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Troubleshooters: Izzy novellas #1-2
Free Fall / Home Fire Inferno: Burn, Baby, Burn
A SPECIAL 2-IN-1 ANTHOLOGY EDITION Suzanne Brockmann returns to the action-packed world of her best-selling Troubleshooters Series with two previously published short stories featuring US Navy SEAL Izzy Zanella, his extended family, and his kickass teammates in SEAL Team Sixteen. FREE A Troubleshooters Short Story. What should be an easy HAHO training jump for SEAL Team Sixteen goes wrong, forcing Navy SEAL Izzy Zanella to do what he does Improvise. At thirty thousand feet. (About 12,000 words or 50 pages) HOME FIRE A Troubleshooters Short Story. Navy SEAL Dan Gillman's wife, Jenn, goes into early labor while stranded in the California desert, as he, Izzy Zanella, and most of Team Sixteen are mission ready, overseas. Meanwhile, left behind with a recent knee injury and faced with impending surgery and rehab, Chief Jay Lopez decides that the timing might be exactly right for a romantic interlude with a pretty fifth grade teacher . . . Hijinks definitely ensue. (12,000 words or about 50 pages) Free Fall and Home Fire Inferno are the first and second stories in a connected trilogy of Troubleshooters shorts and novellas that concludes with Ready to Roll.
- GenresRomance
96 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 2, 2017
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About the author
Suzanne Brockmann
251 books3,577 followersAfter childhood plans to become the captain of a starship didn’t pan out, Suzanne Brockmann took her fascination with military history, her respect for the men and women who serve, her reverence for diversity, and her love of storytelling, and explored brave new worlds as a bestselling romance author.
Over the past thirty years she has written sixty-three novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women—and sometimes men—who win their hearts. Her personal favorite is the one where her most popular character, gay FBI agent Jules Cassidy, wins his happily-ever-after and marries the man of his dreams. Called All Through the Night, this mainstream romance novel with a hero and a hero hit the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. In 2007, Suz donated all of her earnings from this book, in perpetuity, to MassEquality, to help win and preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts.
In addition to writing books, Suz writes and produces indie movies and TV including the award-winning romantic comedy The Perfect Wedding. Her recent feature, Out of Body, is streaming on Amazon Prime.
In 2018, Suz was given the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her latest projects are Blame It on Rio (Tall, Dark & Dangerous # 14), available in print and e-book from Suzanne Brockmann Books, and Marriage of Inconvenience, a six-episode LBGTQ rom-com TV series, streaming on Dekkoo in April 2023.
Over the past thirty years she has written sixty-three novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women—and sometimes men—who win their hearts. Her personal favorite is the one where her most popular character, gay FBI agent Jules Cassidy, wins his happily-ever-after and marries the man of his dreams. Called All Through the Night, this mainstream romance novel with a hero and a hero hit the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. In 2007, Suz donated all of her earnings from this book, in perpetuity, to MassEquality, to help win and preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts.
In addition to writing books, Suz writes and produces indie movies and TV including the award-winning romantic comedy The Perfect Wedding. Her recent feature, Out of Body, is streaming on Amazon Prime.
In 2018, Suz was given the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her latest projects are Blame It on Rio (Tall, Dark & Dangerous # 14), available in print and e-book from Suzanne Brockmann Books, and Marriage of Inconvenience, a six-episode LBGTQ rom-com TV series, streaming on Dekkoo in April 2023.
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August 31, 2019
Two wonderful novellas in the Troubleshooters series with plenty of action, romance and a touch of humor. The characters are engaging and the stories are entertaining. It is great to catch up on some of the interesting characters from Ms. Brockmann's excellent novels in this series, which is best read in order, but each novel can be read as a stand alone.
June 29, 2018
Real as fiction can get!
Suzanne writes characters so authentic you begin to know them as real. Friends who happen to live in the other ocean side of the country are neighbors and friends who happen to be Navy SEALs, are employed by Troubleshooters Inc. or are spouses or love interests of the same. So easy to feel what they are feeling and share in their fictional joys and pain. Izzy! Oh my...god...is a Hoot! So aware, so quick thinking! And what he comes up with... Look, ma! I'm laughing, giggling, stunned by some guy in a book and what he says and does that is so out of the box. Read Suzanne Brockmann.
Suzanne writes characters so authentic you begin to know them as real. Friends who happen to live in the other ocean side of the country are neighbors and friends who happen to be Navy SEALs, are employed by Troubleshooters Inc. or are spouses or love interests of the same. So easy to feel what they are feeling and share in their fictional joys and pain. Izzy! Oh my...god...is a Hoot! So aware, so quick thinking! And what he comes up with... Look, ma! I'm laughing, giggling, stunned by some guy in a book and what he says and does that is so out of the box. Read Suzanne Brockmann.
