A relentless rebel supersoldier must seduce a mysterious beauty in his
quest to rescue his brother, but gets more than he bargained for when their
passion rages out of control… and releases a monstrous killer hellbent on their
destruction...
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My Next Breath:
Title: My Next Breath
Author: Shannon McKenna
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Format: eBook
ISBN: 978-0-99779-413-7
Zade Ryan. Rebel supersoldier. Nearly superhuman. On a desperate quest
to rescue his missing brother Luke by any means possible. To do it, he must
seduce the elusive Simone Brightman, inventor of the ingenious and deadly tech
used to capture Luke and hold him prisoner, location unknown. Zade will do
whatever it takes to get close to Simone. Her mysterious beauty and highly
sexual allure have him at a disadvantage, but time is running out . . .
Simone is fighting battles of her own, on her own. Until Zade—six foot
four of sinewy muscle and lethal combat skills—rescues her from street thugs
and leaves her breathless. His smoldering black eyes and overpowering
sensuality—and his seductive invitation to spend one wild, unforgettable night
with him—prove too tempting to resist. Their passionate encounter unleashes
scorching desire that neither can control—leaving them vulnerable to their
enemies who watch from the shadows and wait. And when they are lured into a
trap by a monstrous killer hellbent on their destruction, they must fight with
every weapon they have to save Luke, and each other.
Because one night together could never be enough—and they might not live
to have another . . .
Excerpt:
An excerpt from MY NEXT BREATH
Copyright © Shannon McKenna 2017
Damn, now he’d lost the
sound thread again. He reached for it—listening
harder . . . yes. Rubber boot soles on the wet pavement. He’d know that
little squeaky-squeak song anywhere. He’d memorized its exact rhythm and pitch.
Less than a block away now. He
was already getting a whiff of her. Warm, female smells. He seriously dug that
honeysuckle shampoo. Couldn’t wait to sniff it at close range.
He stepped out of the shadow
of the awning. Raised his hand to signal the men waiting down the street. One
raised his hand in response. They were ready. She was an easy target, parking
an almost new Audi on a badly lit street like this.
His heart raced as his
augmented sensory processor kicked into high gear, as if revving for combat.
Which was overkill. He didn’t need an ASP jolt for this. The Obsidian
researchers had wired him and rewired him during the Midlands experiments on
their quest to produce the ultimate, relentless war machine. The data that
speed-scrolled over his field of vision whenever he was stressed was a constant
reminder of how they’d changed him. Permanently.
But he ignored it. He’d stolen
himself back. He and all the rest of the Midlanders. He was more than what
Obsidian had tried to make of him. Fuck them all.
Tonight—for her—he needed to
be funny, smart and unthreatening, for starters. And good in bed, if he got
lucky. Past experience suggested that he would. It was bad form to get cocky
about it, but whatever. A guy could hope.
In fact, he quivered with
hope. Watching Simone for two whole months had kept him perpetually half-hard.
It wasn’t like she was doing anything sexy. On the contrary. She mostly just
sat there on the bed, cross-legged in a thick snarl of wires and cables,
surrounded by screens, dressed in leggings and a sweatshirt. Braless. Eyes
narrowed with ferocious concentration as she typed so fast and hard the
detached wireless keyboard bounced against the mattress.
He was in a groove with
surveillance monitoring. Forget sleep. Pill-induced or natural, it wasn’t
happening while he was watching that woman. And after their escape from
Obsidian’s research facility at Midlands, he’d sworn never to inflict sentinel
sleep on himself again. Constant vigilance turned the strongest into
short-circuited robots. It didn’t matter how skillful he was at alternating his
brain hemispheres, resting one while using the other and
blah-blah-di-fucking-blah.
He was good at it, yeah. And
so? He was good at a metric fuckton of unspeakable things. That didn’t mean he
would ever do them again.
But he’d do any number of
unspeakable things for a chance to know what happened to his brother. Watching
Brightman prance around in her underwear was no chore. She was so damn pretty
it just turned his head around.
She was almost upon him. His
ASP processor sent a fire-hose of data scrolling wildly up both sides of his
field of vision. His senses sharpened to a level beyond painful. He hadn’t
expected this. Bullshit timing.
Her footsteps echoed in his
ears, boom-scrape-squeak. Her soft breathing, the quick and steady drum
of her heart. He smelled the warm mix of her hand lotion, her wool coat, the
leather of her boots, the swish of her long skirt, the brush of the tights
between her thighs. He smelled the coffee she’d had not long ago and a hint of
the vanilla flavored creamer she’d lightened it with. Whiffs of the perfume she
used to wear back in her corporate days wafted out of her purse like little
ghosts.
He also smelled the festering
mouth-breathers who waited across the street.
His heart thudded loudly. In a
few seconds he’d see Simone in the flesh. The mysterious ex-fianceé of Noah
Gallagher, Zade’s friend and fellow Midlander rebel.
A woman who might or might not
hold the key to the last possible clue that could lead him to his brother.
Or to his brother’s bones.
That thought stabbed through
him like a thin blade of ice just as Simone Brightman rounded the corner and
hit his line of vision.
This was the second book in the Obsidian Files series by Shannon McKenna and oh my goodness was it amazing!
My Next Breath is the story of Zade Ryan and Simone Brightman.
Zade, who is one of Obsidian’s super soldiers, is on a mission to find what happened to his brother Luke after he was kidnapped by Mark Olund. He knows that Simone might know what was used to stun him and possibly where he was being kept. He just has to find a way to make her trust him so he can get the information. What he doesn’t expect is to find himself enjoying the time he spends with Simone and even coming to care for her. The only problem is Simone isn’t what she appears to be.
Obsidian have sunk their claws into Simone in a way that Zade didn’t expect and he has to tread very carefully because Simone has no idea. Simone is supposed to a good girl but finds herself rebelling against everything she’s used to after her second engagement fell to pieces. Nothing is going to plan in her life so why should she continue as if it’s normal?
This book kept me on the edge of my seat, much like the first book in the series. I loved the characters and how Simone finds her true self throughout the story. The paranormal aspect of this book has me fascinating with all the technology and biomedical gear that is being used. The super soldiers and their abilities keep you so intrigued as to find out what else they can do with their mods and implants.
I can’t wait to read the next book and find out what happens with Luke!
About
Shannon McKenna
Shannon McKenna is the NYT bestselling author of sixteen action packed,
turbocharged romantic thrillers, among which are the stories of the wildly
popular McCloud series and the brand new paranormal series, The Obsidian Files.
She loves tough and heroic alpha males, heroines with the brains and guts to
match them, villains who challenge them to their utmost, adventure, scorching
sensuality, and most of all, the redemptive power of true love. Since she was
small she has loved abandoning herself to the magic of a good book, and her
fond childhood fantasy was that writing would be just like that, but with the
added benefit of being able to take credit for the story at the end. Alas, the
alchemy of writing turned out to be messier than she'd ever dreamed. But what
the hell, she loves it anyway, and hopes that readers enjoy the results of her
alchemical experiments. She loves to hear from her readers.
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