Lia Cassidy is the only survivor of a brutal attack on the Home School in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, by drug lord Dante Medina. His soldiers burned down the school and shot the two teachers. Lia witnessed it all and ran for her life. Now Medina is out get her.
The Home School is run by Delos Charities, owned by General Robert Culver and his wife Dilara. It's a global operation that provides education for children. The Culvers come to Costa Rica with a group of security people to rebuild the school and protect Lia.
Cavanaugh Jordon is hired to be Lia's PSD (personal security detail). He's to shadow her everywhere she goes. She's not sure she'll like this as she is a very independent woman. Lia is also a very private person because she suffered another experience while serving in the Army in Bagram that changed the course of her whole life. Can she get used to having this former Navy SEAL by her side every moment of the day? Will she continue to live in fear of being killed or captured by this powerful drug lord?
Lindsay McKenna brings us an amazing new adventure in the Delos Series. Before you read NOWHERE TO HIDE, check out her prequel novella, LAST CHANCE. It is a short story that explains how Lia escaped the henchmen that Dante Medina sent to exterminate the school. True to her incredible style of writing, Ms. McKenna captures your heart with the opening pages and makes you hang on every word to the end. Lia and Cav are exceptionally strong characters, both fighters and survivors themselves. However, Lia doesn't view herself as very worthy because of scars from a previous tragedy. Both Lia and Cav carry ghosts from their past. NOWHERE TO HIDE is a story about rebuilding your life, about not letting past events define who we are. It's a story that deals with rejection, courage, and healing.
Ms. McKenna promises at least four other books in this series that deal with the need for protection around the globe because this is a different world that we live in today. She will introduce the entire Culver family, both natural and global, in each adventure to come. I can't wait for book two!
Lia Cassidy left the Army scarred physically and
emotionally after a vicious attack by two fellow
soldiers. She turns to helping others, working at a
Delos Home School Charity in Costa Rica that aids abused
women and children. But when the deadly drug lord, La
Arana, attacks the school, Lia finds herself on the run
for her life. The only person she can trust is the ex-
SEAL sent to protect her.
Cav Jordan is strong, honorable and gorgeousβ¦and
intrigued by Lia. He knows she has suffered pain in her
past, and he is determined to break through her barriers
and earn her trust. But as Cav slowly chips away at the
walls Lia has built, ghosts from her past threaten to
destroy their fragile relationship.
Lia Cassidy sat on the bed, fighting tears of
humiliation, knowing her body disgusted men. The same
nightmare of being attacked by two assailants with
knives, had jerked her awake once again.
At least, Lia thought, I can be grateful for being alive.
Since then, sheβd given up thinking in terms of
relationships, surrendering to the reality of a life
alone, without love, and without a partnership.
She instead shifted her focus to Delos charity, a place
that welcomed her hard work and her love of children. At
least Lia could do some good for them by giving them her
love, care and attention. And those little ones were like
bright flowers, radiant under her care here in Costa
Rica.
She smiled. The children were curious little things. The
first time Lia had stepped into the Home School
Foundation building in La Fortuna, she had tried to gird
herself for the children's curiosity about her scars. But
unlike men, the children were simply curious and wanted
to touch them. Lia had seen their sympathy in their
large, wide eyes as she crouched down, allowing them to
touch her scar, to feel it, to see sadness come to their
tiny faces that never lied about anything. The children
had long ago accepted her as she was, and adored her
because she was there for them. Her scars were never an
issue; in fact, these children had seen their own share
of misfortune, and it bonded them more closely with this
American angel who was here to teach, love, and support
them.
Finally, Lia fell into a light, restless sleep. She never
slept deeply after a nightmare, and knew sheβd wake up
early, feeling ragged, tired and stressed out. But just
the act of getting a shower, clean clothes, washing her
hair and getting ready to go to the school that sat five
hundred feet away from her small home, made her heart
sing.
Still, her heart yearned for the right man to walk into
her life. She had just about accepted that the odds of
that happening were so low, there was no point thinking
about it. After all, who would want a carved-up woman
with a jagged scar on one side of her face? No one..
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