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She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill - names taken from the grim surroundings where she awoke, bruised and bloody, with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or who left her for dead. She has made the cemetery her home, living in a crypt and avoiding human contact. But Calexa can’t hide from the dead - and because she can see spirits, they can’t hide from her. Then one night, Calexa spies a group of teenagers vandalizing a grave - and watches in horror as they commit murder.

This set contains the first four stories in the Task Force 125 Series by Lisa Pietsch: The Path to Freedom, A Taste of Liberty, Freedom's Promise, Stealing Liberties, plus additional bonus features like extra sections and more! In the war on terror...sometimes the best weapon is a woman...Sarah Stevens is a washed-up military cop whose life is a shambles until she is offered a position as a paramilitary agent with the CIA's Special Activities Division.

They’re great for a hook-up but lousy in the long-term relationship department. Lucky for her she was on the rebound and one of those junkies just walked into the casino. Brian Allen had seen combat all around the world as a Navy SEAL and a paramilitary operations officer in the CIA’s Special Activities Division. When his team is given a cushy assignment as backup in Morocco, he quells the itch for action by taking a night to relax with a beautiful distraction.

Book number four in the Task Force 125 Series With hefty bounties on Vince, Sarah, and Will's heads the team has to be creative in finding a way to do their job as well as stay one step ahead of the powerful man who wants them dead. The way they choose is creative but it is also deceptive, inconvenient, and very dangerous. A new guy who isn't at all what he seems must be brought into the fold. What happens when people start Stealing Liberties is likely to turn everyone's life upside down. But that may not be such a bad thing after all.

When a CIA operative is captured nobody is ever sent to save him. Seasoned paramilitary operative Vince Hennessee knew the risks, but the only way he could move on with the life he had planned with Sarah Stevens was to put down Nikolai Federov once and for all. What he didn't expect was that Nikolai would find him first. Now it is up to Sarah and the rest of the American Swift team from Task Force 125 to find Nikolai and put together an armed strike force that can take out the Russian and rescue Vince before it is too late.

As young Ben turns seven, all he thinks about are the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. And yet, as he grows up, it slowly dawns on him that his own life appears to be running parallel with that of Sir Gawain, the hero of his favorite medieval poem. Ben's life changes dramatically, but how does he end up in Nepal and Bangladesh, helping a young man fulfill his own ambitions?

Sarah Stevens finally has a life. Instead of the same old life with no man around who is worth the energy, now she has three! One she loves but cannot have, one she can have but cannot love, and another who wants her and doesn't care if she loves him. What's a girl to do?

The last thing Shelby expects for her 20th birthday is an expensive car built the year she was born. But the Shelby Cobra has more than a racing engine under the hood.... Joey always ran with a rough crowd, and that's probably why he died so young. Death is one thing - being a ghost in his own car is something else! Shelby wants her last days at college to be picture-perfect, sorority-girl peaceful. Joey needs to find his way to the Pearly Gates.

Thousands of people serving their communities have discovered surprising things about leadership: it's much more about listening than directing, more about learning than knowing, more about willingness to deeply challenge themselves than any special inborn qualities - and that grasping all this is a rewarding practice that never ends. This is their story.