February 24, 2018
As a USAF veteran, I enjoy the stories of the SEALs
More than I should.
Suzanne draws the reader into the relationships so that you feel like part of the ensemble. Characters from the early books pop in and out and tweak memories of them, and remind you of why you enjoy the books so much.
More than I should.
Suzanne draws the reader into the relationships so that you feel like part of the ensemble. Characters from the early books pop in and out and tweak memories of them, and remind you of why you enjoy the books so much.
March 15, 2018
None
I guess I will have to stop reading your novels since I am not really interested in reading about gay characters or lifesyle. Maybe there are more gays in San Diego than there are out here in flyover country but this is not a big part of my social group.
I guess I will have to stop reading your novels since I am not really interested in reading about gay characters or lifesyle. Maybe there are more gays in San Diego than there are out here in flyover country but this is not a big part of my social group.
December 10, 2017
Thoughts on short stories
I really enjoy Suzanne B. books. I wish they were a little longer. It's great to get to revisit her characters to catch up on what they are doing
I really enjoy Suzanne B. books. I wish they were a little longer. It's great to get to revisit her characters to catch up on what they are doing
February 3, 2021
Izzy!
I have enjoyed all of this series. Ms. Brockman has a way of writing that makes her characters REAL. She is an auto read for me and I never regret it.
I have enjoyed all of this series. Ms. Brockman has a way of writing that makes her characters REAL. She is an auto read for me and I never regret it.
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March 6, 2021Two novellas? Yes please! The world of this Navy SEALS team and their friends is close knit and supportive, always an inspiring read.
September 24, 2023
The baby's gender got a few chuckles out of me.
June 14, 2025
Heckuvafield Trip
Happy Ending! The very best kind I really like, the terror, the thrills, the obstacles all neatly wrapped up with a pink (no, blue) ribbon!
Happy Ending! The very best kind I really like, the terror, the thrills, the obstacles all neatly wrapped up with a pink (no, blue) ribbon!
February 17, 2022
Izzy and the boys
Two mini stories here. Free Fall takes place about 8 months after Breaking the Rules. The Team is going on a Halo Dive. Eden and Jenn are in Napa for a Wedding Shower. Ben, Eden and Dan’s little brother is living with them and attending HS in San Diego.
1. Tony’s dive goes wrong, Izzy swoops in to fix things, then Jay jumps in to help the two.
2. Ben gets into a fight at school w a homophobic football player (sound like Glee!?)
3. Eden calls Adam (Tony’s fiancé) to go to school to pick up Ben.
4. Jay has a bum fall from the knee.
All is good at the end of the day.
Home Fire Inferno takes place two weeks after the Halo Dive.
1. Eden’s step dad dies in a motel room and she needs to ID the body. Jenn who isn’t due for another month goes with her. The car breaks down in the desert. Jenn goes into labor.
2. The Seal Team is Mission Ready in the Philippians at the airport. Dan calls Jenn who is breathless while Eden is heard saying: oh crap.
3. New seal member HoboMofo is unable to speak at his elementary daughters classroom and sends Jay (bum knee). He gets the call from his Senior Chief bc Eden got through to Izzy. Jay and the teacher head to the desert.
I’m not sure if Jules or Adam was the hero this day. But what you walk away with is the Seals make up a team. But their significant others and family are also a team.
Two mini stories here. Free Fall takes place about 8 months after Breaking the Rules. The Team is going on a Halo Dive. Eden and Jenn are in Napa for a Wedding Shower. Ben, Eden and Dan’s little brother is living with them and attending HS in San Diego.
1. Tony’s dive goes wrong, Izzy swoops in to fix things, then Jay jumps in to help the two.
2. Ben gets into a fight at school w a homophobic football player (sound like Glee!?)
3. Eden calls Adam (Tony’s fiancé) to go to school to pick up Ben.
4. Jay has a bum fall from the knee.
All is good at the end of the day.
Home Fire Inferno takes place two weeks after the Halo Dive.
1. Eden’s step dad dies in a motel room and she needs to ID the body. Jenn who isn’t due for another month goes with her. The car breaks down in the desert. Jenn goes into labor.
2. The Seal Team is Mission Ready in the Philippians at the airport. Dan calls Jenn who is breathless while Eden is heard saying: oh crap.
3. New seal member HoboMofo is unable to speak at his elementary daughters classroom and sends Jay (bum knee). He gets the call from his Senior Chief bc Eden got through to Izzy. Jay and the teacher head to the desert.
I’m not sure if Jules or Adam was the hero this day. But what you walk away with is the Seals make up a team. But their significant others and family are also a team.
September 26, 2018
Fits 2018 ATY #14. book #2 Fire for 4 books linked by 4 elements - fire in title
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