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Sometimes love isn’t enough.

Summer Blackwell has endured her own private hell and fought her way through to the other side. She’s lost so much and her marriage has crumbled, but she refuses to give up hope. Just as she thinks there might be a chance to reconcile with her husband, things go terribly wrong during a job in Jordan when she and her team are captured by the enemy. Now, with every passing hour she’s one step closer to a horrific death at the hands of the radical terror group she was working to destroy. Escape is impossible. Unless her husband’s team finds her before the deadline hits, it will be too late…

And sometimes, it’s everything.

Special Agent Adam Blackwell is going to win his wife back, no matter what it takes. In spite of everything they’ve gone through, he’s never stopped loving her, and can’t imagine his life without her. He’s been on personal leave to mount a desperate campaign to save their broken marriage, but agrees to join his team for a one-off protective detail assignment in Amman. When the unthinkable happens and Summer is taken hostage by the most ruthless terrorist organization in the region, Adam and his teammates will stop at nothing to save her. But every day without a solid lead means the hope of rescuing her is dwindling, and now it’s a race to find her before the clock runs out.

Settings
Baltimore, Maryland
Amman, Jordan
Northern Shuneh, Jordan

26 Chapters
Epilogue

Character List
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Adam Blackwell: FBI special agent and Hostage Rescue Team member. He’s married to Summer. He has black hair and blue eyes.
Summer Blackwell: State Department Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst. She’s married to Adam. She has red hair and pale green eyes.
Clay Bauer: FBI special agent on the Hostage Rescue Team. He’s married to Zoe. He’s 6’5” with brown hair and blue eyes.
Zoe Renard: Tuck’s cousin and Celida’s best friend. She’s married to Clay and pregnant. She’s 5’10” with golden eyes. Her hair color changes often. She’s a former lawyer now a romantic horror writer.
Sawyer Vance: Hostage Rescue Team member and FBI special agent. Ethan’s best friend. He’s engaged to Carmela and currently sidelined from his injuries sustained during the Alaska op. He has dark hair and dark brown eyes.
Carmela Cruz: Ethan’s sister and Sawyer’s fiancée. She’s a senior orthopedic specialist and a surgical sales rep. She has long, dark brown hair and golden brown eyes.
Ethan Cruz: Hostage Rescue Team member and FBI special agent. He’s in a relationship with Marisol. He’s 6’2” with dark hair and golden brown eyes.
Marisol (Soli) Lorenzo: Former U. S. Attorney in Miami now in Alexandria and a friend of Ethan’s family since he was a child. She’s in a relationship with him. She’s tall with dark brown hair and sea green eyes.
Veronica Cruz: Ethan and Carmela’s mother.
Nate Schroder: Hostage Rescue Team medic and former Air Force Pararescue Jumper (PJ). He’s 28-years old and has auburn hair and hazel eyes. He’s in a relationship with Taya.
Taya Kostas: Former hostage in Afghanistan who Nate helped rescue five years ago. Shes in a relationship with Nate. She’s 34-years old and has dark brown, long curly hair and gray eyes.
Matt DeLuca: Hostage Rescue Team commander. Former FORECON Marine. He’s in a relationship with Briar. He’s 41-years old with brown hair and green eyes.
Briar Jones: aka B. CIA operative. She’s in a relationship with Matt. She’s 29-years old and has bronze skin with chin length dark brown hair and black eyes.
Lisa DeLuca: Matt’s wife who died four years ago.
Brad (Tuck) Tucker: FBI special agent on the Hostage Rescue Team and team leader. He’s married to Celida. He has blond hair and brown eyes.
Celida Morales: FBI special agent. She and Tuck used to be partners and are now married. She’s a former Marine and is 5’6” with brunette hair and gray eyes.
Greg Travers: Senior FBI special agent within the domestic terrorist division.
Jake Evers: FBI special agent assigned to the Hostage Rescue Team and who had served on Rycroft’s task force. He’s 32-years old, 6’1” with short dark hair and dark eyes. He’s engaged to Rachel.
Rachel Granger: Architect working for Edge Architectural Firm. She’s engaged to Jake. She’s half Chinese, 27-years old and has dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
Miller: Hostage Rescue Team member.
Brody Colebrook: FBI special agent and Hostage Rescue Team sniper team leader.
Napoli: FBI special agent and Hostage Rescue Team spotter.
Foster: Director.
Maya Thatcher: FBI special agent. She’s married to Jackson Thatcher, Secretary of Defense.
Jim Barnes: Summer’s DIA boss.
Mark Grimes: Member of Summer’s team in Amman.
Tarek Hadad: Member of the ATB terrorist group. He has risen to considerable power recently and has a reputation for being ruthless.
Akram: Tarek’s most trusted soldier.
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Spoiler Info
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Clay and Zoe had a girl, Liberty (Libby) Raven Bauer.

Briar and Matt eloped. (hide spoiler)]

Can't wait for this one!

Me, too!

I'm behind. I just got both Betrayed and Reclaimed today.