The Guardians Series by Hope Anika

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. Once a carny, always a carny… When Fiona's estranged stepbrother calls asking for help, she's pretty sure the apocalypse has arrived. Because Max walked away from her—and the carnival they called home—years ago, and only silence has filled the decade between them.But Special Agent Max's FBI safe house has been exposed, and he's desperate for a place to stash his young murder witness... moreAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. Once a carny, always a carny… When Fiona's estranged stepbrother calls asking for help, she's pretty sure the apocalypse has arrived. Because Max walked away from her—and the carnival they called home—years ago, and only silence has filled the decade between them.But Special Agent Max's FBI safe house has been exposed, and he's desperate for a place to stash his young murder witness. Fi is tempted to show him the door, but said witness is just an innocent kid, and no matter the tangled, painful mess between them, Fiona can't bring herself to abandon a child.Unlike Fi, retired Army Ranger Rye Wilder has no problem coming to the rescue when his friend and former Ranger Max calls, especially if it means finally laying eyes on the mysterious Fiona, a woman whose image has haunted Rye since he first laid eyes on the worn photo in Max's wallet. A man with no one to call his own, Rye has never understood Max's desertion of his sister, and the opportunity to witness the reunion is too tempting to resist. Because family is precious and rare and a gift to be protected—something Rye is determined to make them both understand.But first Max has to unmask a mole. Fiona has to safeguard an innocent girl against the man hunting her. And Rye…Rye has to keep everyone alive. less

When the boy who broke her heart crashes back into Ruby Jones's life, she's determined to give him the boot. There are some things a girl simply can't forgive, and being forgotten is at the top of the list. The last person CIA Agent Rafferty Blackheart expects to find while retrieving the message left for him by his dead partner is the childhood friend he left behind two decades earlier... moreWhen the boy who broke her heart crashes back into Ruby Jones's life, she's determined to give him the boot. There are some things a girl simply can't forgive, and being forgotten is at the top of the list. The last person CIA Agent Rafferty Blackheart expects to find while retrieving the message left for him by his dead partner is the childhood friend he left behind two decades earlier. But the woman he discovers bears little resemblance to the girl he remembers, and even though the sight of her breathes life into everything he's spent years fleeing, walking away from her is an impossibility.Because Rafe is on a mission, one he can't complete without Ruby. So no matter their dark history, their mutual distrust, or the intense, unwelcome pull between them, they must come together. To avenge the death of an innocent; to save a child. And to stop a mad man bent on reshaping the human race.Before it's too late.A dark, edgy, steamy thriller with characters you won't forget…contemporary romantic suspense at its best. less

2022 Winner, Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/SuspenseAfter Ellie Broussard saves Sean McDougal’s son from drowning, she walks away, unwilling to involve herself with the rakish Irishman and his charming boy. Ellie has suffered a devastating loss, and her world is one of chosen isolation and calculated vengeance. She has only one focus: to find the monster that stole her child and turn his world to ash. Sean can relate to Ellie’s suffering... more2022 Winner, Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/SuspenseAfter Ellie Broussard saves Sean McDougal’s son from drowning, she walks away, unwilling to involve herself with the rakish Irishman and his charming boy. Ellie has suffered a devastating loss, and her world is one of chosen isolation and calculated vengeance. She has only one focus: to find the monster that stole her child and turn his world to ash. Sean can relate to Ellie’s suffering. Having lost his wife to cancer, his sole focus has become raising his boy, and love…well, love can take a long walk. He’s in Louisiana to locate a cache of stolen art, and even if he’s taken aback—and reluctantly intrigued—by the mysterious and chilly Ellie Broussard, he knows better than to tumble down that rabbit hole. But when they’re thrown together on assignment to recover the cache, Sean and Ellie have no choice but to put aside their mutual misgivings and work side by side. To share; to trust; to discover they are not as separate as they appear. And as Ellie’s deadly hunt approaches its culmination, they must risk everything they hold dear to stop a murderer who is readying his next strike, and to save an orphaned girl whose only hope lies in their willingness to defy the darkness and step into the light.A steamy thriller with characters you won’t forget…dark romantic suspense at its best. less

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.When psychic medium Thea Marlie’s young protégé, Drew, goes missing, she knows there’s only one man for the job: FBI Special Agent Max Prescott. But Thea and Max have an ugly history, and asking him for help means confronting the darkest time of her life.FBI Agent Max Prescott has been waiting for the moment when the only woman he ever loved would need him... moreAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.When psychic medium Thea Marlie’s young protégé, Drew, goes missing, she knows there’s only one man for the job: FBI Special Agent Max Prescott. But Thea and Max have an ugly history, and asking him for help means confronting the darkest time of her life.FBI Agent Max Prescott has been waiting for the moment when the only woman he ever loved would need him. He’s ready to face the past and accept its consequences, to do whatever it takes to win Thea back…even if he fears some things are too terrible to forgive.Thea wants only to forget, while Max is determined to start anew. But when they learn Drew has been taken by people on the hunt for the lost treasure el Tesoro del Corazon, they will have to find a way to move beyond the past and into the present. Because the race to unearth the hidden chest of cursed Spanish silver is on, and to save the boy they will have to work together to find it…before the curse that follows el Tesoro finds them. less