Kirjahaku

Maggie Delaney had created a space that allowed her to be safe after escaping the terrors that had followed her from childhood, and still loomed as shadows into her adulthood. Her carefully constructed walls have kept her in a cocoon for years where she paints highly sought-out pictures in total anonymity. Until Jake Callaghan, the rugged and handsome DEA agent crashed his private plane into her mountain, in the midst of the devastating flooding that has all but destroyed the valley below them. As Maggie works to rescue Jake, the prisoner he is transporting escapes and the battle for survival is on. Despite the fight for their lives, Maggie and Jake begin to recognize the sparks of passion between them and it terrifies her more than the evil that has invaded her mountain refuge. In the end they must both learn the importance of being rescued in order to be truly alive.

The adventure of Maggie Delaney and Jake Callaghan continues in this second of three books in the Finally Home series. As Maggie struggles with rebuilding a place of safety on her mountain, combating the fears of her childhood, and trying to figure out how to be the single mother to the twins she is carrying...she is suddenly thrust back into the nightmares of her past and finds herself having to battle evil once again. Jake and his new team partner, the handsome FBI agent, Talus Anastus, are fighting for their lives and the lives of innocent children and women, as they work to break the ring of modern day human slave traders as the race is on to keep the victims from arriving at The Market, a much whispered about slave sale. Jake must learn the truth of Maggie's past in order to put all of the dots together and solve the puzzle of their lives...and save the one woman he has ever pledged his love to. This is a story about the need to make a connection, the need to trust another person with your very life, if love is to have a chance to survive and bloom. Look for Finally Home: Freed in mid-2014. Update released May 2018.

Special Agent Matthew "Storm" Baker, from "Freed", is recuperating from serious injuries incurred on his last mission. He has been called to help his Uncle Charley save his huge ranch in the Rendezvous area of North Dakota from the greedy maneuvers of the oil and gas industry. Charley loves his land and his nephew and is invested in saving both of them-the land from environmental destruction, the man from the destruction of his self-imposed exile from life. Emily Marin is locked in her own battle with the demons of her past. She has found a place of healing and safety in the isolated cabin on Charley's ranch. She writes and illustrates fantasy books for young boys. The books are actually her way of keeping important memories alive. She has lost the ability to trust herself, and certainly, trusting others is not something that she can do, ever When Charley fails to tell Storm that the cabin has a tenant and the place is completely off limits to anyone except Charley and Shiloh (Emily's best friend), Storm makes an unplanned visit to the place that had held such wonderful memories in his youth--and is met with a blast from a shotgun from a stranger on the back porch. The fireworks that are ignited when the two meet threaten to make the range war that is brewing seem rather tame...

"Adding to the Circle" is the sequel to "Soldiers". While it is a stand-alone book, it would probably add the to depth of the story if you read "Soldiers" before you read this book. Some wounds are just too big to completely fix, but sometimes our friends (both old and new) can make them smaller and provide us with the cement we need in order to rebuild and move forward. As former soldier turned rock star, Michael St. James, slowly gets to know his beautiful neighbor, while spending several months at his home on Kauai, he finds some of the joy that had left him when he lost his wife. He is now a single father who has been stuck in the memories of the life that he had wanted. He must struggle with the war that rages between his enjoyment and the painful guilt that he has because he survived. Leilani Drake is a soft spoken and very beautiful native of the island. She manages the family's successful hotel and restaurant businesses, and she is healing from her own broken heart. Just like Michael, Leilani is not interested in anything more than a friendship that started when his little girl and her yellow lab met and fell in love with one another. Leilani is trying to cope with a family that has been fractured and broken for decades, a business that is leaking some serious money, and the terrible message that was imprinted on her brain and continued to make her unable to explore any romantic relationships. Lou has been Micheal's best friend and his closest ally for over twenty years. He has devoted himself to managing not only Micheal's two successful businesses, but he has kept both Michael and baby Mackenzie Lehua alive. Lou knows that it is past time to step back from his role as protector of Michael and Mackenzie. He has loved those two as much as any human could love another and he would never place them in harm's way...but he was aware that he'd allowed Michael to become a near recluse since the terrible tragedy. He's met a nurse at VA outpatient clinic in Lihue and he is going out on a real date, the first one in years...and he has a new spring in his step when he thinks of the beautiful Desiree Kalani.

A Storm Rising is the eleventh book by Roseanne Bennett. Keely O'Brien is a highly skilled Nurse Practitioner who works for the US Army. She is also running away from a devastating loss. Only her pretty white boxer, Lily, and her friends, Molly, and Molly's Gran, have been able to keep Keely from disappearing into her own grief over the last few years. She is unaware of the reality that she has created a world that is devoid of color and depth for herself, but her soul knows...and it will resist that end on her behalf. Her greatest place of healing has been at Gran's beach home. Cullen Hawke is a renowned journalist who covers wars, poverty, famine, and the results of natural disasters all over the world. He too is working to avoid his own demons from the things he's seen. His one source of escape is the annual family gathering at the home of Molly's Gran on Folly Beach, South Carolina. Events collide that force Keely and Cullen to be alone at the beach, and to face the storm of the century together. They make it through the fierce storm...both changed in important ways, but neither able to embrace those changes. They part, and attempt to resume their lives...but those changes press against the routines of safety. Keely joins Molly on a medical mission at the Texas border and soon finds an even more deadly storm rising. That storm isn't made of nature, but rather greed and hatred. If they can survive it, the storm will give both of them what they have been seeking and needing.

Brilliant aeronautical engineer, Dr. Lauren Gifford, designs the most modern military helicopters on the market. She is also a renowned aircraft crash site investigator. When her newest combat helicopter crashes on the second test flight, Lauren is devastated because there were miitary fatalities. She and her crash site partner soon discover some irregularities that demand close inspection. That leads Lauren into the dangerous waters of corruption and corporate espionage. When her world begins to unravel, Lauren and her beloved dog, Chelsea, seek refuge at the home of her childhood friend on secluded Gaines Lake in the northern region of the remote Adirondack Mountains in New York State. There she connects with Keegan Gaines. He's something of a recluse following a bad combat mission that resulted in the deaths of his men. Keegan is the older brother of a boy that Lauren used to hang out with when they were teenagers and she visited Gaines Lake. Keegan's secret crush on the tall, willowy teenage Lauren has never waned and he's kept track of her successes through the years. Despite a rocky beginning when the two meet on the lake, Keegan and his Shepherd, Stryker, step up to give her protection when she ends up battling for her life against forces who want to stop her from figuring out their dirty truths. What happens when the raptor sets its sights on the prey...who lives to fight another day? Can the initial fireworks of annoyance and fear end up becoming the sparks of a love that can withstand the challenges of change and trust?

This book is a story of intrigue set on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina. Dr. Emmaline Jolie is an advocate for the rights of victims. She is an expert witness and she has a blog that is read by thousands. Someone is trying to kill her and the field is littered with candidates.Retired soldier and cop, Finn Jensen is a reclusive writer who has many secrets and wants to keep them just that...secret. He is writing and expose on the connection between the Department of Defense and the man whom the GOP has tapped to be the next president.Detective Tighe Coker has caught a particularly frustrating murder case in the sleepy bedroom community of Haymarket, Virginia. He is finally able to find a single clue that he hopes will lead him to the killer of Katie Sanders...the dead woman's relationship with Emma Jolie.What happens when these people meet during the storm of the decade, as the clock begins to tick down on a presidential election that someone will do anything to win?