Bøker av Dale Mayer

After her ex-husband leaves her high and dry, former socialite Doreen Montgomery's chance at a new life comes in the form of her grandmother, Nan's, dilapidated old house in picturesque Kelowna ... and the added job of caring for the animals Nan couldn't take into assisted living with her: Thaddeus, the loquacious African gray parrot with a ripe vocabulary, and his buddy, Goliath, a monster-size cat with an equally monstrous attitude.This bundle contains the 3rd and 4th books:Corpse in the CarnationsDaggers in the Dahlias

Health-care worker Shane has been at Hathaway House since the beginning. He's watched patient after patient scratch and claw their way to recovery and has watched relationship after relationship blossom into love and marriage. He believes in love. Wants a true love of his own. Yet he wonders now whether anyone is out there for him.Until Melissa walks into his gym.Broken and beaten by life and overwhelmed with endless pain was never part of Melissa's long-term plan. But a year after an accident sidelined her navy career, she's still fighting her way back to a normal life-if such a thing exists for the woman she's become. Her transfer to Hathaway House is a lifeline to her oldest friend, but, even with Dani's encouragement, Melissa's journey back to health is long and hard and maybe just a pipe dream. But she'll try again. One more time.Separately, Shane and Melissa have been battling their own personal demons. When they meet at Hathaway House, the tough physiotherapist vows that his newest client will reach successes unimaginable to her. Together, working through her rehab plan, Shane and Melissa find a special tenderness behind each other's strength.

Hathaway House: Aaron (Book 1)Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you''ll meet wounded warriors as they''re given a second chance at happiness and love at a special physical rehab facility, including heroes from Dale''s other books as they continue on their journeys. Magic happens here! Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.This bundle contains the following three books:DentonElliotFinn

Hathaway House: Aaron (Book 1)Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you''ll meet wounded warriors as they''re given a second chance at happiness and love at a special physical rehab facility, including heroes from Dale''s other books as they continue on their journeys. Magic happens here! Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.This bundle contains:GregoryHeathIain

Hathaway House: Aaron (Book 1)Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you''ll meet wounded warriors as they''re given a second chance at happiness and love at a special physical rehab facility, including heroes from Dale''s other books as they continue on their journeys. Magic happens here! Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.This bundle contains the following three books:AaronBrockCole

Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.Keith came to Hathaway House at his sister's insistence. For he has already given up on regaining the future she keeps telling him that he can find here or, for that matter, any other future worth having. And, besides, don't they know he's too weak for the trip and for the treatment and for any of the plans the team has for him? Don't they know he's broken beyond repair, and nothing they can do will fix him?But apparently they don't because no one listens to him. Not the doctors. Not his sister. And definitely not the tiny woman who keeps delivering his coffee at 5:00 a.m.Ilse, head chef for Hathaway House, rarely ventures out of the kitchen she manages. It's easier to deal with the groceries and the staff than it is to see the pain and suffering of those she feeds. But something about Keith and his frailty calls to her. She can't help but go out of her way to ensure he has everything he needs. Even though she knows she cannot keep their relationship on a professional level, once started.Even if not in her best interests to do so. Because, in this case, surely Keith's best interests matter, so much more than her own.

HATHAWAY HOUSE Lance - 12Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love. Lance Mayfair sought out Hathaway House at the recommendation of a friend, who told him it was an answer to prayer. Lance knows more about prayers than answers, but, if he can see progress in one particular area of his life and health, it will be worth the effort and the pain. He'll do anything he can to play music again. It's all he has left now that his days as a Navy SEAL are over and, with them, any chance of a happy, productive life.However, the shoulder injury that ended his career pretty much guarantees he'll never play his beloved instruments ever again.Unless Hathaway House and Jessica can work a miracle.Jessica has worked with many patients at Hathaway House, but she connects with Lance in a way she didn't with any of the others. She can see the need inside him-his desire to create again, to heal through music. And his goal becomes her goal: to see him play music in his soul again.Only his music isn't all he wants or needs, and making him happy goes a long way to making her happy, but it's not enough. Both want and need so much more.

Combining a trip to see his grandparents with hunting down a K9 dog sounds like a good excuse at the time to Greyson. Somehow the K9 had been accidentally flow halfway around the world in the wrong direction and then lost. Finding the dog wasn't easy, but Greyson follows the trail of destruction the same as the K9 does ... and finds the female shepherd protecting a mother and child... So not what he expected.Jessica didn't understand why the dog was always around, but the dog was plain scary. Although not as much as everything else going on in her life right now. Most things she blames on her ex-husband, but was he this mean? With her toddler son to protect, she knows she can't make a mistake that will bring them harm.As the events escalate, it doesn't take long to decide who was on her side and who... wasn't.

