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TANGLED PURSUIT
DELOS #2
Lindsay McKenna
Releasing Nov 11th, 2015
Blue Turtle Publishing
Navy SEAL
Chief Wyatt Lockwood is fascinated by Marine sniper Captain Talia Culver. But
she wants nothing to do with him after learning of his reputation as a
heartbreaker. The cocky Texan refuses to take the hint and keeps placing
himself in Tal’s path. When she agrees to help him tend to needy families in an
Afghan village, she learns there’s more to this SEAL than meets the eye. But is
she strong enough to risk having her heart broken again?
Wyatt can’t
stay away from the beautiful, surly Marine. Tal is fascinating—and
frustrating—and he is determined to crack through her tough exterior and get to
know the soft woman he knows lurks beneath the surface. When he joins Tal on a
sniper mission in the Afghan mountains, their bond continues to grow. But the mission
takes a dangerous turn. Has he lost his chance with Tal forever?
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12 Things about Lindsay McKenna
1. I
lived in 22 different places in six different Western states growing up by the
time I was 18. My
father was Eastern Cherokee and seemed to move with the seasons. Every nine months,
roughly, we would pick up and move the family. I was born in San Diego, California, but then lived in
Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho and Oregon. I’ve always said that I got a Western tour of the
USA and it has served me well in my writing life. I lived in places like Phoenix, Arizona, Fort Wingate,
New Mexico, Billings, Montana, Blackfoot, Idaho. In Oregon, where we spent more time, Prarie City,
Klamath Falls, Medford and Ontario.
Redding, California, too.
Some of these rural towns show up in my books.
2. I
had my own start up venture business at 16 years old. I started picking and selling night crawlers in
Medford, Oregon, to pay for my school clothes and books. Our family was very poor. I was out on my hands and knees in our fruit orchard
from nightfall to midnight every night, picking huge night crawlers. I sold hundreds of dozens
of them to local sporting goods stores as well as to fisherman who pulled into
our home and sold them for twenty-five cents a dozen. I earned $1200 a year doing this.
3. I
always wanted to learn how to fly at 17. I took six hundred dollars of my “worm money” and bicycled up to the Medford
Airport, Oregon, and plopped it down on the counter of a flight school. I told them to teach me
how to fly. I was 17
when I soloed at twelve hours, and piloted a Cessna 150 around the Rogue River
Valley until I was 18. When
I graduated from high school, I had 39 hours of flight time. I was the only girl in
the high school to be a student pilot.
The flight experience shows up in my books all the time.
4. I
wanted to join the US Air Force at 18 because I loved flying and they had
flying clubs where I could continue to fly my plane. I took the recruiter test and scored a 95% on it. They guaranteed me air
control school to become an air traffic controller. I was thrilled pink. I brought the news home to my father who was a Navy
vet, and he urged me to go into the Navy instead. They didn’t have flight clubs. But I grudgingly went into
the Navy instead and became a meteorologist, but my flying days were over. From this three year
experience, I later, in 1983, created the military romance genre with Captive
of Fate, Silhouette Special Edition.
Write what I know!
5. I’m a gemologist. From the time I could
walk, I would pick up pretty stones and put them in my pockets. I was a rock hound kid
growing up. Later in
life, I got a Degree in Colored Stones from the GIA (world renown and
recognized Gemology Institute of America). I use my knowledge of gemstones/rocks/geology in my
books, as well. Nothing
I learn ever goes to waste and generally shows up in books.
6. I
was a woman fencer in my early 20’s. My husband, David, who was Top Ten Epee Champion for
Ohio State University in 1965, taught me how to fence epee and sabre. Those two weapons were
forbidden for women to fence because they were “too heavy.”
I said baloney and started fencing the men—and winning half my battles. I then helped start an East Coast drive among women fencers,
to allow the AFLA (American Fencing League Association) to give us permission
to fence all three weapons:
foil, epee and sabre.
Our efforts over three years’ times broke down this silly regulation
and women were then allowed to fence all three weapons. Today at the Olympics? Women fence all three weapons and I had a hand in
starting in that movement. Women
can do anything but then, if you read my books, my heroines are can-do women
who don’t let the word ‘no’ stop
them from doing what they’re good at.
