While hunting down his target in Jamaica, Kael Bradford fell hard for a beautiful, unsuspecting tourist. He thought the only thing he needed to protect her from was him. Until the line between personal and professional blurred in a cloud of deadly danger.
Rain Howard thought she’d met the perfect guy. But after two romantic weeks in Jamaica, he disappeared. Two years of trying to forget him, and she’s finally found the courage to quit her job and open a beignets and coffee cafe. Then he appears out of the blue, wanting to pick up where they left off.
Kael never wanted to leave her, but it wasn’t safe for him to stay. He had to put space between them before the bad guys figured out there was someone he loved. Besides, if she discovered all his secrets…she wouldn’t want to be with him anyway. Now, the coast is clear. And he’s returned, finally, to reclaim what’s his.
With a father who was a former member of the Vietnam-era 82nd Airborne, a cousin who was a Green Beret in the eighties and nineties and a brother who is currently in law enforcement, is it any wonder that Magnolia grew up to marry a US Marine and write romantic suspense? With a great respect for the U.S. Armed Forces and American law enforcement, Magnolia finds they make awesome characters for her stories.
Magnolia has always been an avid reader of detective and espionage stories of all types beginning as a child reading Harriet the Spy and Nancy Drew, to much later graduating to cozy mysteries by Laura Child, mysteries solved by female sleuths written by Ellen Crosby and Nadia Gordon, to hardcore thrillers by authors like Helen MacInnes, Tom Clancy, Daniel Silva, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn.
But she also loves romance! Delving into the love lives of alpha heroes while they save the world is what Magnolia loves the most! Old school romance authors like Jackie Collins, Pat Booth and E. Lynn Harris taught her much more about love and the glamorous life than she should’ve known as a high schooler stealing into the adult section of her local library to find more interesting reads.
In another life Magnolia… perhaps should have been a spy, but for now she is content to live vicariously through the characters in her book. Born and raised in North Carolina, she loves to travel and has visited most of Europe and some of East Asia, however her travel bucket list continues to grow.
Magnolia has degrees in English and International Relations. She is the mother to three school-aged boys and also writes about about the stuff she loves – good food, wine, craft beer, military history and herbalism.
She will eventually write in other genres, something more suspense and less romance but for now she is loving the romantic suspense genre. Her debut novel Tell Me No Lies publishes with Samhain on May 17, 2016.
When Magnolia is not writing, you can find her visiting vineyards and Civil War battlegrounds, watching her favorite shows: Scandal and Homeland, practicing hot yoga and blending her own herbal teas.
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Magnolia is a member of International Thriller Writers and Romance Writers of America. She is represented by Holloway Literary.
Lecia’s Review:
I was given a copy of this arc for an honest review
Kael is a operative for a secret government organization when he runs into Rain a stunning yet repressed woman. She along with her best friend are on vacation, Rain and Kael spend a wonderful week together when he ups and disappears from her life for a couple years when he returns stating he still loves Rain. She chooses to give him a second chance, while they are trying to figure their relationship out Rain deals with some personal issues as well as Kael. They have threats foreign and domestic coming at them from all angles. Now why I did enjoy this book and both characters were well developed I did find Rain’s character a little standoffish but overall she was pleasant to read. I absolutely detested her best friend in the book, she was backstabbing, vindictive and just plain a horrible person. In the end the author did try and make her redeemable but the only reason she seemed to have turned around was because she got what she wanted in the end and to me its like giving in to toddler who throws a tantrum. While the best friend is a pivotal role in this book I truly wanted to not read her because of how awful she was. Rain and Kael’s story was captivating and action packed with some BDSM mixed in ( I am definitely a fan of) lots of twists and turns with a crazy amount of interfering people.
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