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As Garnet, professional volleyball player Aspen Davis was hunted on an island in the South Pacific by depraved men who paid millions for the privilege. While her athleticism initially gave her an edge, it turned into a hindrance when her tormentors saw her as a challenge. Scarred and mentally exhausted, she’s blocked out a lot of the memories. Now she’s disappeared again. Ex-Navy SEAL Buck Moreno is haunted every day by his past. He’s had no choice but to learn to keep his emotions at bay, so when he’s hired to find and protect Aspen Davis, he treats it like any other job. Or he tries to, anyway. Aspen is beautiful and strong and brave, and Buck finds himself feeling more than he should—more than he ever thought he’d feel again. Despite both their pasts, the two find solace in each other…until Aspen begins to remember. The more she recalls, the more she wants revenge against those who wronged her. Buck vows to protect her at all costs…even if he must protect her from herself.

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Published May 31, 2022

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#1 New York Times, #1 USA Today, and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Helen Hardt's passion for the written word began with the books her mother read to her at bedtime. She wrote her first story at age six and hasn’t stopped since. In addition to being an award winning author of contemporary and historical romance and erotica, she’s a mother, an attorney, a black belt in Taekwondo, a grammar geek, an appreciator of fine red wine, and a lover of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. She writes from her home in Colorado, where she lives with her family.

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Profile Image for Corinne Akers.
1,151 reviews7 followers
June 4, 2022
Garnet

This book! Oh my goodness! I don’t even know where to begin! The things done to Garnet on the island are so horrific that while your reading about it you physically gasp and feel pain for this character and really anyone who has or could go through something like this and come out on the other side of it!! Buck has been to war, and has seen his fair share of abuse, destruction and death! He has the scars to prove it too. On paper these two seem to not make any sense because of what they’ve endured — but it’s exactly what brings them together. The knowledge that they’ve both endured and come out on the other side. They may be damaged, but together they’re perfect! The beautiful love story that comes out of all this devastation is absolutely breathtaking! The fact that the author can make you feel so many conflicting emotions throughout this book is a testament to the caliber of writer she is!! By far the best book of this series so far and a definite must read for anyone who believes you can rise above this kind of devastation! A solid 5 star read and if I could I’d give it 10!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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775 reviews21 followers
May 9, 2022
Garnet is Book 3 of the Gems of Wolfe Island and has taken the Top spot in my heart of this series so far.

Aspen Davis was a professional Volleyball player before her life abruptly flipped upside-down. Five years of living Hell, being hunted, tortured, and experiencing anything and everything the sick depraved degenerates who came to the island could come up with in there warped sadistic Minds to put her and the other women through.
Surviving the Horrors of wolf Island was in itself an incredible feat to accomplish. Aspen, like many of the women who were held captive on that God forsaken Island. Has a long way to go to be better than she was when first rescued but she or any of the others will ever be the same as before they were taken.
Wanting to take her life back and get back the full control of her life. Aspen sets out to return to Colorado. To Face her past, to see her parents and her ex fiance. To try and regain the normalcy it is to be a free person.
She didn't tell the Wolfe family where she was going. Frantic as they were to try to keep all of the women that their despicable father had imprisoned on that horrific Island. The Wolfes call in their best freelance Security agent Buck Moreno to track her down and find her. Buck is very successful and once he locates Aspen he calls Ried Wolfe and explains the situation and where she was headed.
With the full support and financial backing of the Wolfes Buck and Aspen head to Colorado so she can face her past and maybe get some closure maybe get back the normalcy that she is so desperate to cling on to again.
There's an invisible pulll that Buck feels. He has the urge to protect Aspen with his life. There's just something about her. He looks at her and sees the most beautiful woman he's ever laid eyes on. He sees how strong and fierce she is but also how fragile. He wants nothing more then to keep her safe and never let anything happen to her ever again. The two become extremely close there's a spark between them that ignite's into a roaring flame that they have to keep tamed.
Aspen is nervous 2 see her parents so she decides to see her ex-fiance first Buck is with her and the reunion between them is awkward and uncomfortable he moved on but when he sees her he wants nothing more than to be with her again Aspen shuts it down it can't happen she's not the same woman she was and she makes that clear. During there reuniting her ex fiance gives her information that makes her think and wonder how she was taken in the first place and she's bound and determined to solve that mystery if it's the last thing she does she's going to find out why and who would do something like that to her.
When Aspen's reunited with her parents her mother is beside herself and her father can't believe his eyes. They want to do what parents always want to do for their children and keep her safe with them.
Aspen has other plans she is determined to find out how and why her life was forever changed all those years ago.
When Aspen and Buck start digging going to one of her old teammates and unearthing the past that was buried is dangerous and deadly. Someone is watching, someone who Aspen knows but at the same time has no idea who it is. they discover someone close to her at that time betrayed her in the worst possible way. When an old teammates body is discovered they enlist the help of the one man that Buck never wanted to ask for help and that is Luke AKA Lucifer Raven the man that buck has a complicated past with and a man that Buck both hates and is grateful to. With his help they are determined to uncover the mystery and find out who's responsible before Aspen is the next person to be found dead.
However in order for this plan to work they all have to work together and Aspen has to turn back into Garnet! She has to be the fierce Warrior she was on that island for so many years so she can survive and find out the truth before it's too late.

