Discovering Tyler

DISCOVERING TYLER (SPECIAL FORCES: OPERATION ALPHA) CGS NEW YORK RESCUE BOOK ONE E.M. SHUE CONTENTS Foreword Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Epilogue Also by E.M. Shue About E.M Acknowledgments More Special Forces: Operation Alpha World Books Books by Susan Stoker This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. © 2022 ACES PRESS, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this work may be used, stored, reproduced or transmitted without written permission from the publisher except for brief quotations for review purposes as permitted by law. This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. 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Thank you for supporting them, and me! READ ON! Xoxo Susan Stoker ABOUT THE BOOK Tyler is a hardworking rescue firefighter with the FDNY. He’s battled through war and walls of flames, but he’s never contended with a woman’s heart. Until Madison. All bets are off when he sees her again at a Veteran’s gala. It doesn’t matter that she’s the opposite of every other woman he’s been attracted to because she is his. When he helps her through a panic attack and she returns the favor by staying with him, he thinks he’s got her. But he wakes up alone and finds she’s fled with no forwarding address. Madison struggles every day with the demons of war. PTSD is pulling her under, and she can’t fight it anymore. She decides to head to the Refuge, a place a friend suggested to help her deal with her waking nightmares and learn how her new body works. But she didn’t count on her one-night stand being associated with the Refuge. And now that he’s here and wants to help her, she can’t fight the attraction she has for him. But little do they know a common enemy has followed them and wants his revenge. Madison will have to overcome her fears and fight for herself, while Tyler attempts to rescue them both before the flames get too close. Another action-packed, suspenseful, steamy romance from award-winning author E.M. Shue writing in New York Times best-selling author Susan Stoker’s Special Forces Operation Alpha World. This is the first book in the new CGS New York Rescue Series, a spin-off of the Caine & Graco Saga. If you like Deserving Alaska and all the characters at the Refuge, you’ll love Discovering Tyler. To everyone that struggles to feel normal with PTSD. There is help out there for you. PROLOGUE April Madison “How can a place have blazing sun beating down on you and still be colder than a witch’s tit,” my partner, Jim, says from next to me. The damn Texan makes me chuckle. He always has something to complain about. Yeah, Kabul isn’t the Caribbean or even the worst place we could be stationed. I’m currently nine months into my thirteen-month deployment here, and Jim has been with me for almost all of this tour. He got to go home when his wife delivered their little boy a couple of months ago. I haven’t been home in a while. It’s not that I don’t have family to go home to; I do. My sister is busy with work, and my mom hasn’t been the same since our dad died in the towers. We make our way to the back gate we will be guarding. Some fucking punk newb got upset that I was on the front gate because I’m a woman. He’ll realize soon enough the front gate sucks for patrols, while this back gate is a cakewalk. Furthermore, give me a chance at him in the training gym and I’ll lay his ass out. My dad put both my sister and me in Tae Kwon Do as soon as we could walk. He had said if he was going to have girls, they were going to learn to protect themselves. I’m a black belt, and I have trained hard in other forms of martial arts and hand-to-hand combat. I’m the girl you want at your back if you have a choice. The other team gives their report while I check over logs. I look down the narrow alley to the park where some kids are playing. There is a bigger crowd than normal back here. Some I don’t recognize. Most parents don’t let their children near the base, so it’s a bit shocking. I make out a couple of kids I know and usually hang out with when I’m on the front gate and on break. There are also some new kids I don’t recognize. After the number of years I’ve been an MP with the Army, I know not everyone is as