Bøker av L. J. Breedlove

Some Things Haunt You Forever There is trouble in the Okanogan.Benny and Ryder Garrison grew up there, a part of their father's shifter pack. But their father has disappeared, and the pack has slowly disintegrated - and it wasn't the most stable of packs to begin with.The neighboring Penticton pack in British Columbia is causing problems - again - and the Penticton Alpha is thought to be a part of the pipeline that allowed Vancouver to amass a young shifter army. That fell apart when Hat Island Alpha Abby Stafford killed the Vancouver Alpha, but there are still all those young shifters, just waiting for a leader. The whole region is about to go up in flames - just days before the big meeting of the World Council of Alphas in Seattle. Fix it, Abby ordered. And really, Benny and Ryder are the only two who probably can. Interlopers to the region aren't welcomed in the best of times. When Jessie Nickerson insists she's coming along because there's a rumor her missing fiancé might be up there, the brothers barely muster a protest. The region's mess might be easier to face than their own demons, however - Ryder with nightmares of the Iraq war, Jessie with her search for her missing fiancé, and Benny with his fears of the Hat Island pack has done. A book in the Wolf Harbor universe, Redemption Road follows Girls School.

No One Knows Where They Come From The Wolf Harbor Boarding School was mostly just a fantasy, until the students started showing up on their doorstep. First there was Pi, a Cambodian teenager. He joined the three young women who were already there, and no one thought much more about it. There were so many bigger crises to deal with! But then, Pi disappeared for a day and brought back a 13-year-old girl from Thailand. The next week it was two girls from Laos. Benny Garrison, Story Teller and Teacher in the Hat Island pack, began to get alarmed. He figured his father had to be involved - when it came to Southeast Asia, he usually was. But his father isn't answering his calls, and neither is his pack Second. Now, Benny Garrison is really concerned. Where are these girls coming from? And more important, why were they coming here?Book 7 in the series, Wolf Harbor.

Mayday.When the call came over the radio at Purdue Flight Service, Candace Marshall started making the calls - first to her boss, Lanky Purdue, and to her fiancé, police Lt. Paul Kitka. And then she had a whole list of people to notify.They had a plane down. A pilot in trouble. Passengers in jeopardy.And then she got another message from the pilot just for her: Dace. Someone shot at us. Tell Paul.Book 5 in the Talkeetna, Alaska, series.

They Were Promised A HomeBeta wolves. Powerful, dominant wolves banished by their birth packs because they were a threat to their pack Alphas. Cast out as lone wolves, they drifted, solitary yet belonging to a species that yearns to belong. Some found a place in the military. Some found other places. But there was always the danger of violating the first rule - do nothing that reveals shifters to humans. Betas who did, found an enforcer on their doorstep. And then, a pack rose up on Hat Island, home to Yui Ito, and her mate Okami Yoshida. The pack there had been killed off during World War II, all but Yui. For 80 years there had been no pack on Hat Island. And now there was. A female Alpha had called a pack into being. And the word came. Yui was calling the betas home. They were owed. There was a pack that would accept them - if they wanted one. There was nothing a beta wanted more than that - to belong to a pack, to know that there were people who had your back. Nothing. Book 6 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.

Problems, But No SolutionsAlpha Abby Stafford keeps inheriting messes to clean up, and she feels like she's just scrambling to stay ahead of the crises. And every crisis seems to lead to an even bigger problem. She doesn't have all the pieces she needs to solve them either.This wasn't like her scholarly work. There was a process to that. A literature review of what was already known. Observation, interviews, data collection. A time for reflection and synthesis. And then she produced an article or a book. It might be years before she was ready to write. And even then no one expected her to solve anything. Accurate description was amazing enough.But as pack Alpha? And now Chairman of the Northwest Council of Alphas? She's forced to decide for all the wolves - right now - and she's operating on less information than she needs.A lot less.Book 5 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.

