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I'm an action, adventure, and romantic suspense/thriller author who enjoys good wine, great art, Tuscany, and a touch of mayhem. (You never know what you might see when you wake up suddenly in the dark.) I'm the author of TEAM EDGE. The EDGE Of Trust is the first book I ever wrote and I've been very fortunate in gaining some amazing fans and also garnering some really cool awards. About two months after I published my first book (The EDGE Of Trust), my husband was diagnosed with cancer. He's gone through three major surgeries (bladder, spine, kidney) since 2012, and we're not done yet (getting close though!). Your kindness, support, and kind reviews keeps me going on the days I don't think I can. For that, I thank you all. My alter ego writes romantic comedy as Katie Bryan. If you like romantic comedy with a Christmas theme, a sexy rich guy, an Irish heroine who mutters in Gaelic, a crazy bet, a long held secret, and lots of pets then chances are, you'll enjoy LOVING LOGAN. And there's more on the way! And OK, OK, since you asked. I have danced with emus (one emu for less than ten seconds, possibly it was chasing me), lost approximately 42,371 pens (actually it was 10 pencils and 7 or maybe 9 pens - hey, I don't have to LOVE math), was smacked by a glacier (no, I am not the Titanic, and it wasn't so much a glacier as an ice cube tray that fell on my foot), and can claim victory over Hooked on Phonics. I don't wear a corset or write poems (although am quite sure could master both, probably if I didn't want to breathe and learned what a haiku is since it turns out it's not a fancy martial arts term). I have taken the literary world by storm once on a dark and stormy knight (had it not been dark or stormy, the knight would no doubt have given me a well deserved Pullet Surprise). When not writing, I enjoy being a professional disruptive influence and prolific liar. Possibly was Dora The Explorer in another life. Biggest goal in life is to write the "Great American Break Out Novel" and its sequel "Dealing With Acne Once You've Finally Broken Out". Thank you for reading! (And if you're not reading my books, why the heck not?) Seriously...reading is FUN-da-mental. I have the mental part down so let's have fun!

I thought I had nothing left to lose. . . I was wrong. We all play victims to our pasts--to the choices we make and the lives we lead. Sometimes we let our past define us. Sometimes we aren't given a choice. But sometimes, sometimes the past comes back to us. Better. Stronger. Tougher. Now the past is beating at my door, leaving me no choice but to answer. And it might very well get me killed. I loved you, Sara. I wept for you. I raged for you. And now, I'm letting you go. Again. And so the struggle begins . . . . **From One Good Book Deserves Another - Emotional, Adrenaline-Filled Thrill Ride** . What can go wrong in just 48 hours? A LOT. When EDGE operative Dillon Caldwell was given a mission to infiltrate the Sanchez Drug Cartel and bring down Rafael Sanchez, Dillon figured it would be a long, grueling year he might not survive. He had no idea it would be three horrific, gut-churning years, or that the price paid for his efforts would be a nightmare worse than abject failure. Then, after his cover was blown, he watched in horror as his wife was slain in front of him. His parents were next. And his sister, who died, broken and burning, in his arms. Dillon, wracked by loss and guilt, is nearly rabid in his hunt for Sanchez, intent on ending his reign of terror. What Dillon finds along the way, though, will change everything he thought he knew to be true. Washed up on a nearby beach, badly beaten and suffering from exposure, is the woman he thought dead for the past twelve months. His wife Sara is alive. Dillon's stunned relief and joy are short-lived, however, shredded by the razor-sharp fangs of betrayal and kept secrets, scorched by the obvious disdain from a woman who may as well be a stranger. And if that's not enough, not only is Sanchez is still out there, but Dillon can't even trust the people he works for. Not when they kept the truth about his wife from him, not when someone on the inside burned his cover. He's got a sadistic, murderous drug lord after him and someone from his own country betraying him. He's got a wife who is alive, but looks at him with loathing. And he's got the knowledge that, despite his best efforts, he has failed every single person he loved. But wait, Dillon's plate isn't yet full. The stakes he's played with for three years are raised higher still when he finds out that Sanchez has something of his, something Dillon didn't even know existed. And it's a game-changer in every way. ~*~ KT Bryan doesn't just kick off her Team EDGE series with this powerhouse of a story, she fills it with rocket fuel and launches it straight into the stratosphere. Powerful writing, a hell of a plot, and two flawed characters thrust into one incredibly perilous situation after another are the backbone of this awesome debut. The devil is in the detail, and Bryan proved herself adept at snagging that devil by the throat, slamming it down on the page, and introducing her characters to hell. When it comes to Dillon and his wife Sara as characters, we reach what, for me, elevated this book from a solid suspense read to one of my favorite reads this year. Not only were they deliciously flawed and grievously wounded individuals (preferred for the depth it gives the characters), but their emotional baggage and all their issues were ripped open and exposed in deliciously gritty, brutal fashion, in actions and reactions, fights and fury, angst and passion. It wasn't always pretty, certainly wasn't traditional for a romance novel, but it was so realistic (within the fictional framework) that I was left shaken by several scenes, my heart in my throat and my stomach in knots. Grief, confusion, betrayal, guilt, blame, shame, and worse. . . including ugly emotions that danced dangerously close to hatred, Bryan gleefully dipped her brush into them all and splattered them into the gaping, bloody wounds of her characters' lives. Complex, taut, emotional and action-packed!

