Delta: Rescue: A MacKenzie Family Novella (The MacKenzie Family)
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Authors: Cristin Harber
Delta: Rescue
By Cristin Harber
A MacKenzie Family Novella
Introduction by Liliana Hart
Delta: Rescue
A MacKenzie Family Novella
Copyright 2016 Cristin Harber
ISBN: 978-1-942299-34-9
Introduction copyright 2016 Liliana Hart
Published by Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or establishments is solely coincidental.
Delta: Rescue
by Cristin Harber
From Liliana Hart’s
New York Times
bestselling MacKenzie family comes a new story by
New York Times
bestselling author Cristin Harber...
When Luke Brenner takes an off-the-books job on the MacKenzie-Delta joint task force, he has one goal: shut down sex traffickers on his personal hunt for retribution. This operation brings him closer than he’s ever been to avenge his first love, who was taken, sold, and likely dead.
Madeleine Mercier is the daughter of an infamous cartel conglomerate. Their family bleeds money, they sell pleasure, they sell
people
. She knows no other life, sees no escape, except for one. Maddy is the only person who can take down Papa, when every branch of law enforcement in every country, is on her father’s payroll.
It’s evil. To want to ruin, to
murder
, her family. But that’s what she is. Ruined for a life outside of destroying her father. She can’t feel arousal. Has never been kissed. Never felt anything other than disgust for the world that she perpetuates. Until she clashes with a possible mercenary who gives her hope.
The hunter versus the virgin. The predator and his prey. When forced together, can enemies resist the urge to run away or destroy one another?
Cristin Harber is a
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestselling romance author. She writes steamy new adult, romantic suspense, and military romance. Readers voted her onto Amazon's Top Picks for Debut Romance Authors in 2013, and her debut Titan series was both a #1 romantic suspense and military romance bestseller.
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An Introduction to the MacKenzie Family World
Dear Readers,
I’m thrilled to be able to introduce the MacKenzie Family World to you. I asked five of my favorite authors to create their own characters and put them into the world you all know and love. These amazing authors revisited Surrender, Montana, and through their imagination you’ll get to meet new characters, while reuniting with some of your favorites.
These stories are hot, hot, hot—exactly what you’d expect from a MacKenzie story—and it was pure pleasure for me to read each and every one of them and see my world through someone else’s eyes. They definitely did the series justice, and I hope you discover five new authors to put on your auto-buy list.
Make sure you check out
Troublemaker,
a brand new, full-length MacKenzie novel written by me.
And yes, you’ll get to see more glimpses of Shane before his book comes out next year.
So grab a glass of wine, pour a bubble bath, and prepare to Surrender.
Love Always,
Liliana Hart
* * * *
Available now! Click to purchase.
Trouble Maker
by Liliana Hart
Rush
by Robin Covington
Bullet Proof
by Avery Flynn
Delta: Rescue
by Cristin Harber
Deep Trouble
by Kimberly Kincaid
Desire & Ice
by Christopher Rice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
An introduction to the MacKenzie Family World by Liliana Hart
Discover the Liliana Hart MacKenzie Family Collection
Discover the World of 1001 Dark Nights
Delta: Retribution by Cristin Harber, Now Available
Luke Brenner lived for moments when he could crush his enemies, when he could see fear as their past caught up to the present. What he had learned over the last ten years in the military and law enforcement was that men who trafficked women and drugs tended to find God when they were caught. At each takedown and arrest, someone was always pleading, always “Oh God, no” or “Oh God, help.” Luke found it astonishing that just moments before, those same assholes hadn’t cared who the girls were sold to or whose lives the drugs ruined. They never thought about the pain of another life stolen or what the women would be subjected to.
But Luke had.
Every day, he had. His nightmares were made of the traffickers he was about to bust. Eerily, his good dreams were quite similar—those where he escaped, where the MacKenzie Security–Delta Team joint taskforce was able to save women and sweep drugs off the Miami streets.
Well, today he intended to save some more. It’d been too long since they’d walked out with salvageable lives.
