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What makes a hero? They say a hero is someone that has given his life to something bigger than himself. I say a hero is no braver than an ordinary man, he is just braver for five minutes longer. All soldiers are brave, it's what they do with their bravery that makes them heroes. Am I a hero? Clayton Jackson dedicated his life to serving his country. Enlisting in the Marine Corps at the young age of eighteen, he never imagined following any other path. However, fate had other plans for him as a life-altering accident during his last deployment left him disabled and forces him to return home. Hiding in the small town he grew up in, Clayton tries to keep his secret from his loved ones at all costs. One day while seeking refuge from his troubled mind, his path crosses with Isabella Jones. Their connection is instantaneous as if the universe conspired to bring them together. Isabella, a mysterious and enigmatic woman, is haunted by the demons from her own past. As their relationship quickly blossoms, the unspoken truths between them threaten to tear them apart. When Clayton is presented with the opportunity to rejoin the Marine Corps, Isabella is faced with a decision: whether to accompany him or remain behind. Caught in this web of secrets and lies, they try to navigate their love through the murky waters, desperately hoping to find solace in each other's arms. But will love be enough to conquer the shadows that lingered in their hearts? Or would the truth ultimately be their undoing?

This is the second book for The Broken Soldier. Please read The Broken Soldier: Secrets Of A Broken Marine first. Clayton Jackson, First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps is back from what was his final deployment. He left his final deployment on a high, leaving him with yet another injury. This time he is set to stay with Isabella, and bring their child into the world and raise it together. But Clayton gets restless and he desires to go back. But apart from that, Isabella and Clayton are concerned that the two people that they fear to most will come back and hurt them and their child. Can they let go of this fear? Will Isabella let Clayton follow his dreams again and let him go back and become the ultimate Marine, a Rayder?

THE LAST MARINE– Series Synopsis The world ends not with a bang, but with a prayer and a shattered test tube. Marine Quinn Calloway, a man accustomed to the structured chaos of war, finds himself on leave in the deceptively peaceful mid-sized city of New Havenburg when the unthinkable happens. Dr. Lucian Kael, a brilliant and devoutly religious scientist at the prestigious Blackwood Research Institute, driven by a fervent desire to unlock humanity's "divine potential," makes a catastrophic miscalculation. His experimental "Kael Strain" virus, designed for benign purposes, is accidentally unleashed, and its effects are swift, brutal, and biblical in their apocalyptic scope.

Psychologist Neil is a civilian embedded with a division of Marines sent out as part of a peacekeeping mission overseas in the Pacific. When the local political situation erupts into open civil war, the American troops are ordered to evacuate. Neil escapes in a small plane, along with several military personnel.<br><br>The plane crashes into the sea, with only Neil and a Marine surviving. They're swept over a reef and deposited in the lagoon of a deserted island.<br><br>As they work together to survive in the hopes of being rescued, mutual respect warms into friendship. But Neil's feelings grow deeper, and he keeps them hidden from his companion.<br><br>How would the Marine react if he knew the feelings Neil harbors for him? Can what they share in isolation carry over if -- or when -- they're rescued?

Schoolteacher Julian Reynolds is disillusioned with the seedier side of gay life in New York City with its self-absorption, vanity, and preoccupation with sex. When his long-time relationship with his high school sweetheart ends, he returns to his hometown and vows to live a simple life free of the extremes of the gay lifestyle and romantic entanglements. With that end in mind, he rents the carriage house next door to a large Tudor-style home.<br><br>Tate Butler, a former student of Julian’s, lives in the big house with his mother. Tate is bitter and withdrawn after losing a leg while serving in the Marine Corps during the war in Afghanistan. Fearing rejection from his mother and blaming himself for his father’s death, Tate stays firmly in the closet and punishes himself by refusing to learn how to walk again.<br><br>Can Tate and Julian help heal each other’s pasts and forge a real and lasting future together? Or will the driveway that separates their houses prove too wide a gulf to cross?

How does one survive on an island infested with man-eating monsters? Figure out where to hide? Make a raft that can hold one or two people at most, and get the hell off the island. Then, hope for the best when making landfall on a much more inaccessible peninsula and pray it doesn't have more of those man-eating monsters. However, that's when Colton Malta's luck really ran out. He discovered he'd gone from a modern-day world to something from a novel or a manga. In fact, he recognized the setting. Delusions abound, and characters come to life that he'd only read about in comic form. For those people, the world they worked and lived in was real. Colton, on the other hand, just wanted to figure out what happened to him and the other people who'd been thrown into a lifeboat and left to die. That's when he encountered someone who knew him from his distant childhood past when he was a naïve youngster. Kellen Jaeger. Similar in age to Colton, he remembered him well. However, life had altered them both, and not for the better. Now, they had to cooperate or possibly die without returning to the world they'd come from.

**What if all your life was passing by you and you couldn’t enjoy it, and it is all because of one man?** That is the story of Maddison. Ever since she met John, her life has been in hell, constantly full of abusement vocabulary and physical. Her only goal in life is to run away from him and live in peace. Will she be able to find her happiness and find someone that will love her with no abusement? **As a Marine Corps, your life is constantly is full of danger and action, but what happens if the one you love dies and leaves you small human to raise alone?** James thought that the moment he found the one he’ll spend the rest of his life with it will be the happiest moment for him, but after his girlfriend gave birth to his son, it took her away from him to raise their son alone. Will he be able to accomplish her dying wish to find someone to help him raise their son or he’ll leave him to his parents and run away back to the military?

The world was calm for a moment, as it was the warning before the storm. That's when humanity knew what true hopeless inevitable change was like, no matter how strong their technology mother nature had been preserving its wrath for this very moment. Sending the world into chaos, floods greater than tsunamis ravage and submerge the world leaving a small portion of land remaining. 5 years have passed since the devastation hit the world, humanity has dwindled drastically, only a quarter of the overall population remain. Races of the sea have formed from the flood, having a tremendous effect on the entire world, magic lies within every drop of the ocean. Submergence wasn't the only threat, looming in the background in wait, a ravenous species lurks in waiting. Preparing to strike and consume every part of this new world.

Late at 1 a.m. there is an unexpected silence on the rather busy road of Marine drive, Mumbai. And in that silence there is a girl that comes by to have the company of the mild waves just waiting for the wind to carry away all her pain. Confiding into someone is not her thing. If she really wants to pour her heart out it will be to a complete stranger. At least she won't be worried of being judged by them. What if a completely unexpected stranger gives her a comforting hand? Will they want to meet again? Will she finally understand where her world is? Will he be able to show her that she is worth it? Will they fall in love with each other by the end of the night? Or will they just remain Late Night Marine Drive buddies?

US marines and blue berets Shawn, John, Alex, Toby and Chess( Sarah) form a pack at a refugee camp. They discovered that you can't judge a book by its cover; they get kidnapped by a wolf in sheep clothing and their bond strengthens through the ups and downs of their lives