Military Violence

Aiden Wagner was supposed to be living life with a silver spoon in his mouth, running his father's investment firm and attending events at the country club. He was supposed to marry someone 'appropriate', have a son, and most importantly, make lots of money. At least, that's the vision his parents had for him. His vision was vastly different. An Army Ranger, fortunate enough to have been assigned to Eric Bongard's team, he was now in the company of legends. As an operator for RP, his life was everything he'd always dreamed it would be. Finding Brit Elig was not something he expected. But ...

Joseph Alec Keith Robicheaux, better known as Jak, has fought a lot of bad men in his day. Terrorists, drug lords, traffickers, rapists, and more, as an Army Ranger, more importantly, a Robicheaux Ranger, he's now fighting one he can't really see. Haiti is falling apart. There is no government, no police to speak of, tourists are murdered, and children are disappearing. When one of his own men is found hanged and mutilated, Jak knows he might need more help than he has at his fingertips. He never imagined that he would have, not one, but two old women to guide him in this mission. He also ...

In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century.

Devin Parker joined the military trying to escape the tremendous guilt surrounding his mother’s death. He never expected to find happiness and family in doing so. He was big, strong, and on one of the most respected teams. Stepping on that IED seemed the end of any chance he had for happiness. Except when the girlfriend of a former teammate showed up at his door. Now, he’s sitting at Belle Fleur, finding his place in the world once again. Feeling more prepared every day to move forward, he’s starting to feel settled. Until Dani MacMillan walks into his life. Danielle ‘Dani’ Marie ...

Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, horror elements, some sex, some language. In future America, the downloaded consciousnesses in the Ten Sigma Program fight endless battles. The struggles span all possibilities: face-offs with knives and clubs, skirmishes as Roman legionaries, pitched WW1 trench warfare, duels with ultra-modern hypersonic weapons, and everything in between. The combatants who live are rewarded with another battle until they reach the unreachable score of ten sigmas. Those who die are expunged from the system, gone forever. The methods, so harsh they go ...

Luke O'Hara is struggling to overcome the guilt associated with the suicide of his teammate and friend, Garcia. Rory Baine, his fellow teammate with REAPER understands and is helping him to work through some of his emotions. When they're selected to take down the man responsible for Garcia's suicide, neither expects to meet the women that will change their lives. Lucia Salavado is a tiny dynamo of pure sex that sets O'Hara's heart racing. Piper Colley is the one mark on Rory's perfect record. Both women will change their lives forever...but can they survive the dark, seedy world of Aquinos?

It has been a year since the initial outbreak of an infection resulting from a failed terrorist attack. No corner of the globe was spared. Millions simply died during the early days of the outbreak, many more survived with most of those survivors turned into permanently brain-damaged feral creatures. All forms of modern society had collapsed, governments no longer functioned, and electric lights and running water become a thing of the past. A handful of survivors with natural immunity to the virus are alone in a world that now belongs to the infected. Hunter Ashcroft, a wounded vet of the ...

Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science-fiction and fantasy works. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario: a new American Civil War. The American Empire has grown too fast, the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point, and the war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war.

Adam Robicheaux has never loved any woman the way he loves Jane Wolfkill. Since she started her own pediatric practice in Baltimore, it feels as though she's slipping away. When his grandmother asks him to go to Baltimore and check on her, he never dreams that he'll find Jane in the fight of her life. He doesn't waste a second calling in the troops and getting her home, but there's an evil lurking around Belle Fleur and they need to find out who or what it is. Jane Wolfkill has loved Adam Robicheaux for as long as she can remember. When he was deployed he sent her the most beautiful letters...

Eric Ryan 'Chief' Stanton is ready to leave the SEAL teams, even if his brother isn't. Coming home means big changes for him, but he never expected one of those changes to include a scientist. A soil scientist. A beautiful, gorgeous, hot, sexy soil scientist. When Belle Fleur begins to show signs of literally slipping away, he and the team must figure out what's happening and the beautiful scientist just might be key to it all. Rachel Davis has always been the weird girl. Beautiful, smart, sexy, and loves to play in the dirt. Men find her perplexing, her mother finds her baffling. When she ...

