In Love and War
by Candace Irvin, Lindsay McKenna, Merline Lovelace

A Military Affair by Merline Lovelace
AF cop Sergeant Teresa Ross heads an elite Phoenix Raven cadre charged with protecting the plane and crew sent to a remote Pacific island to recover the remains of a U.S. Marine missing since WWII. When a scruffy, unidentified intruder attempts to penetrate the defensive perimeter Teresa has set up around the aircraft, she takes him down. To her disgust, the intruder is a seriously hung-over UPI stringer who claims to be working a story on the movement of terrorist-supplied arms across the South Pacific. Her lip curls when Pete offers to trade his knowledge of the island for exclusive rights to the story about the dead marine. She isn't about to let anyone cash in on the story of a fallen warrior—until the recovery team comes under intense fire. Dodging bullets, she and Pete bring the team to safety and the WWII marine home to the honors he's so long deserved.

Comrade in Arms by Lindsay McKenna The last thing Captain Mike Johnson's special forces A- team needs going into Afghanistan is a woman. Unfortunately for Mike, Captain Rachel McCain, an Army Intelligence officer, just happens to be the only one around who speaks Farsi. Rachel willingly volunteers for the dangerous wartime assignment to be Tiger 01's interpreter. Tensions run high because Mike is old fashioned and doesn't believe women should serve in combat, but he has no choice; no one on his team speaks any Arabic language. Things get hot in more ways than one in Afghanistan as Mike learns that Rachel is the one soldier he can't live without.

An Unconditional Surrender by Candace Irvin
Special Agent Jack Gage once held the world cradled in his palm—until he took the hand of the only woman he's ever loved and asked her to marry him, and she said no. Determined to get on with his life, Jack left the Army behind for a job with the Mobile Security Division (MSD), an elite special operations team under the direction of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service. Unfortunately, fate steps in during Jack's first mission with MSD. While working undercover to take down an international terrorist cell, Jack is sucked into the heinous world of trafficking in human persons. Jack is horrified to discover the "slave" he's forced to purchase is none other than the woman he's spent the past twelve months trying to forget, Captain Danielle Stanton. The moment Jack sees Dani clothed in little more than bruises and shackles, he knows he'll do anything to save her. Jack also knows that this time, he won't settle for less than a future with Dani—and the complete, unconditional surrender of her heart.

Candace Irvin's Bio

As a child, Candace believed imagination was everything—and growing up as the daughter of a librarian and a sailor in locales as diverse as Germany and the Philippines, she had more than enough fodder to feed that imagination. As a teenager, she was also certain everyone had a couple extra people running around inside their heads. It was only when her father warned her about people who heard voices—and where they eventually ended up—that she realized this wasn't the case. Candace never had the heart to confess to her father that not only did those people talk to her, they led full-scale lives. Unfortunately, with the publication of her first book, FOR HIS EYES ONLY, dear ol' dad found out anyway.

As an adult, Candace learned to blend action with her imagination. After a brief stint in the US Army (long enough to survive basic training), Candace accepted a branch transfer and enrolled in the US Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC). Following her commissioning as an Ensign in the Navy and graduation from Surface Warfare Officer's school, she finally followed her father to sea. Tasked with securing the USS Samuel Gompers' damage control, she spent her days fighting fires, plugging leaks, and cleaning up toxic gases aboard the naval warship. In fact it was during one particular watch as the Gompers' Officer of the Deck, that Candace noticed a nuclear transport container and began to imagine all sorts of intriguing scenarios. It wasn't until five years later, after she'd learned to channel her excess energy and love of romance into writing that she turned that fateful night's fictitious fruit into a book. Though the Navy might not appreciate the turns her mind took along the way, she hopes you'll enjoy the results.

Although her military days are now firmly behind her, Candace continues to draw on those experiences and her overactive imagination to pen tales of danger and intrigue on the high seas and off. The rest of her time is spent happily married to her own dashing hero, a former Army Combat Engineer with dimples to-die-for. The two now reside in the South, happily raising three future heroes and one adorable heroine, who won't be allowed to date until she's forty—at least.