After their visitors left, Audrey stared at her beautiful daughter some more, marveling at her perfection of nose, lips, and rounded cheeks.

She then looked at her husband, who also had a beautiful face she could spend hours adoring, and felt a glow of warmth and love. She took his hand and pulled it to her lips. “You know what I want to do today?”

“Sleep?”

“Well, yeah, that, but also, I want to go down the hall and introduce Gina to her first friend, and then I want to go home and start our next adventure of raising our baby together as a family.”

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed Xavier and Audrey’s story. Don’t miss the author’s note below for the inspiration that led to this Navy SEAL training story. If you want to read about the night Xavier and Audrey first met, be sure to download BEFORE THE STORM: One Hot Night, a free steamy prequel to INTO THE STORM.

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Evidence: Under Fire continues in TRUST ME. Dr. Diana Edwards, an archaeologist working to recover looted art and artifacts for a group known as the Monuments Women, is abducted in the Middle East. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Chris Flyte must lead his team to bring her back alive. But once she’s back on US soil, they discover the threat to Dr. Edwards is far from over.

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Curious about Luke and Undine? Read their story in COLD EVIDENCE. The only thing Navy underwater archaeologist Undine Gray fears more than facing former SEAL Luke Sevick is never scuba diving again. But when a dive on a Cold War-era US Navy submarine ends with an accidental explosion, she’s terrified of going into the deep, forcing her to beg the most experienced diver she knows to take her back to the bottom of the cold Salish Sea.

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In the remote and unpredictable Aleutians, danger comes without warning…

Archaeologist Fiona Carver has unfinished business in the Aleutian Islands. After an emergency evacuation cut her last expedition short, she’s finally back and eager to get to work, but there is something off about the new ornithologist hired to find a rare bird. Having bluffed his way onto Fiona’s team with fake credentials, wildlife photographer Dean Slater is willing to risk more than federal prison to find his missing brother, but he needs Fiona’s help. When the two set out together on a perilous journey, it becomes more than a rescue mission. In their fight for survival, nature isn’t the only threat. They aren’t the only ones on the hunt. Mile by dangerous mile, someone is hunting them.

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