Frank Carlson Library

Hollywood star Isobel Manella leads a charmed life in many ways: interesting roles, surrounded by friends and family, and the ability to sense precisely what those around her are feeling. Her empathic skills help her and her team shine. Sailor and film handyman Devlin Jones enjoys the job niche he's created along Seattle's waterfront. His skills as a Jack of all trades keeps him fed, companionship can always be found, and his beloved Dragon sailboat...

Colonel Michael Gibson left the field after twenty years to take command of Delta Force. Two years later he wonders at what mental aberration made him do it. A lifelong warrior, White House and Pentagon politics are now his battlefield, not directing operations as he should be. With a child on the way, his normal mission plans for survival are all failing him. A lifetime ago, retired spy Miss Watson, turned White House librarian, gave her all for...

Emily Beale, sixteen years old, faces her first major flight as a student pilot. The dramatic moment of the "first solo" isn't what defines a young pilot. It's the four-hour, solo, "cross-country" challenge that determines who they can become.As Emily flies around Washington's Olympic Mountains and along the Oregon Coast, she discovers that her future just might be on a clearer flight path than she thought possible. If she's ready for it.

Night Stalkers Captain Tyra Walker flies deep into enemy territory. It seems that "flight" has become her whole life's story, whether in her Arkansas hometown or in a kick-ass helicopter.Delta operator Major Norm Lawrence stepped away from his past and only thinks about the next mission, until Tyra crosses his path.When Tyra's past meets Norm's present deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains-a land where military arms flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan-they'll...

-a Night Stalkers CSAR romance story- The most dangerous mission of all: CSAR-Combat Search and Rescue. Combat Medic Arin Amin will forever disappoint his family. Medic rather than MD. And no "nice Indian wife and many babies" in his foreseeable future. When a super-cyclone casts him up on a Bengali shore, his path crosses with Dr. Datta Jhanvi. Her vacation? Now a nightmare, treating the wounded and helpless in the storm's aftermath. Until she...

Five tales of romance and rescue. At home, the US Coast Guard rescues thousands of civilians up and down our coasts and inland waterways. The smallest US military service also deploys globally. But no waters in the world are more dangerous than the Columbia River Bar in Astoria, Oregon. Come enjoy five tales of romance, saving hearts and souls in the harshest search-and-rescue environment in America. (Includes exclusive author intros for each story-previously...

Delta Force recon specialist Hannah Tucker needs out of the Colombian jungle and she needs out now. Night Stalker pilot Jesse Johnson aims to oblige...until his helicopter is shot down. He finds that more than a little inconvenient. Stalked by guerillas, crocodiles, and other jungle unfriendlies, they must learn to control skills they never knew they had - or even existed! Together they discover an unpredictable psychic ability to project sound and...

She learned to trust no one-the hard way! Now she must."Top 5 Romance of the Year!" – NPRKee Smith qualified as a helicopter crew chief, a top sniper, and the second woman to ever make the Army's secret Night Stalkers. When she chooses her copilot as her next target, he doesn't stand a chance.His role as helo copilot and top team strategist always fit Archie Stevenson. Until a pint-sized shooter kicked his world sideways.When a mission gone wrong...

The Antonov AN-124 Ruslan "Condor"-the heavyweight champ among production cargo jets. Russian tanks, American firefighting helicopters, rescue submersibles, satellites, city-sized power transformers...the Condor hauls them all over the world.But when one lifts a top-secret payload rated as too dangerous, the US government decides it must take action. Untraceable action. Call Delta Force? SEAL Team Six?No. They call Miranda Chase, lead crash investigator...

-a Night Stalkers CSAR romance story- Combat Medic Allyson Hanover must face the impossible, the loss of two lives that were in her hands - before a raging Colombian river ripped them away. When fellow Medic Reuben Fehlman joins a field test to develop new swiftwater rescue techniques, they both land in the rushing waters on Henderson's Ranch. Emily, Mark, Michael, and even Noreen can't crack it. To survive the swiftwater? The two of them must brave...