After waking from a nightmare and finding her loaded gun in her hand, private investigator Riley Reid decides she needs to get away from Stone Harbor for a while. Following a new lead on her parents’ disappearance, Riley is determined not to return until she finally finds out what happened to them. The mystery takes Riley across Virginia and out of state where she meets people from her past, some of which she’ll be wishing had stayed there. Meanwhile, news from home has her worried and may change everything she ever thought she knew.

Private Investigator Riley Reid is determined to uncover the truth about an outbreak of strange fires in her hometown of Stone Harbor, Virginia. When the local church burns down, Riley is called in to help with the investigation. It soon becomes apparent that the blaze was no accident. But how they were set and by whom? All the while more buildings are put to flame.During her investigation, Riley finds a new lead on the whereabouts of her birth parents and attracts the attentions of dangerous men—men whose attentions can be deadly. Nobody can be trusted, and no one is above suspicion.

He was a Navy SEAL, a damn good one. It was all he knew how to be, until the fateful day that changed everything.Jackson Archer’s life, and the lives of the men under his command, was changed forever that day in Tripoli. Medically discharged from the SEALs and silenced by a corrupt mission commander, he sinks into a deep depression. Until reporter Annica Lawson starts asking questions. She seems to know all about what happened that day—to him, Tansy, Jasper, and Matthias. Things Jackson’s never told anyone outside of his command. The sexy reporter awakens things in Jackson, things he thought were maybe dead for good.Annica offers them a chance to tell their story, to clear their names. But is she really after the truth, or is she working for those who want to silence them for good?This is the prequel novella for the DARC Ops series.