What's a superheroine to do when her super soldier ex
turns up alive after more than fifteen years?
Author: Jen Doyle
Series:
Butterfly Ops
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy with Romantic Elements
Release
Date: Sept 24, 2018
Length: 120,000 words
Blurb:
What's a
superheroine to do when her super soldier ex turns up alive after more than
fifteen years?
Lyndsey doesn't have much time to
walk down memory lane before she and Ian find themselves thrown together to
investigate the mysterious deaths of ten young men in the Canadian wilderness.
How do such seemingly normal, healthy men's hearts just...stop?
With the hint of an evil spirit in the wind--and a whole lot of
butterflies--there's no telling what Lyndsey and Ian are dealing with,
including their own extensive baggage. Though seventeen years is a lot of life
to live, there's one thing they can't deny: their attraction is as intense as
ever. But is it just a spark that will burn itself out, or is it true love
bringing them back together? When the force they're hunting turns its sights on
them, the leap of faith required far exceeds either of their powers. But
worrying about their future might be premature because one wrong move and they
might not make it out alive.
In Book One of the Butterfly
Ops trilogy, Lyndsey and Ian reconnect fifteen years after seeing each
other for what each thought was the last time. That the spark is still there is
undeniable—but is it enough to get past the secrets and lies that tore them
apart the first time around? With old tensions rearing their heads as new
challenges arise, what at first seems to be a sure path back to trust and
happiness is rockier than it seems.
Note: this is Book One in a serial trilogy.
Book Two will be released in Spring 2019; Book Three will be released in early
Summer 2019. Books should be read in order.
Excerpt:
Taking a deep
breath and deciding to face her demons head on, Lyndsey whirled on her heel—and
proceeded to walk directly into someone who, thank you very much, had been a
little too close for comfort. Coffee and bags went flying everywhere.
Damn it. This was not at all
what she needed fifteen minutes before the meeting she didn’t even want to be
at. Why hadn’t she just let the cab take her all the way there?
Trying to keep her
irritation contained, she accepted the napkins being offered from an
outstretched hand. An outstretched hand presumably connected to the body
she had knocked into, a body in such close proximity that a collision had been
unavoidable. Big, solid, muscular body, by the way, all done up in Army green,
medals and ribbons to boot. Not that that did much to improve her mood, of
course.
She purposefully didn’t look
up right away, knowing it was an accident and this person had no intention of
spilling everything all over her and the sidewalk. Therefore it would do
absolutely no good to say something like, ‘Haven’t you ever heard of personal
space?’ Not until she could say it with a smile at least.
“I’m so sorry,” she heard
the man say in a tone that seemed genuinely apologetic, as it should. “You look
like someone I...”
His voice cut off abruptly.
She slowly raised her head,
and...
No.
Um... No.
This couldn’t be real.
Lyndsey backed away, looking into the eyes of a ghost. A six-foot-and-change,
two-hundred pound, solidly-packed-in-all-the-right-places ghost. She stared at
him, his face so familiar despite the lines around his eyes and mouth. His hair
had a few flecks of gray in that distinguished way men’s hair did, but his arms
and chest and shoulders had lost none of their definition in the time that had
passed, nor had his body lost its ability to stir something deep within her.
Something that hadn’t been stirred in a very long time. And despite her various
issues where the Army was concerned, she certainly didn’t mind seeing him in
that uniform with all its medals and ribbons. Which also reminded her of all
the times seeing him out of his uniform and, well, it wasn’t exactly helping
her in the thought-forming parts of the brain.
“But you’re… You’re…” she
stammered.
He was dead. He’d died
almost ten years ago, as far as Lyndsey knew. Beyond that, she was unable to
form a coherent thought.
Well, except that Ian—Ian
Fox—seemed to be right there with her, also totally incapable of speech.
“Dad, please tell me you did
not make this mess.”
Lyndsey looked past Ian to
see the coffee shop girl coming towards him. A girl who called Ian, ‘Dad.’
A girl who was Ian’s daughter.
Author Bio:
A big believer
in happily ever afters, Jen Doyle decided it was high time she started creating
some. CALLING IT, her four-book baseball/contemporary romance/romantic comedy
series, has been winning awards since its inception, the most recent being the
2017 Best Banter Contest for Calling It and a nomination for the 2017
Harlequin Hero of the Year for Called Out. She also wrote the acclaimed
HANSONS OF ST. HELENA series of novellas in the St. Helena Vineyard Kindle
World. Butterfly Ops: Book One is the first installment of the BUTTERFLY
OPS trilogy, an epic love story and her first in the paranormal realm.
Jen has an M.S. in Library and Information Science and, in addition to her work
as a librarian, has worked as a conference and events planner as well as an
administrator in both preschool and higher education environments (although
some might say that there is very little difference between the two; Jen has no
comment regarding whether she is one of the “some”). She is a member of the
Romance Writers of America and is represented by Sarah E. Younger of the Nancy
Yost Literary Agency.
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