Military Violence

Patrick Garr Slater has patiently, painfully waited for Macie to grow up. He was so focused on doing the right thing, he practically missed the fact that she’d grown up right in front of him. She was a beautiful, intelligent, sexy woman and he wanted her more than anything in his entire life. When her panicked voice told him she was in trouble, Garr wasted no time in getting to her. A mass shooting. Another mass shooting and she was right in the middle of it. Although Macie is safe, others may not be. Someone is playing a dangerous game, and the boys of Voodoo Guardians are going to make ...

Maverick Stanton and his friends are ready to plan their futures at home with friends and family. Just when he thought things would get easier, a woman's scream sends him to her rescue. He never guessed that she was already part of their greater family network. He also could have never guessed that what she was working on with G.R.I.P. could change the world in the worst possible ways. With his best friends by his side, Maverick will protect her and prevent others from getting to her discovery. Katelyn Smith has lived a strange life filled with private schools tucked away in the wilderness ...

Sebastian Vernon has been in love with Emelia Stanton since they were just kids. Now they have a chance at a life together as she contemplates her last case with the FBI. It was hard to see her go back to D.C., but he knew they would be together soon. Until she called to read the ransom note. There's no holding any of them back. Someone is going to pay for this. Except what do you do when you understand the criminal's motives? Emelia just wants to solve the bank robberies that have been plaguing the east coast for the last two years. She knows she's close and wants this last case solved ...

Tobias Franklin Redhawk may be a twin to JB, but he's a completely different man. He enjoys playing the field, giving the ladies what they really want with no ties, no promises, and no returns. He never expected to meet Gail. A friend of his brother's fiancée, she's different, yet the same as him. When she calls him out of the blue, beaten and dying in an alley, he does what any VG man would do. He saves her. But discovering the evil that led her to this place may be the last straw for Tobias. Either way, Gail was going home with him. Gail Mackenzie didn't want permanent. She didn't want ...

Alistair Fitch was getting tired of seeing his friends fall in love and then fall into blissful happiness. Actually, he wasn't tired of it. He just wanted that for himself. Meeting their new chopper pilot was not the way he thought he'd find the love of his life but there she was. Beautiful, smart, funny, and a horrible sense of direction. How could he not fall in love? When she's shot down over the mountains of West Virginia his only goal is to get her out and kill the men that dared to shoot at her. Clark Grimes was teased for her strange name her entire life. That is until she followed ...

Joseph Billy 'JB' Redhawk has always been the quieter of the twins. Serious, focused, and often his brother's keeper, they find themselves in the Bahamas on a mission. But beaches and surf mean bars, women, and trouble. Agreeing to go out with Tobias was about ensuring his brother didn't do something stupid. When shots are fired and JB is the one alone on the beach with a beautiful woman, the tables are suddenly turned. Strange netting, trapped dolphins, and a gorgeous chemist have JB racing to solve this mystery, and save his girl. Dana Vaughn adores her friend, Gail, but she can be a bit ...

Eastman Matthew Wolfkill, better known as East, is one-third of the Wolfkill triplets. Sent to El Paso to try and figure out what the father of Morgan Sutton is doing with his drug cartel, he finds something he never expected. His childhood love. Both are trying to bring down a man who thoroughly believes he is untouchable. A man who sold his own daughter to a ruthless drug dealer for payment of his own debt. A man who doesn't think twice about killing men, women, and children. East gets some unexpected help from family and friends. But what he really gets is what he's always wanted. Brooke...

Brixton Slater never expected to find the love of his life while on a mission. Stupid, really. Every man he knew found their wives during stressful situations. It seemed the blessing and curse of the Belle Fleur boys. This one was different though. He saved her, she saved him. Easy. What wasn't easy was trying to figure out the game her mother was playing. While he and his teammates work on that situation, everyone back home is getting ready for a wedding. Daphne Bishop was the adopted daughter of Lord and Lady Bishop. She and her sister had been adopted as little girls and given the best ...

Rush Anders made one of the biggest mistakes of his life, walking away from the only woman he's ever loved. Now, he's just one mission away from being able to go home and tell her how he really feels. That is, if he can survive this solo mission. Shot and bleeding, he never expected to find his angel inside the monkey caves of the zoo. But there she was, giving him an earful. Keeping her safe and finding his mark is going to require a little help. Well, maybe a lot of help. Caroline Mullins is in her final months of veterinary school. When she's done, she'll return home to help her parents,...