Helen is a true Master at her craft she brings us into her world throws us right into all of the action. You get the emotions you feel for her characters, it's like you are one with the books that she writes.
Garnet is extraordinary, suspenseful and addictive. You see and feel the determination that Aspen has to take back the control that she lost.

5 glorious stars!
Profile Image for Renae.
1,168 reviews
May 30, 2022
I dont know how Helen Hardt keeps coming up with all these fantastic stories! But damn cliffhangers........ugh Guess it keeps me reading!!!😉
Profile Image for Nicole Collins.
1,390 reviews14 followers
May 30, 2022
Soooo good. I can't wait to see what happens next. This series is a world wind of emotions and intensity. I can not get enough. I highly recommend this story and series to others. Cant wait for Buck.
Profile Image for Sharilyn Russell.
975 reviews4 followers
June 1, 2022
amazing

Another riveting story from Helen. The characters are great to read and it keeps you clues to the pages. The twist and turns keep you interested throughout the book.?
63 reviews
June 2, 2022
Left needing answers

Excellent work left me wanting to know more. And praying all the questions will be answered. As pen should get all her answers and find love with Buck
Profile Image for Bobbie.
1,560 reviews
June 2, 2022
Intriguing storyline with plot twists. Great characters.
24 reviews
June 2, 2022
Helen Hardt's writings are just amazing!!! You have brought me to the edge if the cliff again. Waiting excitedly for Buck!! The next book.
Profile Image for Shelly Jones Thomas.
18 reviews
June 3, 2022
Amazing wow way to go !!!!

Helen Hardt has done it again love this series can’t wait to see what happens next in the next book
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2,107 reviews11 followers
June 3, 2022
Oh I need more about Aspen & Buck!
Great story, I couldn’t stop reading.
Recommend to all
403 reviews1 follower
June 9, 2022
Garent

I really enjoyed reading this book and can't wait to find our what happens next. I hope everything works out for them
Profile Image for Angela.
274 reviews9 followers
April 20, 2022
Aspen Davis
Buck Moreno

Buck Moreno, working as freelance security for the Wolfe family, is needed again. He needs to find Aspen. Make sure she is safe.

Aspen Davis, known only as Garnet on the island, was a professional volleyball player. Her athleticism was her saving grace, for she was hunted by the worse of the degenerates that visited the island. Now she is missing again. Or so it is thought. She only wants to go home. She has someone she needs to see.

As Buck and Aspen continue their journey to Colorado, where Aspen was headed, when she had a breakthrough.

Now she wants, needs to know who made it happen, that she ended up on that island in the first place.

While spending so much time together, Buck and Aspen have grown closer together, as their journey takes them from Colorado to LA California. There, Aspen gets to spend some time with Katelyn, another girl that was on the island with her, and Buck had to make nice with Luke, aka Lucifer Raven, who abused his sister, but is now a changed man. Do leopards really change their spots?

Aspen and Buck learn a lot of information while in California, so much happens, but there is still so much she needs to find out.

As always, Helen Hardt leaves you with a cliffhanger that makes you absolutely breathless and needing the next installment as soon as yesterday, lol.

This was an extremely excellent book. I immensely enjoyed reading it.

I rate it with 5 stars and recommend it to all that have previously read the other books in this series, starting with Moonstone: Gems of Wolfe Island book 1
96 reviews
July 31, 2022
It was an awesome book. Can't wait to read Buck. Thank you Helen Hardt!
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1,286 reviews29 followers
April 22, 2022
There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or just closing the book...

Aspen was at the top of her game as a professional volleyball player. She could not imagine in her wildest nightmares that she would be kidnapped and taken to an Island to be hunted. Nefarious men paid vast sums of money to chase down and capture only to inflict horrendous acts on her. After escaping the horrors of the Island, she has disappeared again to find out who was responsible for her capture and disappearance.

Buck, an Ex-NavySEAL was employed to find her and make sure she comes to no harm. Buck and Aspen have something in common, they both harbor emotional and physical scars. On the path to seek information, Buck and Aspen grow closer to each other. Buck can understand her need for revenge, but feels it may consume her. Aspen is at the crossroads of whether or not she should just let it go and leave it in the past. I anticipate that we will find more answers in the next book.
272 reviews
June 6, 2022
As Garnet, professional volleyball player Aspen Davis was hunted on an island in the South Pacific by depraved men who paid millions for the privilege. While her athleticism initially gave her an edge, it turned into a hindrance when her tormentors saw her as a challenge. Scarred and mentally exhausted, she’s blocked out a lot of the memories. Now she’s disappeared again. Ex-Navy SEAL Buck Moreno is haunted every day by his past. He’s had no choice but to learn to keep his emotions at bay, so when he’s hired to find and protect Aspen Davis, he treats it like any other job. Or he tries to, anyway. Aspen is beautiful and strong and brave, and Buck finds himself feeling more than he should—more than he ever thought he’d feel again. Despite both their pasts, the two find solace in each other…until Aspen begins to remember. The more she recalls, the more she wants revenge against those who wronged her. Buck vows to protect her at all costs…even if he must protect her from herself.
Profile Image for Ann Frances Geffert.
140 reviews6 followers
June 1, 2022
Garnet: Gems of Wolfe Island Three

