Defender Sweethearts Series by Jan Thompson

A grieving accountant. A former mistress. A stash of crypto secrets.A grieving accountant seeking justice for his murdered brother finds himself on the run with a senator’s former mistress who knows too many secrets.Starting his own investigation…After his brother is killed by a car bomb, Armin Dhillon quits his job to conduct his own investigation into the murder. His efforts lead him to a former senator’s ex-mistress who is now a devout Christian trying to leave her past behind... moreA grieving accountant. A former mistress. A stash of crypto secrets.A grieving accountant seeking justice for his murdered brother finds himself on the run with a senator’s former mistress who knows too many secrets.Starting his own investigation…After his brother is killed by a car bomb, Armin Dhillon quits his job to conduct his own investigation into the murder. His efforts lead him to a former senator’s ex-mistress who is now a devout Christian trying to leave her past behind. Only her sordid past won’t let her go, and neither will Armin, who thinks she has the answer that will bring closure for his family.Stuck together for better or for worse…Kelsey Murphy wants to start over with a new life in Christ, but her old career keeps telling her that she’s unworthy and must pay some sort of penance. The FBI finds her and asks for her help to take down some money-laundering criminals related to the former senator. Thrown together for a common cause, Armin and Kelsey find that they have no choice but to look out for each other.Solutions are nowhere to be found…All around them, mirages appear. Things are not what they seem to be. Friends may not be friends. Enemies may not be enemies. But they all have the same to get to the stash of seventeen billion dollars worth of cryptocurrencies. Will they be able to wade through the fog of misinformation to get to the truth? The winners take all, or do they?Never a Fugitive is Book 3 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson’s Defender Sweethearts Christian romantic suspense novel collection. less

A paranoid whistleblower on her last task. A private investigator posing as her fake boyfriend. An international conglomerate that eliminates its enemies.Calling for help…Administrative Assistant Sienna Halstead has one last task to do for the FBI Criminal Investigative Division before she can quit her corporate job and disappear. Scared that the evidence against the international conglomerate she works for is not sufficient, paranoid Sienna starts to make mistakes. When she calls Hu Knows, Inc... moreA paranoid whistleblower on her last task. A private investigator posing as her fake boyfriend. An international conglomerate that eliminates its enemies.Calling for help…Administrative Assistant Sienna Halstead has one last task to do for the FBI Criminal Investigative Division before she can quit her corporate job and disappear. Scared that the evidence against the international conglomerate she works for is not sufficient, paranoid Sienna starts to make mistakes. When she calls Hu Knows, Inc., for help, Helen Hu sends the no-nonsense Earl into her chaotic world.Cashing in on overtime pay…The last thing Private Investigator Earl Young expects to do on his week off is to pose as a fake boyfriend to one of two whistleblowers at a business convention, although the former Special Ops soldier is confident he can handle any task his employer assigns to him. Besides, he gets to stay at a five-star hotel and eat for free.Crossing the line…Earl’s driving need to solve problems forces him to work alongside Sienna as she draws him deeper into her corporate world of secrets and subterfuge. The more time they spend time together, the more Earl feels attracted to Sienna, and forgets that he is only her bodyguard. When Sienna's life is endangered, how far will Earl go to protect her?Never a Traitor is book 7 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson’s Protector Sweethearts Christian romantic suspense series featuring Private Investigator Helen Hu and her associates as they hunt for lost treasures, search for missing people, and defend noble causes. less

Three people in a web of lies. Two private investigators seeking truth. One hostage plan gone wrong. Private Investigator Pilar Santiago takes us to Miami, right into a hostage crisis. Cade Sumter is dispatched to rescue her.Going undercover in a hotel…When a former senator’s estranged wife hires Pilar to spy on her husband at a hotel in Miami, Pilar just assumes it’s another routine job... moreThree people in a web of lies. Two private investigators seeking truth. One hostage plan gone wrong. Private Investigator Pilar Santiago takes us to Miami, right into a hostage crisis. Cade Sumter is dispatched to rescue her.Going undercover in a hotel…When a former senator’s estranged wife hires Pilar to spy on her husband at a hotel in Miami, Pilar just assumes it’s another routine job. At most taking two days of work, all she has to do is record the meeting that the former senator will be in and then leave. Collecting five hundred thousand dollars has never been easier.Giving up is never an option…The meeting never takes place. However, criminals have entered the hotel and taken former senator Felix Braun-Dean and his mistress hostage. Or have they? Caught in the middle, Pilar is unable to leave the building. She decides that she might as well make the most of it and starts to observe and collect data.Getting into a swamp of trouble…Disguised as a line cook, Private Investigator Cade Sumter manages to get inside the hotel. He’s there to swing down the vine, swoop up Pilar—with whom he’s fallen in love a year ago when they were teammates in an overseas project—and take her home safely to her family…Not!A tropical storm hits Miami, and the captors leave but not before they take Pilar, Cade, and a handful of other hostages to a private swamp where nobody would find them.How do Pilar and Cade get out alive?Never a Hostage is Book 2 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson’s Defender Sweethearts Christian romantic suspense collection, a sister series to Protector Sweethearts. While the heroes in Protector Sweethearts search for lost treasures and lost people, the Defender Sweethearts novels focus on protecting the helpless and hopeless. The main characters in Defender Sweethearts come from the supporting cast in Protector Sweethearts.Publisher’s Note: Never a Hostage debuted in the 10-author Danger in the Shadows box set, published on May 13, 2025. less