I fall in and out of love. I change careers, zip codes and hair colors on a whim. I'm a free spirit without a care in the world. I'm the one that loves everyone and hates no one. But I've got a secret... I'm not a free spirit. Not really...
  • Wet by Angel Payne

    Wet by Angel Payne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    T-Bomb, Tait Bommer’s call-sign, has never described him more accurately. A loose cannon with a penchant for pissing people off, he’s now responsible for a major screw-up during the First Special Forces Group’s most recent mission. His mess has earned him two weeks of mandated R&R on the shores of Kauai, where the ultimatum is clear—straighten up and fly right, or don’t return to active duty...
  • Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Aaron's Honor by Lindsay Cross

    Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Aaron's Honor by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a Special Forces operative, Aaron Spears treated relationships like Tangos. He’d seen the wreckage of his Task Force brothers' attempts and had no desire to put any woman through the hardship. He had one purpose – serve his country and protect his teammates. Then Celine Latimer walked into his life and turned his world upside down...
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    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage. Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life...
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