I didn’t get to covet.I bled duty and honor, and my mission was singular—eliminate.So when I saw her, I didn’t think twice.She was trespassing.I was trained to kill.I drew.But I didn’t pull the trigger.I gave her an order… to kneel.PARAGON is your first taste of the heart-pounding Paragon Operations Series by USA Today bestselling author, Sybil Bartel! If you’re ready to step into a whole new world of romantic suspense, come meet Phoenix and the dominant Tier One Operators at Paragon Operations. But be prepared to brace, because these alpha heroes are going to make your e-reader combust!This romantic suspense novel has the following tropes: Former Navy SEAL hero, Age Gap, Billionaire hero/survivalist heroine, Black Ops band of brothers, Dominant and possessive alpha hero, Found family, and ALL the twists.

“I’m here to take you down.” – Saint“You said that wrong. What you meant was that you’re here to fall in love with me.” - AliceSaint is in the family business…the business of hunting killers and closing unsolved cases. He knows his reputation—most people think he is a monster. Dangerous, cold, deadly…and with no conscience. But it takes a guy like him to get the job done. And his latest job? Well, that job has him tracking down a suspected Black Widow…the beautiful and ever-so-seductive Alice Shephard. A woman who is linked to the disappearance of three men.Beauty can be the coldest lie of all.Whispers and scandal follow her every step, but Alice doesn’t seem to care. Is she responsible for the disappearances—and possible deaths—of three ex-lovers? Saint will find out. He’s stepping into her web, and if she’s guilty, he’ll personally lock her away, just as he has done on case after case before. Emotions never get in his way.Wanting her isn’t a surprise. Needing her is. Alice seems immune to his charm. Fair enough, mostly because Saint isn’t known for charm. But he is hell on wheels when it comes to seduction, and the attraction between him and Alice is electric. When he touches her, need rocks through him, a desire so fierce that it threatens to consume them both. But Saint can want her and still lock her away. No problem. Or…Problem. What if she’s not guilty? When Alice saves his life, Saint realizes there is more to her than meets the eye. Maybe she’s using him, maybe everything is a game to her, or maybe…maybe Alice is the real victim in the story and not the villain. Unlikely, but…what if? What if all along someone else was attacking from the dark? What if someone else is determined to claim Alice, to eliminate all other men from her life?And what if Saint might just wind up losing the one person he needs above all others?They call him Saint, but everyone knows he’s a monster…and he’s ready to let his dark side out to hunt. Author’s Note: As part of the Ice Breakers, Saint is intent on solving cold cases. But his latest case heats up—or rather, goes molten—the instant he meets Alice. She’s supposed to be a villain. Fair enough, he’s not exactly hero material. Can two villains fall in love? Time to find out. These two don’t play nicely, they love hard and dirty, and they will take on the world for each other.

She Was Going To Be Trouble… U.S. Marshal Frank Castello is on medical leave and feeling restless. While at his friends’ wedding he finds himself attracted to Sydney Peele. Problem was, the cute, sassy blonde is the photographer for the wedding. Frank hates photographers. They’re a hazard to his profession, especially when he’s on witness protection duty. He Had Hero Written All Over Him… Sydney Peele is intrigued by the grumpy Marshal at her friend’s wedding, even when the big, sexy man begrudgingly offers to take her home afterwards. Her pleasure is short lived when her home and life is literally going up in flames. Her brother had been staying at her home and there is no sign of him anywhere. When Sydney goes into a state of frozen shock, finely honed instinct has Castello rushing her from the scene to safety at his home. Danger Surrounds Them… A visit to the fire scene the next day confirms his suspicions when the firemen on the sight confirm it a case of arson. As Frank and Sydney search for answers about who might’ve started the blaze, questions arise about her brother, also a photographer. Was he responsible for the fire? Or has he exposed his sister to something far more sinister?

Three of the spiciest single dad firefighter instalove stories in all of small-town romance!Bed on Fire (A Small-Town Single Dad Firefighter Instalove Romance)Will Kiki and Brock be able to outrun the horrors of their pasts?Barn on Fire (A Small-Town Single Dad Firefighter Instalove Romance)Can Cort and Lila replace their addictions with love?Heart on Fire (A Small-Town Single Dad Firefighter Enemies-to-Lovers Romance)Are Hannah and Drex too much of a disaster to make it through one?The On Fire Collection, Volume One, fires up Books 1-3 of the East Greenwich Fire Company Series: three interconnected stories serving suspense, spice, and a sweet HEA.

Their cover demands they pose as hired sex workers to infiltrate a voyeuristic drug lord’s island fortress…They plan a distraction to get them out before things go too far…The distraction doesn’t show.Lieutenant Eric “LZ” O’Dwyer lives for impossible missions. Estranged from his powerful father for choosing the military instead of the family business, Eric brews with an internal chaos that drives him toward ops with high-risk flying, razor-thin margins, and bad odds. But posing as a male prostitute with a gorgeous, smart-mouthed DEA agent who pushes all his bad - and dangerously good - buttons may be the mission that finally unravels him.Special Agent Nicole Gamboa is done with partners who think her body is part of the job.This Navy pilot? Cocky, dark-Irish sexy, and absolutely the type to take advantage of their steamy mission to slip in a little collateral seduction. But Nicole spent her childhood in hiding, building her emotional armor. She’s prepared for betrayal. She’s prepared for danger. She’s prepared for…everything except for what actually happens.When the op falls apart and Nicole is captured, she’s forced to face the one scenario she never trained for: believing that Eric might be the partner she can finally trust.To save her, Eric will have to pull off an extraction that borders on suicidal - right up his alley.Except this time, the stakes are way too high.Everything he pretended to feel for Nicole has become gut-level real, and failure would mean losing the one woman who’s ever managed to quiet the chaos inside him.BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY launches Tracy Tappan’s explosive military romantic thriller series, where courageous naval aviators face unspeakable danger—and the kind of love worth risking everything for.Content guidelines: contains profanity and adult situations.

I wasn’t looking for a family. Or for love…GABEI’m a father?One crazy night, and my world is turned upside down.But I’ve never run from responsibility. Never backed down from a fight.Now there’s a little girl who needs me—and a woman who’s already sacrificed everything to keep her safe.Charlotte is fierce, loyal, and stronger than she knows. A warrior in her own right.My kind of woman. My kind of family.But letting her in means lowering my guard— and I’ve learned the hard way that attachments get soldiers killed.CHARLOTTEMy best friend is gone—murdered.Now it’s on me to protect her little girl. But I can’t do it alone.So I dial the number my friend left me—and Gabe answers.A Navy SEAL. Hard as steel, sharp-eyed, dangerous…and the only man I’ve ever trusted instantly.When he says we’re his family, I believe him. When he holds his daughter, I see the ice around his heart start to crack.Falling for our protector was never part of the mission.But danger is closing in, and I can’t afford distractions.Not when the same person who came for my best friend is coming for us.SEAL’s Surprise Daughter has been extended and re-released in October 2025!