Duty. Honor. Country. What if you can only choose two? Former Army detective Kate Holland finally remembers what happened during her eleven hours as a POW in Afghanistan. She wishes she didn't. Her PTSD raging, Kate's ready to turn in her badge with the Braxton PD, but she can't. The wife of a Muslim US Army soldier has been found stabbed and left to burn in a field, and Kate's boss has turned to her. Again. Kate suspects an honor killing...until the wife of another soldier is found in the next town over, also stabbed and burned. When a third military wife is murdered, Kate uncovers a connection to a local doctor. But the doc is not all she appears to be. Worse, Kate's nightmares and her case have begun to clash. The fallout is deadly as Kate's lured back to where it all began. This time, she might not make it home. In the Name Of is Book 2 in the Hidden Valor Military Psychological Suspense Series and features...

What she can't remember...just might kill her. Former US Army detective Kate Holland spent years hiding from the world—and herself. Now a small-town cop, the past catches up with Kate when the body of a fellow Army veteran is left along a backcountry road...in meticulously severed pieces. Four years earlier, Kate spent eleven hours as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan. According to her Silver Star write-up, she singlehandedly took down eleven terrorists to avoid staying longer. But Kate has no memory of the deaths, or the events that led up to them. And now, bizarre clues are cropping up in and around that crime scene—and others. Clues that appear to connect to that fateful day. Is the killer trying to tell her something? Or is Kate finally losing her grip on reality? As the body count rises, Kate is forced to confront the guilt that caused her to...

Some secrets should stay buried... With a second serial killer case under her belt, Deputy Kate Holland is finally making headway with her PTSD. But when skeletal remains are unearthed on a sandbar amid the Arkansas River, Kate's world is rocked again. The decaying bones belong to a soldier once attached to a nearby National Guard unit, and their DNA links to an unsolved missing person's investigation headed up by the very cop who spent his life undermining Kate's personal and professional confidence. The more Kate digs into the murdered soldier's life, the more connections she discovers between the victim, an old family friend...and her own father. Other bodies have begun to turn up as well, and these murders appear to be connected to the original soldier's death—and a sinister plot years in the making. Will the clues her father missed all those years ago lead to the deaths of every current officer on the...

What if the one person you can't trust...is yourself? US Army Detective Regan Chase spent years lying for her country. Until she was caught. Her reputation as the military's premier undercover chameleon in tatters, Regan's been shunted to a Stateside post and reassigned to the grunt work of Army CID—investigations. First up, the brutal stabbing of a soldier's wife. Instead of the domestic homicide she expects, Regan confronts the first in a series of murders and suicides brought on by the violent hallucinations plaguing a twelve-man Special Forces A-Team just back from Afghanistan. A team led by Regan's ex-lover. The very soldier responsible for the decimation of her undercover career. As the murders and suicides mount, Regan clashes with an unforgiving, uncooperative and dangerously secretive John Garrison—and an even more secretive US Army. The Army knows she and...

Sometimes a case isn't over... US Army Detective Regan Chase has just solved the most horrific investigation of her career. One that cost the lives of a dozen soldiers, their wives...and nearly her own. Regulations are clear. Regan's barred from interrogating the terrorists responsible—especially the doctor who deliberately infected her with that deadly psycho-toxin. But the doctor will only speak to Regan. The Army has no choice. Dr. Durrani's cohort, a former Army translator, claims there's a traitor in their midst—and there's evidence the translator's telling the truth. With the stakes critical, Regan heads for the government's newest classified interrogation site: A US Navy warship in the middle of the Arabian Sea. Regan's prepared for Dr. Durrani's lies. But there's no way she could've anticipated the rest. Within minutes of her boarding the ship, the translator is dead. His killer? The last...

They called him a hero. They were wrong.Mira Ellis began her career with the US Navy's elite nuclear power program, until a classified laptop went missing and Mira was left holding the empty bag.Now a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Mira's past collides with her present when a commander is brutally murdered. As Mira follows the killer to a ship hijacked at sea, the ties to her past multiply—along with terrifying implications for the country's future safety...and her own.Mira doesn't know who to trust—including her new partner. A former Navy SEAL of Saudi descent, Sam Riyad has countless combat tours under his belt and even more medals jammed into his chest.But Riyad lied to an Army investigator during a recent terror case, and he deliberately undermined the critical mission of a Special Forces major—several times.Whose side is Riyad really on?Mira needs an answer. The fate of the US...