Final Kill
by Leslie
McKelvey
GENRE: Romantic
Suspense
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.
Excerpt:
Cat lay down on her bed and slowly
sipped the wine. As the candlelight and
music washed over her, she felt the last of the adrenaline wear off. She sighed softly and pictured him: the eyes
so blue they were almost violet, the sharp line of his jaw, the lips that made
her melt, the tall, athletic body, the smile that was like sunlight to her
soul. Desire swirled in her belly, and
now it wasn’t adrenaline making her edgy.
She wanted him so much she ached.
Frustrated, she sat up and put the
wine aside. She looked around the room
then turned off the candle closest to her.
Shaking her head she rose, and was about to turn off the second candle
when there was a soft rap on her door.
Her head snapped around.
“Just a minute,” she said after a
moment of surprised silence. Cat grabbed
her robe, slipped it on, and tied the sash.
Her bare feet whispered over the floor as she approached the panel and
said, “Who is it?”
“It’s me, Cate. Can we talk?”
She was so stunned that for a moment
she couldn’t move.
“Cate?”
She blinked, shook herself, and
opened the door. She looked at Ryan with
wide eyes and backed up as he walked up the steps and into her quarters. He closed and locked the door behind him then
turned to her. Looping an arm around her
waist he pulled her against him.
“I changed my mind,” he whispered.
AUTHOR BIO:
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....
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