Final Kill
by Leslie McKelvey
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GENRE: Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
The world doesn’t know Cat Beckett,
CIA linguist and expert sniper. She does her best to keep her skills secret,
but when a SEAL team is ambushed in the remote mountains of Afghanistan she
doesn’t hesitate to take out the enemy. After saving the SEALs, the third Spec
Ops team to be compromised in as many months, she realizes someone in her unit
is giving classified information to the enemy. She suspects that Peter
Mitchell, her supervisor and ex-lover, is behind the betrayal, and sets out on
a dangerous quest to prove his treason.
Lt. Ryan Heller, US Navy SEAL, is
accustomed to facing death. When his team is attacked by Taliban fighters he
thinks his last day is upon him, until an unknown sniper saves their lives. The
prickly, green-eyed beauty handles a rifle as easily as most women handle a
purse, but who is she? And what is she doing in the middle of a war zone? He is
intrigued, and attracted, but his instincts and her piercing, tiger-like stare
tell him to tread carefully.
Afghanistan’s Bagram Valley is not
the ideal place to find love, but these two are trained to make the best of bad
situations. Geography alone makes starting a relationship challenging enough,
but caught between extremists and an unhinged, obsessed Mitchell makes it
downright deadly.
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EXCERPT:
She
remembered the face of the first man she’d ever killed: the rest of them . . .
not so much.
Regulating
her breathing, Cat peered through the scope of the .416 rifle as snow fell
fitfully, almost as if it didn’t want to reach the ground. The snap of AK fire interspersed with the
shouts of the Taliban firing the Russian-made weapons bounced around the ravine
below her. She scowled.
Half
an hour ago she’d been sitting in a hidden mountain cave, relatively warm,
monitoring two-way radio and cell chatter with a pair of specially designed
headphones, using very expensive, top-secret, brand new, state-of-the-art
technology. Now, because of what she’d
heard she was lying on a ledge in the snow with her rifle, more than a
kilometer from her relatively warm cave.
“Do
you have them?” she whispered as the crosshairs found one turban-clad head.
“The
SEALs are less than half a klick in front of them and losing ground.” Tripp grunted. “What the hell are they doing out here?”
“Dying,”
she replied in a solemn voice. “But
we’re not going to let that happen, are we?”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Leslie McKelvey has been
writing since she learned to write, and her mother still stores boxes of
handwritten stories in the attic. When
her high school Creative Writing teacher told her she needed to be a novelist,
she decided to give it a try. Finally,
at the ripe old age of...forty-something...her debut novel, Accidental Affair,
was contracted and published by Black Velvet Seductions Publishing. Two follow-up novels, Right Place, Right Time
and Her Sister’s Keeper completed the Accidental Encounters series, and Runaway
Heart, a standalone book, was released in March of 2016. BVS also published one of Leslie’s short
stories in the erotic anthology First Submission, and her fifth novel, Final
Kill, will be released in late 2016.
Leslie is a war-veteran who
served with the U.S. Navy during the Gulf War, and she was among the first
groups of women to work the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. During her five years tour she was stationed
at NAS Miramar and spent time on the carriers USS Independence, USS Ranger, USS
Lincoln, and the USS Nimitz. The final
two years of her enlistment were spent on Guam and her squadron frequently
deployed to Japan and the Middle East.
She learned everything she
knows about firearms and tactics from her police officer husband, who is a
weapons expert, range master, and firearms instructor for one of the most
highly-respected law-enforcement agencies in the world. She has three boys who contribute daily to
her growing number of gray hairs. Her
two oldest sons are United States Marines and the youngest vows to follow
suit. She spends her off-time
(kidding...WHAT off-time?) reading, taking pictures, and sending lead down
range (that's shooting, for those who are unfamiliar). One of her favorite scents is the smell of
gunpowder in the morning....
Links
Amazon US
https://www.amazon.com/Leslie-McKelvey/e/B00A86ZSQW/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/dashboard
Smashwords
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LeslieMcKelveyBVS
Facebook Author Page http://www.facebook.com/lmckelveyauthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/LMcKelveyAuthor
Blog
www.amazonred.wordpress.com
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Leslie will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a
randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Use the link below to enter.
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