Holding his Hostage

Book excerpt: His first love betrayed him and married another man. Now he must protect her and her three children from her dead ex's enemies... Winner of the National Excellence in Storytelling Award & finalist for the 2021 Holt Medallion Sloan Dvorak came home from basic training to find his girlfriend married to another man. He went on to become a Navy SEAL and did his best to forget her, proudly serving his country until he lost his arm in Kandahar. Now he's a member of HERO Force New York, wondering if one arm is enough to truly fight for anyone. Joanne Regan had been separated from her husband for a year when he died in a brutal homicide. But before they could lower his body into the ground, the mob demands she pay up on her husband's debt—millions of dollars she doesn't know anything about. Now she's on the run, desperate for help with no one to turn to—a sympathy card from Sloan's mother guiding her like a beacon in the night. Joanne shows up on Sloan's doorstep with her three kids, looking for his mother with the mob hot on her tail. Sloan is thrown into a dangerous spiral, drawing him closer and closer to the one woman he desperately needs to avoid, determined to save her and the children from a danger unlike any he's ever known.