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Detective Kate Morgan is tasked with determining if a recently discovered body floating in the harbor is the result of a crime and, if not, to move on to one of the team’s many other pending cases on their desks. However, nothing is ever simple in her world. So, when she finds several similar cases in the surrounding police districts, … the scope of her hunt expands proportionally. However, getting to the bottom of this one crosses into Simon’s penchant for revitalizing old buildings in downtown Vancouver—or, in some cases, just giving those structures a whole lot of love.

Former Navy SEAL Aaron Hammond has no idea how he wound up at Hathaway House, Texas. Nor does he particularly care. All he can see is his anger. Anger at the betrayal that destroyed his physical body and at the loss of the future he wanted but that he’ll never have now. He’s a cripple, less than half a man, and all he can look forward to is a half life, alone with himself and his pain.

Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities and lives on the fringes of society. Sam knows she must go to the authorities, but will the rugged no-nonsense detective in charge of tracking down the killer believe her?

Spending time with Mack is always fun, but, when Doreen overhears a conversation that sounds like a murder confession, he disagrees, … until a body shows up. Then he’s suddenly a whole lot more interested. The deceased young man had planned to attend the local college and had hoped to rekindle a relationship with an ex-girlfriend.

Evan is known for being unpredictably mysterious and untamed. Even his old lover, Megan, believed in his camouflage. When she transfers to the west coast to join the new helicopter division, their lives collide once again. Finding out he carries a torch for her is a massive shock - and a rush she's not sure how to handle.

When a friend of Tesla’s sends out an SOS on the lowdown on an oil rig in trouble, Troy has a good idea what he’s getting into. As far as he is concerned, the maximum danger - the potential for betrayal and the chances of not coming home - sounded like the right kind of job for him. After all, he lived alone.

Burke, desperate for a fresh start, heads to Timber’s place, hoping to exchange bed and board for some work around the refuge. He’s trying to heal from a costly toxic relationship, but it seems the past isn’t ready to let go. His ex has somehow secured credit cards in his name, determined to make him “pay” for the breakup.

There is no greater motive than bloodlust, DNA, and revenge mixed up in a cocktail of hatred … Grateful to be alive, Mason knows he owes his friends and family not only for his life but for protecting his wife and unborn child. When he realizes that it might not be completely over, he’s on guard, yet not capable enough to defend his family, so he must rely on those around him. Tesla can’t believe it’s over. Mason will make it. They have gotten to the bottom of who targeted him and why, … right? It’s over surely.

Doreen loves gardens, all kinds of them. In the Okanagan, situated at the tip of the desert, water-frugal gardening makes sense. When Doreen sees a lovely xeriscaped garden from a drone video, she’s fascinated. When Mack mentions a mystery surrounding the property, she is mesmerized. Getting the details, however, is no easy feat. That’s because there aren’t many. But digging in and asking questions is something Doreen and her clan are good at, and it doesn’t take long to delve into the mystery in a big way—much to Corporal Mack Moreau’s disgust.

Doreen is slowly recovering from the mad yet joyous ending to last year, as she faces the new year and what it might bring. Since she’s now engaged to Mack—and everyone around her is pressuring her to pick a wedding date and hopefully soon—she yearns for another case to keep her busy. So, when an older gentleman calls and needs help fulfilling his wife’s last wish, Doreen is right there to help.

Having cultivated his instincts through years of naval missions, Radar is roaming the world, working part-time for Levi and Bullard. When he’s instructed to go to Paris to help out a new start-up, he’s not sure what to expect. Especially given the caginess of Levi’s description of those who Radar would be working for. Outside of telling him, He’d fit right in, there is minimal intel on the job itself. Plus Radar’s working with two men he doesn’t know, and they aren’t willing to share their own secrets.

Walton Headly enjoys getting out and being as active as he can be, given his missing leg. However, playing soccer now is hard to adapt to, compared to playing soccer before his injury. He has been in rehab for a long time and now reaches a need to do more. Searching for a missing War Dog sounds like a great way to ease back into a working life. Chelsea Brown, a physical therapist, had helped get Walton back on his feet. He is one hell of a man but is struggling after that last soccer game.

With Mathew’s murder done and dusted, and her future now wide open, Doreen turns to sorting out her financial world, particularly as her antiques are sold. And helping others is moving up her list of things she wants to do. Especially after finding a young woman who wants to get out of the streetwalker world and to move back home.

Nate is pulled into a mission to rescue a kidnapped woman, being held in Paris. But a normal mission versus one run by Terkel is a whole different story. Nate’s first telepathic communication tells him that this will be like nothing else in his life. During a layover in Paris, while traveling to start a job in Africa with Bullard, Madeline awoke, tied up in a strange hotel room with another female captive, named Anna. Nate comes to the rescue and shares how he had been called in to locate Madeline, when she didn’t arrive as planned.

Chaos surrounds both. Doreen has had enough of her estranged husbands antics, but, when he shows up dead in the garden outside her favorite Chinese food restaurant, she's horrified and anxious. And, of course, in the eyes of the rest of the world, guilty. There's no Doreen for her to call to help out this time, but she knows Mack has her back, although he's being questioned too. The police force rallies around her, as their history rips apart her former life and finds out that all her suspicions about Mathew were correct, and he'd been in deep trouble.

When a young woman darts into traffic and into Dakota’s path, life takes a dark turn for both of them. Bailey, recovering from the loss of her husband, retreated from life. Going to work and coming home was the extent of her days and weeks. Until she walks into work early one morning, witnesses a murder and flees into traffic, nearly getting killed. The near-death experience awakens the spark of life inside of her. So does the man in the car. A different kind of a spark.

A prisoner of the Kremlin and of a failed exchange several years ago, Royal is losing hope of ever being free again—particularly when the firing squad date is already set for his execution. He has exhausted all avenues of escape. Now it seems to be the end of the line …Janna has been through way-too-much pain and anguish recently, and yet somehow she can’t walk away from helping Royal, even though he’d walked away from her a long time ago. Maybe because she has nothing left to care about, this would be her last gift to give—if someone can just get to Royal in time.

Landon, after a tough couple of years helping his navy buddy live out his last years, needed a break. Tracking a war dog named Chica to make sure it was okay sounded perfect. Especially being able to take his three chihuahuas with him. But finding a dog that had been part of a large shipment heading to a rescue across the Canadian border but had gone missing on the last stop before the border–well that was going to be a challenge. Particularly one that had a lame leg and half a paw.

When she was a child, Tavi's family was taken from her by a serial killer that was never caught. As an adult, she puts on the appearance of normalcy while burying herself in law enforcement as a detective. All her private energy is spent trying to find answers to what happened to her family…and preparing herself for the day she exacts revenge. Jericho is as much a predator as Tavi is. He's caught the scent of old prey—a serial killer he's been a step behind. Discovering the next victim surprises him. Tavi is clearly a detective who gets her man—every time. The tug of war is on.

Magnus arrives in the Artic for severe-weather training, overseen by an international joint task force, but run by military brass. With multiple countries involved and multiple divisions of the military, it’s a wide-open mix of potential trouble. And trouble is what he’s here to find. Not to create. However, after meeting the one and only doctor on-site, a female member of the British team, Magnus knows that she needs his help to keep her safe. Yet she can’t be his main interest, not when something is seriously wrong at the compound. Too bad his heart wasn’t listening....