Cover Me

May 9, 2011
Mann (Renegade) delivers plenty of thrills and charged erotic situations with this first in a new series featuring pararescue men, elite U.S. Air Force heroes ready for tense "land, sea, or mountain, military missions or civilian rescue" around the globe. Tech Sgt. Wade Rocha parachutes onto Alaska's icy Mt. Redoubt to save a woman he thinks is stranded, but gorgeous Sunny Foster's survival training is as good as his own. Sunny has no interest in being "rescued"; she lives in a secret, self-sustaining community of people with very good reasons for avoiding the authorities. When someone takes potshots at Sunny and she and Wade discover bodies in the ice, they must carefully negotiate their growing desire and friendship while searching for the killer. Fans of military romantic suspense will welcome this infodump-heavy but bracing thriller with a strong-willed heroine and sensitive, hard-bodied hero.

June 1, 2011
With her dog, Chewie, experienced mountaineer Sunny Foster is escorting two of her friends from their hidden town nestled deep in the ice-covered mountains of Alaska as a blizzard begins. Para-rescue jumper Wade Rocha courageously jumps from a helicopter into a snowstorm to save a stranded woman who turns out to be as versed in mountain survival skills as he is; namely, Sunny. They spend the night in a cave, fighting an unwilling attraction to one another. The next morning, they stumble across the frozen bodies of Sunny's two friends. After several more remains are found, and someone tries to shoot Sunny, the police realize a serial killer is murdering people on the mountain. Sunny's secrets are driving Wade crazy, and if she doesn't end her silence, both of them may very well end up dead. Adventure and suspense are the hallmarks of Mann's award-winning military romances, and this first book in the Elite Force series won't disappoint her many fans.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)