Cara Carnes

Series

The Arsenal
Breathe
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Jagged Edge
Price: Free!
Sight Lines
Price: $3.99 USD.
Blood Vows
Price: $3.99 USD.
Zero Trace
Price: $3.99 USD.
Battle Scars
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Books

Jagged Edge
Series: The Arsenal, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 91,930. Language: English. Originally Published: October 17, 2017 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure
Mary "The Edge" Reynolds is the most sought-after back office operative around-the creative genius pulling the ultimate bad-asses out of impossible situations. She's never failed on a mission, and she's not about to fail on the most important mission ever-keeping her newly designed security system safe. Relying on others isn't in her nature, but the newly formed Arsenal is her only hope for...
Salvation
Series: The Rending, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 90,940. Language: English. Originally Published: November 24, 2015 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Fantasy, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas, Fiction » Romance » Sci-fi, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
A blood debt shrouded in secrecy… From birth, Camryn has been groomed for sacrifice. She’ll do anything to fulfill her last mission—protecting the Paraspecies king. Recent betrayals have left everyone on edge, especially the king’s second in command. He has no intention of standing down. She must either earn the trust of the mate she can never have or destroy him. He won’t fail his king again…...
Battle Scars
Series: The Arsenal, Book 5. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 91,090. Language: English. Originally Published: August 6, 2019 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Military
Scars don't always heal… Jesse Mason chose duty over love and endured the hell of captivity comforted only with thoughts of the woman he left behind. Though the physical damage has healed, the emotional battle continues now that he's home. He fakes happy and whole until Ellie is thrust back into his life. She's everything he ever wanted but can never have. Getting wrapped up in her problems is...
Zero Trace
Series: The Arsenal, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 93,300. Language: English. Originally Published: November 13, 2018 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Military
Don't get noticed. Zoey "Zero D" Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA's data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she's "one of them." She's not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore. She's part of The...
Temporarily Yours
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 27,610. Language: English. Originally Published: May 8, 2018 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Bess Sutton is used to going unnoticed. She spends her days temping and doing whatever's necessary to put her life back together. The last thing she needs is attention—especially from the sexy billionaire bad boy Landon Gaffrey. Landon Gaffrey's used to getting what he wants, however he wants it. Too bad the sexy little imp of a temporary employee working in his office has other ideas. He didn...
Impact Zone
Series: The Arsenal, Book 6. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 95,820. Language: English. Originally Published: February 25, 2020 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Military
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Rhea Strathmore creates death. Locked within her laboratory at The Arsenal, she concocts whatever's necessary to protect those around her. She won't ever negate her pre-Arsenal deficit, but she'll try. Her past work now threatens everyone she cares for and exposes secrets she's kept buried. The mysterious man tasked with keeping her alive is more...
Redemption
Series: The Rending, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 44,850. Language: English. Originally Published: June 30, 2015 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas, Fiction » Romance » Sci-fi, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
There’s no soft in war… Mira survived years in a secret prison, one she must return to and somehow rescue the people she left behind. The so-called peace treaty between the Paraspecies and humanity is fracturing, but she must seek help from the Alpha wolf she left behind. But how can she prove an imprisonment she barely believes herself? He’ll risk anything for another chance… The Impure female...
Hostile Ground
Series: The Arsenal, Book 7. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 117,940. Language: English. Originally Published: July 29, 2020 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Military
Do whatever it takes to survive… Addy Rugers survived a treacherous, brutal upbringing after her parents died. Trained for death and seduction and forced to work for her brother's covert ops organization, she learned to rely only on herself and chameleon her way through every mission. With him dead and his organization dismantled, she now has a new life at The Arsenal—one where she can shed her...
Lethal Echo
Series: The Arsenal, Book 8. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 101,760. Language: English. Originally Published: July 27, 2021 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Military
She's spent her life on the periphery of humanity. Bree Geissenger lives by one mantra: You're only as good as your latest creation. Tucked away in laboratories, always wanted for her brains, she's been safe. Unseen. But the new life she has at The Arsenal has upended her carefully constructed world. Unable to cope with the threats against her friends, she fractured. Determined not to be the...
Accidentally Yours
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 17,810. Language: English. Originally Published: April 29, 2018 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » New adult
Megan Gallagher has been in love with her best friend's big brother as long as she can remember. Too bad he sees her as nothing more than his little sister's fat best friend—or so she thinks. A drunken night in Las Vegas with a few of their choicest friends—Captain Morgan, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and Jose Cuervo—turns into an epic disaster when they wake up married. Megan has no idea how it...
Prince's Fire
Series: Mysk Warriors, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 43,380. Language: English. Originally Published: May 27, 2017 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Sci-fi, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
Val has lived a lifetime thinking his destined mate died a horrible death at the hands of their enemies as a child. Now that he realizes she is alive, he’ll do anything to get her safe and where she belongs—with him. But the feisty fire spirit has lived her entire life answering to no one, forced to protect herself and her adopted sister with no help. The battle for her heart may prove harder...
Blood Vows
Series: The Arsenal, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 106,860. Language: English. Originally Published: July 31, 2018 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Military
He's sworn to find his son. Dallas Mason did whatever was necessary to survive his stint in black ops. While in the Collective, there was no line he wouldn't cross, and no mission he wouldn't take. He bedded the enemy to secure his freedom and return to his brothers and build a new life, where the lines between right and wrong are sometimes blurred, but never erased. Now he and everyone at The...
Breathe
Series: The Arsenal. Price: Free! Words: 17,570. Language: English. Originally Published: May 30, 2021 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » Romance » Military
**Authors Note--This is a free novella to bridge the span of time between Hostile Ground and Lethal Echo. This would technically make it book 7.5 within the series, but decimals aren't allowed in most stores. There are free short stories or novellas between all The Arsenal series books, which are also available on my website. Due to potential spoiler issues, I am keeping the blurb very...
Warrior's Paradise
Series: Mysk Warriors, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 48,810. Language: English. Originally Published: May 27, 2017 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Sci-fi, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
Be careful what you wish for… Shana Danson grew up fantasizing about a mystical place where one’s wildest fantasies could come true. It started off as a dream world of rich foods and delectables—like a warm shelter and loving parents—for her and her adopted sister as children, but morphed into a hedonistic place where anything could happen when they became adults. Disenchanted with her life...
Sight Lines
Series: The Arsenal, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 91,170. Language: English. Originally Published: March 13, 2018 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
They took her best friend. Now she's taking them down. Viviana "Quillery" Chambers has one mission: find the people behind Hive's betrayal and take them down. She and her best friend are the most sought after back office operatives around. She'll stop at nothing to keep her new team and family at The Arsenal safe. But someone's put a six million dollar hit on her and ghosts from the past have...
Redemption's Forgiveness
Series: The Rending, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 40,000. Language: English. Originally Published: December 1, 2015 by Heartscape Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Fantasy, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas, Fiction » Romance » Sci-fi, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
Felicity was a child when The Rending began and she was pulled from the pack she loved by a father who reviled her existence. Surviving as an Outsider was tough but the harshest battle begins when she stumbles across a plot to overthrow her old pack’s trading post, Redemption. Marek will do anything to protect his pack and their land, including executing any Outsiders who dare enter pack lands...