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Ryker was raised in a foster care group home, and never gained the softer skills a family would have given him. Upon graduation he joined the military, providing him structure, meaning, and a great career of which he could be proud. After 12 years he has a life he is comfortable within, a team that he would die to protect and little else in his solitary existence.

When Taryn’s ex threatened her daughter, she picked up and ran. With no support system in her small Midwest town, she headed south to a fresh start for them. Harmony, FL, was another detour along her path to an uncertain future, a place to lay her head and experience the beach and ocean for the first time in her life. What she did count on was that her detour off the main road might end up being the path she was supposed to take all along.

Maren doesn’t have anyone to spend Christmas with this year, yet she is counting her blessings. Raised in foster care, she has succeeded at so many of the goals she had for her life; a great job, a good place to live, and a possible love match in the form of her downstairs neighbor. If only Noah weren’t the saddest, most introverted around Christmas, he might himself see the potential of a match.

Hadley is an eternal optimist, despite her pint-sized stature. She is loved and adored by everyone, full of joy and kindheartedness. Until the day, Logan Reems takes it upon himself to become her designated, albeit it reluctant knight in shining armor and rescue her from the mud. She has never come up against anyone so haughty and mean spirited. Her determination to avoid contact with him is derailed when she finds out his two boys will be in her kindergarten class.

Jordan Kuriel was tough as nails, immovable, and unflinching, which were the very characteristics that propelled her into a decorated military career serving multiple tours overseas, until the moment a bomb ended that trajectory and sent her state’s side for good. Upon her return home, she found her younger sister’s lifetime of bad choices come to a head, making Jordan a single mother, causing her life’s mission to take a drastic turn.

Katja truly adored all her foster siblings, but Lincoln holds a special place in her heart. He had already been with Mama Jean when they had taken her in, straight from the hospital; and through the pain of physical and emotional healing, they had become best friends, a friendship that endured through their childhood and into adulthood. The two of them are the glue that holds all of the others together.

Noemi helps mentor a girl through a new program at the local nonprofit where her modeling agency is volunteering time. Something about the little girl is off, but she can't put the finger on it. The seventh adopted child of a local businessman revered around town and his wife, she meets a wall of silence when raising her concerns. The local coordinator of the program gives her condescension and looks down her nose at the allegations. Of course, Noemi knows the perfect group to help provide her some backup.

Ryan, Beth, and Grace had been the best of friends from kindergarten through high school graduation. The trio considered one another family, and every significant moment of one of their lives was chronicled in the minds of the other friends. On graduation night the crossroads between high school and the rest of their lives took a major detour and hurtled them in directions no one could have imagined.

When they all got out of the military, Liam and five others started executive protection, kidnapping, and ransom freelancing. They are the best in the business and have a track record of second to none. These guys are closer than blood and would die for each other, their country, and their families. The toughest cases are sent their way when either the richest of the rich need a favor done outside of normal law enforcement expertise or sometimes even governments.

Abby left home an emancipated, beaten, and broken 16-year-old. Years later she is still tethered by the physical and emotional scars of the past. Having built a successful career at Halseth, Inc. under the steady tutelage of the retiring CEO Jack Halseth, she is in for the shock of her life when Brandon Halseth is named the new CEO. Brandon's attention is much less altruistic and causing her to step outside her safely constructed existence.

Knox is one of the best security personnel in the business. He works with a myriad of hard to please clients during his grueling schedule 50 weeks a year. For two weeks at Christmas, though, he retreats from the world to the solitude of his cabin in the woods. After several devastating losses, he hates the holidays and has made this a tradition to avoid the fuss. Unfortunately, this year Knox will be asked to break a number of his hard and fast rules. When an old acquaintance calls in a favor to have him protect a female attorney in need of his brand of protection.

Missy Mays’ mother, Naomi, had been the best matchmaker on the west coast of the United States for the rich and unique clientele she worked for. Unfortunately, in Missy's opinion, Naomi was also the meanest and most direct human that ever walked the earth. When she unexpectedly gets run over by one of her clients, Missy takes over the business and tries to make love matches for all the forlorn that cross her path. She believes in love, not as a transaction but as a finding of the other half of your soul, and intends to overturn the business style her mother was famous for.

When her ex lands her in the hospital after a brutal attack, Shane is forced to return to the ranch where she was raised. Unable to care for her toddler son, none of her family knew existed until now, she must take a trip down memory lane back home. Unfortunately, this means facing the one man she has loved from the time she was a girl. Trace is the epitome of cowboy - quiet, selfless, devoted to his family, and the much older head of the Suffort family that owns the ranch.

Virtuous Sin is the bar the four survivors started as an ode to the sins of the past by those who claimed to be virtuous. It is also the front by which other victims come seeking aid with crimes, the police are not able to intervene in or solve. Leah Resnik is one such person who visits the Virtuous Sin bar to relieve the tension from a campaign of terror someone is visiting upon her.

Roman is the man behind the curtain at his family’s scientific company labs. He was scarred in a tragic car accident years before leaving the press that dogs his family’s every move, to refer to him as the beast and focus on his handsome CEO brother Reagan. These brothers keep with their mother’s dying wish, grant a life-changing wish to a worthy recipient each Christmas. Roman hates this time of year but does it for his family.

Overcoming a history of hard knocks, Jett has made the military his entire life with no room for anything other than his next mission, or anyone outside of his team. Jett is one of the men that served with Bryce Holmes, carrying out covert operations for the military. When Bryce doesn't make it out, Jett and the other two members of the team are tasked with carrying out their most important assignment to date.

Cassie doesn't have time for a man, dating, or any relationship not revolving around her children. Her hodgepodge family takes every ounce of strength and organizational capacity she has each day. They may have come to her in the darkest moment of her life through circumstances she would give anything to change, but now they are her entire world.

Atara is on a mission to rescue Ryder from Nathaniel’s clutches and is chasing leads like a crazy woman. Nothing Levi, Ray, or Jax can do slowing her down, as all they can do is get on board and hope that they have her back when she needs it. Following a trail of breadcrumbs across multiple states, they finally land at the front door of a charity that takes in street kids and tries to give them a fresh start. It is also one of the last places that Ryder was seen seeking shelter, but this sinister place is all smoke and mirrors.

Everlea Hemmings is a sweet newcomer to the fashion world that Noemi has taken under her wings. Unfortunately, her kind of beauty displaces others on the circuit, causing some major bullying. Somebody takes it a bit past trying to scare her away one night with deadly consequences. Now, Everlea has become the Virtuous Sin's team's next "pseudo" client, as they try to figure out who exactly wants the world's next supermodel dead before her star can fully rise.

Audra is so busy caring for her terminally ill mother and her demanding career as a trauma nurse she never found time for a personal life. She and her mom had formed a tight-knit team for all of her life, without a father figure of any kind imposing on their relationship. One fateful night, though, a patient brought into the emergency room will rock her world in unimaginable ways and change the course of her personal life and family ties forever.