How do you confront your fears when they are all in your head?The email had been clear. Cujo Brown needed to return to Monte Carlo now. It wasn't going to be all that easy to get away from Hat Island. The pack - and especially his Alpha - needed him.His mate slid her arms around his shoulders from behind. Cujo blanked his screen hastily. She pulled back. "If you don't want me to see your email, just say so," Olivia Trainer said frostily.Cujo considered her for a moment, and then he slowly smiled. "How would you like to go with me to Paris?" he asked.She stared at him for a moment. "Get off this island?" she asked. "Do you know how badly I want that? Cujo I've been going crazy here! Confined to one square mile when I'm used to traveling the world? Of course, I'll go to Paris!"She looked at him suspiciously. "Why are we going to Paris?"Cujo shrugged. "Some business to take care of," he said vaguely. "And a vacation. We deserve one, don't you think?"She kissed him fiercely.He guessed she did.Cujo pictured her at his club in Paris and grinned. Yes, he thought. They deserved a vacation like that. For a moment, he hesitated about taking her. Too late to back out now - she'd kill him. But really? How much danger could there be in a trip to Paris and Monte Carlo?Order To Have and to Hold, the second book in the Wolf Harbor Rescue trilogy, wherever you buy your e-books now. A part of the Wolf Harbor series!

Is Blood Really Thicker than Water?Life is good. Mac Davis, a former Marine, is now a cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. He's had stories nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has a reputation as a hard-nosed reporter, and a good man to have at your back when trouble comes knocking.And even Mac admits, around him, trouble usually does.He has a career, a girlfriend, even a house. He has friends. He belongs.But his past is knocking on the door.His cousin calls in a favor. Fourteen years ago, Toby took the fall for a car theft leaving Mac free to go into the Marines. And now? He needs Mac. Needs him badly.A news clip out of Mexico shows a young man running from a burning building - and he wears Mac's face. So much so, people called to find out what he was doing in Mexico. It's his first lead to his father's family.Exactly what do you owe the past?Mac Davis is about to figure that out.Book 5 in the Mac Davis thrillers - stories about a cop reporter who struggles to believe the pen is really mightier than the sword. But just in case? There's a Glock stashed in his backpack along with a notebook and pen.

Promises to KeepCujo Brown owed no one anything. He had been a lone wolf for 40 plus years, and he liked it that way. No strings attached. Not to a pack. Not to a woman. Not even to his employer - most certainly not to his old employer. He had an NDA that didn't even allow him to speak their name. And he was fine with that.But back before he'd been banished from his home pack in Hayden Lake, Cujo Brown had attended a Boys Scout camp at Hat Island. And there, he'd formed some of the only bonds he has ever really known. When he retired from the agency-not-to-be named, something tugged him back to Wolf Harbor on Hat Island.Dr. Stefan Lebenev, also one of those teen-aged scouts from long ago, had figured out a serum that would help young shifter girls get through their first shift. He had a grant to finish out the details, and he needed a security chief. Well, that was most certainly within Cujo's skill set. And so Cujo took on a new identity - security chief and fitness coach.Lebenev was a brilliant researcher. But he wasn't any good with people. If he had been, well, maybe he would have vetted his grant funder better. Maybe, he would have listened when people tried to tell him what was happening to his test subjects - post-menopause human women - wasn't right.But the stakes were so high. The survival of the shifter species was at stake. And everyone swallowed their objections and concerns. Even Cujo. It wasn't like he had a lot of morals or ethics to start with, he told himself. Why flinch now? He'd done worse for less gains. Much worse.But then an elderly woman named Olivia Trainer came to the island. And Cujo was bewitched. Mate, his wolf said.Lone wolves can't have mates, Cujo told his wolf.Mate, the wolf insisted.It didn't matter. Stefan Lebenev traded Olivia for continued funding just as he had all the other test subjects. Wolf Harbor didn't have the resources to counsel new wolves, he insisted. The grant funder did.But that wasn't what the grant funder was doing.Mate, his wolf howled. They're torturing our mate!A fitness coach wasn't going to be able to rescue Olivia Trainer. Not even a security chief for a fitness resort could do that. But Cujo Brown had other skills at his disposal. And he is going after his mate.First in a new spin-off series of Wolf Harbor. The series features Cujo Brown, the bad boy readers crush on, and his mission to rescue the women who were test subjects at Wolf Harbor - starting with his mate. Follows immediately after the prequel, Woman of Hat Island, and parallels the main Wolf Harbor series!

