Like fast-paced action and adventure with a little romance? Then you’ll love Kate Jones! This exciting box set contains the first four novellas in the bestselling Kate Jones Thriller Series:
BAD SPIRITS (Books 1-5): Kate Jones is on the run with a backpack full of money, intent on finding her way back to the United States from Mexico. Unfortunately, a ruthless drug lord named Salazar is just as … named Salazar is just as intent on finding her, retrieving his stolen money, and making her pay for ever having left him. Is there anyone she can trust?
DEAD OF WINTER: Kate is hiding out in small town Alaska when she witnesses an execution-style murder. Convinced the killers are Salazar’s men and desperate to stop them from finding her, she reports the crime to local law enforcement, hoping to put them off her trail so she can escape.
What she gets is Sam, an enigmatic cop with a mysterious past who’s been assigned to watch over her as the hunt for the killers deepens.
Sam and Kate’s obvious attraction to each other becomes a dangerous complication as Kate realizes the only way she can stay alive is to keep one step ahead of Salazar.
DEATH RITES: When Kate has to leave Alaska (and Sam) behind, she runs to the last place she remembers feeling safe: the North Shore of Oahu. Against her better judgment, she re-establishes old connections and soon faces a new problem in Alek, a gifted carver and avid surfer.
When a brutal murder and theft of a priceless artifact from a museum is discovered, Kate’s thrown into the middle of what appears to be a violent ancient sect come to life. Her only chance of survival is to rely on her wits…
…and the ancient gods of Hawaii.
TOURING FOR DEATH: Hiding out from her shady past driving jeep tours through the rugged high desert of northern Arizona, Kate Jones is determined to stop looking over her shoulder and find peace from her mistake of a gun-toting, former life. Testifying against a Mexican drug lord and a dirty DEA agent didn’t turn out to be a life enhancing choice and she’s been on the move ever since.
Now, five years have passed with no sign of trouble and Kate’s finally starting to believe she’s safe. Her current goal is to make enough money so she can get lost in the tropics when the tourist trade dies off. Unfortunately, it’s the tourists that are dying off and she may be next.
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I always enjoy reading books that are set in an area nearby my home. Great adventure series based in the Yucatan, Mexico.
4 great stories. Each one more intense as you grow to love Kate.
The Kate Jones Collection Book 1 – a review by Rosemary Kenny
Bad Spirits:
The eponymous spirits apparently (according to an old shaman she meets on the trail), won’t let go their prophecy of doom, until Kate Jones has let go of everything bad in her life. Kate doesn’t think she’s done anything really wrong, but that the cash she stole from Salazar, her Mexican, large scale drug-dealer, wasn’t actually ‘his’, but owed to Anaya, the cartel boss for supplies, meaning she now has two murderous, ruthless killers and their mercenaries on her trail! Can she find safety in the States?
Who proves to be a false friend? Who else’s life will be forfeit if Kate’s not found?
The plot thickens, as they say, so read on!
Dead of Winter:
Kate Jones has finally escaped from her murderous ex-boyfriend the Mexican drug-dealer, Salazar, with the help of a DEA agent called Luis Gonzalez and relocated to the States. She keeps on the move, firstly via Alaska, always alert, constantly changing her surname and appearance, and never trusting anyone except Luis.
When she witnesses a gangland-style execution near her location, Kate contacts Luis and he sends Sam to help her relocate, while local police investigate. It’s not a minute too soon, as Kate can tell someone’s been in her house. Where can she find sanctuary?
As Sam and Kate get closer, so does the hovering danger, culminating in a shootout in the wilds, as the lovers head to the airport. Can they both survive to get an HEA?
Death Rites:
Kate’s fled from Alaska to Hawaii, seeking shelter with friends who will do their best to protect her from the constant strain of being pursued by killers for hire, brought in to the hunt by her ex-boyfriend Salazar and his cartel boss supplier, Anayas, both of whom are in jail in Mexico. Even when she escapes their reach (for now), Kate’s far from safe, as she becomes the prey of a weird ancient cult, revived by fanatics whose ‘trademarks’ are ritual torture and murder! Who will save her this time?
Touring Death
Kate’s settled in Arizona and has even relaxed enough to take a job as a nature tour guide. As life seems to settle, she starts to fall for Cole, the local sheriff, although it’s nearly an off-before- it’s-on romance, as someone sabotages her jeep and she’s lucky to avoid the pursuing vehicle that intends to finish her off. Next, three of the people on the tour are gruesomely murdered, making Kate ask Cole and his deputy for protection.
While she ponders her next move, she’s drugged and then taken to an abandoned mine, which she’s lucky to escape alive from.
Cole asks her why she has no history before coming to live there, so she tells him all she knows – and how dangerous it is to be with her.
The truth of those words comes horribly to reality that night, Kate investigates a raccoon rummaging through her trash – just before she’s grabbed from behind! Has Death finally come to claim her?
Four novellas in one great volume, from the amazingly creative Queen of Adventure Thrillers, D.V. Berkom, The Kate Jones Collection Book 1, brings Kate’s full backstory in Bad Spirits; then Dead of Winter, Death Rites and Touring Death tell what adventures and perils face our feisty protagonist going forward – ever more excitingly.
Grab a copy of The Kate Jones Thriller Series Book 1 today – it’s much too good to miss!