Results for "Elle James" in Military

The Protector. Former Air Force Pararescue Specialist, Morris “Moe” Cleveland might be smaller than the other members of his team, but size, in his case, certainly matters. He can fit in places his counterparts can’t and his body is wiry, streamlined and fast. The perfect choice when it comes to proportional matches. Thankfully, his new client is nine inches shorter than him. Assigned to protection duty for a rich man’s daughter seems a waste of his skills. But he’s getting paid well for babysitting duty and wouldn’t complain. At least he isn’t dodging bullets in the Middle East.

Harlequin Intrigue brings you two action-packed stories in one collection, from New York Times bestselling author Elle James! DRIVING FORCE With no identity, memory or past… She must trust a stranger in order to survive. When a woman is caught shadowing the team leader of Declan’s Defenders...

She wants to save the bayou. He wants to save her. They might lose both... Beau Boyette joined the military to earn money for college, but after a helicopter crash killed his team, he left the military and worked as a mercenary before joining Bayou Brotherhood Protectors. Now, back in his Louisiana hometown, he’s assigned to protect Aurelie Anderson, the daughter of a state senator. Aurelie runs her father’s philanthropic efforts to save the bayou, but with her father up for re-election against a candidate backed by the Cajun mafia, she’s treading a dangerous path.

Abandoned by his mother, raised by a taciturn Marine, Dax joined the Navy to become a SEAL. Fast-forward twelve years later, he’s out of the Navy, done time as a mercenary and now works for Brotherhood Protectors. Never trusted women. Never married. Never wanted to. Lawyer and motivational speaker, Liliana Lightfeather is running for the US House of Representatives for the state of Wyoming. From the Wind River Indian Reservation, she clawed her way out of poverty to become a lawyer representing her people and the rest of Wyoming.

Chelsea Youngblood’s first love is her only true love. Wolves. Raised on a wildlife rescue ranch, she grew up with wolves as her siblings. It was only natural she would become a wolf biologist and work with the wolves of Yellowstone National Park. When one of her pack is accused of killing a rancher, she makes it her mission to find the two-legged animal responsible.

A fake wedding date. A real killer. Former Delta Force operator Lucas LeBlanc joins Bayou Brotherhood Protectors, hoping to put his skills to use — especially when it comes to protecting the beautiful florist, Felina Faivre, he’s been eyeing since arriving in Bayou Mambaloa. Felina, the town’s only florist, is caught in a whirlwind. Her ex is marrying her best friend, and now a murder, a break-in, and a frantic bride threaten her business and the wedding. She agrees to hire Brotherhood Protectors — but only if Lucas goes undercover as her new boyfriend.

When a deputy is targeted, the man she never forgot becomes her fiercest protector. Remy Montagne never planned to return to Bayou Mambaloa for more than a quick visit. Some good fishing, a few cold beers — and one unforgettable night with a beautiful stranger who burned her way into his mind. Only Shelby Taylor wasn’t a stranger. She was the girl who used to follow him around the bayou, the one he never really noticed... until now. As a sheriff’s deputy, Shelby chose to stay and protect the place that shaped them both.

When a rash of suicides plagues the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, teen counselor Amanda Small calls on the Brotherhood Protectors to help investigate what she suspects are murders. Manning and Small team up to investigate, discovering an attraction neither expected nor wanted.

She’s got enemies. He’s got scars. Together, they’ll face a war neither of them expected. Gerard Guidry fought hard for his country — and lost a piece of himself in the process. Medically discharged and recruited into the Bayou Brotherhood Protectors, he’s ready for his first major solo assignment: guarding a stubborn farm girl with a target on her back. Widowed and alone, Bernie Bellamy’s life depends on the land — and the animals she calls family. When her friend Gertrude is murdered and the threats close in, she turns to the Brotherhood for protection.

Former Navy SEAL, Stone Jacobs, with help from Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors launches a mission to rescue his team of mercenaries stranded in Afghanistan after US withdrawal. Undercover as a journalist, international assassin, Kyla Russell is performing her last assignment in Afghanistan. She baulks when she discovers her mission is to kill a man who doesn't deserve it. Kyla wants out of the business, but her handler would rather see her dead than let her go.

