Rebecca Jamse Thriller Series

Ian Jamse's team kidnapped Beckie Sverdupe eighteen months ago; now he appears as she prepares for her penultimate spring vacation of high school.   The only man who had ever depended on her asks for her help. He's responsible for her recurring nightmares digging out of the sand, but she'd seized the chance. She'd succeeded! Should she listen to his plea? Of course. Or is it more of a pitch than plea? He has a job only she can help with, so yeah, it's a pitch. Can she help him? Maybe. Would she? Yes! Beckie's answer launches her on a life-threatening journey to save children she's never met.   Allure is the first of Rebecca Jamse's Thrillers, and is recommended for readers 16 and over for language and mature situations. Real language is used, as are fictional depictions of child abuse.

Upcoming college sophomore Rebecca Sverdupe receives horrifying news: her fiancé and mentor Ian Jamse has been shot.   Over the past two years, Beckie's been learning the ropes, becoming a member of Ian's successful mercenary team. When she began she swore to make the team more than soldiers for hire; they'd be more 'socially conscious mercenaries, with concomitant longer life expectancies. Land disputes are serious but they shouldn't be fatal. But Ian was dying!   Instead of returning to campus, Beckie kisses Ian's insensate lips and heads to Cairo to complete the supposedly peaceful negotiations. The first meetings proceed smoothly, but lead to a new target for the assassin: her!   Her quest to gain justice⁠—or revenge⁠—for Ian reveals a conspiracy to trigger the final Mideast war. As she unravels the plot, she comes head-to-head with one man's bitter, intransigent attempts to define freedom his way. Can Beckie thwart the terrorist and eliminate one hateful voice of irrationality?   The second of Rebecca Jamse's Thrillers, Freedom Does Matter is a YA/NA political thriller recommended for fifteen and up.

Perverting the course of Justice.   An attack on Amy Rose pulls Beckie Sverdupe away from University to save her young friend from a smuggler boss desperate for his freedom. In tracing the years' old connections that led to Amy's kidnapping, Beckie discovers a conspiracy to sway the results of the upcoming Peruvian Presidential election by the smuggler's gang. Videos documenting a plot to pervert the course of justice come into her hands putting her and every one of the team into the cross-hairs of the conspirators. It's a helluva one-semester course. Pass-fail means live-die.   Counterfeit, Cocaine and Death is an exciting political thriller, the third of the Rebecca Jamse Thrillers.   Included is an excerpt from Coda?, the next offering in the series.

Coda: noun (Music) The concluding passage of a piece or movement […] • a concluding event […]   Two and a half years following Counterfeit, Cocaine and Death, death happens again. Fighting back, Beckie chooses to go her own way, and it costs her her love. Happily ever after now seems like an impossible dream, but she still has family and the team, and San Diego requires saving. Hidden information coupled with her own obstinacy make all her tasks more difficult, but friends help, some by staying, some by leaving. Hurt, confused and grieving, Beckie must push those emotions aside to grow into a role she's only observed til now.   Coda?, the fourth of the Rebecca Jamse Thrillers, is set in an approximation to the real world.

Beckie and Ian accept a standard "cost plus half-spoils" contract to prevent a Mexican prosecutor from receiving a Father's Day present he doesn't want: his daughter's head, gift wrapped.   Both the girl and the drug cartel—the one the prosecutor's working to eliminate—provide lots of opportunity to save her life. One of those 'opportunities' may allow the "half-spoils" clause to go into effect, as it exposes a blackmail operation that has few qualms about under-age prostitutes.   Sonora state in Mexico provides a beautiful setting for action that hardly stops for the life of this contract.   Father's Day, the seventh book in the Rebecca Jamse Thriller series, is set in an approximation to the real world.   Father's Day was previously published as Low Places. This edition has a new title and cover, and revised front and back matter, with inconsequential changes to the story.

South of Maidstone, England, Wendel Tate's mum dies. Wendell's reaction is disbelief; she wasn't sick! Months railing against the Establishment has little effect, so he plans a more direct protest and the upcoming lunar eclipse suits him perfectly. Before she disappears, Cecilia Stone's friends interfere with Wendel's plans.   Amy Rose Ardan wants a tractable assignment from Beckie and Ian to help her decide her future with Dylan. Beckie believes looking for Cissy Stone suits. But Cissy unintentionally leads Amy to strange events that send her on a day trip to Pakistan and enlighten her about her past. A little, at least. A kidnapping followed by finding, then losing, what she didn't know she had galvanize her search for an answer to Dylan's question… and hers. Blood Moon is a romantic political thriller dealing with lies, self-delusion and growing up in an approximation to the real world. It is intended for 15 up; it includes real language.

Consensual sex: fun, but comes with consequences.  Hardly unexpected but infelicitous none the less.   Angel, unmarried, and her friend Tammy, married, both pregnant, faced poverty even without the babies.   Rebecca Jamse, widowed, must travel to Pakistan to support her team. Not a suitable environment for two month-old Ralf, her son.   Beckie's BFF, Shalin deVeel knows the Imam of Tammy's mosque strives to assist girls like these; she mentions Beckie's need for a wet nurse. Since he has just assisted Angel and Tammy finding a Women's Shelter, their availability is clear.   Nursing Girls solves Beckie's problem and introduces Angel and Tammy and their families. The key action runs parallel to Discoveries.   This edition has a new cover, revised front and back matter and inconsequential changes to the story.

Beckie Sverdupe, typical high-school student and accomplished equestrienne, has a best friend, an annoying younger brother, and no plans beyond homework and the upcoming pep rally. Then, she is kidnapped to be buried alive. Her strength and resourcefulness impresses the enigmatic young mercenary, Ian Jamse, but she was just a job. Sandfall is a Young Adult thriller, and part of the Beckie and Ian series of YA thrillers. It includes real language. Bonus: An excerpt from Allure, the first book in the Beckie and Ian series, is included.

Beginning as Coda? ends, Beckie Jamse has signed a contract providing protection for an archeological dig in Baluchistan, Pakistan, but even with her experience, it leads her places she never expects. And provides a reward she hadn't negotiated.   A quiet winter and spring at The Nest allows Beckie to prepare for her baby; monitor the several jobs Ian Jamse, LLC, had already undertaken; provision the new protection contract, and plan an appropriate response to Ian and Kevin's murders. The calm evaporates like early morning dew when Ralf Jamse arrives, full of sound and fury and other baby specific needs. Events in Pakistan only seem calm. Unbeknownst to her, the protection contract in Pakistan develops a complication neither she nor the scientists expected: the terrorists of Daesh (Islamic State) are targeting the region. Even before Beckie's doctor allows her to leave the hospital, a letter arrives that changes everything.   Discoveries is a thriller with romance, set in an approximation to the real world. For the most enjoyment, readers should be familiar with Coda?.