Outstanding author Lindsay
McKenna offers a US reader a chance to win a
glamorous velvet burnout square scarf, patterned with a
lace-effect design, and finished with dramatic fringing.
Drape this style over your shoulders as an
evening cover-up. The winner will also receive
autographed copies of BREAKING
POINT and NEVER SURRENDER, sequels from Lindsay’s
Shadow Warrior series.
Despite her sweet nature, Navy medic Bay Thorn's will is
unbreakable. It has earned her not only the respect of
her team, but also the love of Navy SEAL Gabe Griffin.
And as soon as she wraps up the final six months of
Operation Shadow Warriors in Afghanistan, she'll have her
happily ever after….
Until her deployment goes
horribly wrong.
Bay's medical expertise is needed
by the Taliban, and she is taken hostage. Her captor is
ruthless and cruel, and Bay isn't exempt from his evil
intents. All that's left now is her resolve and the too-
distant memory of Gabe—her last and only hope for rescue.
And to pull Bay from hell, this SEAL will have to break
every rule in the book. But will Gabe find the woman he
loves…or a woman broken beyond recognition?
Author Note I rarely write sequels, but Bay Thorn
and Gabe Griffin’s story was so powerful, deep and loving
that I couldn’t just write BREAKING POINT. After
finishing the first book, the characters badgered me for
weeks with the ‘rest’ of their story. I had fallen in
love with sweet, kind Bay Thorn, a Navy corpsman and
combat medic who willingly put her life on the line for
anyone of her SEAL team if they were wounded. She would
expose herself to enemy fire to reach that man to save
his life.
I loved Bay Thorn because she was a
country woman, born in the hills of West Virginia. Her
mother, Poppy, was a Hill Doctor and had cared for the
people who lived on her mountain. Bay picked up on the
healing and when her father, Floyd, died of Black Lung,
leaving her family without a money source, she joined the
Navy. She was the oldest of two daughters and picked up
the reins of responsibility to send her pay check home to
her mother and sister. Bay is family centered and
oriented. She dearly loves her independent mother who
cares for others. She misses her father Floyd, terribly.
He was a Marine Corps sniper and taught her to shoot and
hunt when she was very young. Bay’s childhood, while
poor, was rich with love of her parents and sister. She
grew up in the wilds of West Virginia, knew how to track,
hunt and live off the land. For her, it was an idyllic
existence that was always a source of strength for her.
Gabe Griffin, once returning to Coronado and
Seal Team Three, has been able to let Bay know how much
he’s fallen in love with her. It is a time when he can
finally acknowledge to her in the privacy of his condo,
that he loves her and wants to make a life with her at
his side. Bay is relieved to be back from Afghanistan,
having to stay two months longer than Gabe’s team. She is
once more, ordered to be with Special Forces and is happy
to be with this black ops group as she fulfills her six
months of deployment.
Being a woman in combat, a
part of the Shadow Warriors operation, Bay must return
one more time after six months on US soil, back to
Afghanistan. This time, it will mean leaving Gabe behind
as she goes into the dangerous country. She is deeply in
love with Gabe, planning her marriage to him. There is so
much to look forward to once she gets past her last six
month deployment. Her time with the top secret operation
will be over and so will her time in the Navy. It is a
time of changes for Bay, and she’s eager to return home,
marry Gabe and start a new life with him.
Only,
Bay’s six months in Afghanistan turns into a nightmare
for her. The Taliban needs a medic or a doctor. They find
her in a village protected by the Special Forces team and
kidnap her. Bay’s entire world falls apart as she becomes
a hated symbol to the Taliban of all things American, the
“great satan.” She knows as she tends to the wounded
Taliban in a hospital cave, that the SEALs will try to
find her. But the Hill Chief, Khogani, is wily and a
monster who has other plans for Bay. Only when an injured
child is ignored and left to die, does Bay turn and
challenge the Hill chieftain and she’s willing to put her
own life on the line in order to save the child. And she
pays a horrific price for challenging the violent Taliban
leader.
Gabe has the backing of his SEAL team and
a huge search to find Bay and rescue her is mounted. The
fierce love he holds for her is going to be tested in
ways he didn’t know possible. And only love will see them
through this gauntlet. There is darkness that comes into
everyone’s life sooner or later. How we get through it,
how we heal from it, depends so much on the people around
us. Gabe’s unerring love for Bay will become a beacon
that she will fight to return to. For her, there is no
other option. She will never surrender to what was done
to her. Both will come to understand the undying love
they hold for one another will become a light in their
darkness, leading them toward hope and being in one
another’s arms once more.
This is a story of love
triumphing over terrible odds. Only when people are given
challenges do they find out what they are really made of.
And that the greatest human emotion, love, is also the
greatest of healers. This is a story about the heart and
as you walk with Bay and Gabe, I think you will agree. It
is a story that has been one of the most powerful I have
written. The sheer courage and bravery of Gabe and Bay
will always remain with me, as I hope it will with you,
also.
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