Vincent ‘Venom’ Jones, former Navy SEAL sniper, left the Navy after a Taliban kill resulted in collateral damage—the death of a child. Out of the military, and unsure of his future, he’s recruited by Hank Patterson and Jake Cogburn of the Brotherhood Protectors. He accepts the position on one condition…he refuses to protect children. At her former Army buddy’s insistence, Maria Elena Garcia left her boyfriend, the son of a drug cartel kingpin, in the Texas border town of El Paso and headed for Colorado.

Rucker Sloan, thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question. Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know… After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories. Deployed to Afghanistan, she hopes she’s making a difference, especially when she treats a cranky wounded soldier who just might be more broken than she is.

Navy SEAL Remy LaDue wants Mitchell Sanders but hasn't made a move since he slept with her the night of his buddy's - her former boyfriend's - funeral. A year later his plan to be her Valentine date runs amuck when he finds her undercover as a stripper at a local club.

Delta Force Operative Levi Franks retires from the Army and joins the Brotherhood Protectors. Having lost the love of his life, he’s seen the best and worst of humanity and has no interest in love, marriage or a family. He wants to use the skills he’s honed to combat evil. After a messy divorce, Mattie McIntyre, rebuilt her life from nothing to something. As the owner of Mattie’s Diner in Fool’s Gold, Colorado, she chooses kindness and empathy.

Sole survivor of a mission gone wrong, Griff left the Navy to recover from his wounds and grief. The one woman he’d grown to love had left San Diego while he'd been deployed and hadn't returned or reached out. When Jake Cogburn offered him a job in Colorado, he agreed to check it out, never expecting he’d find the one who ditched him upside down in a ditch near the headquarters of Brotherhood Protectors Colorado.

Real estate agent Jenna Meyers is in a good position to work a side job as a private investigator searching for the money stolen from a bank. On a routine visit to a potential listing, Jenna discovers a grisly scene in an abandoned home. Her first thought is squatters. A closer look reveals the house had been used as a place of torture. A chance sighting of someone lurking in the woods nearby leaves Jenna fearful for her life. When Sebastian McKinnon catches wind of the torture site, he vows to protect Jenna, convinced the victim tortured could have been his missing father.

Native American of the Blackfeet Nation, Lani Running Bear ends her service in the Army Military Police corps, and returns to the reservation to help her people as a law enforcement officer. When members of her tribe turn up dead, she doesn't know who she can trust, and calls on a man she’d busted while deployed. A man with the one qualification that would allow him to live on the reservation with her. Fresh out of the Army, and new to Brotherhood Protectors, Zachariah Jones is prime for his first assignment as the undercover fiancé of a tribal officer.

US Marine Colin McKinnon fell in love with Emily in high school, but when he elected to join the Marine Corps, Emily chose to marry Colin’s best friend, Alex, preferring a safe and secure life. Brokenhearted but resolute, at their wedding, Colin promised Alex he’d take care of Emily if anything ever happened to Alex. Though Emily loved Colin more, she married Alex, one of her best friends. She couldn’t abide the heartache of Colin marching into harm’s way.

Trevor Anderson gave up his life as a Navy SEAL when he lost his best friend in an ambush. Before his friend died, he’d promised him he’d take care of his wife, should anything happen to him. Trevor left the Navy and returned to his home state of Montana to follow through on that promise. Widow of a Navy SEAL, Lana works for Homeland Security, searching for answers behind her husband’s death. When she gets too close to the truth, she calls on her husband’s best friend for help.

On terminal leave, Navy SEAL Sam Franklin has a job waiting for him with the Brotherhood Protectors, but he’s taking a few days off to try his hand at fly fishing before he goes back to work. He needs the R & R to decompress after his final mission got some of his buddies killed. Relaxation ends when his adopted military working dog Grunt discovers a body washed up on the river bank.