Dirty secrets. Small-town justice. Unexpected heroes. Welcome to Warrenville... Bristol Hart had secrets. But so did I. If it were up to me, I’d have taken the murky details of my past to the grave, but one look into those warm honey eyes and I knew she’d untangle the web I had so intricately weaved. An ice storm forced us together, but that was just the beginning of what I hoped was a lifetime of peaceful days and passionate nights. As the months went on, the walls we’d both built started to collapse, but the rubble remained at our feet, anchoring us to the demons we desperately wanted to escape. The mystery of her past emerges out of the shadows with a ruthless vendetta. She was my salvation, my saving grace, and nothing would stop me from protecting her, not even a bullet to the chest. Not until my dying breath… *** BREAKING BRISTOL is the third book in a small-town romantic suspense series. Each story can be read as a standalone and will pull at your heart strings and leave you with a guaranteed happily ever after. *** keywords: contemporary romance, modern romance, sexy, contemporary romance series, romantic series, romance novels, family, love, protective alpha, swoon, bad boy romance, HEA, no cliffhanger, steamy romance, family saga, next door neighbor romance, small town romance, damsel in distress, steamy contemporary western romance, new beginnings, friends to lovers, forced proximity, redemption, woman on the run

Minnesota’s toughest farm boys take on Iraqi insurgents in one of the most irreverent and outrageous memoirs to come out of the Iraq War. When they deployed for Iraq, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, was mostly composed of farm kids from the Midwest. But make no mistake—these boys could replace a tank track on the side of the road using nothing but a crescent wrench, Zippo lighter, and a two-by-four. Once they arrived, they fought alongside the Marine Corps in Anbar province through the deadliest period of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bravo Company earned the nickname “Bristol’s Bastards” after USMC Colonel George Bristol, commanding officer of the IMEF Headquarters Group, adopted this band of fierce warriors as one of his own. Specialist Nick Maurstad, a member of Bristol’s Bastards, brings to life the experience of fighting in Iraq: kicking down doors, dodging IEDs, battling insurgents in the small towns surrounding Fallujah, and trying to help one another survive in the deadliest place on earth.

During the Second World War over 250 Allied warships from a dozen navies were sent to the bottom by German U-boats. This ground-breaking study provides a detailed analysis of every sinking for which source material survives from both the Allied and the German sides, resulting in detailed treatment of the fate of 110 vessels, with the remainder summarised in an extensive appendix. Uniquely, each entry is built around a specialist translation of the relevant segment of the war diary (log) of the U-boat in question, taken directly from the surviving originals – remarkably, this represents the first large-scale publication of the U-boat war diaries in any language. The book offers a wealth of new information, not only with respect to the circumstances of the sinkings from both the Allied and German perspectives, but also to the technical environment in which they lived as well as the fate of the crews. The entries include background details on the vessels concerned and the men involved, with a selection of rare and carefully chosen photos from archives and collections around the world. Each entry is itself a compelling narrative, but is backed with a list of sources consulted, including documents, published works and websites. A decade in the making, this is probably the most important book on the U-boat war to be published for many a year