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'First rule of surviving the Wastelands: don’t be caught out after the sun sets…

'After her father was killed in a warg attack, Riley Kincaid was forced to stand on her own two feet in the brutal Wastelands she calls home. She knows how to survive, but when a lapse in judgment leaves her out after dark, Riley realizes she’s in trouble. The sun has set, the monsters are out to play, and there’s a band of reivers heading straight for her settlement. Riley needs to warn her people, but that’s before she runs a handsome stranger down in her jeep. A stranger who might not be a man after all…

'Kidnapping her was the worst mistake he ever made.

'Dangerous outlaw, Lucius Wade, lives only for revenge. But when he kidnaps Riley in order to lure an old friend into a trap, suddenly the tables are turned. Riley has no intentions of being bait, and she tempts him in ways he hasn’t felt for a long time. He’s never played the hero, but suddenly a part of him wants to. Even as he knows there’s no point.

'When dangerous secrets are revealed, and Luc realizes an old enemy is on his trail, he’s forced to change his plans. The hunter is suddenly the hunted, and the only allies he has… is a stubborn blonde who thinks there should be more to live for than revenge, and the ex-friend who shoved a knife in his back ten years ago.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In the drought-stricken Wastelands that arose out of an apocalypse, Adam McClain never thought himself the hero. Kicked out of the town he created, and shunned by his friends when they discovered what he was, he’s managed to find work as a bounty hunter. After all, who best to hunt the wargs and reivers that haunt the Badlands, than one of the monsters themselves?

'She’s the woman he can’t have…

'Mia Grey learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted, and when McClain strides into her bar she knows that trouble just walked in. The rugged bounty hunter is her greatest weakness, but he’s hiding something and the last time a man kept secrets from her, she got her fingers burned. Tempting as he is, Mia’s staying far away.

'But when a horde of reivers captures her sister, the only person Mia can turn to is the one man who tempts her to break all her rules. Together they might just be able to rescue her sister, but what will happen when Mia learns of the secret McClain is hiding? And when the man who broke Mia’s heart in the first place discovers the same secret, will McClain survive?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'As the only healer in a war-stained town, Eden McClain is devastated when the salt plague sweeps through the wastelands she calls home. Suddenly she's racing against time to save her people—and her niece—before it's too late. When she hears whispers of a cure, she knows she can't cross the dangerous Wastelands by herself to get it. She needs a guide. And she's just desperate enough to turn to a man who once betrayed her.