Final Kill

by Leslie McKelvey

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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About the author

Leslie McKelvey has been writing stories since she learned to write. Leslie read her first romance at 12 and was hooked. 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 made it into print via Black Velvet Seductions Publishing. The second book in the "Accidental Encounters" series, Right Place, Right Time, was published in January 2015. The third and final installment in the series, Her Sister's Keeper, released in June 2015. Her fourth novel, Runaway Heart, is a standalone novel that hit shelves in March 2016. Her next story is a military romantic suspense set in Afghanistan titled Final Kill, and it should be available in the Fall of 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 of service she was stationed at NAS Miramar (currently Marine Corps Air Station Miramar) and was an F-14 Tomcat plane captain and mechanic. While at Miramar she was sent on detachment to the aircraft 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 and firearms instructor for one of the most highly-respected law-enforcement agencies in the world (and one he wishes her NOT to disclose). He is her biggest supporter and her unpaid consultant on everything law-enforcement and weapons related. She has three boys. The oldest two are United States Marines (SEMPER FI!) and the youngest just hit his teens. 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....

Reviews

[Peggy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is packed with so much... more than what you would think. It's not just your normal romance or action, it's got it all! This book will have you sitting on edge just waiting to find out the next more. Will it be behind the gun or behind the heart... only you will know once you grab yourself a copy of this book and settle in for the night.

[Leslie McKelvey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cat and Ryan are two of my favorite characters, and with all the characters in my head that's saying something! She's a very strong woman, and he is the Alpha male who knows he's an Alpha male, without the attitude or the need to constantly prove himself. He's also the perfect man to handle a woman who can kill people from thousands of yards away. They come together so well, and I just loved everything about writing this book. Although, now that I think about it, some of the research I did probably landed me on a terror watch list somewhere, lol.

Hope y'all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

[Geneva Handleman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Military based with just enough details to interest those who like that and yet not so much as to interfere with the story for the rest of us. Mostly it's just an action adventure romance novel about an extremely strong woman who finally finds a strong man who can handle her success. The action starts from page one and the twists and turns keep you turning pages and hanging on for the ride.

As an independent reviewer for Romance Authors that Rock, this one gets the full five hearts as I laughed, cried and rode the roller coaster of emotions.