A failed biological attack ravaged the population of the world. Millions dead, and millions more turned into feral creatures that spend their time hunting down survivors who are desperately trying to rebuild society and make a life for themselves. Several years have passed since the majority of the infected population suddenly dropped out of sight. With the threat seemingly abated, Hunter Ashcroft and other survivors begin to branch out in an effort to find other pockets of civilization. During an expedition to explore the remnants of Nashville, Tennessee, they are surprised to find a ...

Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. Together they have crafted a vital book that challenges us to think beyond warfare's acute violence of bullets and bombs to the "slow violence" of toxic exposure and lasting trauma.

The stories of World War 2 will forever be imprinted in our collective human mind. Unrivaled in loss of life, boundless destruction, and decisions that changed the world as we knew it, these stories have gone down in history. From concentration camps to aerial strikes, the war waged in increasingly brutal ways as it progressed. But how much do you really know about what happened during those years? These are the stories you won’t read about in any textbook. The Wanton massacre of civilians and the torture of prisoners of war was only the beginning. It can be easy to forget the horrors ...

Once, Tomas Piety looked after his men, body and soul, as best he could. Then those who ran his country decided his dark talents would better serve in the corridors of power. Crushed by the power of the Queen's Men and with the Skanian menace rising once more on the streets of Ellinburg, Tomas Piety is forced to turn to old friends, old debts and untrustworthy alliances. Meanwhile in the capital city of Dannsburg, Dieter Vogel is beginning to wonder if the horror he has unleashed in the Martyr's Disciples might be getting out of control.

Will 'Bogey' Humphrey finds himself just a few hours from the home he left when he joined the Navy. He never got to say goodbye to his grandmother and he's left more than a few things unsaid and undone. He thought he'd make a quick trip to say a final goodbye and see who might still be hanging around. He never thought he'd get pulled into saving the one woman he should have never left in the first place. Helping Alice comes naturally for Bogey, loving her comes easy. Saving her and her family's ranch might be a little harder. Alice Evans has no one to turn to. Her sister is dead of an ...

Losing a member of the family is never easy. When this loss hits so close to home, the men and women of Gray Wolf decide to take it head on and find the persons responsible. Except nothing makes sense at all. The animals are behaving strangely, the genius kids are acting odd, and everyone seems to act as if something big is going to happen. For Trak, it become personal when he saves the life of a young woman who brings back memories he didn't need or want. As with everything at Belle Fleur, there is magic in the air and this times, its genuine magic. Things are about to change for the ...

With the new team members settling in, and the old team members getting used to their gifts, things are getting stranger and stranger. For one new face he finds himself looking at an old friend that is experiencing more trouble than she deserves. With the boys in the bike shop taking a keen interest in this one, there are more than enough able-bodied men and women to handle this issue. Of course, it never hurts to have the animals on your side, as well as Mama Irene and Matthew. How could anything possibly go wrong?

Paxton Pechkin is finally home for good. After a stellar career as a Navy SEAL, he finds himself staring at a very familiar face. He'd always felt that Deanna was the one that got away, although he was responsible for letting her go. This time, he wasn't going to allow her to go anywhere without him. After suffering a horrible beating, Dee hides away in a place that Pax knows all too well. Finding her, loving her, is the easy part. Figuring out what the hell is happening off the coast of San Diego is something very different. Deanna Trehorn has loved Pax since they were children. She ...

Retirement is supposed to be comfortable. No one expects to be rich beyond their imaginations. They also don't expect to find themselves homeless, food deprived, and without the ability to get medication or healthcare. For one group of seniors, they're about to hit a lucky jackpot. On the verge of being charged with shoplifting, Annie happens to meet two of the nicest 'young' men she's ever seen. Promising to help her and her situation, they rescue her friends and listen to their story. For the men of the Gray Wolf team, this hits very close to home. All around the same ages of these people...

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 ...