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Standing Tall
Standing Tall
Standing Tall
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Standing Tall

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She swore she'd never fall for another fighter pilot. This one is about to prove her wrong.

Investigative journalist Rika Philips and her young daughter arrive in the laid-back West Texas town of Coyote Springs to relax for the summer while visiting Rika's grandparents. Her vacation ends abruptly when Major Alex Huston enters the picture--along with the troubling mystery of his top secret work at the nearby Air Force base. Is national security at risk--or only Rika's vow not to tangle with another love-'em-and-leave-'em fly boy?

Rika's instincts tell her the public needs to know what's going on at the base, and she dives into an investigation. Alex is her sexy nemesis, but she'll have to collaborate with him if she wants the story. Before long they're flying in uncharted territory, fighting an attraction that doesn't come with parachutes.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBelleBooks
Release dateJan 25, 2012
ISBN9781611942613
Standing Tall
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Ken Casper

Ken Casper was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Fordham University with a degree in Russian, he joined the Air Force, was stationed in the Far East, served in Vietnam, and lived five years in Germany. He also earned a Master's degree in Education from the University of Southern California. Ken retired from more than 33 years of government service in September '97. Now a transplanted Texan. He and Mary, his wife of 34 years, own a horse farm in San Angelo. Along with their Border Collie, Chief, they have a Golden Retriever, Casey, two house cats, four barn cats and eight horses. They also board and breed horses and Mary teaches English riding. She's a therapeutic riding instructor for the handicapped, as well. Life is never dull. Their two granddaughters visit several times a year and feel right at home with the Casper menagerie. Grampa and Mimi do everything they can to make sure their visits to Little Oaks Farm will be lifelong fond memories. After all, isn't that what grandparents are for? Ken figures his writing career probably started in the sixth grade when he was ordered by a teacher to write a "theme" explaining his misbehaviour over the previous semester. To his teacher's chagrin, he enjoyed stringing just the right words together to justify his less than stellar performance. Fortunately, she forgave him. Since then, he's had short stories published in a popular men's magazine and was working on a mystery when his critique partners, three romance writers, suggested he try their genre. He had his doubts ("Me? Write romance? Are you kidding?), but he decided to give it a try, anyway. His first-chapter romance submission won honourable mention at the Southwest Writers' Workshop contest in 1993. Ken revised it...and revised it, then entered the Golden Triangle Writers' Guild contest in '95. This time he took first place in both mystery and romance. The romance entry later became his first sale to Harlequin Superromance. A MAN CALLED JESSE was published in October '98. Since then he's written more than a dozen other Superromances, including the First Family of Texas series, contributed to two trilogies, a six-book series set in the police department of Houston, Texas, and he's currently involved in a five-book series set in the beautiful hill country of central Texas. His October 2003 Super, THE WOMAN IN THE NEWS, was a Holt Medallion finalist.

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    I really enjoyed this romance. I voluntarily chose to review this. I've given it a 4.5* rating. This was interesting with a little bit of women's rights mixed in this military romance. While not for the under 18 readers, there are lots of interesting things going on in this story. It's been in my TBR pile for a while, so was glad to get to it.

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