Cara Carnes

Scars don't always heal... Jesse Mason chose duty over love and endured the hell of captivity comforted only with thoughts of the woman he left behind. Though the physical damage has healed, the emotional battle continues now that he's home. He fakes happy and whole until Ellie is thrust back into his life. She's everything he ever wanted but can never have. Getting wrapped up in her problems is not an option, but neither is leaving her in danger. Without her he'd be nothing. Scars aren't always visible... Ellie Travers salvaged her scarred heart and landed headfirst in a horrible marriage. Now divorced, broke, and desperate to care for her ailing mother, she accepts the only job offered-Office Manager at The Arsenal. Working for the man who broke her heart should be simple compared to escaping a hellacious marriage. But only she can help Jesse win the final war for his soul, and she'll do anything to save him-even at the risk of losing herself. The battle lines have been drawn. Together they must navigate the minefields of love and sacrifice because failure is not an option.

They took her best friend. Now she's taking them down. Viviana "Quillery" Chambers has one mission: find the people behind Hive's betrayal and take them down. She and her best friend are the most sought after back office operatives around. She'll stop at nothing to keep her new team and family at The Arsenal safe. But someone's put a six million dollar hit on her and ghosts from the past have returned. She's facing her toughest challenge ever. Now she has a mysterious assassin shadowing her every move. He's vowed to keep her safe, but she's part of the Quillery Edge. They never quit. They never surrender. They never let anyone stand between them and their quarry. He had one rule: Don't mess with his family. Judson Jensen's lived a solitary life taking down targets no one else dared touch. The bastards he's wasted twenty years working for took his brother. The choice was supposed to be simple-neutralize the Quillery Edge or your brother dies. Unfortunately for them he had another choice-take them down. All he needs is to earn the brilliant, fiercely sassy Viviana's trust and keep her alive. The two must work together to do the impossible: take Judson's employer down. This isn't business...it's personal.

Mary "The Edge" Reynolds is the most sought-after back office operative around-the creative genius pulling the ultimate bad-asses out of impossible situations. She's never failed on a mission, and she's not about to fail on the most important mission ever-keeping her newly designed security system safe. Relying on others isn't in her nature, but the newly formed Arsenal is her only hope for escape when she's kidnapped. She is the Edge. The Edge never breaks. Never quits. Dylan Mason and his brothers have put everything on the line to form The Arsenal. When the paramilitary arena is rocked by Edge's capture, he'll do whatever it takes to get the fearless operative back, but his wary heart isn't ready to handle the vulnerable woman buried beneath the hardened shell. Getting her back was simple. Keeping her and her "security system" HERA out of enemy hands is another story. Together they must hunt down the faction behind her capture and subsequent torture to keep HERA from becoming an unstoppable terroristic threat. What they uncover could destroy them both.

Sometimes you have to crumble to ashes before you can fly. Riletta knew hardship. As a shifter who couldn't shift, she was raised in a wolf pack that ostracized her. She was ready to tackle the world when she was dropped off at the university with no identity, very little cash, and the only thing she wanted-freedom. The last thing she expected was for the university's resident Alpha wolf to stake a claim. Macen Giordano hadn't expected the little female to bring out his protective wolf, but he's not about to let university politics harm the innocent shifter. Riles may not be wolf, but she is his. When prejudices threaten them both and shed light on her true nature, the two must survive the impossible to earn their destiny.