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More an origin story than a traditional novel, Jack July's Amy Lynn follows the coming-of-age of a charming little Southern girl. Raised in a family of bootleggers and scoundrels, the motherless Amy is adopted by her Aunt Carla Jo, who teaches her everything about being a woman. A triumvirate of male Southern characters teach her other lessons: how to survive, how to live off the land, and how to be a winner. By the time Amy enlists in the United States Navy, she is the sort of heroic figure who commands respect - and over the course of her service in Afghanistan as a corpsmen attached to a Marine unit, she surprises everyone with her strength, skills, and heart.Jack July has a rough style and is not a polished writer, but he can tell a mesmerizing story. Throughout the book, he takes little sidetracks to tell the stories of different key characters in Amy Lynn's life, each one a little gem in its own way. If you are not already intimate with Southern country life, this book will challenge everything you might believe about modern redneck culture. If, however, you are a Southerner (by the grace of God), you will find yourself nodding in recognition as each character is revealed and the often-byzantine system of family and favors within Jackson County is shown in action.

The saga of Amy Lynn continues in this second action packed novel by Jack July. As the story begins, Amy is coming home from Afghanistan wounded and confused about who she is and where she belongs. Back home in rural Alabama, surrounded by the love of family and friends, she needs to heal her body, mend her heart, and decide what to do with her future.But life has a plan of its own...When eight-year-old Kristy Wilson is taken from her Missouri home, the count of missing young girls rises to twenty-three. Under orders from an angry, vengeful president, the CIA takes action. Amy is persuaded by her friend, CIA operative Tatiana Aziz to join her team as a "trainee" on a worldwide chase to find who is taking these girls and bring Kristy back home.Follow Amy and Tatiana while you meet an eclectic group of CIA cohorts. They race the clock to find Kristy and along the way, deal some old school American justice.The author highly recommends reading the foundation book, Amy Lynn. Golden Angel plays on many characters and situations from the first book. However, Golden Angel will stand on it's own.

She made a deal with the CIA... They gain access to her extraordinary talents and she gets the chance to protect children...and avenge them. But in the world of high stakes covert operations, things are never so simple. In an Oklahoma mansion... A dying businessman makes a deal with the devil and opens a door to unimaginable evil. That evil will cross paths with the CIA's newest and best-kept secret, Amy Lynn. Even avenging angels can love... A man she once detested proved his worth, and now Amy holds him firmly in her heart. Will her job, Southern tradition, and a painful secret from her past silence the wedding bells? Master American storyteller Jack July does it again with The Lady of Castle Dunn, at once a love story, a spy thriller and an emotional roller coaster. Follow Amy's adventures as she rediscovers what is most important in her life-family. The Lady of Castle Dunn is the third book in the Amy Lynn Series. It will stand on it's own. However, to truly appreciate who Amy is and how she evolved from a simple 12-year-old back woods Alabama country girl, the author highly recommends the foundation novel, Amy Lynn followed by Amy Lynn Golden Angel.

Grace TurningPages Sommers 2017 Book of The Year, action and adventure category. Amy Lynn Braxton has just returned home from a mission, covered with burns, unable to control her inner monster, and with no memory of what happened. For the sake of her unborn child, she must uncover-and own-the truth. The last thing Amy remembers is working with a Romanian Intelligence operative to locate a young American couple who, in their quest to adopt a child, ran afoul of the Romanian mafia and disappeared. Under the care of brilliant, specialized CIA psychiatrist Dr. John Earle, Amy fights to regain her memory, come to terms with her unique psychosis, and learn to deal with the brutal truth about her alter ego, Fenian. At stake is Amy's very ability to live her life and love her family. Meanwhile, in Amy's hometown of Black Oak, Alabama, a corrupt congressman and a labor union set their sights on Amy's brother Joseph's trucking company. One grave mistake leaves a beloved member of the Braxton clan at death's door-and awakens a long dormant killer, Hatchet Jack Brown, who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on the guilty. With Into the Fire, author Jack July once again delivers action, suspense, and a look at life in a part of America that is too often ignored.

200 miles from Amy's country home, 14-year-old Susie Delany falls for a dangerous and seductive man's promises of fame and fortune. Whisked away to a viper's nest masquerading as a tropical paradise, Susie hurtles toward a fate worse than death. A senator and a scheming CIA director recruit Amy for an 'off the books' mission, leading a rag-tag mercenary team out to end a vile billionaire's dark fantasy and rescue the teen victims of sex trafficking. Amy's instincts and her husband warn that this mission could jeopardize everything she loves. In Amy's absence, tragedy befalls her family, and Amy is confronted by a secret that two generations took to the grave. Now she must question everything she thought she knew about the Braxton clan. A new president authorizes a covert military operation to rescue a big donor's family from the vicious Nigerian terror group Boko Haram. Amy finds herself in charge of her largest military operation to date. When she pushes beyond the mission's parameters, she lands on the brink of capture and violent death. Amy grapples with a new-found demon and experiences an epiphany that might just end her career...if she survives. After years of grueling fieldwork, Amy faces her biggest challenge yet: learning to let go.