A rumor says a mad man has one of the missing wolvesCujo Brown stayed behind in Hayden Lake to make sure his birth pack didn't self-destruct after the death of the old Alpha and the installation of the new Alpha - his father.His father had sworn allegiance to the Northwest Council of Alphas and promised to see to the well-being of the future generations of shifters - starting with giving the girls the serum that would save their lives at first shift.It wasn't that Cujo didn't believe his father, exactly. But, well, truth was he wasn't sure he did believe his father.Not to mention, the pack felt unstable. The old Alpha had been sliding into dementia before Abby Stafford took him out, and he'd been taking some of his pack with him. Too many were teetering on the balance of losing control. It would take just one. Just one to lose their grip, shift and attack the new Alpha - and they'd have a cascading meltdown of the entire pack.It had happened before in shifter history. No one wanted it to happen again. Not here. Not now.One week. Cujo could give his father that. And a pack medic could stay with him. They'd give the girls the serum. He'd back up his father as he sought to stabilize the pack - not as his Second, exactly, but as his enforcer? That was as good a term as any. And if he had to put down some of these mangy, deranged Lost Cause wolves? It wouldn't break his heart.Then his sister came to him. "While you're here," she said....Damn those sisters, right? Cujo Brown may regret ever listening to her.Book 3 in the Wolf Harbor Rescue trilogy. A part of the Wolf Harbor universe.

Weathering the Winds of Change Yui Ito Yoshida had always lived on Hat Island. She didn't think she could live anywhere else. She'd faced trauma as a child, more trauma as an adult, but now? Now she had a mate, two children, and she was happy. Safe. She laughed when they called her the Woman of Hat Island, but she had to acknowledge she was deeply rooted here. It was her refuge. Then Stefan Lebenev showed up to reopen the Wolf Harbor Resort. And she wasn't sure even the island she loved could keep her safe from the storm he was bringing to Hat Island. When Stefan Lebenev thought he might be able to keep girl shifters alive during first shift, he needed a place for a research lab. He returned to the only place he'd ever felt safe - Wolf Harbor on Hat Island - and to the only person he ever felt loved him, Yui Ito, now Yui Oshida. The fact that Yui had married Okami Oshida, one of the most feared warriors in the Northwest, wouldn't hurt. Because if Stefan could do what he thought he could? He would change the shifter world forever. Okami Oshida didn't want Stefan here. He represented change. And change, in his experience - centuries of experience-meant the risk of danger to the people he loved. But as he listened to the man, he knew two things: One, Stefan's prototype serum could mean his own daughter would live through first shift. He'd do whatever he had to for her to live. And two? The Woman of Hat Island was calling her boys home. That had far-reaching implications, and might be as dangerous as the serum itself. The prequel to Alpha Female, book 1 in the series, Wolf Harbor.

Torn Between Two Lovers, Feeling Like A FoolAbby Stafford, new Alpha of the Hat Island Pack, has a lot to deal with. The serum the Hat Island Pack has developed will save the lives of shifter girls everywhere - and change the world forever - if the Pack can survive long enough to get it into production.And she's been a wolf for all of a month. She's in love with her Second in command. And they're scrambling to make a real shifter community on Hat Island, hopefully with some income-producing businesses. Income would be good. Really good.But someone is gunning for the pack - trying to stop the serum, trying to prevent Abby from being Alpha. In the last month there have been seven attempts on her life.Then someone makes a run at the Tanaka pack Alpha in Seattle - and the only way to save his life is through a mate bond. Abby knows realistically that Hat Island won't last two weeks with Akihiro Tanaka's support and backing. And she's aware of her own growing feelings for the man. Why wouldn't she want him? He was urbane, polished, intelligent....But she loves Jake, her Second. Jake says she doesn't have to choose. She can have both.She doubts it's as simple as that, but there's not much time, and very little choice. So another new thing in the shifter world: two alphas mated.She hopes they all survive it.Book 2 in the new urban adventure series, Wolf Harbor, a feminist werewolf story.

Someone Knows Where Shifters Came FromAlpha Abby Stafford sent Benny Garrison, a Teacher in the Hat Island pack, with her mate to the oldest pack in the world - find their stories, she commanded, wishing she could go.But Benny didn't come back, and he's not responding to the pack links. So, Abby is going after him with Cujo Brown as her backup. Because the man who holds the keys to the shifters' past might control their future as well.Book 3 in Wolf Harbor, a feminist werewolf story.