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Category: Romance; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

TEAM EDGE BOOK TWO Amazon best-selling author of Romantic Suspense! "Suzanne Brockmann fans will love KT Bryan. " ~ Joyce Lamb, Bestselling Author of TRUE SHOT With hard-charging, full-blooded characters that leap off the page, terrific writing and a plot that moves at a breathless pace, THE EDGE OF HONOR proves that KT Bryan is right up there with the best romantic thriller authors writing today--names like Allison Brennan, J. T. Ellison and C. J. Lyons. ~~ Michael W. Sherer, Thriller Award-nominated author of Night Drop Dr. Jessica Bentley knows all about monsters. She lives with them. Deals with them every day. But when Jessica warns the city of San Diego about a modern day Jack the Ripper on live TV, she never expects to become the monster’s next target. A brilliant madman is watching. . . . A serial killer the media has dubbed the "Savior" is terrorizing San Diego. He is a chameleon, a hacker who can create and delete his identity at will. He blazes through firewalls, strolls through doors that are closed to millions, and dreams about saving the world against sin. He's a wizard, a god, a ruthless killer. Now you see her, now you don’t… Wanted for murder, Navy SEAL Jake Kincaid is battling the feds, the cops, and as the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Jake plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a deadly truth, and for the love of his life, whose past has come back to kill her. Just how far will a man go to save the woman he loves? The answer is simple--all the way over the edge.

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Category: Romance; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

It's Christmas at O'Malley's. . . . with leprechauns, Guinness, good luck and laughter, lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Fun, flirty and just a little bit sexy. . . If you like romantic comedy with a sexy rich guy, an Irish heroine who mutters in Gaelic, a crazy bet, a long held secret, and lots of pets, then chances are you’ll enjoy LOVING LOGAN. What Bailey O’Donlan fancies this Christmas is for Logan Mitchell, the only man she's ever loved, to disappear before he learns her secret. She's not asking much. After all, Mitch has disappeared before. Bailey’s seen neither hide nor hair of him in eight long years, ever since the Christmas Eve she climbed through his bedroom window with stars in her eyes. Instead, what she gets is one stray golden retriever, one conga-dancing basset hound with nervous gas, four kittens, and two brothers who can’t wait to meddle in her life. Rich and successful, Logan has come home to stay, and to escape from being Society magazine’s Most Eligible Bachelor. Ever since the magazine hit the newsstands, he’s been getting letters. And not just your typical fan mail kinds of letters, either. He’s getting marriage proposals by the truckload, and strange women are asking him to father their children. He’s got pictures of women in all manner of dress and some not dressed at all. When Bailey embarrasses him in front of their friends, he foolishly accepts a bet offered by Bailey’s brother Greg--that Logan can make Bailey fall in love with him again before Christmas day. But Logan’s plans to win Bailey over get completely derailed when he learns that she’s already in love--with the man who left her with a broken heart and a young daughter. The O’Donlan clan has another agenda, however, and it’s not long before Bailey and Logan square off with super-soakers, bologna and brussels sprout casseroles, beer-drenched shirts, a freakish late night pizza delivery, secret decoder rings, a mob of big-haired women, and some wild entertainment called Foreplay. So what’s going to happen when Logan finds out that Bailey’s daughter is his? A clean and wholesome romantic comedy.

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Category: Romance