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  Mac had good reason to believe the SWAT team was crooked and a danger to everyone around them. But she had to be damn careful how she sold it to her editor. She had a hard time believing the story, and she’d heard it firsthand from an eyewitness named Marvin Cole.

  Marvin was a two-time loser currently out on bail awaiting trial, this time for kidnapping, assault, and resisting arrest. Normally, Mac wouldn’t have given the guy the time it took to call security to escort him out of the building. But then he had something on the one group of people in Dallas who were damn near untouchable—SWAT.

  She was intrigued, so she’d bought him a cup of coffee. She figured it was sour grapes—they had busted his ass, after all—but she pretended to pay attention as Marvin described how two big SWAT guys had smashed in the reinforced door of his secret hideout, tossed him around like a rag doll, and took the kid he’d been holding for ransom.

  She didn’t exactly swoon from excitement, but then Marvin described how one of the SWAT officers had growled like an animal, then grabbed him and shoved him up against the wall, holding him there with one hand as his feet dangled above the floor. The only reason that got her attention was because Marvin weighed about 350 pounds—and most of it was muscle. Still, SWAT guys were big and tough—everyone knew that. Marvin must have seen how skeptical she was because he opened his shirt and showed her the two sets of four parallel scratches gouged in the muscles of his enormous chest. He looked as if he’d been clawed by a big animal.

  “Son of a bitch did that with his bare hands. I lived on the streets my whole life so I know when someone’s messed up,” he said as he slowly buttoned his shirt and sat down. “Those SWAT dudes that everyone’s so freaking impressed with? They’re on something.”

  She lifted a brow. “You mean like steroids?”

  Marvin shook his head. “Hell no, lady. Shit, I take steroids and I ain’t never acted like that. No, those cats are on something really serious. Something that makes them crazy strong.”

  The idea that SWAT members were on some kind of designer drug was insane, but Marvin wasn’t making up the ragged marks on his chest.

  Well, today she was going to talk to the elusive SWAT commander even if she had to take the man hostage.

  Okay, maybe not. But she was going to talk to him, damn it.

  Hungry Like the Wolf

  Coming January 2015

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  Acknowledgments

  I hope you enjoyed Her Lone Wolf as much as you enjoyed Her Perfect Mate, the first book in the X-Ops series. After reading the first book, everyone wanted to know who the hunky wolf shifter Clayne Buchanan was going to end up with. I hope his story met your expectations!

  This whole series would not be possible without some very incredible people: my hubby of course; my agent, Bob Mecoy; my editor and go-to person at Sourcebooks, Cat Clyne (who loves this series as much as I do and is always a phone call or email away whenever I need something); and all the other amazing people at Sourcebooks, including Todd, Amelia, Rachel, and their crazy-talented art department. The covers they make for me are seriously droolworthy!

  Because I could never leave out my readers, a huge thank you to everyone who has read my books and Snoopy Danced right along with me with every new release. That includes the fantastic girls on my Street Team. You rock!

  And a very special shout-out to our favorite restaurant, P.F. Chang’s, where hubby and I bat ideas back and forth about story lines and come up with all of our best ideas!

  Hope you enjoy the third X-Ops book, Her Wild Hero, coming spring 2015, and look forward to reading the rest of the series as much as I look forward to sharing it with you.

  And if you love a man in uniform as much as I do, make sure you look for Hungry Like the Wolf, the first book in my new series coming from Sourcebooks, SWAT (Special Wolf Alpha Team), available in digital and paperback online and in bookstores everywhere January 2015!

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  About the Author

  Paige Tyler is the USA Today bestselling author of sexy romantic fiction. She and her very own military hero (also known as her husband) live on the beautiful Florida coast with their adorable fur baby (also known as their dog). Paige graduated with a degree in education but decided to pursue her passion and write books about hunky alpha males and the kick-butt heroines who fall in love with them. Visit www.paigetylertheauthor.com.

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  Her Perfect Mate

  X-Ops

  by Paige Tyler

  USA Today bestselling author

  He’s a high-octane Special Ops pro

  When Special Forces Captain Landon Donovan is pulled from an op in Afghanistan, he is surprised to discover he’s been hand-picked for a special assignment with the Department of Covert Operations (DCO), a secret division he’s never heard of. Terrorists are kidnapping biologists and he and his partner have to stop them. But his new partner is a beautiful, sexy woman who looks like she couldn’t hurt a fly—never mind take down a terrorist.

  She’s not your average Covert Operative

  Ivy Halliwell is no kitten. She’s a feline shifter, and more dangerous than she looks. She’s worked with a string of hotheaded military guys who’ve underestimated her special skills in the past. But when she’s partnered with special agent Donovan, a man sexy enough to make any girl purr, things begin to heat up…

  Praise for Her Perfect Mate:

  “A wild, hot, and sexy ride from beginning to end!” —Terry Spear, USA Today bestselling author

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  Her Wild Hero

  X-Ops

  by Paige Tyler

  USA Today bestselling author

  The third book in the hot, pulse-pounding paranormal romantic suspense X-Ops series from USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler.

  Department of Covert Operations training officer Kendra Carlsen has been begging her boss to let her go into the field for years. When he finally agrees to send her along on a training exercise in Costa Rica, she’s thrilled.

  Bear-shifter Declan MacBride, on the other hand, is anything but pleased. He’s been crushing on Kendra since he started working at the DCO seven years ago. Spending two weeks in the same jungle with her is putting a serious strain on him.

  When the team gets ambushed, Kendra and Declan are forced to depend on each other. But the bear-shifter soon discovers that fighting bloodthirsty enemies isn’t nearly as hard as fighting his attraction to the beautiful woman he’ll do anything to protect.

  Praise for Her Perfect Mate:

  “Absolutely perfect. One of the best books I’ve read in years.” —Kate Douglas, bestselling author of the Wolf Tales and Spirit Wild series

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  Hungry Like the Wolf

  SWAT

  by Paige Tyler

  USA Today bestselling author

  She’s convinced they’re hiding something

  The team of sharpshooters is elite and ultra-secretive—they are also the darlings of Dallas. This doesn’t sit well with investigative journalist Mackenzie Stone. They must be hiding something…and she’s determined to find out what.

  He’s as alpha as a man can get

  Gage Dixon, the SWAT team command
er, is six-plus feet of pure muscle and keeps his team tight and on target. When he is tasked to let the persistent—and gorgeous—journalist shadow the team for a story, he has one mission: protect the pack’s secrets.

  He’ll do everything he can to protect his secret

  But keeping Mac at a distance proves difficult. She’s smart, sexy, and just smells so damn good. As she digs, she’s getting closer to the truth—and closer to his heart. Will Gage guard their secret at the expense of his own happiness? Or will he choose love and make her his own...

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  Full Throttle

  Black Knights Inc.

  by Julie Ann Walker

  New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

  Steady hands, cool head…

  Carlos “Steady” Soto’s nerves of steel have served him well at the covert government defense firm of Black Knights Inc. But nothing has prepared him for the emotional roller coaster of guarding the woman he once loved and lost.

  Will all he’s got be enough?

  Abby Thompson is content to leave politics and international intrigue to her father—the President of the United States—until she’s taken hostage half a world away, and she fears her father’s policy of not negotiating with terrorists will be her death sentence. There’s one glimmer of hope: the man whose heart she broke, but she can never tell him why…

  As they race through the jungle in a bid for safety, the heat simmering between Steady and Abby could mean a second chance for them—if they make it out alive…

  Praise for Julie Ann Walker:

  “Romantic suspense at its best.” —Night Owl Reviews, 5 Stars, Reviewer Top Pick, Born Wild

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