She’s unearthing ancient secrets.
He’s desperate to keep his secrets buried.
But the deeper they dig, the deadlier the truth.
Special Forces soldier Mitch Branson swore he’d never return to Koolaroo Ranch, his family’s vast cattle station in the heart of the Australian Outback. But when his tyrannical father vanishes without a trace, Mitch and his siblings face a chilling truth: their father may or may not be dead, but his secrets are about to tear the family a
Jae “Flash” Shaw has one mission.
Locate Killa Saqra Rumi, the legendary CIA Shadowguard, Lechuza. She’s the lock to his key, and the gatekeeper to an ancient font tied only to her bloodline.
Before Flash can launch the search, his team is ordered to work alongside two Shadowreavers hunting Lechuza as a rogue operative, accused of carrying out a series of unsanctioned assassinations, turning an already impossible mission into a race against their own allies. Convinced Lechuza has been framed, Flash and his team defy their orders, risking everything to find her first...and protect her at all costs.
Lechuza’s only goal is to clear her name before the people she once trusted silence her forever. That’s until the only man capable of breaking through her defenses finds her, awakening feelings she's spent the last year burying beneath duty, discipline, and distance. Every step together deepens a connection neither of them understands. Every touch feels inevitable. Every battle strips away another layer of restraint. Every answer uncovers an older mystery, pulling them toward a destiny neither of them can escape.
As the line between fate and desire begins to blur, Flash and Lechuza rush toward answers and understanding, battling impossible foes.
Within the Veil, an ancient power imprisoned for centuries is breaking free, and Lechuza, the team, the Visionary, and the Anchor all must work to stop reality from unraveling.
Trust is dangerous. Falling in love is worse. It's the one risk neither of them can afford, and the only one they're powerless to refuse.
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Fiercely independent paleontologist Charlie Macintyre comes to Koolaroo Ranch chasing a career-defining dinosaur discovery and collides head-on with a brooding soldier determined to shut her down. When a flash flood traps them in a maze of hidden caves, survival takes a deadly turn. Buried in the darkness, they uncover evidence of a decades-old murder, and Charlie realizes the land is hiding far more than fossils.
As the merciless Outback closes in, danger escalates and attraction flares between two people who never planned to trust anyone again. But the truth about Mitch’s past, and the brutal confrontation that drove him from Koolaroo, threatens to destroy what’s growing between them.
While the Branson siblings race to unravel their father’s disappearance, they discover some family legacies are meant to stay buried. And if Frank is still alive, Mitch may be forced to finish what he started ten years ago.
Outback Secrets is book one in the gripping Koolaroo Ranch romantic thriller series, where passion runs hot, danger lurks beneath the red dust, and every book uncovers another shocking layer of the Branson family’s twisted heritage.