Riches to rags. ... Chaos again. ... Winning is important, ... at least for some!Doreen is overwhelmed with joy when she sees all the volunteers who show up to help get her deck addition built. Most of the men are cops, friends of Corporal Mack Moreau's, and are happy to help Mack's special friend and the lady who has helped solve so many crimes for them with a spot of home renovation.But before the deck improvement can be finished, duty calls, and the cops are called away on a case. Another gray-haired lady has dropped dead. Yet another heart attack victim is added to the long line of previous ones. And, of course, neither of these recently deceased women had a heart condition that would explain their sudden demise.With her animals at her side, Doreen is determined to figure out what the ladies had in common, plus why and how kiwis keep popping up in this case. As she digs into the ladies' lives, the things Doreen discover are shocking, ... but not as shocking as the answer is to this riddle ...

Planning to meet his sister in Germany, but, when she's a no-show, Lennox has his first inkling that trouble has come home in a big way ...When his sister and her best friend go missing, Lennox is determined to find and to keep his only family member safe ... and her best friend. They were both doctors, traveling the globe with the UN. Lennox was proud of his sister's accomplishments. He'd never tried to hide their relationship, thinking no one from Lennox's Navy SEALs past cared-or was still alive. Only now someone has decided to use Lennox's only family as a way to exact revenge.Helena is caught up in a kidnapping of Lennox's sister, all designed to get back at Lennox-the most infuriating man she's ever met. And one she's cared for since forever. Now to know she was used as a trap to kidnap his sister and to take him out was the worst kind of punishment. But she knew this man. Knew him intimately-if only once-but also knew he was coming to rescue them, even if it meant losing his own life.Lennox wasn't letting the only two women in his world be taken out without a fight, ... especially one who didn't even know how he felt ...

When a call for help comes from Ice's father, Harrison steps up. A senator has been shot, his wife beaten and his kids are in the wind. It's up to Harrison to find the answers everyone is looking for.Including finding the senator's ex-military and pissed at the world daughter. Only she doesn't want anything to do with him.Zoe is on a mission. There's no room in her world for heroes - especially not Harrison. But he won't take no for an answer. Only Zoe has angered the wrong people, and they won't stop until they put an end to her meddling or better yet - to her.With so much going on, Harrison struggles to pull the pieces together - before their world is completely blown apart - permanently.

Logan heads to Boston on an intel mission. His investigation plunges him and his partner into the deep dark world of human trafficking.The last thing Alina remembers is having coffee at the cafe in the hospital where she works. She awakes tied up in a strange apartment. Her world as she knew it gone...possibly forever.Now they're on the run together. Time is against them. There's a quota to be made, and the traffickers aren't going to let Alina go if they can help it.Unfortunately, she's not the only victim. The hunt is on...for the traffickers and their other victims...before it's too late.

Galen's Gemma book 22 in the Heroes for Hire series Galen had plans to kick back and relax, but Levi needs someone to help out Zack, a friend of his. When Levi asks Galen, he's game. There's a little too much sugary sweet true love going on at the compound for him and his single state to handle. Then he meets Gemma and her sister, the real reason Zack was looking for help. Gemma learned a long time ago how to handle her sister and her niece. When the two end up in deep trouble, Gemma drops everything and takes charge. But it's dangerous, and she needs help. Galen wasn't what she had in mind, but her heart is open and willing. Her body? Well, it's good to go when a meet-and-greet leads to love at first sight. Only the situation is dangerous, and she has to stay focused-until the truth comes out, and she finds out what's really at stake.

Running away can often lead to the same thing you were trying to leave behind ...Vince is not on board with the wave of romance happening at Legendary Security and so is happy to escape all that, but he soon finds himself aboard a research vessel off the coast of the Galapagos Islands, dealing with his own tide of emotions.Vanessa loves her research trips. This latest one is finally coming to a successful conclusion, as she completes their data collection, when their vessel is boarded by pirates. She's knocked unconscious and moved to an old sinking tub and left adrift in the ocean. She wakes to find the only other female member of the team is missing ...Worried, the team returns to shore, trying to sort out what happened. Vanessa insists on tracking her missing team member, even as the others vote to return home. Vanessa refuses. She'll help or die trying. Vince can stay with her or go with the others-his choice-but no way is Vanessa's lost researcher being left behind.And, one by one, the other members of the team go missing too ...

