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Beau heads to Alaska to a cult that kidnaps women to flesh out its numbers. One woman, in particular, has gone missing. When her father calls in a favor, Beau is asked to fit into the cult community. Only, his style is guns blazing, and he doesn’t bother counting the dead. Danica was late for her college class, when a hood was thrown over her head, and then she was tossed into the back of a vehicle. Days later, she wakes up on a dirt floor of a cell with only a grate above her head. But she’ll take it as she’s nothing if not innovative.

Former Navy SEAL Aaron Hammond has no idea how he wound up at Hathaway House, Texas. Nor does he particularly care. All he can see is his anger. Anger at the betrayal that destroyed his physical body and at the loss of the future he wanted but that he’ll never have now. He’s a cripple, less than half a man, and all he can look forward to is a half life, alone with himself and his pain.

Paxton, while trying to get clearance to return to work, calls his physio to ask why he’s refusing to sign off on his documents—only to hear gunfire through the phone, killing the man he was talking to. Racing to the scene, he finds the gunman still there, in anguish and in fury, telling Paxton a tale of blackmail and fraud, before killing himself. Hearing the same phone conversation that Paxton made while in her office, Cherise races behind to make sure he’s okay, as the police move in.

It was Aaron who convinced Percy to take a chance on Hathaway House. Yet, when he arrives, Aaron is back at school and Percy’s alone after all. Giada has worked at the center for several years and always went home happily to her brother at the end of the day. Only now her brother is engaged and planning to marry in six months. Change is happening, whether she likes it or not. And, in this case, it brings up a lot of turbulence in the family dynamic. Dani offers Giada a place of her own here at Hathaway’s staff quarters, but the path forward is not so easy.

Noah heard the woman’s cry for help through Levi’s phone, and he was already in the car and moving before anyone could stop him. He hated for any woman to be in distress, and this one sounded devastated. Having helped her once, he was determined to keep her safe, while the team tracked down her attacker. Dianne was looking forward to her upcoming weekend seminar and even more to the few days with her friend, Ice, at the compound. Dianne wanted to talk over a business idea she was ready to put into place. Being attacked wasn’t part of the plan. Neither was Noah.

Sanders hadn’t been expecting a rescue from his own captivity. Now free, he can do no less than help Natalia, another captive, someone he barely knows. Yet his connection to her had kept Sanders alive during his darkest times. He can do no less than help her now. Natalia must escape her father’s total control. However, during Natalia’s first few days in confinement, her head had to clear of the drugs her father had been feeding her, just to keep her compliant and captive. After missing a dose, clarity now returning, Natalia finally understands and bolts. But where can she go? She has no one.

After spending a brutal year trying to cope after the loss of her sister, Alexis Gordon knows she needs to get on with her life. Only instead of the normal work day she'd anticipated as the means to begin her journey back to the land of the living, reality as she knows it disappears. Kevin Sutherland is a detective and a psychic. Recognizing Alexis' gift and aware she has no idea what's happening, he calls a friend and frequent case consultant Stefan Kronos, an artist with psychic gifts. Stefan leads a community of psychics able to help Alexis understand and develop her unique skills.

Carson is pleasantly surprised by the job Levi assigns him, until Carson hears all the details. An elderly friend of Ice’s believes someone is out to kill her. But she has no proof, no suspects, no motives. The police think she’s imagining things and won’t look into the case any further. However, after meeting this lady…and her granddaughter, Carson has his own suspicions.

Battered and bruised, Teegan wakes up in the training camp struggling to remember the details of his last few weeks. But along with not knowing what happened to him, he also doesn’t recognize the woman caring for him back in the camp. According to this Sandrine, he’d once asked her to marry him. Yet, he has no idea who she is… He didn’t remember much about what happened, nor did he remember the woman looking after him. Sandrine that is.

Cayce’s art is well-known and respected among her peers, and, as such, has spawned forgers, copycats…and enemies. But when her favorite model and best friend is murdered—the masterpiece painted on her skin cut off her body—Cayce knows she’s up against a collector of a very different sort. Detective Richard Henderson doesn’t know much about art, but he knows what he likes. Of all the art mixed up in this case, it is the artist, Cayce, who fascinates him the most.

