Bøker av Ronie Kendig

A handler and her dog. A Green Beret willing to risk everything. A mission that could kill them all!Former Navy handler Timbrel Hogan has more attitude than her Explosives Detection Dog, Beowulf, but she's a tough woman who gets the job done.Green Beret Tony "Candyman" VanAllen likes a challenge and convincing the hard-hitting handler they belong together might just get him killed. When tragedy strikes and Tony's career is jeopardized, Timbrel must re-evaluate her life and priorities-and fast. A terrorist plots to unleash a weapon of mass destruction on American soil.Can Timbrel and Beowulf track the chemicals in time? Will Tony surrender everything to save the woman nobody wants to love-except him?A Breed ApartBook 1: TrinityBook 2: TalonBook 3: BeowulfA Breed Apart: LegacyBook 1: HavocBook 2: ChaosBook 3: RiotBook 4: FuryBook 5: Surge

Navy SEAL K-9 handler Beau "Danger" Maddox is at the top of his game-until an op goes south, leaving him physically and mentally scarred. Separated from the Navy, he's determined to requalify as operational and get back in the action so he can take down the deadly South American cartel that killed his team. The last thing he needs is a distraction in the form of a beautiful new neighbor and her dog...Trafficking survivor Paisley Reyna became a trauma counselor to help others after a harrowing captivity at the hands of the notorious Guerrero Cartel. When she unexpectedly inherits her cousin's home and retired military working dog, Riot, she seizes the chance to eke out a quiet life in a small town in Texas. However, the Dutch shepherd upends her plans, destroys her belongings, and repeatedly escapes next door to the intense former SEAL, who poses a threat to her peace-and maybe even her heart.When the local sheriff asks for Danger's expertise and Paisley's dog to intercept a trafficking deal, they're quickly caught up in a battle against the very cartel that marked both their souls. Along with a paramilitary team, they plunge deeper and deeper into the Venezuelan jungle-all too aware that making it out alive a second time will take nothing short of a miracle.A Breed Apart: LegacyBook 1: HavocBook 2: ChaosBook 3: RiotBook 4: Fury (July 2024)Book 5: Surge (November 2024)

Navy SEAL K-9 handler Beau "Danger" Maddox is at the top of his game-until an op goes south, leaving him physically and mentally scarred. Separated from the Navy, he's determined to requalify as operational and get back in the action so he can take down the deadly South American cartel that killed his team. The last thing he needs is a distraction in the form of a beautiful new neighbor and her dog...Trafficking survivor Paisley Reyna became a trauma counselor to help others after a harrowing captivity at the hands of the notorious Guerrero Cartel. When she unexpectedly inherits her cousin's home and retired military working dog, Riot, she seizes the chance to eke out a quiet life in a small town in Texas. However, the Dutch shepherd upends her plans, destroys her belongings, and repeatedly escapes next door to the intense former SEAL, who poses a threat to her peace-and maybe even her heart.When the local sheriff asks for Danger's expertise and Paisley's dog to intercept a trafficking deal, they're quickly caught up in a battle against the very cartel that marked both their souls. Along with a paramilitary team, they plunge deeper and deeper into the Venezuelan jungle-all too aware that making it out alive a second time will take nothing short of a miracle.A Breed Apart: LegacyBook 1: HavocBook 2: ChaosBook 3: RiotBook 4: Fury (July 2024)Book 5: Surge (November 2024)

A year ago in Afghanistan, Green Beret Heath Daniel's career was destroyed. Along with his faith. Now he and his military war dog, Trinity train other dogs and their handlers through the A Breed Apart organization. The job works. But his passion is to be back in the field. The medical discharge says it can't happen due to the traumatic brain injury that forced Heath to the sidelines.Until. . .Military intelligence officer Darci Kintz is captured and the geological survey team she's covertly embedded with is slaughtered while secretly tracking the Taliban. It's clear only one dog can handle the extreme conditions to save her. Trinity. Only one man can handle Trinity. And time is running out on the greatest-and most dangerous-mission of their lives.A Breed ApartBook 1: TrinityBook 2: TalonBook 3: BeowulfA Breed Apart: LegacyBook 1: HavocBook 2: ChaosBook 3: RiotBook 4: FuryBook 5: Surge

Light shines brightest in dark places...A selfish empress slowly turns to gold. A highschooler's hallucinations reveal a dangerous new world of Faerie. An outcast battles shadow demons to save her people from the plague.This charity collection of YA fantasy stories celebrates the light found in dark places, just as Lani Forbes once embodied having hope in difficult times. Her spirit shines on through these beautiful, bittersweet tales full of fallen stars and fae princes, werewolves and magic wielders, samurai and smoky skies.Featuring stories from Ronie Kendig, Jill Williamson, Julie Hall, Carrie Anne Noble, S.D. Grimm, and more!

