THE JACK BASS SERIES
Nine Novels. One Extraordinary Journey.
The danger changes. Jack doesn’t.
BOOK ONE OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
In the Line of Ire
Some battlefields don’t end when you leave.
Decorated Army physician Jack Bass has built his life around one instinct: when someone needs help, he doesn't walk away.
But in Afghanistan, that instinct puts him on a collision course with a jealous commanding officer—and places Major Lori Darden, the woman Jack loves, directly in the line of fire.
What follows will shape the man Jack becomes and the choices he will make for the rest of his life.
BOOK TWO OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Almost Broken
Some people spend their lives asking what the world owes them. Jack Bass has spent his asking who needs him most.
After a traumatic end to his Army career, Jack Bass returns to civilian life carrying wounds no one else can see. Severe PTSD has left him struggling with memories he can't escape—and moments he can't always remember.
A prestigious position as Chairman of Anesthesiology at Southern Medical Center is supposed to give Jack a chance to rebuild his life.
Then two hospital specialists are brutally murdered.
The evidence points toward Jack.
There are gaps in his memory. Lost moments he can't explain. And as the evidence mounts, Jack finds himself confronting something far more terrifying than being accused of murders:
The possibility that he did.
Now Jack can no longer trust his own mind enough to know whether he's still the man who protects people—or the one people need to be protected from.
BOOK THREE OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Breaking Point
Jack Bass knows what it costs to let his guard down. But his need for human connection is stronger than his instinct to keep his distance.
After surviving the events at Southern Medical Center, Jack is trying to put the pieces of his life back together. With Janice beside him, he leaves the hospital behind and moves to a new city, hoping that a new job and a new beginning might finally give them both a sense of security.
His new position with a small healthcare company seems like a change Jack could embrace—the company helps people struggling with serious medical problems. Helping people has always come naturally to Jack.
But it doesn't take long before he begins noticing things that don't make sense.
People are being hurt and dying unexpectedly. And Jack begins to suspect the company that's supposed to be helping them may have something to do with it. The more he looks, the more troubling the truth becomes—and the closer the danger moves to the life he and Janice are trying to build.
Has Jack stepped into a minefield...again?
Now, just as he's beginning to believe he might have found a life worth holding on to, Jack is reminded of something he's learned the hard way:
Having something worth loving also gives him something worth losing.
BOOK FOUR OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
You’ll Be Safe
Jack Bass has spent his life trying to keep people safe. Now the person he loves most may pay the price for it.
When homeless veterans begin disappearing, Jack can't ignore it. These are men and women who served their country, only to become nearly invisible when they returned home.
Someone is taking advantage of that invisibility.
Jack's search leads him to a secret drug program using veterans as unwilling test subjects—and to people willing to do almost anything to keep the truth buried.
As Jack pushes deeper, the danger moves closer to home.
Amanda, the daughter Jack never knew he had, is now part of his life. Protecting strangers has always come naturally to him. Protecting his own daughter is different.
Because this time, Jack isn't the only one who may have to live with the consequences of his choices.
He has spent his life promising people they'll be safe.
This time, keeping that promise may come at a terrible price.
BOOK FIVE OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Do I Know You?
Jack Bass can't remember who he is. The people who want him dead remember exactly who he is.
After being shot while rescuing homeless veterans, Jack is pronounced clinically dead.
He survives—but part of the man he was doesn't come back with him.
Jack awakens with severe, spotty amnesia. Familiar people have become strangers. Pieces of his past are gone, along with some of the instincts that once warned him when something wasn't right.
Hoping familiar surroundings might help restore his memories, Hank, Amanda, and General Smithson take Jack to Turkey.
Instead, trouble finds him.
Jack stumbles into a terrorist plot he doesn't understand. At the same time, someone from his past pursues him in Turkey, looking for revenge—an enemy Jack doesn't remember making.
The man who wants to kill him could be standing right in front of him. Jack wouldn't know him.
And with Amanda beside him, Jack must somehow protect the daughter he loves while trying to recover enough of himself to recognize the danger closing in around them.
Jack may have forgotten his past. His enemies haven't.
BOOK SIX OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Empty Promises
Jack Bass has spent his life trying to save people. But sometimes the people who need saving don't want to be saved.
When Jack's friend Hank begins slipping back into addiction, Jack does what he always does—he tries to help.
But Hank isn't the only veteran in trouble.
A VA experimental drug study is supposed to offer hope to veterans struggling with addiction. Instead, participants are dying.
The deeper Jack looks, the more the study begins to feel disturbingly familiar.
His search leads him back to PharmaGenesis—and toward Senator Cinch, a powerful man with reasons of his own for making sure certain questions are never answered.
Jack knows what addiction can take from a person. He also knows what institutions can hide when protecting themselves matters more than protecting the people they were created to serve.
And this time, the person Jack is fighting hardest to save may be the one person he can't force to accept his help.
Some promises are made to give people hope.
Others are made because someone needs you to stop asking questions.
BOOK SEVEN OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Death Hub
Jack Bass has spent his life trying to save people. Now a machine designed to save money may be deciding who is worth saving.
Artificial intelligence promises to transform healthcare by identifying waste, reducing costs, and making better decisions.
But Jack begins to notice something disturbing.
Patients whose care is expensive are dying.
The deaths appear unrelated. The system says nothing is wrong. But Jack has never been very good at ignoring people simply because someone else has decided they don't matter.
With Marc Quintero and Misty Carrel back in his life, Jack begins looking for the connection.
What he finds is an artificial intelligence system built to reduce healthcare costs by identifying what's causing them.
And then eliminating it.
The system was designed to solve a problem.
Jack Bass may have become part of the problem.
BOOK EIGHT OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Edge of Reality
Jack Bass has spent his life trusting his instincts. Now he can no longer trust what his own mind is telling him.
Jack knows what PTSD can do to memory. He knows how the past can intrude on the present—and how difficult it can be to tell where one ends and the other begins.
But this is different.
Messages begin appearing from someone Jack believed was gone. They contain things no stranger should know. Things from his past. Things that make him question whether what he remembers actually happened the way he thinks it did.
As the messages become more personal, the line between memory and reality begins to disappear.
Amanda and Hank try to help him hold on to what he knows is real. But Jack is being pulled deeper into a mystery built around the one thing he has never been able to escape:
His own past.
If Jack can't trust his memories, how can he know which danger is real?
BOOK NINE OF THE JACK BASS SERIES
Covert Covid
Jack Bass knows there are things in life you're better off not knowing. His problem has always been how he responds once he does.
On an icy Minnesota highway, a routine traffic stop turns into something far more disturbing.
A driver commits suicide.
Inside his vehicle are bodies hidden in crates.
Federal agents arrive quickly and take control of the scene. Then the state trooper who made the discovery turns up dead.
Jack knows enough to understand that some questions can get people killed.
He asks them anyway.
With Hank and Wes Watley beside him, Jack begins following a trail that leads to Dr. Tommy Peel—and toward events surrounding COVID that someone desperately wants to keep buried.
The deeper Jack digs, the more dangerous the questions become.
And this time, the truth may reach far beyond the people Jack is trying to protect.
What if some of the events surrounding COVID resulted from a hidden chain no one was ever supposed to discover?