Eton journeys to Switzerland, unimpressed at finding Garret there as his backup. Barely recovered but pissed and mobile, Garret refuses to be kept out of service any longer. Eton’s intel leads them to a small village, to a woman in distress, and to someone who likes cleaning up a trail a little too much. Living a quiet life with her aging father, Sammy is surprised by an offer of help when she gets an unexpected flat tire. Strangers in this area are not common, and neither are they well received.

Stone is finally living his life again after a long, slow recovery. Working at Levi's new company, Legendary Securities, he takes his first job, not expecting the fast-and-furious action to hit straight out of the gate in the rescue of a senator's daughter kidnapped in the Middle East. Lissa will do almost anything to thwart her father’s nefarious plans for her. The last thing she expected was to be kidnapped. She's rescued by Stone and their meeting throws her for another loop when she falls hard for him.

The Navy wasn’t kind to Owen Powell. After he walked too close to a landmine, he was left with leg and back injuries and a rough road to regaining his health. Penny Abigail has spent all her adult life trying to prove to her family that she’s strong enough after a lifetime of illnesses to live her life on her own terms. Although frail, she’s worked hard to get to where she is today. Meeting Owen wasn’t part of her plan, but she’s willing to run with it.

Riches to rags...Chaos might be slowing...Only a new murder occurs...Sending her off the trail again... It’s been a tough few weeks since Robin and Mathew, Doreen’s ex-lawyer and her ex-husband, slid back into her life. Okay, so maybe Robin isn’t here any longer to cause torment, but Mathew is. And he’s not planning to leave Doreen alone anytime soon, although thankfully he’s gone back home for a while. Trying to recuperate looks doubtful for Doreen, when a local gardener is kidnapped, while picking nasturtiums for dinner.

Stubborn was something Rick had been called a lot. Independent. A loner. All true, but once a powerful healer connects to bring him back from the brink of death, Rick is in danger of losing that control and that privacy he so values. Cara understands Rick’s need to be alone, but it’s not possible any longer, and that isn’t something she’s ready to tell him. That and the value of the connection they now share is something he has to find out for himself. And the sooner, the better.

Griffin's heart ached to hear a young girl had been kidnapped while at a hotel in Thailand waiting for her father to arrive. But nothing is ever as it seems, and this case isn’t even close to simple. Lorelai spent the last seven years enjoying the time with her young charge Amelia Rose. Tutoring the daughter of a wealthy business owner added perks to the job, like holidays around the world. In all these years, Lorelai had never once seen the downside to having big money, until the holiday in Thailand where Amelia Rose is targeted, and they were both kidnapped.

Rhodes knew Sienna years ago. When she’d been young and gawky, more elbow and carrot hair than style, but she’d had something special even then. Now, she’s all grown. But she’s a trouble magnet, and even at the compound it finds her.... Sienna had a super-sized crush on her brother’s best friend years ago. Now, he’s hunky and even hotter than she could have imagined. Only she’s new and doesn’t want to jeopardize her position. When asked to help out on a job, she agrees...and triggers a sequence of disastrous events no one could foresee.

The mess from the scientist camp has left a pall over the training camp. And still there is no sign of Teegan, Mountain’s brother. The surrounding tundra has been gridded and searched, but nothing was found...except another body....

Anthropologist Jade Hansen had been touched by death once before. While in Haiti one year ago, she’d lost her unborn child, and the devastation nearly took her sanity in the time that followed. Getting back to work means facing the grief that’s all but destroyed her. Determined to be strong, she returns to Haiti with a mortuary team to recover the bodies of an American family from a mass grave following a devastating earthquake.

When Navy SEAL Cole Muster entered Hathaway House weeks ago, he was doing well. His meds were under control, his recovery was progressing at a safe rate, and he was getting better every day. But left to his own devices, Cole pushed himself too hard and took himself off his medication - and ended up causing himself harm and earned himself time in a hospital. Now he’s returned, hoping that Hathaway House can get him back on track one more time.