I’m always fascinated with kickass heroines, especially those with excellent
defense skills and the determination to use them. I myself have a Texas
Concealed Carry license and practice frequently with my weapon. I was at the
gun range one day, cleaning up my spent cartridges, when the idea of a female
sharpshooter came to me.
What if she was former law enforcement? And add former military to
that. Tough as nails but still feminine and sexy. At a point in her life when
she had an indecisive picture of her future and a badly wounded heart.
And here comes the man-in-jeopardy, sexy, smart, running for his life
and hiding away in her tiny corner of Texas. Would she protect him? Defend him?
The idea for Collision Course
was born. The gun range where Casey practices looks exactly like the one I use,
and the scenery as she heads back to her little town is what I see on the way
back to my little town. Connelly,
Texas is a carbon of the little Texas town where I live and the Half and Half a
takeoff on the place where people in my town gather to eat, drink exotic
coffees and tap into WiFi.
So, you ask, am I Casey? I sure would like to be.
He's discovered that his boss, international businessman Charles
Bennett, is actually dealing in drugs and illegal arms. Killers are on his
trail and Tate Buchanan needs a place to hide and use his hacking skills to get
the evidence he needs. He finds it in tiny Connelly, Texas, where he also finds
hotter than hot Casey McIntyre. After six years with the F.B.I. and four years
in Afghanistan marked by a disastrous love affair, Casey is trying to put both
her life and her shattered heart back together. Her instincts tell her that the
stranger in the family restaurant has trouble on his back but her common sense
tells her to stay as far away from him as possible. Of course, common sense
never paid attention to combustible chemistry and it's not long before Casey
and T.J. (as he now calls himself) are spending every minute together day and
night. Can he find the proof he needs before the killers track him down? And
when they do, can Casey use all her skills to protect him and keep him safe?
A man-in-jeopardy story for a change, where a kickass woman uses all
her skills to protect the man she's come to love.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Casey
McIntyre fired the last three bullets in her Glock 17G thirteen-round clip,
hitting dead in the middle. No center mass for her. All her shots went straight
to the head of the silhouette with one hundred percent accuracy. She nodded her
head in satisfaction.
Since
she’d left the service and come home, she started most of her days the same
way. She tried to tell herself it was to keep her skills sharp but in reality,
anger drove her. She still had so much of it stored up inside her, along with a
world of hurt.
She
trudged to the backstop, nailed up another target and took a black Magic Marker
from her jeans pocket. In big letters she wrote a P and an M on the head,
making them as bold as possible. At the shooting table again, she reloaded her
Glock and checked to verify her H&K P30 had a full clip. The two guns were
her personal weapons, much like the ones she’d been issued when she’d been
attached to the Special Ops unit in Afghanistan.
She
adjusted her ball cap, yanking at the ponytail poking out through the opening
in back. Putting on her ear protectors and safety glasses, she picked up the
Glock and sighted.
Bam!
Again
the first shot drilled a hole in the center of the head.
Die, Paul Marsden. You asshole. Rat
bastard. User.
The
next three shots, in rapid succession, stitched a straight line down the torso.
With defiant satisfaction, she emptied the rest of the clip into the genital
area, blowing a nice round hole in his package. The act gave her the first real
sense of wiping away the past and taking control of her life since she’d come
home. She had to suppress an urge to lift the gun and blow on the barrel the
way old-time gunfighters did.
Reloading
the clip, she fired again. By the time she’d finished, she’d gone through two
more and the silhouette hung in shreds and tatters. Wiping her hands on her
jeans, she tore the target down and replaced it with another. Again she marked
it with initials—A.A.S.—and drew a circle around them with a vicious stroke.
Then she picked up the Heckler & Koch, settling the familiar grip into the
palm of her hand.
This
time when she sighted, she aimed for center mass and unloaded the entire clip
without pausing between shots. Reloading with rapid speed, she fired in the
same pattern, over and over again, until she’d used all the .45mm ammo and left
a hole in the silhouette big enough to drive a small car through. By then her
arms were quivering, her body covered with sweat. Sitting on the bench at the
loading table she forced herself to slow her breathing and her racing pulse
before policing her brass and packing away her gear.
Shooting
the ghost of her former lover had been cathartic but not half as satisfying as
destroying the target marked A.S.S.—Col. Aaron Sherman Smart.
Good initials for him. They suited
bastard that he turned out to be. A
sanctimonious son of a bitch.
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