IT'S EVERY COP'S WORST NIGHTMARESeattle Police Detective Joe Dunbar knew he'd screwed up big time, maybe even fatally. He swallowed hard, followed by a deep breath to steady himself. He'd managed to dodge the gunfire coming from the dark and nearly derelict house on Queen Anne. But he was trapped, now. He had already called for dispatch for backup. Shouldn't they should be here by now?Something cold settled in his stomach.They weren't coming, he thought. He had nightmares like this. They weren't coming.He considered his options, and then he sighed: hell of a thing, when a cop had to call a reporter for backup because his own had abandoned him."Mac," he said softly into his phone. "It's Joe Dunbar. I need help."Book 4 in the series of Mac Davis thrillers, featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.

A Fitness Spa Like You've Never Experienced BeforeProfessor Abby Stafford was burned out. She was overweight, middle-aged, and tired. She'd even thought about suicide, but there were her dogs. Who would care for them? So she kept trudging on.A summer as a test subject for a supplement that was designed to help her feel better and look younger, sounded just like what the doctor ordered. What did she have to lose?But Wolf Harbor Resort may have left out a few of the side effects....First in a new paranormal romance series, Wolf Harbor - a feminist werewolf story.

SOMETIMES THE PAST WON'T STAY BURIEDJanet Andrews is a respected journalist and editor. But once, she was someone else. Now, they're coming for her, and this time? They aren't going to let her go.Mac Davis isn't sure how he ended up being a cop reporter. But he's pretty sure he wouldn't still be a reporter if it wasn't for Janet Andrews. He probably would be in jail, if not dead. So he owes her. And he knows it.Now, she's in trouble. She's being hunted. Mac doesn't plan to let her get hurt. So he's going after them, hunting the hunters.And he's a very good hunter.Book 2 in the Mac Davis thrillers featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.

A Promise to Keep Abby Stafford promised that all girls would have access to the life-saving serum that would see them through first transition. The first test subjects proved it worked. They had the doses they needed to begin. What they didn't have was access to the girls who needed it. And there were pack Alphas who would rather let them die than allow change to come to the packs. They kept to the old ways, they insisted. And watched their daughters die. Unacceptable, Abby Stafford said. She just needed to figure out what to do about it. Because shifter girls deserved a future. And she was going to give them one. Book 4 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.

A Woman's Place?Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.Until someone killed her.Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled: The police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and that she got what was due her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death.Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Women's Shelter. It looks like the killer has a list. And Katy's name is on it.Book 3 in A Newspaper in Texas, a mystery series set in the 1980s when hair was big, skirts were short, and newspapers were booming.

Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever - the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more stranded climbers than anyone can count. If you need help, Lanky Purdue is the man you go to.So when Belle Robards shows up at Purdue Flight Service in the dead of winter looking for help, it's no great surprise to Dace Marshall, his office manager. So yes, she's wearing a skirt, high heeled boots and a fur jacket - in Talkeetna at 10 below - and she won't tell Dace what the problem is. But Lanky wouldn't fall for a pretty face and a bogus sob story. Would he? Book 4 in the Talkeetna series featuring Candace Marshall and Police Lt. Paul Kitka.

She fled her abuser, but a killer followed her.Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town full of quirky people he's happy to call friends and neighbors. Life is good.Candace Marshall doesn't know what she likes - being married to an abusive husband stripped her of all personal preferences. But to her surprise, she likes Alaska.She came to Alaska to disappear. She chose Talkeetna, a small, remote town at the base of Mount Denali, to start over with a different name - in a state her husband hates, and the state hates him back. It was her best chance.When Candace finds him dead in her cabin, her first thought is to run again. Who would believe she didn't kill him?Paul Kitka does - reluctantly. But then, who did kill the lobbyist Alaska hates so much?Turns out half of Talkeetna had a reason to kill the man, and everyone is lying to him: Candace, the victim's family and co-workers, and even Paul's friends and neighbors.Now his job is on the line, his town is angry at him, and his partner wants to arrest Candace for murder. But what worries Paul the most is that in a town full of unstable and angry people, the murderer isn't done.

Find them. Find the missing women. Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is half-Tlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brush-off from the Anchorage police, it's Paul she turns to. Her granddaughter, a student at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, is missing. She thinks there may be more women missing. And the Anchorage police don't seem to care. But Mary Ayek, elder of her village and a director of the Bethel Native Alaskan Corporation, cares. And she has the power and prestige it takes to make others care. Starting with Lt. Paul Kitka. Find them, she orders. What is happening to our women?Third in a series of mysteries featuring Paul Kitka and Dace Marshall in Talkeetna, Alaska.