Coming soon Extracting Mateo

Good morning everyone!

Michele and I have some amazing news. We will be joining Susan Stokers Special Forces Operation Alpha series. We're super stoked to be bringing you the rest of our R.O.O.T series there. Right now, we're working on the second book in the series: Extracting Mateo.

Book 2 takes place 6 weeks after Asher saves Rae in Rule Breaker. As of right now, we have a semi plot for 3 books with an option for 3 more. We also have some interesting characters joining the ranks of R.O.O.T for special missions as well.

Today however, I want to give you a sneak peek at Extracting Mateo, enjoy!

TL

Blurb:

Noah Hanover doesn’t mix business with pleasure—ever. His relationship and subsequent marriage to Mateo Aquino, hasn’t even been a blip on his team’s radar. He likes the peace and quiet when he’s able to come home to his husband and telling anyone would destroy his secret double life.

Mateo Aquino is a high school history teacher. He loves his job and his kids, though they could be a little wild sometimes, and is always willing to help anyone in need. When a man appears to be lost, he unfortunately steps into the middle of a war he had no idea was happening around him.

Noah, used to controlling everything, is caught in a cyclone of events he had no part in. His life is being torn in two, and now, in order to save his husband’s life, he must expose the one thing he liked to keep tucked away—his relationship. With the help of Noah’s teammates, John “Tex” Keegan and two temporary new recruits for R.O.O.T: Scotty “Ears” Reisner and AJ “Two Hands” Hoover, Noah will set out to find his husband.

However, when the suspect escapes, Mateo and Noah are thrown into a new world where Noah’s job is exposed, and the things Mateo took for granted are destroyed. Can Mateo accept Noah’s double life? Will Noah be able to track down Mateo’s kidnapper before he strikes again? Or, are they once again, running out of time.

Excerpt:

He jumped into the cart next to Asher’s and turned the key while his new teammates got in beside him and behind him. “Hang on.” He hadn’t really known what to expect when Tex offered up two of his people. Seeing the kids though, hadn’t been what he’d been expecting. He figured the hacker would have experience or at least a little more than a couple of twenty-something millennials could.

“You’re judging us,” AJ said as she signed.

“More like sizing you up,” he replied.

“I get it,” she said. “We’re young. We look like we should be on some spring break in Cabo or whatever.”

“Well the thought had passed my mind,” Noah mumbled.

“It’s cool. Just means we’ll amaze you.” She grinned. AJ’s confidence quailed the growing knot of doom squeezing Noah’s stomach. “So, how long you been on the job?”

Noah snorted. “Probably longer than you’ve been alive.”

Ancient, Scotty teased.

“I can still run circles around the both of you,” Noah answered as they pulled up to the bank of elevators. “This is the end of the line. From here we walk.”

Asher held the door for him as they hustled to the waiting car. Once inside, the chatter quieted. It gave him a chance to study the kids who’d be helping him save Mateo. Just means we’ll amaze you, AJ’s words ran through his mind. He hoped they would. All he cared about was finding his husband and making sure he was safe. Everything else could wait.

When the doors slid open, they piled out and headed down the corridor to C&C—Command and Control. Inside, Callahan sat at one of the computers, O’Malley sat at one of the other. On the lower screen on the left, near the Mexico clock, was a small house in a dirty neighborhood built into a hillside, next to it, a name—Juarez.

“Welcome to Command and Control,” Asher said. “This is where the magic happens.”

Scotty whistled and shook his hand. Hot. I could get used to a place like this.

“These are two of our team members—” he pointed to Jake first then Drew— “Jake O’Malley and Drew Callahan. If you should need anything, Jake is Second-In-Command.” Then pointed to Scotty and AJ. “This is Scotty and AJ, they’re going to help us locate Mateo.”

Where do we sit? Scotty pulled off his backpack from his shoulder.

Asher tapped the chair he stood behind. “Noah, give him your phone.”

He didn’t hesitate. “I’m not sure what you can get off it. There’s a video and a text.”

Leave it to the professionals. Scotty grinned.

“Well, if you have what you need?” Tex headed for the door. “Melody and Baby are waiting on me to get home and I hate to keep them waiting.”

“Go,” Asher said with a chuckle. “We appreciate the help. If I get any updates from Murray, I’ll pass them along.”

“Glad I could be of some assistance.” Tex nodded.

Noah stepped back toward the kids. “Need any coffee or food or anything? I can get the mess to make you something.”

Scotty pointed to the grey can sitting next to his laptop. Energy drink. Gives me wings. He made a fluttering motion with his hands and Noah laughed.

“AJ?”

She shook her head. “I’m good.”

Noah grabbed himself a cup of coffee and walked back over to the station to wait. Sitting back and allowing others to figure out the plan of attack was never his MO. He liked being in the thick of it. He enjoyed being hands on and in control. In this situation, he had none, and it was driving him insane.

“It’s not easy,” Asher said, taking a seat beside him, “relying on others to help you.”

“Never is,” Noah grunted. “How’d you do it with Rae?”

Asher snorted. “I fucking didn’t have a choice.”

True, Noah didn’t either. “It’s like I’m watching all this shit happen and I’m helpless to make it stop.”

“Pretty much.” Asher crossed his arms. “We both know Mateo isn’t a fling. Why didn’t you tell me at least?”

Noah sighed. The million dollar question with a two dollar answer. “I thought I was doing the right thing.”

“Biting you in the ass now, huh?”

He nodded. “Yep. I figured if no one knew about us, we’d be safe.”

“I can see where you’d think such.” Asher glanced at him. “Rae kind of fucked that up though.”

In a way, she had. Her testimony in congress and subsequently in court for the criminal case against Senator Lincoln, drew a lot of unwanted attention in R.O.O.T’s direction. She’d been the first civilian to grace the base and the first civilian to land their Commander, Asher. “Well, not like we can blame her.”

“True,” Asher said.

“I got it,” AJ said.
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Blurb:
Commander Asher Rainer is tough as nails. Working with an undercover Black Ops group sanctioned by the U.S. Government—Project R.O.O.T—his team is sent to obtain reconnaissance on a village suspected of illegal activity before the next scheduled United Nation conference. However, the team encounters a soft cell terrorist group hellbent on destruction, and in search of weapons grade uranium. To make matters worse, the terrorists are funded by a U.S. backed contingency. His only eyewitnesses to the crimes committed by the paramilitary group is Dr. Rae Kenzie and one of the group’s members, Joseph Franks.

Rae Kenzie, a physician with Doctors Without Borders, is currently on rotation in South America. What should’ve been a routine inspection by the local guerilla army turns into a bloodbath. Without any consideration to her own wellbeing, Rae rushes to protect the village children from certain death—unwittingly thrusting herself, and them, into the middle an ongoing power struggle. Rae has to trust someone with what she knows, but it doesn’t mean she has to like them—even if she finds Commander Asher Raines devilishly handsome.
Asher has no time for love. His dedication is to his team, his country, and protecting the innocent before all else. But when the heart desires what it shouldn’t, will one night with Rae be enough to satisfy his baser needs? 
Or will he be the one to break all the rules?
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