Small Town

Moving to Love

He built a life helping veterans find their footing. She built one on her own, and she isn't looking for help.

Jeremiah Sheppard came home and put everything he had into Rolling Thunder — a custom bike shop, and somewhere the brothers and sisters he served with could land when they needed to. He's raised his sons alone. He wasn't expecting anything else.

Joci James raised Gunner by herself and built her own business while she did it. She has no time for a man and less reason to trust one.

Falling for each other was the easy part. What neither of them sees is that someone inside Rolling Thunder has been watching Jeremiah for years — someone he's looked after since her brother didn't come home, and someone who has decided Joci is standing in the way of a future she's already planned.

By the time anyone understands how far she'll go, Joci is on the road and it's already too late to warn her.

Moving to Love is book one of Rolling Thunder — six books, one bike shop, and a family that grows with every one.

A complete, standalone romantic suspense. No cliffhanger, no cheating, happily-ever-after guaranteed.

Single dad · Single mom · Blended family · Veteran hero · Obsessed rival · Small-town suspense

Final Bearing

She dismantles threats in the dark. He drags them into the light.

Stephanie Riley has spent her career in places most people will never know exist, doing work that will never be acknowledged. A former intelligence officer with deep overseas experience, she’s the final operative recruited to Shadow Ops—the one built to dismantle an international pipeline that has survived every attempt to shut it down. She understands foreign networks, diplomatic walls, and the cost of decisions made in shadows.

Jackson Mura is a foreign correspondent who’s reported from the same regions Stephanie once operated in. They may have crossed paths without knowing it. Now he’s in Blossom Springs, following a source’s tip toward a story he can’t quite see—a story that intersects with the very operation Stephanie is trying to end quietly.

Jackson wants the truth published. Stephanie needs it buried. His principles and her mission are on a collision course, and the pipeline they’re both closing in on has no interest in letting either of them survive the final chapter.

In Blossom Springs, every secret has an expiration date. This one’s arrived.

Protecting Everleigh Audiobook

USAT author PJ Fiala, brings you the next generation of GHOST operatives set in the small-town of Glen Hollow, Kentucky, where a long-standing rivalry is brewing into an all out war, and love comes calling even in the worst of times.

GHOST: Government Hidden Ops Specialty Team. They eliminate the threat when no one else can.

He was raised to be a GHOST operative.
She's a skilled negotiator who's honed her skills in the Army.
Together they play a game of push and pull - until she finds herself in need of his protection.

Henry Delany inherited his father’s muscular frame and his mother’s penchant for the law. Working for GHOST gives him the outlet he needs to do what he loves while protecting the lives of others. Agreeing to work with a government liaison to broker a peace deal has him both determined and excited to bring peace and tranquility to Glen Hollow, a small-town he’s grown to love.

Everleigh Hayes is eager to put her negotiation skills to use. She’s been out of the field since she was shot by an unpredictable enemy. Glen Hollow, Kentucky is a small town in need of a truce between a faction of people living in the Hills, and gives Everleigh the opportunity she's been hoping for to return to the field. This assignment seems like a great way to get back in the saddle, as her grandfather used to say.

Henry knows Everleigh is taking the threats of the Hilly’s less seriously than she should be, and he’s worried he’ll have his hands full if she goes marching in like this is a cake-walk. But the fearless woman is undeterred by all his repeated warnings. His hardest mission to date just may be Protecting Everleigh.

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USA Today bestselling author PJ Fiala brings you the Lynyrd Station Protectors - Legacy series—heroes willing to sacrifice everything in service to their country, and for the men and women they love. A novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed.

Protecting Everleigh is a dual narration audiobook narrated by Rose Dioro and Troy Duran.

Listen to chapter one narrated by Troy Duran, below.

Dead Reckoning

He finds people who don’t want to be found. She knows the land that hides them.

Lochlan Lowe has spent his career tracking people through terrain that would stop most operators cold. Former Special Forces, built for pursuit and recovery, he’s the person Shadow Ops sends when someone vanishes. His latest target: a critical witness who disappeared into the backcountry outside Blossom Springs—someone who holds information that could identify the mole inside the federal government protecting an international pipeline.

Cassie Davis is a wildlife biologist who knows every trail, waterway, and hidden acre surrounding Blossom Springs. She’s noticed things over the years—unusual traffic patterns, staging areas that don’t match any legitimate use, routes through protected land that shouldn’t exist. She never understood what they meant. Now a man with a military bearing and no patience for small talk is asking her to guide him through terrain she considers hers.

Cassie isn’t impressed by credentials. Lochlan isn’t used to needing anyone’s help. The pursuit takes them deeper into dangerous territory—and closer to each other—than either expected.

In Blossom Springs, the most dangerous ground isn’t on any map.

False Front

She breaks people open for a living. He’s built to stay sealed.

Skylar McMahan reads people the way most people read street signs—automatically, accurately, and without hesitation. A former military intelligence officer trained in behavioral profiling and interrogation, she was brought into Shadow Ops to put faces and motives to an arms pipeline that’s been operating across the Southeast. She’s never met a subject she couldn’t crack.

Then she meets Benjamin Burkhart.

Benjamin is a defense attorney representing a client connected to the pipeline. He knows more than he can say, and privilege isn’t a strategy—it’s the law. He’s also trained to control exactly what he reveals, which makes him the first person Skylar has encountered who can read her techniques as clearly as she reads his defenses.

She needs what he knows. He can’t give it. The attraction between them is the one variable neither can profile, predict, or control. And the pipeline isn’t waiting for them to figure it out.

In Blossom Springs, the most dangerous lies are the ones you tell yourself.

