Shadows (Lough)

Jase Brooks had been a 26-year-old Marine, stationed in Afghanistan when his parents were killed in a head-on collision. His anguish was compounded when, at the reading of the will, he learned they'd made him sole guardian of his 11 year old brother. Jase gladly walked away from a promising military career to step into their shoes, a tough job made tougher by the boy's risky behavior: Petty theft to fund the addictions that led to the birth of his son, Luke... who also became Jase's responsibility. Through it all, best friend Samantha (Sam) Finnigan set aside her own heartaches to stand beside him-even when he made the dangerous decision to become a professional recovery agent. It isn't until one of the criminals he'd rounded-up escapes prison-and kidnaps Sam and Luke as part of a twisted scheme to even the score-that Jase realizes Sam is more, so much more than a friend. Now, he faces the greatest challenge of his life: Staying alive long enough to save them, so that he can finally admit just how much she has always meant to him... Loree Lough, a USA Today bestselling author, has published over 140 novels. This is the second novel in The Shadow Series.

Life was good for Murphy O'Brien... until it wasn't... Murphy O'Brien, born without fingerprints, becomes a valuable asset to a crime boss who puts the lonely, orphaned boy to work, stealing from his wealthy clients... without leaving a shred of evidence behind. The profitable alliance ends on the night the pair are caught red-handed, robbing a prominent senator's home, and the boss decides the only one way to silence the only witness to his double murder is to commit a third: Murphy. One stormy night, Murphy is left, broken and near death alongside the highway. But the boss's evil plot goes sideways when a quiet Amishman finds Murphy and delivers him to the nearest ER. Once recovered, he takes Murphy home, to recover... and hide from the killer. Amish widow Rachel Graber, hired to care for "the amnesiac John Doe," is unlike any woman Murphy has ever known. Will his feelings for her inspire him to confess past crimes, serve his time, and earn her love... living Plain in her New Order Amish community? Or will the killer finally succeed in preventing Murphy from testifying against him?