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Vale & Rook Series
Two Timelines. One Story.
The Vale & Rook Series unfolds across two connected parts: the Prequels and the Current Series.
The Prequels take you back to where it all began, revealing the experiences, relationships, and choices that shaped the characters and their world. The Current Series moves the story forward, where the past continues to influence new challenges, loyalties, and consequences.
PREQUILS
Before The Shadows: Jonas Quinn (Book 1)
War didn’t break Jonas Quinn—following orders did.
Staff Sergeant Jonas Quinn has spent years in the Balkans doing the one thing he was trained for: keeping the peace in places where peace no longer exists. But when a routine patrol turns into a nightmare, Jonas makes an impossible choice. He disobeys a direct order to save a woman and her young daughter trapped beneath the ruins of a collapsing school.
Before The Shadows: Greyson Tallis (Book 1)
The War Ends. The Battle to Live Begins.
Grey Tallis spent nearly a decade serving in places the government pretends don’t exist—black-site operations, shadow missions, and decisions that carved pieces out of a man who didn’t have much left to give. By the time he finally returns home to Edmonton, he’s ready to rebuild the life he walked away from: a wife who waited too long, a daughter he barely knows, and a world that no longer fits the soldier he has become.
Enduring The Shadows: Jonas Quinn (Book 2)
Jonas Quinn has built a life around discipline, instinct, and the quiet promise to protect those who cannot protect themselves. But when a frightened couple walks into his office with a ransom package addressed to him, everything he is—and everything he stands for—is put to the ultimate test.
Through The Shadows: Grey Tallis (Book 2)
Grey Tallis comes home a newly minted black belt, ready to build a quieter life—one shaped by steady teaching, early mornings at Fire & Iron, and the fragile but determined progress of Vale, who rebuilds her confidence one breath at a time with Bishop faithfully at her side. For the first time in years, Grey can almost see a path forward that doesn’t involve violence.
Facing The Shadows: Grey & Jonas (Book 3)
They survived the shadows once. This time, they’re being evaluated.
Jonas Quinn and Grey Tallis have spent years rebuilding their lives—training bodies hardened by violence, minds shaped by discipline, and instincts forged in places never meant to exist. The past they endured was brutal, controlled, and systematic. They believed it was over.
Beyond The Shadows: Grey & Jonas (Book 4)
Grey Tallis is trying to live again.
After months of recovery, pain, and nights that still don’t always end cleanly, Grey returns to the only normal he trusts—training, teaching, and steady work in Edmonton’s schools. Self-defense classes. Outreach programs. Quiet routines that demand discipline without spectacle. Just enough structure to keep the past from closing in.
Into The Shadows: Grey & Jonas (Book 5)
A quiet vacation was never supposed to become a rescue mission. But some men don’t get to walk away. Greyson Tallis knows how to manage risk. He teaches it. Lives it. Controls it. So when he agrees to a rare vacation—sun, distance, and time away from responsibility—he tells himself it’s safe to let his guard down.
Among the Shadows: Jonas Quinn & Greyson Tallis (Book 6)
They went into the mountains to find peace.
Instead they found a battle.
Jonas Quinn and Grey Tallis are no strangers to violence—but they are strangers to peace. After years of missions, loss, and scars that never quite fade, the two men disappear into the backcountry for ten days of isolation, silence, and trail miles. No weapons. No objectives. No one else to protect.
Darkening The Shadows: Grey & Jonas Origins (Book 8)
Jonas Quinn thought he’d left this kind of violence behind.
Running Ground Rolls BJJ and Quinn Protection & Security in a quiet Manitoba town was supposed to be simple: train good people, protect the vulnerable, and keep life steady. But when Jonas steps between a group of bikers and a frightened couple outside a convenience store, he unknowingly puts himself in the path of something much bigger than a street-level gang.
Obsessing the Shadows: Grey & Jonas (Book 9)
Some enemies come with weapons. Others come with a smile.
Greyson Tallis and Jonas Quinn have spent years standing in the darkness. They have faced assassins, criminal organizations, and the worst humanity has to offer. They have bled together, fought side by side, and walked through hell for one another more times than either man can count.
Remembering the Shadows: Grey & Jonas (Book 10)
He woke up with no name. No past. No memory of the man he used to be. The only thing Jonas knows for certain is that he instinctively threw himself into a deadly gunfight to save a stranger. His reward? A brutal beating, a concussion that stole his identity, and a one-way trip into the heart of one of New York's most powerful mafia families.
