Ambush in the Everglades
by Petie
McCarty
GENRE: Romantic Suspense
BLURB:
Plenty
of action-adventure in this romantic-suspense tale. Photographer Kayli Heddon
is given the biggest assignment of her career—a photo essay on the Everglades
Restoration—and a special airboat safari is arranged, so Kayli can get her
pictures. What she doesn't count on is being stranded alone in the Everglades
with her handsome and unpredictable airboat guide. Kayli is forced to learn
some tough lessons. Trust means everything in the dangerous River of Grass, and
a skilled partner makes all the difference in your survival.
Skye Landers takes
the airboat safari gig as a favor to his cousin who is called out of town. Skye
doesn't expect the governor's photographer to catch his eye, but Kayli Heddon
is unlike any woman he has ever met. He knows he should keep his distance, but
common sense flies out the window whenever she gets near.
Unfortunately, Kayli
thinks honesty is the most important thing in a relationship—any
relationship—and Skye Landers is a fraud. When secrets surface from his past,
Kayli and Skye are soon on the run from more than just alligators.
Excerpt:
Leaping over palmettos and tree
roots and dodging half-buried cypress knees, they raced for their boat as the
whine in the distance grew louder. Kayli recognized the whine as a second
airboat. She couldn’t stop running if she wanted to, Skye had a death grip on
her hand.
“Tell me what’s wrong,” she shouted,
“and why are we running?”
Twenty more yards, and they reached
the airboat. The approaching craft sounded closer by the second.
He dropped her hand to grab the bow
line. “Get in the boat,” he ordered.
She stopped dead. “No.”
He whipped around with a fearsome
glare.
“Not until you tell me why we’re
running.”
This was so unlike the man she’d
come to know over the last two days at close quarters. He looked . . . well,
scared.
“Crane Tennapin is on his way here
with drug runners to make a pick up.”
She felt the blood drain from her
face. “Who is Crane Tennapin?”
“Another cousin, now let’s go.” He
pushed on the bow of the airboat. “I’ve got to get you out of here. I’ll leave
you at Sally’s.”
“I’m staying with you.”
“You can’t. I have to come back to
help Crane.”
The whine grew louder and closer.
She froze. “You’re coming back to
help a drug dealer?”
“Hell no!” he roared and softened
his voice when she flinched. “Crane’s in over his head. He got mixed up with
the Colombians before he knew about the drugs. Now they’re threatening to turn
him in if he doesn’t help them with this drop.”
He motioned her over and held out a
hand. “Come on, come on.”
“What if you don’t get back in
time?” She couldn’t believe she wasn’t scrambling into the airboat.
He had her by the shoulders in two
steps and stared hard in her eyes. “I can’t let anything happen to you.”
The emotion in his voice wrapped
around her heart like long tentacles, and she couldn’t pull free. She didn’t
want to.
Her arms flew around his neck, and
Skye crushed her to his chest, his mouth hard against hers. A flood of emotion
rifled through her unlike anything she’d ever felt in her life. She wanted to
fold her soul into his and never let him go. She had wanted this
can’t-let-you-go kiss from the moment she laid eyes on Skye. She wanted the
kiss to last forever.
Precious seconds were squandered.
The airboat whine grew louder, and his head jerked up.
“Damn.”
“There’s no time to get me out.”
No way would she leave him, not with
drug runners coming. She might never see him again.
He pulled back and gazed into her
eyes. “You have to trust me.”
She nodded. “What’re you going to
do?”
“Sink the airboat.”
My Review:
When I read the summary for Ambush in the Everglades I knew
I had to read it and let me tell you that summary does not in no way do it
justice. I don’t know what I expected from Ambush in the Everglades when I
first picked it up but I do know one thing what I got is not it. It was so much
more than what I had pictured or imaged it to be.
The description of the everglades of all the little bugs,
spiders, snakes and alligators were so vivid that I felt as if I was right
there on that boat with Skye and Kayli soaking it all up. The description and
the world building alone was enough to keep the pages flipping. I would love,
love to see Ambush in the Everglades on the big screen.
The description and the world building of the everglades is
not the only thing that kept me turning the pages. No the characters played a
big part in it with Skye and Kayli always going at it ribbing each other the
wrong way the sparks flying and they were not always the loving, attractive
kind either no most of the sparks were the two of them not getting along with
each other but I suspect that to be because of the chemistry between them and
they not knowing what was going on or understanding it.
I suspect that a lot of it had to do with them not trusting
each other for reasons of their own. Not to mention the fact that Kayli’s
ex-boyfriend came along for the ride knowing that Kayli didn’t want him there.
Brad is there because he has not accepted that Kayli doesn’t want to be with
him. Brad thinks they are there to give their relationship a second chance even
though Kayli has already make it more than clear to him.
Ambush in the Everglades is filled with mystery, suspense, betrayal,
secrets, adventure, action and danger to keep the adrenaline pumping. I would
so love to read more stories set in the everglades.
If you like books that are full of secrets, betrayal,
suspense as well as action and adventure of a lifetime then you are going to
love Ambush in the Everglades.
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Petie
spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—"The Most Magical Place on Earth"—where she
enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic
fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella
Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to write her
stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her
regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense
series, the Mystery Angel Romances.
Petie shares
her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband
and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No
Angels for Christmas.
Visit Petie's
web site online at http://www.petiemccarty.com or her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/petie.mccarty.
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3 comments:
How much ‘world building’ takes place before you start writing?
Thanks for hosting!
This looks like a fun read. Best of luck on your book tour.
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