Hard-hitting corporate lawyer meets thick-skulled black ops operator.Oh, yeah. This is gonna be great ...Prioritizing career over family cost Brooke Metcalfe Mulroney everything-her relationship with her siblings, her marriage, her children. Written off by her family, she delves deeper into her work. Until a life-altering moment offers a chance at something she didn't know she wanted-redemption. But her self-centered ways nip at her heels as she goes on the lam to do what she knows is right.Former Special Forces operator and founder of MiLE, Cord Taggart wages war on human trafficking by taking the violence to the wicked, determined to never again let an innocent die because he did nothing. But maybe he's bitten off more than he can chew this time as he works to track down New York City high-powered attorney Brooke Metcalfe, who is MIA. Then there's her brothers who have threatened to chase him into the afterlife should he fail.Tricky are the hours as Cord negotiates many battles: freeing the captives, demolishing the Trench that has made millions off the skin-trade industry, and his growing, deep-rooted feelings for the bombshell in her highfalutin tower. Brooke must put her life--and heart--in the hands of the thick-skulled operator.The MetcalfesBook 1: StoneBook 2: WillowBook 3: RangeBook 4: BrookeDiscarded HeroesBook 1: NightshadeBook 2: DigitalisBook 3: WolfsbaneBook 4: FirethornBook 5: Lygos

Aftercare specialist Willow Metcalfe joined Mission: Liberate Everyone to help trafficking survivors navigate the healing process. When MiLE's Obioma Compound is attacked by the Nigerian mafia, she's taken hostage. Against nightmarish odds, she and the victims attempt an escape--and are thwarted. A decade after leaving his beloved homeland, Chijioke "Chiji" Okorie returns to find his sister and fight for his own country. Believing a global trafficking ring behind her abduction and a string of kidnappings across Nigeria, he goes undercover to find the head of the serpent and his sister. Chiji is stunned to discover among the hostages a familiar face--a friend's sister, Willow. The woman he vowed years ago to marry.

Stone Metcalfe embodies the Metcalfe legacy--blue eyes, an unfair amount of good looks, and hardcore patriot-laced character. But a foolish lapse in judgment dismantles his name and career. Humiliated and furious, he retreats to his mountain lodge to hide from media hounds and eke out a new life. However, one phone call from an old Army buddy upends Stone's best-laid plans. Supermodel Brighton Buchanan had designers and men eating out of her hand until a terrible mistake trapped her in the soul-eating world of human trafficking. Years later, she is used by her captors to take down the best man she's ever known. The man she loves. Hope lost, she's unexpectedly freed--and thrown back into Stone's life. Being forgiven is out of the question considering how much he hates her. Believing danger and her trafficker are one wrong move away, Brighton will do anything to keep him from being ruined again--even if it means going back to that life. As everything is falling apart and threats mount against Brighton, Stone realizes forgiveness is the easy part. Protecting her--and his heart--is another story.

Done waiting for answers, former Navy SEAL Leif Metcalf seizes control and teams up with his greatest enemy--a move that comes with a deadly risk. Torn apart by opposing views on how to handle Leif's act of treachery, team Reaper hunts one of their own--agreeing only on starting, not stopping, the final battle prophesied in the Book of the Wars.

On a mission to recover the Book of the Wars, Leif and his team are diverted by a foretelling of formidable guardians who will decimate the enemies of the ArC, while Iskra uses her connections to hunt down the book. As they try to stop the guardians, failure becomes familiar, and the threats creep closer to home, with implications that could tear

Once lost to history, the Book of the Wars has resurfaced, and its pages hold ancient secrets--and dangers. Former Navy SEAL Leif Metcalfe has been tasked with capturing the ancient text, but a Bulgarian operative snatches it, determined to secure her freedom. When a series of strange storms erupts, they must form an alliance to thwart impending disaster.

Suddenly shot at a picnic, Tox discovers it's a strange invitation to join an old sniper pal's quest for revenge over his fallen team. Despite the injury, Tox feels sympathetic to the cause--and battles a growing darkness within himself. But when he learns Alec is using a deadly ancient artifact in his plan, Tox must fight the monster without becoming one.

When an archaeological dig unleashes a centuries-old virus, paramilitary operative Cole 'Tox' Russell is forced back into action. With the help of archaeologist Tzivia Khalon and FBI agent Kasey Cortes, Tox searches for answers--and becomes entangled in a web of deception. As the team races to stop a pandemic, a secret society counters their every move.