Shadow Team Books

From New York Times bestselling author, US Navy Veteran, and genre pioneer Lindsay McKenna comes the first in a new pulse-pounding series of military romantic suspense centered around a group of Black Ops personnel known as Shadow Team. McKenna’s signature blend of thoughtful characterization and nail-biting, action-packed plots are on full display with this tale of an ex-US Navy SEAL as he is hired to protect his former flame, an ex-Black Hawk Army Medevac helicopter pilot, during a dangerous mission to Cusco, Peru. Caught up in a web of international drug trade, Cal and Sky must depend on each other if they mean to survive.

SEAL Cal Sinclair met Lieutenant Sky Lambert, an Army Black Hawk helicopter officer, at a forward operating base in the last days of the USA being in Afghanistan. Cal has never given his heart to any woman, but there is something so deep and moving about her that it breaks every rule he ever set for himself when it came to the opposite sex. When Sky is wounded, and Cal saves her life, she is sent on a medical plane to Germany for surgery….and he never sees her again. It's as if Sky has disappeared not only from his life but there is no trace of her anywhere in the world. Undaunted, he leaves the Navy and goes on a mission to find her…or else. Sky Lambert is a woman who carries many secrets and none of them are good. At the forward operating base, she meets and falls in love with Cal Sinclair. Fighting her desire to see him again, she knows she cannot drag anyone she loves into her nightmare existence. It's better to disappear and let Cal have a good life without her in it. Hiding in Peru, South America, Sky thinks no one will find her. Worse, another man, a Russian drug lord, is on her trail and wants her for his own. When Cal finds Sky, a war erupts when the Russian comes after them. Only one man will survive…

Ex-SEAL Cal Sinclaire is going to marry Sky Lambert, and everything seems to be a dream come true for them until a shocking event occurs. Sky disappears on the day before her wedding. Anguished, Cal calls on his old SEAL team friends, together with a Master Chief at the SEAL units, to try to find Sky. No one has any idea who did it or why. They have no evidence to go on to locate her. She could be anywhere in the world, and his SEAL team dives into finding microscopic clues to her possible whereabouts. Come hell or high water, they will find her...or else. Sky's whole world implodes as she slowly regains consciousness and finds herself bound, gagged and blindfolded after being heavily drugged. She has no idea who has done this to her, where she is or where they are taking her. Her heart cries out for Cal, for all they've gone through over the years, and for finally being able to admit their binding love to one another. WHO has done this to her? All the years in Witness Protection, hiding at the ends of the Earth from a crazed Russian man who wanted her for his own, whether she wanted to be his or not. She was rid of him, killed earlier in the Peruvian jungle. Her dreams are destroyed, and Sky sees no way out--not realizing she is collateral damage.

Ukrainian combat medic, Alex Kazak joined Shield Security. One operator, ex-Marine Corps sniper, Lauren Parker, will have nothing to do with him. Thrown together on a mission to Peru, Alex’s old stomping grounds when he ran with a Russian team fighting Latin drug lords for turf and territory, Lauren tries to ignore his gentle and thoughtful charm. Lauren’s tragic childhood comes back to haunt her as never before. Alex has fallen in love with the dynamic and courageous Lauren, and cannot understand why she is afraid of him when he’s never done anything but treat her with respect and admiration. Little by little, Alex pieces together Lauren’s reactions toward him and it staggers him. He begins to earn Lauren’s trust. But is it too late? When Lauren is kidnapped by his old Russian team, there is only one of two outcomes: Lauren’s life hangs in the balance. Can he and a Special Forces team find her in time? His heart is shredded because he loves her and will do anything, including giving his life, to save hers.

They were strangers. They had a mission to perform. And it all seemed small in comparison to Ukrainian combat medic Nik Morozov, who went undercover and turned to illegal drug smuggling to save his brother's life. The US government insisted he had an undercover woman partner to help capture a drug team leader. The last thing he needed was to fall hard and fast for the woman who would pretend to be his romantic interest. Daria Kozlof was abandoned by her mother in St. Petersburg, Russia. A kind Ukrainian couple adopted her and took her to Kiev, where she found family. She had talents and real skills that the US military wanted badly, and she became a citizen of that country and became a world-class Marine Corps sniper fighting in the Middle East. Thrown together in the Peruvian jungle, each with their brutal baggage from their pasts hanging over them, Nik and Daria had nowhere to turn but to one another. Neither of them expected the fierce passion that exploded between them. It was the wrong time and the wrong place. Russian drug smugglers took no prisoners when someone crossed them. Danger spiraled into pushing Nik and Daria closer to one another. And closer to death.

"They decided a man couldn't handle this assignment, Sergeant. So, they sent a woman instead." Sierra Chastain works for Shield Security, a global security company run by an ex-US Navy SEAL. Because she speaks Spanish, she is being sent undercover to Peru to link up with Special Forces Army Sergeant Mace Kilmer's hunter-killer team to hunt down a Russian drug ringleader who takes no prisoners. Three out of the four members have no quarrel with Sierra, except Kilmer, who runs the team. His snarly attitude doesn't get far with her. She's not afraid to stand up to a male who has misplaced his authority. He is caught off guard by her rock-solid confidence...never mind, Mace is drawn to her, man-to-woman. That is the thorn in his side, but he hides it, not sure what to do about it. How to treat her like any other military person and ignore her sex? He's been out in this green hell far too long. Mace doesn't want to like Sierra because she is a woman, even though she's a vaunted Marine Corps-trained sniper. She's a team member and gets along well with his other two sergeants, who respect and adore her. There's no "handling" Chastain. Mace knows he has to somehow make amends and peace with her because she has an important job to do, and they can't do it without her. Somehow, over time, she gets inside his gruff, snarly nature; the constant danger is always nearby, knowing they will only survive if they are a cohesive team. Sierra quells his distrust and gains it instead. And worse, they both know they are powerfully drawn to one another and can't do one damn thing about it. Not in this high-octane lethal environment where none of them can take for granted they'll see the next sunrise.