CURRENT SERIES
Standing In Shadows: A Vale & Rook Novella (Book 1)
When justice fails, shadows rise.
Vale is no ordinary woman. A martial arts expert with a sharp mind and a loyal Belgian Malinois named Rook at her side, she walks the streets of Edmonton, where fear too often silences the vulnerable. When victims can’t—or won’t—go to the police, Vale steps in.
Echoes in Shadows: A Vale & Rook Novella (Book 2)
When justice falters, shadows rise.
Vale isn’t a cop, and she isn’t a criminal—she’s something in between. A martial artist forged by loss, she walks Edmonton’s streets with Rook, her fierce and loyal Belgian Malinois, answering the calls no one else will. When a boy from her dojo disappears into the grip of street gangs and a broken home, Vale finds herself pulled into a fight far bigger than one child.
Memories in Shadows: A Vale & Rook Thriller (Book 3)
When loyalty is tested, and memories cut deeper than any blade, what would you sacrifice to protect the ones you love?
Vale isn’t a cop. She isn’t a criminal. She’s something in between—a martial artist forged by loss, walking Edmonton’s streets with her Belgian Malinois partner, Rook.
Pledged in Shadows (Book 4)
When justice hides behind power, the shadows fight back.
A University of Alberta student is found bloodied near campus, her attack dismissed as “an alcohol-related fall.” But Vale knows better. Edmonton has a way of burying its sins when the right families pay for the shovel—and this time, the dirt runs deep.
Deception In Shadows (Book 7)
Fire & Iron has never been busier. After the brutal winter that nearly tore them apart, Greyson Tallis, Vale, and Jonas Quinn are finally finding their rhythm again—training classes packed, the mats full of life, and the ghosts of the past held at bay by work, laughter, and habit.
Recharge in Shadows (Book 8)
A powerful companion to the Shadow Chronicles—three interconnected tales of healing, courage, and rediscovery.
When the storms quiet, what remains is who you truly are. After years spent surviving the unthinkable, Jonas Quinn, Grey Tallis, and Vale Kearnen each face the same impossible challenge—learning how to stop fighting long enough to heal.
History in Shadows (Book 9)
History doesn’t stay buried. It waits.
Grey Tallis and Jonas Quinn have spent years building lives defined by discipline, loyalty, and control. They’ve survived violence, loss, and choices made in the dark—things that bonded them, hardened them, and taught them exactly how dangerous the past can be if it’s allowed back into the light.
Hawaii In Shadows (Book 11)
Paradise was supposed to be simple.
For Grey, it meant stepping away from the weight of old ghosts, the dojo, and the life he’s spent years building through discipline, loyalty, and survival. For Jonas, it meant something even rarer—a chance to finally bring the people he trusts most into the world he shares with the woman he loves.
Protection in Shadows (Book 12)
Greyson Tallis and Jonas Quinn have spent their lives surviving the kinds of wars most people never know exist.
Grey is the ghost—the former intelligence asset who built a life in the shadows, carrying the scars of a past that never truly let him go. Jonas is the weapon—the ex-SAS operator whose loyalty runs so deep he would walk straight into hell for the people he loves.
Fragments in Shadows (Book 14)
Fragments in Shadows
An explosion changes everything.
When Jonas Quinn leaves Fire & Iron to make a quick coffee run, he expects to be gone for five minutes.
Instead, a devastating explosion tears through downtown Edmonton, hurling him across a city street and leaving him broken, battered, and fighting to recover.
Turbulence in Shadows (Book 15)
A routine flight. A brutal hijacking. A deadly secret someone is willing to kill to protect.
Jonas Quinn has spent a lifetime dealing with dangerous people.
After completing a security consulting job in Vancouver, all he wants is a quiet flight home to Edmonton. Instead, he finds himself trapped aboard a commercial airliner that has become the center of a meticulously planned hijacking.
Cruising in Shadows (Book 16)
After years of putting everyone else first, Grey, Jonas, Vale, Drew, Tyana, and Kalea finally do something they haven't done in far too long—they take a vacation. Ten days aboard the luxurious Tempest of the Sea. Crystal-clear Caribbean waters. Tropical ports. Endless ocean views. A chance to leave behind the violence, heartbreak, and responsibilities that have defined their lives for so long.
