Guardian Security Shadow World Books in Order

Set on Russia’s glittering Riviera, Maximus follows a Guardian assassin sent to dismantle an oligarch’s criminal empire. Posing as a wealthy patron, he falls for art curator Elena Ivanova, and together they must outmaneuver a ruthless boss who doesn’t tolerate betrayal.

In Malice, another Shadow World operator faces a foe whose cruelty shocks even seasoned Guardians. As bodies fall and alliances blur, he finds an unexpected ally—and lover—in someone who has every reason to fear the world he lives in.

Harbinger long ago decided love was too dangerous for a man in his line of work—until Parisian musician Ysabel Archambeau shattered that resolve and then cut him off. When her family begs Guardian for help, he returns to Europe’s gilded underworld to save the woman who broke his heart.

Guardian tech expert Conner “Centurion” Solomon would rather wage war from behind a screen, but a favor drags him to a Monaco fashion gala—and back into the orbit of lethal designer Jackie Harriger. Their flirtation turns deadly as they chase a digital ghost from Europe to Washington, DC.

Known only as Ice, a stone-cold Guardian assassin is tasked with eliminating a brutal predator. When he watches terrified wife Londyn Chatsworth pull the trigger first, he breaks protocol to save her—uncovering a larger threat that binds their fates together.

Flack centers on a Guardian cyber-warfare specialist who prefers keyboards to gunfights—until a mission drags him into the field with a woman every bit as sharp as he is. Together they chase a ghost in the data and a chemistry that refuses to stay virtual.

Valkyrie follows a rare female warrior in Guardian’s Shadow World who has made peace with delivering death. When a mission forces her to protect instead of destroy, she and the man she’s guarding must choose between old vendettas and a fragile new future.

After an explosion destroys Guardian’s DC complex, Aspen Kennedy wakes with her photographic memory shattered and disappears into a New York crime war. The assassin known as Phoenix rises to hunt the people who took her, determined to burn their world down to get her back.

Code-named Smoke, this Guardian assassin is used to vanishing after every mission. When a rescue goes sideways and he can’t walk away from a woman marked for death, his carefully controlled life ignites into something far more dangerous—and far more human.

Reaper has always believed his only purpose is to eliminate threats in Guardian’s name. Tracking a new enemy exposes a conspiracy that reaches back through the series and ties his fate to a woman who refuses to be collateral damage in anyone’s war.

In Thanatos, a Guardian assassin who wears the name of death like armor must confront what’s left of his humanity when a mission throws him together with a woman whose stubborn courage makes him question the life he’s chosen in the shadows.

Tempest pits another of Guardian’s Shadow World operatives against a chaotic enemy whose reach crosses borders. As the operation spirals, he and the woman pulled into the storm have to trust each other if they want to walk away alive—and free.

Reclusive assassin Lycos hides in a mountain stronghold, taking only the darkest contracts. After rescuing Bethanie Clark and her young son from a deadly blizzard, he’s forced to protect them from human enemies as dangerous as the storm—and to believe he might deserve a life beyond killing.

Asp is a ghost in Guardian’s network, sliding into place only long enough to eliminate a target. When a mission tangles him with a woman fighting for her own survival, both must choose between cold duty and the risky hope of something more.

Code-named Anubis, a lethal assassin in Guardian’s Shadow World hunts the monsters ordinary justice can’t touch. His latest mission collides with a woman shattered by the same evil, and together they fight back from the dark toward a future neither thought possible.