Conor Quinn finds himself in a dangerous and unusual situation. He's now a hostage of the North Korean army. Beaten, abused and interrogated daily, he's trying to find a way out; a silver lining. The vision of a woman keeps popping into his head, but he has bigger problems right now. Someone on his team sold him out. A fellow SEAL gave his position away, endangering their entire team. When his family team stumbles onto his location, finding a beaten, unrecognizable man, they do what they're trained to do. Save the prisoner, get him home, and nurse him back to health. Things aren't over for ...

When someone from California flies all the way to Belle Fleur because trash is appearing on her beach, the team thinks maybe this one is out of their element. Unfortunately, it's right in their wheelhouse and they are all in on helping this client. They never expect to find something so heinous, something that hits all of them so close to home. This is what they do. This is why they created Gray Wolf and all the others before. Lessons learned for the bad guys. Never count these men out. They are still ready to deliver justice in the most horrific way.

Trying on a new suit or dress should be one of the guilty pleasures for all women. But when several young women notice something strange in the dressing room, the only place to turn is Gray Wolf Security. Finding the owners of the cameras is something they know how to do, but the deeper, more twisted mystery is why and finding the individuals pulling the strings. As the mystery deepens, the men find a new teammate for the boys at Voodoo Guardians and the women get a chance to strut their stuff. Bad ass is hot.

Patrick Jordan is ready to leave his life as a SEAL, and head home with his brother. Before he can do that, he must do one final mission in one of the worst places on earth. Although the mission seems easy, stumbling over a young woman and child complicates everything in his life. Totally unready for the mix of emotions and feelings assaulting him, he nearly chases away the one woman who has completely intrigued him. But saving her means stopping not one, but two child predators and traffickers. These men don't deserve to live and if Patrick has his way, they'll be gone from this earth ...

Christopher Luke Jordan has been carrying around a truckload of guilt for something that wasn't even his fault. Still, it should have been him. He should be the one in the wheelchair, not her. He should have gone to her. He should have talked to her. But he didn't. Instead, he wallowed in his guilt until he couldn't see anything else. When he finds himself needing relief from a rough night's sleep, he heads to the spa only to run into the one person he never thought he'd see again. Ramey Curry is right there, staring back at him and she has a favor that will change his world forever. Ramey ...

It's not often that the team meets a man who could easily overpower them. Bigger, stronger, and looking to find the person who murdered his teammate, New Orleans Fire center, Trevon Marks, is asking for the help of the team. But not everything is as it seems. Football should be a game, an occupation for some, but not a death sentence. The world of semi-pro football is not something the team has explored before. They hope they never have to again. Dirty, cut-throat, all about the money, they're shocked to learn that owners are killer their players for profit and contracts are signed with no ...

Jonas Samson couldn't believe his luck. After almost five years as a widower, he finds the one woman that turns his head and makes his body boil. Never in a million years did he think her past would so dramatically interact with his own. If he wants a life with her, he has to find a way to move on. If he can do that, he might have the life that he's dreamed of his whole life. If he can do that, he might finally find his peace and contentment. If he can do that, he just might find the killer of his late-wife and unborn twins. If he can do that. Khloe Jones never thought she'd find love. She ...

Kevin Crawford finds himself in a precarious situation. He's found the woman of his dreams. Beautiful, intelligent, strong, brave. And, engaged. Or is she? He doesn't want to break up a loving couple, but it seems Tila is not necessarily crying over her postponed engagement. Their time together is short and precious, but it leaves both of them with a gift they never expected. Leaving her was the most difficult thing he's ever done. Trying to get her to return his calls is even more difficult. Who knew all he needed to do was get her to come to his brother's wedding. Otilia 'Tila' Blackwater...

Used to surprises at Belle Fleur, the Gray Wolf team shouldn't have been surprised by three little kids asking them to free their friend, Sterling. But when they divulge that he's accused of murdering a young woman, raping and beating her, the men are more than a little intrigued. Finding and freeing Sterling isn't the hard part. The hard part is finding out who is playing sick games with people phobias and fears. The signs point to a dozen possible offenders. Finding the one is harder than they thought. When it begins to involve their own wives, the men are more determined than ever.

It’s the summer of 1962, and Scott and his friends spend their days playing baseball and thinking about girls. But the threat of nuclear war looms over everything they do, and they are haunted by the idea that they could all be dead tomorrow. Even though the possibility of war is all anyone talks about, Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst, building a bomb shelter to protect his family and stocking it with enough supplies to keep them alive for two critical weeks. The neighbors scoff, but then, in the middle of the night in late October, the unthinkable happens.

Ersula J. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.