Ghost Signal

He reads the world through data. She doesn’t exist in his.

Rhys Ellis lives in the digital dark. A cyber warfare specialist with a classified career and no personal footprint, he was recruited to Shadow Ops Guardians for one reason: he can crack anything. His latest target is an encrypted communications network routing international arms trafficking through commercial infrastructure across central Florida. The signal is sophisticated, federal-grade, and it’s hiding inside a business in Blossom Springs.

Kailey Stigler owns the local title office. She’s practical, direct, and has spent years building a business she’s proud of. She’s also never had a reason to think about cybersecurity until a quiet man with too many questions tells her that her systems have been compromised—turned into a node in a criminal network she never knew existed.

Rhys needs access to Kailey’s systems. Kailey needs answers before she hands over anything. He can’t read her the way he reads everyone else—she barely exists online. She can’t understand a man who lives entirely in a world she’s never entered.

The ghost signal running through her life is about to change both of theirs.

No Safe Harbor

David Mien is dead. The DOJ handler who fed a covert team its cases for years was reached by a network everyone believed was frozen — and killed to prove it could be done. Declan Pierce inherits the empty chair.

A career prosecutor with a near-religious faith in the law, Declan has brought down three criminal enterprises, all by the book, and never once colored outside the lines. He takes Mien's death the only way he knows how: as a case. Pull the thread, build it clean, let the system do the rest. The thread leads him to a Gulf town called Blossom Springs, a unit that doesn't appear on any org chart, and eight hundred acres of waterfront that every map in the county insists do not exist.

Wren Majors knows they exist. She's stood on the dirt. A forensic surveyor brought in to walk a parcel that was quietly erased from the record, Wren reads the lie in moved markers and a falsified survey the way other people read a signature — and she's spent a career being the unseen woman with the tripod that powerful men forget is standing there. She has gathered far more than anyone realized.

Including the truth about the beloved philanthropist who built half of Blossom Springs and scrubbed those acres off its maps before he fled the country. The land was buried legally. To take it back by the book is impossible — the book is the weapon that hid it. And to prosecute the man now defending it would expose the team to the same reach that killed Mien.

Declan has spent his life believing the system works if you work it properly. Wren's ground-truth, and a dead man's chair, are about to prove that sometimes the system is the problem. Believing her means questioning everything he's built his career on. Loving her means becoming a man he swore he'd never be.

Some harbors were never safe. Some rules were made to break.

Critical Hours

Book cover of Smoldering Nights by USA Today bestselling author PJ Fiala, book five in the Warriors of Blossom Springs romantic suspense series. A smiling couple stands forehead to forehead beneath a tropical evening sky, with the title displayed in bold emerald-green lettering.

She saves lives for a living. Now someone wants to end hers.

Graham Holt spent years as a Navy SEAL corpsman making impossible choices about who to save. The guilt drove him to Doctors Without Borders, then to a covert unit where his medical skills meet tactical precision. He's learned to compartmentalize, to distance himself from the people he protects. It's the only way to function.

Maren Ward didn't move to Blossom Springs for peace. The ER nurse left a Chicago trauma center because she was burning out, not because she stopped craving the adrenaline. She still volunteers for every difficult shift. She still can't walk away from someone who needs help.

When a patient arrives under sealed protocols and vanishes without a trace, Maren starts asking questions. Her notes are altered. Her concerns are dismissed. And then someone tries to make her disappear too.

Graham's unit has uncovered a trafficking pipeline running through Blossom Springs' emergency systems—using hospitals as waypoints for human cargo. Maren isn't just a witness. She's a target. Protecting her means staying close, and staying close means confronting everything he's tried to bury.

She refuses to be rescued. He refuses to let her fight alone. In the critical hours ahead, they'll discover that the hardest thing to save might be each other.

Silent Watch

The truth cost her everything. Finding it again might cost her life.

Caleb Rourke knows how dangerous the truth can be. The former NSA analyst turned whistleblower lost his career exposing surveillance abuses. Now he tracks information warfare for a covert unit that values what he sacrificed. When erased articles and suppressed stories point to a small Florida town, he follows the digital breadcrumbs to Blossom Springs.

Harper Wynn is done hiding. The investigative journalist went underground after her source was murdered and the story was killed. She's spent months as a ghost, but the corruption she uncovered didn't disappear—it just got better at hiding. She's come to Blossom Springs to finish what she started, even if it kills her.

Caleb recognizes Harper immediately. Not her face—that's forgettable by design—but her patterns. She's chasing the same story he's tracking, and she's about to get herself killed doing it. He should maintain distance. Instead, he finds himself shadowing a woman as determined as she is reckless.

When intimidation turns to direct threats, Caleb and Harper must work together to expose a conspiracy that controls what an entire town knows. But trusting each other means revealing who they really are. For two people built on secrets, that might be the most dangerous truth of all.

In The Shadows

Blossom Springs is supposed to be safe.

When falsified land permits expose a hidden pattern of corruption, covert operative Ronan Cross is sent in under deep cover to contain the threat without leaving a trace.

Lila Bennett, the town’s trusted administrator, knows something is wrong when her office is breached and records vanish. Someone is quietly rewriting the future of the town she loves—and Ronan may be the only one who can stop it.

He can’t tell her the truth.

She knows he’s hiding something—but her instincts tell her to trust him anyway.

As danger escalates and the threat turns personal, Ronan must choose between mission parameters and the woman who’s become his greatest vulnerability.

In the Shadows is a small-town romantic suspense novel featuring an elite covert operative, a strong heroine, slow-burn romance, and a complete love story—set against the first strike in a conspiracy that will change Blossom Springs forever.

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