Ryker was raised in foster care group home, and never gained the softer skills a family would have given him. Upon graduation he joined the military, providing him structure, meaning and a great career of which he could be proud. After twelve years he has a life he is comfortable within, a team that he would die to protect and little else in his solitary existence. Unfortunately, all that changes when one of his team doesn't make it out of the latest covert operation and Ryker is made to keep a promise that will take him on a trip toward everything he always claimed he didn't want. Darby is...

Emily is doing everything she can to protect her two young children, including a late night bus trip to parts unknown where her ex can't find her. She just needs a little time to heal from the last physical encounter and figure out her next move. She is determined to find a way to make more of herself and provide a different life for her children that the one she had as a child. She doesn't trust men, as the only ones she has ever allowed close have crushed her spirit and body. Travis finds the holidays a reminder of everything he lost, when his wife and daughter were killed years earlier....

Sarah had always been Lane's strength, the woman who saw him through all the difficult times, even the death of a team member who had been like a brother to him. Finally, he had decided to leave the military and devote his time to the love of his life, and his newborn daughter. But fate steps in and all that changes in the matter of one terrible day. Left alone to raise his baby daughter, Lane struggles to find a footing on the path toward the future that is his new reality. With the help of his ex-military buddies, their significant others and friends, he begins to live again, helming a new...

Nora survived a parent's worst nightmare, but now lives in a small compressed world keeping people at bay. Her mother has provided her a job that allows her to make a living cut off from the world in general, making only tiny in roads with the women around her for companionship. Until the day a small child with a similar story walks in and refuses to leave her alone. Learning to put her own feelings aside to help Anabeth regain her independence and happiness again allows Nora to focus on something outside her own pain for the first time. Dealing with Anabeth's overprotective father though is...

Declan lives in the shadows helping deliver people out of the worst moments of their lives. After his military career ended he joined a team in a foreign land putting the most lethal skills in his toolbox to best use, all the while watching over his only family from afar. He wants his sister, Morgan to enjoy all the best in life, free from the confines of the knowledge of what he does and the evil that threatens their world daily. When his sister's life is unexpectedly jeopardized though, he will need to break every rule to help find answers of historically altering events that will change...

Audra is so busy caring for her terminally ill mother, and her demanding career as a trauma nurse she never found time for a personal life. Her mom and her had formed a tight knit team for all of her life, without a father figure of any kind imposing on their relationship. One fateful night though a patient brought into the emergency room will rock her world in unimaginable ways and change the course of her personal life and family ties forever. Donovan has worked for Steinbender Corporation and served as the company's owner Marshall Steinbender's right hand since graduating college. His busy...