The Killing Game

By: Toni Anderson

Congratulations to "Donna", the winner of Toni's giveaway. Thank you to all who participated!

My latest release, THE KILLING GAME, is one of those books that just wouldn't leave me alone. It’s full of action and adventure, from embassy bombings to poaching, Cold War murder to deadly avalanches. But at the heart of the story is a good old fashioned romance, where love--hopefully--conquers all.

My heroine, Dr. Axelle Dehn, is a wildlife biologist on a mission to save snow leopards. She's the sort of woman who lets nothing stand in her way. Not politics, not geography, not impossible odds. Her research area is a small panhandle off the north east corner of Afghanistan--the Wakhan Valley. Not only is it inaccessible due to war and conflict, it is encased in snow and ice for seven months of the year.

The Wakhan Corridor formed part of the Ancient Silk Road but was cut off and isolated when Mao Tse Tung shut down the Chinese border. The Wakhan as we know it today was created as a buffer zone to reduce the risk of war between the two great imperial powers of Russia and Great Britain during the 1800s--part of the Great Game. Which made the Wakhan the perfect setting for a spy story with secrets reaching back into the paranoid years of the Cold War era.

When someone starts killing Axelle’s snow leopards she rushes back to the Wakhan to stop them, not realizing the world's most notorious terrorist is operating there.

Our hero, British SAS trooper Ty Dempsey, is someone equally tough and determined. As the son of an IRA terrorist, Dempsey renounced his family’s values of hatred and intolerance when his sister was caught in a deadly bomb set by his father. Now Dempsey dedicates his life to saving people because he couldn't save his sister. But the vow he made to Queen and country won't keep Axelle safe and he's forced to choose between the woman he loves and the country he’s dedicated his life to.

I love seeing how history shapes the future! If you want to find out more you can check out the book :)

THE KILLING GAME

A snow leopard biologist becomes the prey when cold war secrets threaten to expose a modern-day spy ring, and an elite British soldier is forced to choose between his country and his heart.​​

​​​Wildlife biologist Axelle Dehn isn’t about to let anyone harm her endangered snow leopards—not the poacher intent on killing them, nor the soldier who wants to use them as bait. But Axelle is unknowingly entangled in a conflict that stretches back three decades, a conflict that could spark a war between two of the world’s great nations.

​British SAS soldier, Ty Dempsey, is on a mission to hunt down an infamous Russian terrorist in a remote region of Afghanistan. Dempsey hasn’t failed a mission yet, but when Axelle is kidnapped by the Russian, he is forced to choose between duty and his heart. He risks everything to save the determined, prickly woman he’s fallen for, but in doing so sparks a deadly series of events that threaten to expose the most successful spy in history. A spy who will destroy anyone who gets in his way.

ISBN-13: 978-0991895809

Available in ebook format from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Smashwords, Kobo. (Barnes and Noble and iTunes might be live now)

And in print from Amazon.

Bio:

A former marine biologist, Toni Anderson has traveled the world with her work. She was born and raised in rural Shropshire, England, and, after living in five different countries, she finally settled down in the Canadian prairies with her husband and two children. Combining her love of travel with her love of romantic suspense, Anderson writes stories based in some of the places she has been fortunate to visit.

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***CONTEST***

I’ll give away a copy of EDGE OF SURVIVAL which also features a British SAS hero, to one lucky commenter.  So tell me—what’s the setting of your favorite Romantic Suspense story?

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