After helping out Vince, Johan hadn't planned on staying at Levi and Ice's compound for long. However, Johan realizes how much plans can change when Galen comes over from Africa to join Johan, and the two are sent into town on a job that's close and up-front personal to another member of Legendary Security.Joyce, otherwise called Joy, sought a career position but accepted something out of her normal skill set in order to pay the rent. But when her inventory lists show missing drugs, she knows something ugly is going on. With no one at the company willing to listen, she turns to her old friend Kai for advice.Johan wasn't the answer Joy was looking for, but, when she finds out the previous employee to hold her position is in the morgue, she's damn happy to have him.Her job might be safe ... but her life? Well, that's on the line ...

Helping a friend in need is never a wrong move. And Saul knows the value of his friends. When he's called to find Benji's missing brother, Daniel - he's on it.Only Daniel might be involved in something a lot darker than avoiding his brother's phone calls. At least according to Rebel who's been haunting Daniel's apartment, looking for her missing girlfriend.When the bodies start showing up, Rebel is terrified her friend will be next...And that's not something she's going to sit by and allow. No matter if Saul thinks she should. He needs to get out of her way or she'll run right over him. The trouble is, it doesn't take long for her to realize he'd like that - and so would she.Now if only they could save their friends...before the entire mess blows up and takes them all out.

Minx Montgomery's only light in a terrible childhood was her neighbor and best friend, Mouse. When he left Texas at the age of seventeen, she never heard from him again, though she's never forgotten him either. She moved in with her uncle, went to college and became a counselor. Her supervisor at the clinic sexually harassed her. Reporting him backfired. Demoted, she's transferred to another branch in the city--to the same district she'd finally managed to escape.Laszlo Jensen, a former SEAL, has spent the last two years recovering from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine. Six other team-mates were also badly hurt, the seventh--Mouse--dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap set to take them out. He and his team-mate Geir are trying to learn more about Mouse's history. Was the whole squad targeted with that landmine, or just their youngest, newest member? The truth is more disturbing and senseless than they'd anticipated. Who was Mouse really? Minx may be the only person who knew the boy that later became a dangerous, hunted man...

Riches to rags. ... Chaos to more chaos. ... Fire destroys evidence. ... Or at least most of it! Flush with success from solving a decade-old kidnapping case, Doreen can't wait to find out what's next in her one-woman crusade to clean up Kelowna's cold crimes. But, before she can unearth another old case to sink her teeth into, she must tie up some loose ends from the last one.Steve Albright, fixer for the local biker gang, has made it clear that he blames Doreen for sending his friend Penny Jordan to prison. Steve even suggests that Doreen might have set up Penny Jordan. While Doreen wouldn't do that, she's afraid that other people might believe Steve. He's a popular figure in town and has a lot of friends, many of whom Doreen doesn't want to get any closer to than she must.At least Steve doesn't have his gun anymore, having dropped that in Doreen's neighbor's gardenia bed while she chased him from her yard. Which makes Doreen think that maybe it's safe to dig into Steve's past. Until she uncovers a connection to three arson cases from years ago and is warned off by Corporal Mack Moreau.But Doreen's never listened to Mack before, and it has all worked out thus far, so it's not like she has to listen to him now. Right?

"Hathaway House: Gregory (Book 7)Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming military romance series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you'll meet a whole new group of friends, along with a few favorite characters from Heroes for Hire. Instead of action, you'll find emotion. Instead of suspense, you'll find healing. Instead of romance, ... oh, wait. ... There is romance-of course!" Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love. Navy SEAL Gregory Parkins knows he's not so bad off as to need what Hathaway House offers, but he'lldo anything to get in. RN Meredith Anderson is there, and Greg loves Meredith. In the time since theysplit up, his life has been one disaster after another, including the one that ended his career-the careerthat separated them in the first place. Meredith was horrified to hear what happened to Gregory. But seeing his file was an even bigger shock.Greg thinks he's basically back to normal, but Meredith knows he has a long way to go. She doesn'tknow how to tell him, without running the risk of him leaving Hathaway House before his healing canreally take place. But the last thing she wants is for him to walk away from her again. Not if there is any chance that theycan find their way back to each other ...

Heading back to Iraq was never in Parker's plans ...But, when his brother is killed in action, he makes the journey to bring his brother back home to his final resting place.When one of the K9 War Dogs disappears at the military airport in transit, and all attempts to locate him fails, Parker agrees to investigate during the few days he's there.Sandy is making the same journey as Parker-both of their brothers were killed in the same incident. Both brothers had been the best of friends, but this is the first time she's met Parker. From that initial moment, she realizes something odd is happening in his world. When they find a K9 dog in a rebel stronghold, she's sucked into a much more dangerous trip than one of compassion and grief.There's a reason why the first investigation didn't turn up anything. ... As Parker rattles cages and shakes up a ring of thieves, the bodies start dropping, one by one.

