The Night Stalkers Short Stories Series

-a Night Stalkers romance story- Master Sergeant Dusty James returns to Portland, Oregon on his one week’s leave. A visit to his parent’s favorite rose may change the course of his life. Master Sergeant Amy Patterson would mourn the loss of her mother, if the pain didn’t still consume her. But a shared history may bind their hearts forever. A history known only to the Ghost of Willow’s Past.

-a Night Stalkers origin story- Before The Night Is Mine... Lieutenant Emily Beale flew for the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles. Shot down in a Thai jungle, Emily must fight for her crew, her career as a pilot, and her very life. She discovers both her past and her true vocation when forced to send out the worst call imaginable: Beale’s Hawk Down!

-a Night Stalkers origin story- Before The Night Is Mine... Major Michael Gibson must find the next step in his career as an operator for the U.S. Army’s Delta Force. He tackles a winter climb on the lethal slopes of the 14,000’ tall Mt. Rainier. His solo journey of discovery turns into a daring mountain rescue. Captain Mark Henderson, the commander of the U.S. Army’s newest Night Stalker company, seeks the best people. They will meet in the  Heart of the Storm!

-a Night Stalkers romance story- The heart-warming sequel to The Ghost of Willow’s Past. Helicopter pilot Amy Patterson-James attacked the future love of her life the day she met him, but those had been special circumstances. She’d punched him out over the remains of a willow tree in the Portland, Oregon rose garden. Two years later, on their first day in combat together, she’s shot down deep in enemy territory. Wounded and on the run. She banks it all on her love for Chief Warrant Dusty James and another old willow tree just as she did that First Day, Every Day.

-a Night Stalkers romance story- Navy Commander Deborah Reynolds pissed off Night Stalker Trisha  O’Malley in Light Up the Night. As she begins her own two-year tour in command of the USS Constitution she knows her dream assignment in Boston is temporary. Roy Wilkinson, professor of marine engineering at MIT has loved ships his whole life. Especially the day he wins a trip on the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy, Old Ironsides. He thinks the trip is the prize, until their hearts set full sail and they both prepare to Man the Guns!

-a Night Stalkers romance story- Sergeant Lee Adams flew a simple extraction mission along the Suez Canal: at night, into a friendly-power country, during a government-staged riot. Donya Nakhla fought for her country, until they tried to kill her. Now she must escape to fight another day. Neither knew that their lives would be forever changed as they joined in a Flight to Fight.

-a Night Stalkers story- Chief Warrant Officer Lola Maloney never expected to lead the Night Stalkers of 5th Battalion D Company. But when Beale and Henderson left, they put her in charge. Now the 5D’s first mission under her command is going all to hell. Only she can salvage it—her team’s very lives depend on her. Lola reaches back to every trick they ever taught her and finds the answer in a most unexpected place, as they Circle ’Round. (Previously published in Fiction River: Last Stand 2016.)

Night Stalkers Captain Tyra Walker flies deep into enemy territory. It seems that "flight" has become her whole life's story, whether in her Arkansas hometown or in a kick-ass helicopter. Delta operator Major Norm Lawrence stepped away from his past and only thinks about the next mission, until Tyra crosses his path. When Tyra's past meets Norm's present deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains—a land where military arms flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan—they'll need each other to survive the future.

Emily Beale, sixteen years old, faces her first major flight as a student pilot. The dramatic moment of the "first solo" isn't what defines a young pilot. It's the four-hour, solo, "cross-country" challenge that determines who they can become. As Emily flies around Washington's Olympic Mountains and along the Oregon Coast, she discovers that her future just might be on a clearer flight path than she thought possible. If she's ready for it.

Helicopter Crew Chief Fiona MacDonald takes her Highland heritage to heart. And when she sees someone break a major pre-battle candy taboo, she lets him have it with saber-sharp disdain. Del Campbell spent months planning tonight's mission—a hostage rescue from a remote Afghan camp. All goes according to plan, until Fiona catches his bad luck. Together they can fight the battle. But when the heat fires up between them, can they share the sweetness?