Freeing Fatima

She never believed in fairytales. He never believed himself a hero. They were both wrong.When Fatima Ali was taken by terrorists, she thought her life was over. When they took her mother away too, she lost all hope, until she saw the tall man with warm amber eyes.Sgt. Marcus DuBose, codename: Skyscraper, never allowed himself to grow attached to hostages. His job was to get in, rescue, and return them home with the greatest efficiency. The deadliest of his Spec Ops team, Skyscraper is cold and calculating, but beneath the icy surface beats the heart of a musician, and oddly enough, a man who believes he's unworthy of love.In a shootout in Old Town Bucharest, he sees her for the first time. The high-value hostage is the daughter of the Islamic State's newest bomb-maker. But she's not the little girl he expected. Instead, he discovers she's a young woman. A beautiful and brave young woman!When their eyes meet, something inside Skyscraper awakens, and when she screams for help, he comes running. With his captain and teammates at his side, he's hot on the trail of the kidnappers in a race across Eastern Europe. With a mole leaking information inside their own command blowing their cover, time is not on their side. The clock is ticking as Skyscraper lets down his guard and breaks his own rule to free Fatima. Will she reject the highly trained killer, or will a fairytale finally come true for the star-crossed lovers?"These books just keep getting better and better." ~ Review"It begins with bullets flying!" ~ Review"This book was so hard to put down!!" ~ ReviewFreeing Fatima was originally published in the Special Forces: Operation Alpha world created by New York Times Best Selling Author Susan Stoker. The story has been re-edited removing all references to Susan's world/ characters which have now been replaced by a new special operations team created by Michele E. Gwynn. Look for that team's stories coming at the conclusion of the Green Beret Series. In addition, bonus scenes have been added to each book in the Green Beret canon as a special thank you to the fans who've previously read the original books. If you've already read the first few books in this series, you are cordially invited to reread them and meet Cobra, Rio, Breaker, Havana, Dragon, Gator, and Hendrix; a team of incredible, gung-ho Navy SEALs ready, willing, and able to partner up with Outlaw's SOG to thwart threats to democracy abroad and at home, and protect the innocent. Michele E. Gwynn is an award-winning, Bestselling Author of Crime/Detective books, Military Romance, Sci-Fi/Horror, and both contemporary and paranormal romance books.

Gwynn began her writing career as a former journalist and online content contributor. Having written for magazines and newspapers she finally decided to go for her dream and wrote her first fiction novel Harvest in 2011. Since then she has published in a variety of genres from science fiction to crime thrillers to military romance to fantasy. In between, she paints whatever captures her fancy in the mediums of watercolor and acrylics. She describes herself as a bit of a nerd with a sailor's sense of humor, and a car Karaoke superstar who loves travel, all things cheesy, and her felines.