Breaking Free

Breaking Free is a romantic suspense about a military hero who moves to small-town Steele Ridge for a new start. When his best friend’s sister–and expert hacker–shows up, this hero will do whatever it takes to protect her.

As the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she’ll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger. At least until he arrives in Steele Ridge, intent on hauling her back to Vegas—or burying her in North Carolina.

Former Green Beret and family friend Gage Barber has been Mr. Fix-It his entire life, but now a war wound leaves him struggling with simple tasks. And when the mysterious and sexy Micki shows up and pulls him into the middle of her family drama, his loyalty to the Steele family is tested. Although he’s sworn off his need to play hero, his undeniable attraction to Micki leaves him with only one option—convincing her to break free of her ruthless boss.

Torn over protecting the man she’s falling in love with and her yearning for a normal life, Micki must choose between staying trapped in Vegas or a life of freedom in Steele Ridge. Even if breaking free leads straight to heartbreak…and prison.

Although all books are stand alones, if you would like to read the entire Steele Ridge series chronologically, the following is the correct order:

The Beginning – The Steeles
Going Hard – The Steeles
Living Fast – The Steeles
Loving Deep – The Steeles
Breaking Free – The Steeles
Roaming Wild – The Steeles
Stripping Bare – The Steeles
Enduring Love – The Steeles
Craving Heat – The Kingstons
Tasting Fire – The Kingstons
Searing Need – The Kingstons
Vowing Love – The Steeles
Striking Edge – The Kingstons
Burning Ache – The Kingstons
Flash Point – The Blackwells
Smoke Screen – The Blackwells
Cross Roads – The Blackwells
Crash Course – The Blackwells
End Game – The Blackwells
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Doomware

A post-apocalyptic zombie horror novel. Followed by the sequel Holohive.

The evolution of the human race went too far…

It is a future time, when brain-based cybernetic computers are all but universal throughout humanity. A computer virus of unprecedented potency has swept across the globe, laying waste to technology and leaving half the world’s population dead. The other half are neither dead nor alive – they are zombies, reanimated not by witchcraft, but by the virus infecting their brainware.

David Lawney – an acybernetic, whose body inexplicably rejected brainware as a child – has survived the disaster in a London now teeming with horrors. Haunted by memories of society’s mistreatment of his kind, living in constant fear of a gruesome death, somehow David must find the strength and courage needed to protect a fellow survivor, a young boy, whose existence may hold the key to the only remaining record of all human history.

Recommended for mature readers due to graphic language, violence and MM sexual content.

The Fourth Element Trilogy

Gladiator meets Romeo and Juliet in this “spellbinding fantasy” trilogy (Kirkus) set in ancient Persia!

They are the light against the darkness. The steel against the necromancy of the Druj. And they use demons to hunt demons.

Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King’s elite Water Dogs is that they leash wicked creatures called daevas to protect the empire from the Undead. But when scouts arrive to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the chance to join their ranks. To hunt the monsters that killed her sister.

Scarred by grief, she’s willing to pay any price, even if it requires linking with a daeva named Darius. Human in body, he’s possessed of a terrifying power, one that Nazafareen controls. But the golden cuffs that join them have an unwanted side effect. Each experiences the other’s emotions, and human and daeva start to grow dangerously close.

As they pursue a deadly foe across the arid waste of the Great Salt Plain to the glittering capital of Persepolae, unearthing the secrets of Darius’s past along the way, Nazafareen is forced to question his slavery—and her own loyalty to the empire. But with an ancient evil stirring in the north, and a young conqueror sweeping in from the west, the fate of an entire civilization may be at stake.

So begins an epic story of adventure, romance and betrayal that leads to undiscovered magical realms and a final confrontation with a demon queen bent on destroying them all.

Praise for the Fourth Element Trilogy

“A spellbinding fantasy with some moral weight and a meatier narrative than usual, one likely to leave readers quite satisfied… This tale’s grand scope is set off beautifully by its intimate start. The story grows wonderfully from such a small seed, and it is the moral and subjective implications of the vastness and impersonality of the Empire that work so well to drive the narrative. The plot builds effectively, and maintains a swift pace. Nazafareen’s initial simplistic motivation, hatred, becomes complicated by her link to Darius, and evolves into something much more intriguing and complex. This transition is helped by the clarity with which the characters are drawn. The immensity of the Empire occasionally threatens to smother the personal tale at the heart of the story, but, like shadows around a candle flame, it never quite manages that feat.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Fantasy lovers who enter this world will be wooed by its expansive world-building, soul-crushing romance, deeply layered characters, and page-turning twists.” –Flylef Reviews “One of the best trilogies I’ve ever read. I will read anything by Kat Ross. Hats off to her for creating these wonderful characters and making us fall in love with them!” —Cover to Cover Reviews

“Kat Ross turned me into a puddle of emotions with her final book of the Fourth Element series! Action, betrayal, romance and demons conclude this story which can keep anyone captivated till the final page.” —Milky Way of Books

“An addictive, action-packed, glorious page-turner!” —Am Kinda Busy Reading

“I really hate the word ‘epic’ because, let’s face it, it’s so overused and it’s lost its true meaning, but this book [The Midnight Sea] deserves that word.” —Book Reader Chronicles

“This is truly a grand finale of a book, mysteries from the very beginning of the series are put to rest and our heroes win in unexpected ways. Queen of Chaos delivers a beautiful ending that is perfect as it is but is left open enough for another story to seamlessly fit in.” —Bibliobibuli

“I’m never a read-a-book-in-one-sitting kind of person, but I totally did it with Queen of Chaos. Then I hugged my Kindle and wanted to start the series all over again.” —Rattle the Stars

“Extremely engrossing and so fast-paced…A truly exceptional series.” —The InkedIn Book Blog
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The Son of the Morning

When the heroes meant to defend the world from darkness are unable to help, who will stand against the rising shadows?

Creatures lurk in the darkness, monsters out of legend, hungry for blood, ambushing any unfortunate or foolish enough to leave the light behind. They are called nightlings. They came once before, were defeated only at great cost by warriors given magical powers by the gods themselves.

Now, the nightlings have returned, but the Chosen who once defeated them are old and tired, shadows of what they once were.

And so, new champions must be Chosen. A castle servant many believe to be cursed, a musician and singer who wields her talent like a weapon, and a nobleman with a dark secret and the gods’ own luck.

These three chosen warriors will stand against creatures out of nightmare, against cruel men and gods who serve the Darkness. They are the world’s last hope, it’s last chance.

But will they be enough?

Venture into a world of warriors and magic where the gods are at war and choose mortals to fight for their cause. The Son of the Morning is a character-driven epic fantasy in the spirit of David Gemmell and Joe Abercrombie, written by Jacob Peppers, the author of the bestselling dark fantasy series, The Seven Virtues.

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Cry of the Firebird

A reluctant heroine, a firebird prince, and an army of monsters hunting them…it’s a legend waiting to happen.

In the wake of her shaman grandfather’s murder, Anya is thrust into a world of magic and mayhem as she inherits the role of Gate Keeper to Skazki, the mythic Russian land of fairy tales and gods.

Tasked with awakening her latent powers to prevent a war between dark gods and monsters from spilling into the real world, Anya finds an unlikely ally with Yvan, a prince who reluctantly shares his body with the legendary firebird.

Chased by Yvan’s malevolent sorcerer brother, Anya, and Yvan seek refuge in Skazki, where they uncover the hidden truths of Anya’s lineage. But as Anya grapples with her newfound abilities, she inadvertently draws her enemies into the real world, plunging her into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Please note that this series contains adult themes, violence, and sex scenes.