BROKEN DREAMS
DELOS #4
Lindsay McKenna
Releasing Jan 2nd, 2016
Blue Turtle Publishing
Captain Alexa Culver takes one look
at shy, quiet Marine sniper Gage Hunter and feels an instant connection. But
Gage has demons in his past that keep him from giving it to their mutual
attraction. Alexa believes Gage is worth fighting for, and begins to slowly
chip away at his defenses.
Gage Hunter has lost everyone he has
ever loved. Lonely and broken, the last thing he expects is to meet someone
like Alexa Culver. The redheaded beauty is confident and outgoing and makes Gage
feel emotions he thought long buried. But before he risks revealing his heart
to her she is kidnapped by the Taliban while on a humanitarian mission. Can
Gage reach her before he loses his chance for love forever?
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Gage
smoothed his fingers down her cheek. When Alexa laid
her cheek in his open palm, he felt a lump forming in his throat. She was
fragile once again, so breakable. Gently, he kissed her lips, wanting
desperately to infuse her with his energy, his love.
“We’ll take this an hour at a time, Alexa.”
She
lifted her chin, staring at him. “What will happen to
you, Gage? I-I know you can’t
leave Bagram, and I have a feeling I’ll
be leaving very soon. I told the flight surgeon I couldn’t
fly right now.” She
held up her hands, and he saw a slight tremor in them. She said, in a choked
voice, “I’m not fit to fly . . .”
Hearing
the pain in her voice, knowing what it cost her to admit it, Gage placed his
hands on her firm thighs. “No one could,
Alexa. No one,” he
said, and captured her hands, bringing them to his chest, pressing her palms
against his shirt. “Did the flight surgeon give you any
help? Things that could assist you through this?”
“Yeah,
some things,” she
said absently.
“Like?” he
coaxed. Alexa was struggling not to cry again. He knew she hated crying,
thinking it was a sign of weakness, but Gage knew differently. He’d cried buckets of tears after the
murder of Jen and his father. He’d
never wept so much in his life, and it would hit him out of the blue in the
most unexpected times and places. He was seeing the same pattern in Alexa.
Grief,
he realized, had its own way with each person, and Alexa had lost so much of
herself in that cave that she had every right to grieve.
Alexa
shakily wiped away the tears falling down her cheeks. “S-she asked me what
I wanted to do. What I felt in my heart and gut that would help me heal.” Her
lips twisted, glistening with tears.
“And
what did you tell her?” It
hurt Gage so damned much to see those tears continue to well up in her large,
beautiful hazel eyes. Gage remembered back to when Alexa would laugh, her eyes
shining the color of spring willow leaves and the gold of sunlight. He didn’t see much of either of those colors
now.
Sniffing,
she whispered, “My family owns a beautiful, rustic
cabin in the Smoky Mountains. I love the mountains, Gage. I love their quiet,
their solitude. My family would go there during July and August of every year,
on weekends, because it was so miserably hot and humid in Washington, D.C.”
“Sounds
nice,” he
murmured. “Tell
me about this special place.” He
could hear a slender thread of hope in her hoarse voice as she spoke about it.
Gage knew if she could go home, go to that cabin, that it would support her
healing. Alexa needed peace and quiet. She couldn’t
handle the daily challenges of life yet.
She
reached for a tissue, blowing her nose and wiping it. Holding the crushed
tissue between her hands, she said, “It sits back off a
four-hundred-foot cliff, up near the top of a mountain. I guess I love it
because it’s so out of the way, so quiet. When I
was there, I always felt like I was being pumped full of energy, I felt so
alive when I was in that place. That’s
why it’s so special to me.”
“Sounds
like a healing place for you,” he
said.
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Lindsay
McKenna lives her
life as a risk taker, and it shines through the books she loves to write:
romance, adventure and suspense. She started writing at age thirteen and
continues to hone her writing skills to this day. She sold her first romance novel
in 1981. The rest is history.
Because she went into the military,
this experience became the backbone of her writing—she is credited with writing
the first military romance novel (Captive of Fate, 1983, Silhouette Special
Edition) and has created a thriving sub-genre within the romance field! As a
New York Times Best Selling author, she has sold 23 million books and in 32
foreign languages in her career thus far. Her many experiences in the U.S. Navy
are backdrop for her understanding of the military in general, and also her
very successful Morgan’s Mercenaries, which is an ongoing series in Silhouette
to this day! Forty-five books strong!
Lindsay has gone Indie in 2015 and
has created a new family saga on par with Morgan’s Mercenaries It is known as
the DELOS SERIES. There will be paperback and eBooks created under Blue Turtle
Publishing, her company for her fans. Readers who love Morgan and his family
are bound to fall in love with the Culver family. Delos is romantic suspense,
which Lindsay is well known for. It took her five years to create and bring
DELOS to her readers. It was worth the wait, but we’ll let you decide that.
Lindsay loves to hear from her
readers and loves to know what they’d like to see her write next. Stay up with
the latest on the Delos Series here. Please visit her Web site at
www.lindsaymckenna.com. And be sure to sign up for her free quarterly
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