Books in the Mavericks series

No time to rest. The world is a mess ...He'd barely made it home from helping Griffin only to find himself called to rescue a doctor on a cruise ship overtaken by pirates in their search for Abigail Dalton. The pirates had no trouble killing passengers until they found the right woman. With one man at his side, Jax sneaks onto the ship to rescue her.When she heard the gunfire, Abby hid in the venting on the ship. When a man susses out her hiding place, she's sure her world is about to end. Only Jax is on her side; yet he came with just one man to help. Stunned, she stays close as Jax frees the ship and keeps her safe-until they find out the real reason for this nightmare, when she's forced to England to face the two-legged monster of her nightmares ...The safest place is at Jax's side, but Abby knows all too well how slippery this monster really is and how easily he steps from the shadows to grab his victims ...

Not the size to blend in anywhere ... Not that he cared ...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. As soon as she escapes her prison, she runs into the brick wall that's Beau. He'd good at giving orders. She's not so good at following them ...With dozens of lives at stake in a sex-trafficking scheme, neither Beau nor Danica had expected it would be action all the way for them as they battle to free other women and to stay alive-together.

A born protector, Asher signs up for jobs even the most trained men won't take ...But finding a set of female autistic twins in mainland China-after someone has gone to a great deal of effort to make sure they are never found-isn't easy. Finding those responsible behind the actual kidnapping is even harder ...Mickie, hired to look after the twins for the last six months, is still recovering from the trauma of being beaten and drugged, waking to find her adult charges gone. Beside herself already, then seeing Asher, her ex from ten years ago, is another sock to her gut. And to her heart. ... She's not the same person she was back then and, being with him again, shows her just how much she'd screwed up her relationship with him.Yet betrayal, deceit and bodies litter their pathway as they struggle to save the missing women before the kidnapper's assassins get close enough to take them out instead ...

On the precipice of change ... Just not the way he'd expected ...Kerrick is tagged to join a new elite group, where he'd have more say and less rules on missions. Working mostly alone, he's to track down a kidnapped victim suspected of being in England, and likely she's not the only one. This is his kind of job; finding out a longtime friend is his backup makes this mission a go.Amanda is snatched at the end of her workday while walking to her vehicle. Days later she wakes to find she's imprisoned, alone in a small cement cell. One rotting meal a day is provided, and that is it. Once she realizes someone else is here-a young boy-she's even more determined to escape. And to take him with her. Running into Kerrick wasn't the plan ...Escaping is only one part of the puzzle as the truth drags them to Europe and beyond as they sort out how the two kidnappings are related, who's behind it all and why ... Before they are run aground and imprisoned all over again ...

Helping Kerrick was one thing, getting tagged for a mission of his own quite another ...His 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 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.Griffin managed to rescue the kidnapped victims, but tracing the kidnappers was a whole different story and brought the group a little too close to home ...

With barely enough time to recover from helping out Miles in London, Nico is off to Australia ... and a secret mission involving a US covert operative ...When an American undercover operative''s sister goes missing in Australia, Nico has to find out if this is connected to the operative or to the sister''s own activist background. Apparently she made enemies easily.Charlotte hadn''t wanted to make this trip in the first place, preferring to communicate her polarizing messages through writing her books now. But, bowing under pressure, she finally arrives in Australia, only to be attacked within minutes of reaching her hotel room for the night. After her rescue, she''s forced to dig deep into her family and public life to find the mastermind kidnapper and to stay safe as the bodies pile up.Nothing makes sense in this twisted mission, but Nico is determined to keep Charlotte safe, even as things take a more personal turn ...

Heading out on a last-ditch rescue mission to Puget Sound one day after two women go overboard in a sailing accident isn''t exactly what he''d expected ... But Keane is nothing if not adaptable. He can only hope the two women are alive and doing everything they can to stay that way. Hearing from the local coast guard that more may be involved than just a rescue mission, he and his partner load up and head out to search the waters around the smaller islands off the coast. They have the GPS of the missing women''s last-known location, but storms could have sent them anywhere ...Lost, alone-except for her best friend, who''s unconscious with a head wound-Sandrine wakes up in a small shelter to find they are locked in. When the door is finally opened, an armed stranger dressed in fatigues dumps a small amount of food and says they are on their own.Finding the women was one thing, keeping them safe something else again. More is going on in this small island that any of them were expecting ... or had planned for ...

After his last assignment, Ryker is ready for a rest. And he gets it-but only a few hours ...That's even too long for a geologist kidnapped by guerrillas in the Colombia jungle. Ryker has plenty of experience in jungles around the world but, keeping Manila safe-along with the two men she's traveling with and their injured guide-exposes them for who they are. It quickly becomes apparent, under these most gruelling conditions, which of her party steps up and which plan to step out.Manila's life has become one of never-ending misery at the hands of her captors as they await word from their bosses, who decide her ultimate fate. That she's hunting platinum doesn't matter to them. Nor that she's fighting against the invasive illegal gold mining taking over parts of the area. When Ryker rescues her from her prison tent, she places her trust in his ability to get her and her team safely away. Not yet realizing she'd be gifting him both her body and her heart too.Ryker needs to keep them all alive and together long enough to get them out of this hellhole-hopefully alive...

When his call came, the mission was the opposite of what he expected...Returning to his hometown of London, UK, was a happy surprise, until he realized what-and who-was involved. Out of his comfort zone when dealing with women sold into sexual slavery or even "collected," regardless Miles was determined to dig in deep, when he realized he knew the latest kidnapped victim. A woman who'd touched him years earlier. To think she might be suffering at the hands of a deranged serial kidnapper or, worse, could be sold in some human trafficking ring...Vanessa, tied up and blindfolded, has no idea why she'd been kidnapped. She does her best to obey her captor, even as she plots her escape. Her hope is that she's been reported missing and that the cops are looking for her. ... They are, but so is someone else...Keeping Vanessa safe at his side, Miles is taxed to the limit to unravel and to capture a serial killer who's lain undetected for decades, disguised as a serial kidnapper...