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NOWHERE TO HIDE

Nowhere to Hide, October 2015
Delos #1
by Lindsay McKenna

Self Published
Featuring: Lia Cassidy; Cav Jordan
ISBN: 1929977026
EAN: 9781929977024
Kindle: B011LW14N2
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"We cannot be defined by the scars on our lives."

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NOWHERE TO HIDE
Lindsay McKenna

Reviewed by Viki Ferrell
Posted September 30, 2015

Romance Suspense

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!

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SUMMARY

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 gorgeous…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.

EXCERPT

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, she’d 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 she’d 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..

BOOK SERIES

Delos

Last Chance
LAST CHANCE
#0.5 β€’ July 2015
Nowhere to Hide
NOWHERE TO HIDE
#1.0 β€’ October 2015
Secret Dream
SECRET DREAM
#1.5 β€’ August 2016
Tangled Pursuit
TANGLED PURSUIT
#2.0 β€’ November 2015
Forged in Fire
FORGED IN FIRE
#3.0 β€’ December 2015
Never Enough
NEVER ENOUGH
#3.5 β€’ March 2017
Broken Dreams
BROKEN DREAMS
#4.0 β€’ January 2016
Hold On
HOLD ON
#5.0 β€’ August 2016
Snowflake's Gift
SNOWFLAKE'S GIFT
#6.0 β€’ February 2017
Trapped
TRAPPED
#7.0 β€’ July 2017

 

 

 

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