Stealthy boot steps sounded from behind, and Luke already sensed that Javier was on his six. The team was in place. This rescue op needed to be a quiet in and out, or at least an attempt to avoid mass chaos and destruction.
“We’re a go,” their joint-endeavor team leader, Cade MacKenzie, ordered in Luke’s earpiece comm. “Execute.”
“All right, all right. Let’s do this.” Luke nodded across the hotel hall to Grayson, who warily watched his every move.
Delta team danced on eggshells around Luke and Javier when the job dealt with traffickers. Brock Gamble, their Delta team leader, almost hadn’t let Luke on this op. He could feel their concerned looks, but they needed to chill. He hadn’t lost control
that
many times, and when he had, it’d been deserved. Still, the scrutiny was there.
“Damn. I’m good.”
More or less.
“Calm down,” he grumbled.
Gray nodded his disbelieving, pretty-boy face—as much a pretty boy as anyone could be in this type of gig. But his face was trustworthy enough that he was tasked with a simple door knock at the hotel room. They didn’t want to kick down the door, and if Grayson’s all-American looks kept them from doing that, fine.
Luke’s face wouldn’t get a door opened. Hell, if he mugged for the peephole, angry and aggressive as he was, they’d likely get into a shootout with the traffickers on the other side. Which would be fine. But Cade’s orders were to take their subjects alive—not Luke’s prerogative.
His blood thumped too hard. His mind raced. After today, they would be that much closer to bringing down the traffickers who had stolen and sold his girlfriend so many years ago. He wanted the Mercier cartel more than he wanted to breathe.
Knock, knock.
“We’ve got movement,” Ryder said in the earpiece. Their sniper was in the hotel across the street with his .50 cal on point, keeping eyes on the hotel suite. “I see four women. Two men, their weapons holstered.”
“Let’s keep the body count down,” Cade snapped.
Fuck it.
Luke didn’t care. If he had his way, they’d snipe the shit out of the two armed men and call the day a success. He could have a beer and disappear off the grid.
That was the advantage of being on the task force. Some higher-up bureaucrat wanted a job done and didn’t mind if the rules were bent. Cade had major sway with the DEA, and Delta team, which worked under Titan Group’s command, didn’t mind pressing their luck with the boundaries of the law. Titan was elite. They had the know-how and reputation that put them years ahead of any other private security force. Their teams lived in a gray area that couldn’t be called right or wrong—only justified.
Luke didn’t mind either. He wanted to hunt. To fight. To search and investigate. He wanted to be a vigilante asshole with one purpose in life—to scour the earth for traffickers and eradicate their despicable existence.
Grayson knocked and called, “Maintenance.”
A few seconds ticked by.
“No one called maintenance.” The man inside sounded inherently distrustful, and that seemed about right for someone Luke wanted to kill. Their prey seemed to know his own self-preservation was in jeopardy.
Grayson chuckled in his maintenance-man character. “CO2 leak reported, buddy. Let me check before you fall asleep and die… Or not. I get paid regardless.”
“Looks like they’re conferring.” Ryder paused from his sniper report. “Second man’s picking up the phone.”
“In-house call to front desk,” Parker, the task force’s expert IT guy, reported in their comm pieces from their offsite war room. “We’re intercepting. Hang tight. Front desk, can I help you?”
Luke bounced on his toes, waiting for Parker to give the traffickers false confirmation.
“Yes, sir.” Parker continued the front desk routine. “There was an issue with a faulty condenser. We’re just making the rounds.”
“One man heading toward the door,” Ryder reported. “Second man speaking with a woman. They’re all pushing into a bedroom.”
The door cracked open. “Come in.”
“Thanks. Figured you didn’t want to die today, but what do I know?” Grayson chuckled.
As the trafficker stepped forward to check the hall, Gray grabbed his face, wrapping a hand over his mouth, then subdued him. Quickly, Javier, Grayson, and Luke entered the room, bringing the unconscious man with them.