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
Facebook
Author Page
http://www.facebook.com/lmckelveyauthor
Blog
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
Leslie will be awarding a
$20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the
tour.
Thank you for hosting!
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