Caitlyn locked her attention on the instruments while Ryan kept his on the waves. Ingesting water into an engine or dipping a rotor into the Gulf would constitute a major screw up. Not to mention a deadly one.
“Swimmer in the water!” Joe shouted.
Caitlyn wrestled the elements for ten long minutes before Joe winched the rescue basket onboard with their first survivor. The swimmer stayed in the water trolling for his next catch.
Ryan radioed base with their status as wind slammed into them with growing force. Awareness zapped across Caitlyn’s nerve endings as if she’d touched an exposed wire, leaving a wake of goose bumps. She jerked her head around to look over her left shoulder, half expecting to see a flicker of flames.
The man they’d just rescued stood hunched in the back, staring at her with unblinking black eyes. The low cockpit lighting enhanced the feeling of evil emanating off him like sulfur from a swamp. A bloody gash over his left eye and bunched fists chilled Caitlyn more than the storm’s cold breath.
The man’s mouth opened and closed silently. Had seeing a woman at the controls muted him?
He muttered something in a language she didn’t understand then shook his head. “Sorry, I was not expecting such a beautiful woman coming to my rescue,” he shouted in Middle-Eastern accented English.
Caitlyn’s distrust went up another hundred percent. In her helmet and flight gear she was about as beautiful as a can of Spam. Wind rammed the Jayhawk, sending the man to his knees and Caitlyn back to her job. But it didn’t erase the creepy-crawly feelings his unblinking stare had generated.
“Everything okay?” Ryan asked. He’d grabbed the controls during her distraction and now eyed her with concern.
“Yeah, but keep tabs on our catch-of-the-day. That tuna we reeled in might be a shark.”
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Sharon Calvin has been a winner and finalist in numerous Romance Writers of America writing contests including the Molly, Suzannah, the Beacon, and the Golden Heart. She is currently writing a romantic suspense series about the men and women of the US Coast Guard.
Her life experiences fuel her imagination and help her breathe life into her characters. Over the years Sharon has worked in a saw mill, been an exchange repairman (until she failed pole climbing) for a local phone company, fired a Thompson submachine gun (Tommy Gun) at the FBI firing range, and won second place in an off-road hill climb in her Jeep CJ-5.
She competed in cross-country riding events for almost 10 years before swapping in her horse for a Ninja 500 sport bike. Trading Midwestern ice storms and tornadoes for hurricanes and perpetual summers, Sharon now lives on an island in Florida with her husband and a Maine Coon cat with attitude.
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No woman gets under his skin the way Piper does, but company policy forbids fraternization—and life in the navy taught Riggs to follow the rules. When the agency loses contact with Piper, Riggs insists on leading the rescue mission to the Colombian rain forest, and it’s clear that months apart have only fanned the flames between them.
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ISBN-13: 9781426899737
A Dangerous Leap
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