A Jo Gunning Thriller

Ex-Army Civil Affairs specialist Jo Gunning is a loner. No commitments. No fixed address. She's enjoying her anonymity in Virginia when she crosses paths with a runaway teenage girl in need. Assisting the girl in getting home leads to a phone call for help, and a claim from the girl that her father is holding her hostage. As Jo searches for answers, she finds that nothing is what it seems, and no one is telling the truth.

Ex-Army Civil Affairs specialist and loner Jo Gunning is headed west, but she detours and finds herself in a small town in rural Alabama. First, she runs afoul of local law enforcement, and then the owner of the local café asks Jo to find the truth about her nephew’s death.

Jo Gunning returns! Ex-Army Civil Affairs specialist and loner Jo Gunning is trying to lead a quiet life, but that’s interrupted when her friend, Dack, requests her help. She can’t turn him down, and he sends her to Mexico to provide security for millionaire businessman Chandler Holmes and his family.

When her sister’s friend, who works at a top-secret biolab, mysteriously disappears, Jo’s sister wants help to find her, and Jo can't say no. As she begins her search, Jo stirs up more than she bargained for, and her questions reveal an unknown and deadly enemy who can’t afford for her to discover the truth. Soon danger threatens her family, and Jo must use all her training to protect them and find answers.

After a tumultuous time in Colorado, Jo Gunning journeys west, where she encounters a couple whose daughter has joined a religious commune outside Las Vegas. Fearful that the commune’s charismatic religious leader may have harmed their daughter, they ask Jo for help. Jo has no job, no responsibility, and a burning desire to help others. She agrees to look for their daughter, but in order to find answers, she must join the religious group. What she discovers is as disturbing as anything she’s ever faced.

Seeking nothing more than peace and quiet, loner Jo Gunning wanders into Prescott, Arizona. But solitude proves illusive. As Jo hikes a remote trail, someone shoots at her. As Jo searches for the culprit, she stumbles upon a kidnapped teenager—a victim of a human trafficking ring—and she finds herself in a fight she never wanted.