Wind River Undercover – Ana Navarro
From Wind River Undercover by Lindsay McKenna, Book 9, Wind River Valley Series
Ana Navarro is a Marine sniper in the Guatemala military of her country. Her father, General Marcos Navarro, was murdered by a drug lord sniper when she was nineteen years old. It changed the course and trajectory of her life forever. She joined the Marines, took training to be a world-class sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps, and came back to wreak havoc on the drug trade in her country. At 28, the US DEA agency asked her government for a 3-year contract to come and work the US border with Mexico, and she was sent north.
Little did she know that her next mission in the USA would involve an undercover assignment with Gabe Whitcomb, a DEA agent. And they would be sent to Wind River Valley to take down a Guatemalan drug lord who was encroaching on the county and turning it into a den of drug activity. Going undercover as a rancher who bought a broken down ranch next to one of the drug smugglers, they play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the Elson family who is well known for drug smuggling.
There is a heated connection boiling between Gabe and Ana. They both try to ignore it, their focus on the Elson Clan and discovering areas where the drugs are dropped and picked up for distribution. Resistance is futile. And now, they find themselves in a situation that is deadly and could kill them both. Can they survive this swift moving development?
Dear Readers,
While in the US Navy I had a chance to “rub elbows” with our security agencies such as the CIA, DEA, ATF, FBI and others. I found the men and women of these patriotic agencies to be very different from most people in other careers. Having possessed a Secret Clearance, I can’t speak of what I saw or know, but I can create a dramatic story with high stakes, life and death, with the elements these brave agents possessed. That is the foundation of Wind River Undercover. I typically like to write about what I know and experienced. This romantic suspense set in the Wind River Valley, is a tightrope of possibilities, most of them dangerous and some, life threatening.
Ana Navarro is not someone to mess with. She’s typical sniper in that she has a laser focus on what she’s doing. She’s committed to eradicating the world of bad guys who want to keep selling drugs to addicts. She comes from a proud Guatemalan military family, encouraged to do whatever she wanted with her life. Ana had a plan, but at 19, her father was murdered by drug soldiers, and her life took an abrupt turn. From then on, she had a million dollar bounty on her head for her lethal ability to take out top-tier drug lords and rid her country of them.
When Gabe Whitcomb is assigned with her to a new mission in Wind River Valley to follow and find drug drops, he’s not looking for a woman to complete him. Ana is all business but they both feel that hot, heated link invisibly connecting them to one another. And he can’t ignore it, as much as he tries. What is he going to do about it? What does she want to do about it?
Join me on a high wire act of danger, threat and romance with Wind River Undercover!
Warmly, Lindsay McKenna