Garnet, whose real name is Aspen, is one of the kidnapped, hunted, raped, and tortured women on Wolfe Island. But unlike Katelyn, who spent ten years of her life there, Aspen was only there for five. But her time there was different from Katelyn's. She was hunted nearly every day, because she was an athlete, a volleyball player on a women's professional team, she was considered a worthy apponant.
When she finally starts to remember things that happened to her, she decides that knowing how she ended up on the island, and why, were very important to her. Luckily, she has the help of an ex-Navy Seal, named Buck, who works for the Wolfe family.
I can hardly wait to read the next installment of the "Gems of Wolfe Island".... entitled, "Buck", which comes out in July!
1,652 reviews8 followers
June 3, 2022
Another gem (no pun intended) to this series!

Buck is a contractor that works for the Wolfe family. Aspen (Garnet) used to be on Wolfe Island because of the Wolfe’s father. The Wolfe siblings got her off the island and gave all the girls that were there a place to stay. She goes missing, but not really. She just wants to see Colorado which is her home, but she doesn’t tell anyone. Buck is hired to find her which he does. He takes her to Colorado. These are two people that have been through trauma, not the same type, but still trauma. Two traumatized people are brought together and drawn to each other. Aspen must find out who is responsible for her being on that island in the first place. Now it’s time for revenge. It’s action filled and off the charts steamy. Their story will continue in the next book, Buck.
Profile Image for Jan Savage.
110 reviews
June 13, 2022
Omg had me right from the beginning.And wow Aspen what an amazing strength and determination takes off to go home to see her parents and Ex Fiancé .And in doing so she meets Buck Moreno and there’s a slow spark which grows very quickly and there both unaware till things start to happen .Aspen realises she needs answers to how she was taken and who did this to her and events start to happen and when she finds her first connection to her old team mate and they mysteriously die that Aspen realises there’s someone is trying to prevent Aspen from finding out who they are it’s about to take all of Aspen and Buck and friends and family to find the truth .I got to the last page and went no can’t end there can’t wait for the next Book Helen Hardt
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1,390 reviews
May 5, 2023
Holy cow... Aspen's life has been turned upside down. 1st she's a great volleyball player & then whammy she's kidnapped. Once everything has kinda settled down, Aspen is thrown in2 the hands of a bodyguard named Buck.

Long story short, they finally have feelings for each other & Buck ends up in hospital from being hit iii over the head & has a concussion!!

Im looking forward to reading his book next!!
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5 reviews
June 4, 2022
Great story

I enjoyed his book and love the links from other book however several times i had to put the book down due to repetitive lines such was putting me off I love Helen's books but when it's constant repeated lines it feels like they are there to fill the pages and there's no need I've read every one of Helen's books and love her stories as they really encapsulates you.
Profile Image for Ronni Kuhlmey-gale.
9 reviews1 follower
June 7, 2022
Wow this book was on fire

This book was amazing. I absolutely couldn't put it down. I can't wait until the next book to see where this story will end for Garnet. These poor women have been through the gutter and this story had me sitting on the edge of my seat.

What an amazing book this was and a writer Helen is.
437 reviews1 follower
June 11, 2022
It’s not over till the fat lady sings

Garnet or Aspen returns to Colorado to see her parents and fiancé. Back is her security guard who tracks her down and stays with her while she accomplishes her deeds. During this time she realizes she needs to find out who set her up and who betrayed her. Lots of excitement, intrigue and action
1,142 reviews2 followers
June 21, 2022
These women suffered at the hands of some awful men; some of the women did not survive their ordeals. Aspen, a.k.a Garnet, was a warrior. She was held five years before being rescued. The fact that she meets Buck from the previous book, is a very interesting twist. Of course this book ends with a cliffhanger and the next book is four weeks away. );
41 reviews
June 4, 2022
she did it again!!

Helen you absolutely amaze me! She knows how to get me intrigued from the start. I couldn’t put the book down. I love seeing happy endings for these ladies. I can’t wait to read the next one!
6 reviews
June 4, 2022
Again and again Helen!!!

Helen Hardt is the queen of cliff hangers! Time and time again Helen raw talent for writing amazing story lines never ceases to amaze me. I can't wait for July to see how Buck and Aspen's story end.....
Profile Image for Tina Hampton.
67 reviews
June 13, 2022
A must read!

This book was a page turner. I read it in one day cause I could not put it down, really like the suspense that keeps building. And who done it is like the big question. Great characters and a great read, well written and that's why I gave it 5 stars.
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105 reviews3 followers
June 15, 2022
I’m loving trying to solve all the mysteries. I really am liking Buck and learning more about his life. I loved that all their scars made them more attracted to each other. I can’t wait to read the next book.
3 reviews
June 16, 2022
Loved the dtory

I like the background of the story

It brings you in and keeps you riveted to the entire journey of the characters
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