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The stars say I’m aggressive, dominant, first in line to lead. The stars aren’t wrong. Zodiac Tactical is my company. It’s run by those I’ve chosen for their skills and ability to outmaneuver adversaries. We guard, protect, rescue…assist on the side of the angels.

Omega Sector, an interagency task force, is made up of the country’s most elite agents. In these four classic tales by USA TODAY bestselling author Janie Crouch, they’ll be challenged like never before!

Sometimes the worst wounds can’t be seen. Lucas Everett knows that firsthand. It's why he and his former Navy SEAL brothers created the Resting Warrior Ranch. Usually, soldiers show up at their door. But this time, it's Evelyn Taylor—a soldier in a very different kind of war.

Some mistakes haunt you forever. Harlan Young knows that from personal experience. Walking away from Grace Townsend, even with the best intentions and no other choice, still haunts him to this day.

Doctor Anne Griffin is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone. Except Zac. The very reason she left in the first place. Zac's years in Special Forces taught him survival skills, and he's created a company - Linear Tactical - to teach those skills to others, so they never have to live in fear. Then why is Annie, the last person he'd ever want to hurt, afraid of him?

Tasha Volkov has been on the run for three years from a brutal cartel who want her dead. Aka: her family. She already paid a heavy price for crossing them, and has the scars to prove it. Her only choice is to keep running, even if the tiny town of Pine Valley feels more like home to her than anywhere else she's ever been. The last place Zodiac Tactical agent Andrew Zimmerman expected to find the missing Volkov sister was with his friends at the Crossroads Mountain Retreat in the mountains of Tennessee—a place for wounded law enforcement and veterans to heal.

Zac Mackay. Military codename: Cyclone. He's the town's returned hero - a man forged in battle, now working to help others be safe. So why is Anne - the quiet doctor he’d never thought he’d see again - afraid of him?

Grant Carter knows that fact intimately. The shrapnel sitting on his spine from an IED is a daily reminder. But the constant pain won’t stop him from working at the Resting Warrior Ranch, training service and emotional support animals to help people with PTSD—something else he’s intimately familiar with.

Sarge McEwan. Code Name: Virgo. The stars say he's practical, honest, stubborn as hell. Guilty as charged. Zodiac Tactical is the company that gave him a second chance. They guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And as a former SEAL, he's good at those things. Good with weapons, good with missions.

At first it looked like a glorified babysitting job: safeguard a scientist while she created a countermeasure to neutralize a dangerous weapon that had fallen into the wrong hands. But when Dr. Megan Fuller’s life is threatened, undercover agent Sawyer Branson knows the enemy is closing in. Sticking by Megan 24/7 isn’t something he takes lightly, even if Megan doesn’t seem to appreciate his constant presence. But she soon becomes a challenge he enjoys. Because beneath her boxy lab coat and pinned-back hair lay a brilliant and beautiful warrior. One he’s determined to protect at all costs.

Ghost: Sometimes the dead don't stay that way. Dorian Lindstrom. Military codename: Ghost. He spent five weeks being tortured in an enemy prison because of her. And now he’s the only one who can save her. Shadow: How do you defeat an enemy that's inside your head? Heath Kavanaugh lost years of his life working for a covert agency that ended up being the enemy. Knowing they put something inside his head - constant, incomprehensible whispers - is driving him crazy. And Jacquelyn Zimmerman is the only one who can help.

It’s the instinct former-SEAL Jude Williams must fight every time someone touches him. His six months being tortured in an enemy prison camp may be long over, but he’s got scars—all over his body and mind—keeping that time at the forefront of his psyche.

Violet Collingwood thought the windowless room where her kidnappers have held her for the past three days was the worst possible place she could be. She'd been so very wrong. She's now arrived in hell. Aiden Teague left covert ops behind with the Special Forces, but he's doing one last mission as a favor to a friend. He's undercover with the worst kind of scum to help stop the sale of classified documents. But there's another kind of sale going on - and as soon as Aiden sees her terrified green eyes, he knows this mission just got a hell of a lot more complicated.

Shamrock: Aiden Teague. Military Codename: SHAMROCK, the lucky one. But all luck runs out eventually. Every mission has a price. He never meant for her to pay it. Angel: Even angels have their demons. Someone has decided it's time for Jordan to leave Oak Creek - preferably in a body bag. Former Navy SEAL Gabriel will have to put his distrust aside. Jordan needs her own guardian angel. And he happens to be one.

Independent, wise, and intuitive—still waters run deep. He's the leader of Zodiac Tactical’s guardian unit. They're the bodyguards—the ones who stand toe to toe with danger and refuse to give any ground. They protect people who need it most.

And the only person who can save Charlotte Devereux. The woman who once shattered his life. When former Special Forces soldier Finn Bollinger is asked to help with an undercover mission, he's up for the task. His job teaching survival skills to civilians at Linear Tactical keeps him sharp, and he can still handle himself in the field. But the Army damn well didn't teach Finn how to handle Charlotte Devereux. She's back and she's all sorts of bad news.

As Bob and Lisa Sinclair, Omega Sector agents Evan Karcz and Juliet Branson were a formidable couple—until a brutal attack left Juliet traumatized. But with a powerful crime boss selling military secrets, the safety of millions depends on the undercover operatives. It's up to Evan to rehabilitate Juliet…and not fail her as he did on the mission that still haunts him. Evan's strategy is to be near Juliet night and day to practice posing as a loving couple. But soon he realizes there's a sizzling passion between them.

Linear Tactical’s Wyatt Highfield is running for his life with intel that will break up a human trafficking ring. The last thing he wants is to bring danger to Nadine Macfarlane’s door. The gentle beauty has been through enough, and has the scars—physical and emotional—to prove it.

Marilyn Ellis is finally putting her life back together. The domestic abuse she suffered may be labeled "textbook" by therapists, but it’s the parts she’s never told anyone that haunt her. She refuses to get trapped in that hell ever again. Former Special Forces soldier turned rancher Noah Dempsey is more than capable of training the delicate single mom in moves and tactics that will help her feel safe. But his own tortured past makes him decidedly less qualified for anything more. No matter how much her big eyes—and even bigger heart—draw him in.

Jordan Reiss is well aware that if she was on fire, the entire town of Oak Creek would probably go inside and make a sandwich. She can’t blame them. Her father scammed half the town out of their retirement funds, and then she...she did so much worse. She doesn’t expect forgiveness. But she’s back in town with no other options and just wants to be left alone to live on the fierce Wyoming land she’s missed so much during her six years in prison.