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resists his sexy smile but can’t resist his offer of help.

    And the rest of the guys …
    Knox Logan
    A childhood tragedy scarred Knox’s heart, leaving this cowboy emotionally numb. Joining the SEALs, and now the Justiss Alliance, is his way to atone for his past. But his future holds the one woman who can break through his armor and bring him to life.
    Chase Justiss
    Landing on the downside of justice trashed Chase’s illustrious career and left his life in ruins. He’s carefully constructed a new identity and found a new purpose—The Justiss Alliance. Everything in his world is under his perfect control … until he meets the woman who throws everything out of balance.
    Rathmusen (Rath) Blackwood
    Rath has one thing on his mind: finding out who corrupted their SEAL mission and making that person pay. Stubborn, driven, and angry, he’s not above using the man’s daughter to get him to fess up. But when she’s taken by the cartel leaders, the game completely changes.

Dear Reader,
    You’ve probably heard that authors have characters who pester them to tell their stories. Well, for me, it was an
author
pestering me. I started writing romantic suspense novels under my real name, Tina Wainscott, in 1995. As I evolved into more paranormal elements, I shifted to my pseudonym, Jaime Rush. And while I’ve had a ball exploring psychic abilities, dragons, and angels, Tina has been simmering on the back burner. Finally, she said, “Enough! I want to write good old-fashioned romantic suspense again.” You do know that we writers are the crazy people who listen to the voices in our heads, right? So it should be no surprise that we have multiple personalities as well.
    I set the muse loose and told her to find me some guys. I mean, some ideas. Here’s what she came back with: five sexy SEALs whose careers are in tatters when a covert mission goes awry. An agency whose sole purpose is to attain justice for those who can’t, even if it means playing outside the rules. The rather mysterious man who runs the agency. And, of course, women who give them all a run for their money. This was a way I could honor our military heroes, as well as fix some of the wrongs in the world—at least on paper.
    I hope you’ll take a wild ride with me and my SEALs!

B OOKS BY T INA W AINSCOTT
    Wild Hearts
    Coming soon
    Wild on You
    Wild Ways
    Wild Nights
    All part of the Justiss Alliance series

Read on for a sneak peek at
    Wild on You
    by Tina Wainscott

The last time Rick Yarbrough got into this limo was right after the Navy court hearing that had made him and four members of his team officially ex-SEAL. The man who provided that limo, Chase Justiss, had offered all five of them an intriguing job opportunity. Six and a half weeks later, Risk was an operational member of the Justiss Alliance. They were unofficially called J-Men, because two of Chase’s operatives had a thing for some cult-classic movie called
J-Men Forever
.
    Risk, Saxby, and Knox had undergone a week of orientation and training at Chase’s Miami estate, nothing compared to the grueling thirty months of becoming a SEAL. Then again, they already possessed most of the requisite skills.
    Chase leaned forward from the limo’s plush interior and shook his hand. “Welcome to your first mission, Risk.”
    His new boss even remembered his nickname.
    Chase was tall and lean, civilian, with a whiff of former military to his bearing. Government, he’d said, but was otherwise obtuse about his background. Or his reason for starting an agency that masqueraded as a private security firm.
    Risk released his grip. “You haven’t told me what it is yet.” Which was odd, now that he thought about it. Though he was used to being given only bits and pieces of an upcoming mission, that was the military, after all.
    “I didn’t want to scare you off.”
    Risk rubbed his hands together. Oh, buddy, this was going to be good. “Fill me in.”
    What had sold Risk on joining was the