TAKING FIRE
and ON
FIRE feature a story of US Navy SEAL, Mike Tarik, who is an American
citizen, but 1/2 Saudi and 1/2 American, through his mother. His father is a
world renowned cardiac surgeon. Dr. Bedir Tarik met his wife, Annie, over in Saudi
Arabia where she was an American school teacher. Bedir, who is Sufi, believes
firmly that love is the only way to peace and harmony in the world. He falls in
love with Annie, and they marry in Riyadh. Later, she gets pregnant with Mike
and he is born in San Diego, California.
Bedir takes his young son over to Saudi Arabia for three weeks every year. He
has a charity in Riyadh, and he and Mike take a pickup and distribute clothes,
food and money to the poor at the fringes of that city, as well as to many
others. He teaches his son generosity, giving back and being grateful for what
he has.
Mike grows up wanting to become a Navy SEAL. Bedir has already shown him his
family's lineage and tells his warrior son that he has the genes of his warrior
great-grandfather. Mike's view on it is that he wants to help the poor and
oppressed, to rid them of tyrants who kill or make their lives miserable. When
he deploys to Afghanistan with Seal Team 3, he works with NGO charities to bring
food, clothing, and shoes to the desperately poor Afghan villages near where his
team is located.
He carries on his father's belief in always helping those who have less. But on
one mission, he finds himself in need. He and his four-man SEAL team are out on
a mission. And it is a black ops US Marine Corps sniper who saves his team and
him from a deadly ambush. And she's a woman! Mike's entire life changes in the
moment he is injured and saved by this mysterious operator who cares for him
deep in the cave systems of the Hindu Kush Mountains near the Pakistan border.
Sergeant Khatera Shinwari is wary of this SEAL, must maintain her deep black ops
cover and although she's powerfully drawn to Mike, there is no way she can act
upon it. Mike, before he's picked up by a Night Stalker helicopter once he's
ready to leave her care for FOB Bravo, promises her, he will see her again.
Khat doesn't believe him, as much as she wished she could. Her life is not her
own. Her loyalty is to her Afghan people, not to a single man like Mike. But
life has a funny way of changing up, and Mike isn't about to just let this
enigmatic, beautiful woman disappear out of his life. No way.....
I had great fun creating this story and it's unlike anything my readers have
read. I'm very excited about it, about the sympathetic characters that you are
sure to cheer on! And toward that end? I’ve created a “Director’s Cut” of a much
longer ending to TAKING FIRE. Don’t worry, the book you’ve bought is complete
with an HEA ending. But if you want to know “what else” happened? ON FIRE,
digital only, 40,000 words long and $2.99, is now available for to you to
continue their twisting and dangerous destiny with one another!
About ON FIRE
The fine line between strength…and surrender
When a Navy SEAL drops into Khat Shinwari's life unexpectedly, love opens her up
for the first time. But her bond with Mike Tarik comes at the expense of her
family's expectations that she quit the military and start a family in her
village. A sergeant in the US Marine Corps and a Shadow Warrior, Khat is torn
between giving in to the love she has for this courageous man and walking away
from him forever. But deep in dangerous territory, Khat goes missing. The only
man who can save her is the one she might need to give up. With Mike's bravery,
Khat learns to trust in the future, all while her ingrained values pull her back
to old traditions. Will love or duty win out?
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