He’s a hired gun. A hardened killer. So how’d he end up bottle-feeding lambs for his best friend’s sister?Dante didn’t set out to deceive. His favor for a pal in prison got him this farmhand job, and Jen needs help guarding more than her blueberries. Someone’s set on hurting her, and he’ll make damn sure they don’t. She can’t know who sent him or why he’s handier with a handgun than a hoe. But none of that matters more than keeping Jen safe.To save the girl, he’ll have to pair old skills with new. A princess tea party and an old-fashioned gunfight? Why not. Grape stomping and grenades? Sign him up.But as the enemy closes in, there’s one skill Dante finds he doesn’t have: The strength to walk away when the job is done.

While security operative Jason "Tuff" Tanner lives for dangerous assignments, he likes his downtime in his quiet neighborhood too. But that peacefulness is suddenly interrupted when his new next-door neighbor becomes a target for someone with nefarious intentions. Canine rescuer Concetta "Chet" Suarez brings all his protective instincts to the surface, along with feelings he's never experienced with any other woman. Will he lose her before he ever gets a chance to make her his?***The Blackhawk Security series is a spinoff of the popular Trident Security series.***Tuff Enough was previously published in the USA Today Bestselling anthology, Love Under Siege. New chapters have been added to this edition.

In The Chilling Darkness, Only Love Will SurviveElsie Sweet loves nothing more than to uplift others, especially the women of her small, southern town. From her beloved secondhand shop to the hours spent volunteering at Safe Haven Women’s Shelter. But most importantly, she’s devoted herself to helping her roommate, and best friend, raise her adorable little boy.When her roommate doesn’t return home one night, Elsie seeks help from the man who’s lived rent free in her head for months. The handsome investigator who pulls her into his orbit with every smile but doesn’t seem to know she’s alive.After returning to his hometown broken hearted, Dean Kingston enjoys his new job as a private investigator where he buries himself in work. Not always an easy feat when the sexy Elsie Sweet keeps showing up, tempting him from his no romance rule.He keeps his distance until Elsie’s panicked call for help has him running to her side. Dean agrees to help Elsie find her roommate, making his feelings impossible to ignore.Elsie relies on Dean’s strong presence—falling even harder for her handsome protector—as they uncover a crime that runs deep in their community. Together, they must race against the clock before a boy’s mother never makes it home.

Prudence Hartley has the usual single mom problems: getting her kids to school on time; juggling a gazillion errands while trying to get a full day’s work done; oh, and don’t forget about dinner.
But Pru’s problems become a tad more complicated and a lot more dangerous when she finds a dead man in her house. Or a dead spy to be exact. Suddenly, a federal agent named David Merrick shows up and whisks her and her kids into protective custody. Pru has so many questions spinning through her brain she doesn’t know where to begin. How is she going to keep her kids safe? What was the dead spy looking for in her house? Why are the spies after her? Oh, and there’s one more question . . . just a pesky, minor thing. Why does Merrick have to be so damn sexy and protective?