7. I
was one of the first women volunteer firefighters in Ohio in 1983. My husband had joined the
West Point Volunteer Fire Department three years earlier. I wrote books at home,
and when fires occurred during the day, I was there and could help save lives
and property, so I joined. Me
and 20 coal miners. Half
the men were against me joining, saying I couldn’t do it. Well,
I did. I took fire
science courses on hazardous material down at the Reynoldsburg Fire Academy in
Columbus, Ohio. I drove
fire trucks, the water tanker, did everything the boys did and did it as well
as they did. Again,
my experiences from those three years I served my community in Lisbon, Ohio
area, shows up often in my books one way or another.
8. My
mother, a Scorpio, began teaching me astrology when I was nine years old. I went professional and
became a medical astrologer.
It’s a very rare career to have in astrology because you have to have
a medial background to do it.
I was an Emergency Medical Technician (Arizona 1996-2000). I wrote a book that is a
best seller to this day: Medical
Astrology by Eileen Nauman (my ‘real’ name).
9. I
was horse crazy growing up.
At age 12, I saved a 2-year old mustang stallion from being killed for
chicken feed. I had
earned $45.00 picking potatoes up in Blackfoot, Idaho the year before. My father took me down to
the holding pens at the factory in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and I paid the money
to the man. Pretty
Boy, as I named him, was a red chestnut with two white socks. He was brought over by a
wrangler on a horse because he was wild and untamed. We put him in our pasture and I tamed him with love
over the next month. I
had many wonderful years riding him.
10. Later,
my husband and I owned an Arabian Horse Farm in Lisbon, Ohio for ten years. We bred, foaled, raised,
tamed and showed Crabbet line (England) Arabian horses. I showed in English and Park and placed well. We had our own Arabian
stallion, Neynage, a beautiful gray stud who bred beautiful foals. When I write about horses
in my books? I know
what I’m talking about.
11. I’m
an introvert, a hermit and love telling stories. It is my passion. I’m sure I picked up the “story telling”
gene from my part-Native American father. I consider myself one of the five percent in the world
that love what they do for a living.
I’m grateful to be in this position. As long as I breath, I’ll be writing stories.
12. I’ve
always been clairvoyant, the sixth sense most of us have, but rarely use. I have what I call “wolf hearing.” I hear sounds/noises
outside human range. I
see auras around people. I
see their ancestors or those who have passed on if I “open” myself
up to look through my third eye (brow chakra) instead of my two physical eyes.
When I write paranormal (Warriors for the Light/Silhouette-Harlequin Nocturne)
a lot of what I put in those six books was more truth than fiction. Might as well use what I
know. Right? haha.
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Lindsay
McKenna lives her
life as a risk taker, and it shines through the books she loves to write:
romance, adventure and suspense. She started writing at age thirteen and
continues to hone her writing skills to this day. She sold her first romance novel
in 1981. The rest is history.
Because she went into the military,
this experience became the backbone of her writing—she is credited with writing
the first military romance novel (Captive of Fate, 1983, Silhouette Special
Edition) and has created a thriving sub-genre within the romance field! As a
New York Times Best Selling author, she has sold 23 million books and in 32
foreign languages in her career thus far. Her many experiences in the U.S. Navy
are backdrop for her understanding of the military in general, and also her
very successful Morgan’s Mercenaries, which is an ongoing series in Silhouette
to this day! Forty-five books strong!
Lindsay has gone Indie in 2015 and
has created a new family saga on par with Morgan’s Mercenaries It is known as
the DELOS SERIES. There will be paperback and eBooks created under Blue Turtle
Publishing, her company for her fans. Readers who love Morgan and his family
are bound to fall in love with the Culver family. Delos is romantic suspense,
which Lindsay is well known for. It took her five years to create and bring
DELOS to her readers. It was worth the wait, but we’ll let you decide that.
Lindsay loves to hear from her
readers and loves to know what they’d like to see her write next. Stay up with
the latest on the Delos Series here. Please visit her Web site at
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