Murder is a deadly way to start a relationship ...Finally back in Coronado and his own apartment but still tired from traveling, Taylor helps a neighbor by closing her apartment door as she dashes back to work. But, as he does so, a smell he's all too familiar with permeates the air. And he's plunged into a multiple homicide with no meaning or end ...Midge doesn't understand what's happened to her life, ... but now her home, her workplace, her neighbors are all in danger and are all suspect. ... Taylor is the only piece of normalcy in her world-gone-crazy right now.But even he can't keep an eye on her all the time ...

"Hathaway House: Finn (Book 6)Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming military romance series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you'll meet a whole new group of friends, along with a few favorite characters from Heroes for Hire. Instead of action, you'll find emotion. Instead of suspense, you'll find healing. Instead of romance, ... oh, wait. ... There is romance-of course!" Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love. Navy SEAL Finn MacGregor arrives at Hathaway House not only with half of one leg but with a stoma, one that necessitates the use of a colostomy bag. While it's nice to once again see his old friend Dani Hathaway and her father, the Major, it's tough to feel like the least sexy man on the face of the earth. Especially after he meets the pretty nurse in charge of his care ... Fiona Smithers has seen practically everything when it comes to the human body, and Finn's physical problems don't faze her. Emotionally she's wary though. Once before, one of her patients had confused the gratitude he felt for her as love. ... That scenario left Fiona devastated to know her friendliness had been misunderstood. Whether deemed love or friendliness, those emotions directly effected that patient's initial healing and then his setbacks of body as well as of heart and of mind, making her more determined not to run the same risks again. Yet, this time, she may not be able to help herself. She wants Finn in her life on a permanent basis, but, after seeing his obsession with her in his artwork, is that even possible?

Welcome to the all new K9 Files series reconnecting readers with the unforgettable men from SEALs of Steel in a new series of action packed, page turning romantic suspense that fans have come to expect from USA TODAY Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Pssst... you'll meet other favorite characters from SEALs of Honor and Heroes for Hire too! The world of dogfighting is an ugly place ...When Tophat, a missing K9 dog, is accidentally sent to Canada as part of a group of rescued dogs looking for adoption, Lucas knows he's the natural pick for this job. Plus he has another reason to be in the country. His sister lives there, and ... so does his ex-fiancée.But when he arrives, Lucas finds Tophat was handed over to a trainer who deals with aggressive dogs. The news isn't good, especially after Lucas arrives at the trainer's property and is thrown into the dark underworld of dogfighting.Tanya used to share her home with her two best friends, until one was killed in a hit-and-run and the other badly injured. Now living alone in a small apartment, Tanya realizes how much she's lost-including Lucas. Unexpectedly seeing him flips her world once more ...As Lucas digs deeper into Tophat's disappearance, the dogfighting ring rises up to protect their own ...

Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.Navy SEAL Denton Hamilton has checked himself into Hathaway House, hoping for a fraction of the results his friends have gotten at the rehab center. Now missing a rib, muscles and a portion of his stomach, as well as suffering from PTSD, Denton would be happy to have his physical self healed. He's not so sure he'll ever get his mental health back, and finding a woman who'll have him now-as his friends have been lucky enough to do-is out of the question. Who would be willing to love a man like him?Administrative Assistant Hannah Forsythe helps Dani run Hathaway House. A loner at heart, she's drawn to Denton's struggle and dismayed at his belief that no one could ever love him. But when an ill-advised observation she makes has unexpected consequences for Denton's recovery, Hannah's only choice is to separate herself from him to help him progress without her.As time passes, Hannah wonders if her choice has cost her everything she's ever wanted or whether Denton can work through his feelings to give them both their happy ending at Hathaway House.

Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming military romance series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you''ll meet a whole new group of friends, along with a few favorite characters from Heroes for Hire. Instead of action, you''ll find emotion. Instead of suspense, you''ll find healing. Instead of romance, ... oh, wait. ... There is romance-of course!Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.Former Navy SEAL Elliot Carver came to Hathaway House to get help with the lingering repercussions of a mission gone bad. His body is dealing with the physical trauma of a spinal cord injury, while his mind is caught in a loop of painful memories that he can''t sideline, and both won''t let him heal the way he''d like.Former ER Nurse Sicily Lawrence has just made her way out of a difficult relationship, and the quietness of the night shift at Hathaway House gives her peace of mind. The last thing she needs is to get involved in another volatile union. But she has seen injuries like Elliot''s before, and she knows that a certain type of therapy can help. One Elliot isn''t interested in trying.Now, for Elliot''s sake, Sicily must push him toward the progress he needs, even it means losing him. And, with time and luck, maybe they can cross the hurdle and find each other at Hathaway House.Hathaway House: Elliot (Book 5)

Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming military romance series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you'll meet a whole new group of friends, along with a few favorite characters from Heroes for Hire. Instead of action, you'll find emotion. Instead of suspense, you'll find healing. Instead of romance, ... oh, wait. ... There is romance-of course!Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love. Jaden Hancock knows that things could be a lot worse. He still has two arms and two legs, even if one of his legs is so badly damaged it's virtually useless. And it's not that he isn't willing to work toward recovery-it's just hard to see the lack of progress even after weeks of therapy. While he knows that he needs to accept the current state of his body, that acceptance feels like giving up. And he's not prepared to do that. Brianna Kole crossed the country to get away from her old life. As the newest member of the staff at Hathaway House, she's polite but not overly friendly. The last thing she wants is to get attached and to risk getting hurt again. But, in spite of her reservations, she and Jaden gravitate to each other as the two newcomers to the facility. After that, it isn't long before Brianna's questioning her feelings ... and his.

After his last assignment, Ryker is ready for a rest. And he gets it-but only a few hours ...That's even too long for a geologist kidnapped by guerrillas in the Colombia jungle. Ryker has plenty of experience in jungles around the world but, keeping Manila safe-along with the two men she's traveling with and their injured guide-exposes them for who they are. It quickly becomes apparent, under these most gruelling conditions, which of her party steps up and which plan to step out.Manila's life has become one of never-ending misery at the hands of her captors as they await word from their bosses, who decide her ultimate fate. That she's hunting platinum doesn't matter to them. Nor that she's fighting against the invasive illegal gold mining taking over parts of the area. When Ryker rescues her from her prison tent, she places her trust in his ability to get her and her team safely away. Not yet realizing she'd be gifting him both her body and her heart too.Ryker needs to keep them all alive and together long enough to get them out of this hellhole-hopefully alive...

When his call came, the mission was the opposite of what he expected...Returning to his hometown of London, UK, was a happy surprise, until he realized what-and who-was involved. Out of his comfort zone when dealing with women sold into sexual slavery or even "collected," regardless Miles was determined to dig in deep, when he realized he knew the latest kidnapped victim. A woman who'd touched him years earlier. To think she might be suffering at the hands of a deranged serial kidnapper or, worse, could be sold in some human trafficking ring...Vanessa, tied up and blindfolded, has no idea why she'd been kidnapped. She does her best to obey her captor, even as she plots her escape. Her hope is that she's been reported missing and that the cops are looking for her. ... They are, but so is someone else...Keeping Vanessa safe at his side, Miles is taxed to the limit to unravel and to capture a serial killer who's lain undetected for decades, disguised as a serial kidnapper...

Riches to rags. ... Chaos is still present. ... Memories are fading, ... but not for everyone!The problem with notoriety is unfair expectations. When Mack's mother, Millicent Moreau, requests Doreen's help with a small problem she's kept hidden for decades, Doreen feels obligated to help. And what harm could it do, after all? Worst-case scenario? It'll annoy Mack, but that's something she does on a regular basis anyway.But when Millicent's "small problem" turns out to involve a failed marriage, a bag of jewels from a jewelry store that mysteriously burned down decades ago, possible insurance fraud, and maybe even a case of murder, ... Doreen will admit that she's in way over her head.With her trusty trio of furry and feathered cohorts, she brings an old case into the present-and finds it's more current than ever ...

Heading out on a last-ditch rescue mission to Puget Sound one day after two women go overboard in a sailing accident isn''t exactly what he''d expected ... But Keane is nothing if not adaptable. He can only hope the two women are alive and doing everything they can to stay that way. Hearing from the local coast guard that more may be involved than just a rescue mission, he and his partner load up and head out to search the waters around the smaller islands off the coast. They have the GPS of the missing women''s last-known location, but storms could have sent them anywhere ...Lost, alone-except for her best friend, who''s unconscious with a head wound-Sandrine wakes up in a small shelter to find they are locked in. When the door is finally opened, an armed stranger dressed in fatigues dumps a small amount of food and says they are on their own.Finding the women was one thing, keeping them safe something else again. More is going on in this small island that any of them were expecting ... or had planned for ...