BOOK DETAILS:
Title – Hard Target
Author – Kay Thomas
Publisher – Avon Books
Genre – Romantic Suspense
Release Date – November 12, 2013
BOOK
SUMMARY:
The first installment in the Elite Ops series, featuring sexy
ex-military men ... and the women who rescue their hearts.
Former DEA agent Leland Hollis wasn't planning on being a hero.
Recovering from an injury sustained during a drug bust gone wrong and with more
personal demons than he cares to admit, he wants nothing more than peace and a
chance to rebuild his life. But when Anna Mercado's crazy ex shows up wielding
a baseball bat, Leland can't ignore his instinct to help. And after her son is
kidnapped, Leland agrees to deliver the ransom into dangerous territory south
of the border.
Anna has no choice but to go with this stranger she's just met if
she ever wants to see her son again. But getting the boy out of a violent
cartel region involves risking everything. And for that Leland will have to
convince Anna to do the scariest thing of all … open her heart and trust him.
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AUTHOR BIO:
I didn’t grow up burning to be a writer. As a
child I wasn’t even much of a reader until fourth grade. That’s when I was
stuck at home with the flu and my big sister read THE BLACK STALLION aloud to
me. For hours I was enthralled—shipwrecked in a foreign land and riding an
untamed horse across the hot desert sand. Then tragedy struck. My sister lost
her voice. (I think she caught my flu.) But I couldn’t wait to hear what
happened to Alec Ramsey—so I picked up that book, finished reading it by
myself, and went in search of more adventures at the local library. Today I
live in Dallas with my husband, our two children, and a shockingly-spoiled
Boston terrier.
My next novel will be published with Avon Impulse in November 2013. HARD TARGET is the first installment in a three-book romantic suspense series titled ELITE OPS, featuring sexy ex-military men…and the women who rescue their hearts. For excerpts, book trailers, and more—visit my website at www.KayThomas.net
I can also be found online at Facebook. www.facebook.com/KayThomasWrites
And Twitter.
www.Twitter.com/KayThomasWrites
My next novel will be published with Avon Impulse in November 2013. HARD TARGET is the first installment in a three-book romantic suspense series titled ELITE OPS, featuring sexy ex-military men…and the women who rescue their hearts. For excerpts, book trailers, and more—visit my website at www.KayThomas.net
I can also be found online at Facebook. www.facebook.com/KayThomasWrites
And Twitter.
www.Twitter.com/KayThomasWrites
AUTHOR CONTACT LINKS:
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page: www.Facebook.com/KayThomasWrites
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address: www.Twitter.com/KayThomasWrites @KayThomasWrites
Amazon
Author page: amazon.com/author/kaythomas
This
is a scene from the first chapter of HARD
TARGET where the heroine, Anna Mercado, overhears her estranged husband,
Max, talking on the phone.
“Take Zach
from the party before the guests arrive. We won’t dump her body until the
designated time. It’s all been arranged.”
Anna stopped
in the doorway of the Presidential suite, her husband’s words abruptly
penetrating her lust-fogged brain.
“No, I’m not
worried. Haven’t you heard? Mexico is the land of vicious drug cartels and
random violence. My wife will be a sad statistic.”
Was this a dream?
She felt the
cold Italian marble beneath her bare feet and recognized Max’s voice in the
adjoining room, but she didn’t wake up. The seductive words he had whispered
moments earlier on the beach still resonated in her head.
The only thing I want you to wrap yourself around is me.
She’d come
up immediately when Julia had volunteered to get Zach and the cousins’ meals
from the hotel’s beach grill. But on the way to the room she’d been calling
herself all kinds of a fool. She and Max were on the verge of officially
separating even though they’d been living apart for several months. The
counseling wasn’t working. Having sex was a terrible idea. Even comfort sex.
Yet he’d
been so attentive, so different on this trip. So anxious to please her, while
keeping his temper completely in check. Last week she’d been considering which
attorney to use in a divorce. Now she was just grateful she was standing here
overhearing his phone conversation in the next room.
Her thoughts
raced and her blood chilled, but her feet were glued to the imported floor. She
stared across the opulent suite’s living room to the open balcony doors. The
heir to the Mercado Tequila fortune settled for nothing less than the finest,
even when planning his family’s demise.
An ocean
breeze blew through the room, ruffling her hair like a playful lover. The Gulf
of Mexico was just as blue as it had been ten minutes ago when Max kissed her
on the sand, yet everything had changed. She was listening to her husband order
their son’s kidnapping and her murder.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a scary situation. Hopefull, Leland is up to the task! Thanks for the giveaway.
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