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Author: Catherine Mann | Website

USA Today bestseller Catherine Mann resides on a sunny Florida beach with her military flyboy husband and their four children. Although after nine moves in twenty years, she hasn’t given away her winter gear! Now a RITA Award winner, Catherine writes action-packed military suspense for Berkley and Sourcebooks, and steamy romances for Harlequin Desire. With over two million books in print in more than twenty countries, she has also celebrated five RITA finals, three Maggie Award of Excellence finals and a Bookseller’s Best win. A former theater school director and university teacher, she holds a Master’s degree in Theater from UNC-Greensboro and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (with minors in both English and Education) from the College of Charleston. Catherine enjoys hearing from readers and chatting on her message board – thanks to the wonders of the wireless internet that allows her to cyber-network with her laptop by the water! Catherine and her family are also active volunteers in animal rescue, having fostered more than fifty puppies and special needs dogs for their local shelter. FMI on the latest news, upcoming releases and contests, check out her facebook page.


Published Works & Book Reviews

Under Fire

When Rachel Flores' tumultuous relationship with Major Liam McCabe ended abruptly, she refocuses her energy onto her career. She plans to forget Liam and live a peaceful life supplying therapy dogs for recovering military vets-until a patient reveals a traitorous plot within the epicenter of military intelligence. Rachel finds herself ensnared within a web of danger, and only one man can help her...

Reviewer: Reese
Review: Apr 24, 2012
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
I'm pleased that Catherine Mann didn’t make the wait for Liam's story a long one. After the last novel, where readers are fed tiny, delightful tidbits with Liam and Rachel, I was most anxious for them to get their story aired out. Liam McCabe thinks three strikes literally mean’s he should stay out. After all if a man marries and divorces that much, something may be wrong. Rachel Flores knows Liam's reputat

Protector

Assigned to the investigation of a mob boss whose luxury cruise ship is reportedly a hub for terrorist activity, Captain Chuck Tanaka is going undercover. His target: Jolynn Taylor, the mob boss's daughter.

Ever since she saw her beloved uncle murdered, Jolynn has stayed far away from her father's crooked empire. But after her father falls ill, she finds herself on the run, one step ahead of unknown enemies. Only Tanaka stands between her and certain death...but can she trust him?

Reviewer: Jen719
Review: Feb 20, 2012
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
Captain Chuck Tanaka has survived unspeakable horrors after being held prisoner after an operation in the Middle East went bad. Two years later, he is confined to a desk job looking for action but afraid that his abilities aren’t what they used to be. Colonel Rex Scanlon believes that he is the man for a current assignment where he will be disguised as a blackjack dealer on a cruise ship that is a possible

Hot Zone

Master sergeant Hugh Franco lives only to save others, until he plucks beautiful attorney Amelia Bailey from the wreckage of an earthquake and finds himself embroiled in ways he never expected. On the run from kidnappers, Hugh must call on all his training to protect them. But Amelia's fiery touch threatens to crack his world—and his heart—wide open.

Reviewer: Reese
Review: Nov 4, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
Catherine Mann wins again with a novel of the pararescue men. Hugh lost his wife and daughter years ago and takes every mission in hopes that it will be his last and end his misery. Amelia is a fighter through and through. Though covered in rubble from a massive earthquake, she keeps her belief that someone will come to her rescue. After all, she is the only thing standing between her newly adopted nephew

Cover Me

The 300 pararescue jumpers (PJs) in the world are the most elite force in the U.S. military, trained in high-risk rescue, and have never been featured in romance.

PJ Wade Rocha is fast roping from a helicopter into a blizzard to rescue stranded climbers when he meets beautiful Sunny Foster, who insists she can take care of herself just fine. As the snowstorm kicks into overdrive, she and Wade must take to the frozen wilderness in a race against time...and their own explosive passions.

Reviewer: Reese
Review: Jul 1, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
I Love, Love, Loved this. Catherine Mann takes military romance to the next level by bringing us the branch of the Pararescue Jumpers. This is like extreme sports meet military for heroes. The PJ's perform rescues where it is hazardous for other groups to go. They are trained to do these rescues in all sorts of weather and hazardous conditions. Wade (the Rock) and his unit are on their way back from a trai

Renegade

Tech. Sgt. Mason “Smooth” Randolph lives to push boundaries—whether by bucking his wealthy family’s expectations and joining the Air Force or by working outside the box on top secret flight projects. But no way could he have anticipated how far outside the box he would land when an in-flight accident sends him parachuting into Nevada’s notorious Area 51—and into the handcuffs of sexy security cop Jill Walczak.

As a member of a covert surveillance force, Jill is searching for a serial killer inside the Air Force—and the last thing she needs is some rebel aviator threatening her case. But the smoky cloud Mason flew through during his parachute landing may have been toxic fallout from biochemical experiments—forcing Jill into quarantine with the reckless flyboy. Now, Jill has to keep her eye on Mason without getting distracted by the growing passion between them, before the assassin ends her investigation, permanently…

Reviewer: Reese
Review: Feb 10, 2010
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
This was a really great installment to this series. Mason's character was sexy and sensitive. His sense of humor brought depth to this hero and I thought Jill was an excellent match for him. Catherine Mann made Jill tough and no nonsense but not to the point that a reader would be turned off by her aggression. Not all authors can do this as successfully as Mann does in Renegade. The suspense factor has you on

Hotshot

Old flames burn the hottest...

Major Vince DeLuca may have just accepted his most difficult recon mission ever—keeping an eye on Shay Bassett. As a pilot in the Air Force’s top secret test unit, Vince keeps a cool head at the controls. But ever since they were teens, Shay’s had a way of jamming his radar. Vince owes it to her dad, his old mentor, to keep her safe—but can he do it at arm’s length?

Once young and desperate herself, Shay cares deeply about the troubled teens she works with. Now she’s scheduled to tell Congress about Cleveland ’s escalating gang activity, and someone out there is trying to cut her testimony short. Living to tell the tale may depend on trusting the one man who burned her so badly years ago—and still makes her feel hot all over…

Reviewer: Aemelia
Review: Apr 10, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
Major Vince “Vapor” Deluca and Shay Bassett have had the hots for each other since they were kids. But Vince resisted Shay’s charms, turning away from her and joining the military. While Shay had to grow up and learn from her teenage rebellion. Now Shay is in trouble, and Vince has been asked by his mentor and Shay’s father to watch over her, because her life may be in d

Defender

The sizzling first book in the Dark Ops Defenders series.

When a USO boat goes down in flames, pilot Jimmy Gage pulls a scantily clad Chloe Nelson out of sharkfilled waters. Chloe isn't looking for a jet-jock to be her bodyguard—until she finds herself side by side with Gage on a dangerous mission.

Reviewer: Aemelia
Review: Feb 18, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action, Men In Uniform
A speedboat carrying USO performers explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, prompting a military rescue mission to pick up the survivors.    Chloe Nelson is determined to live her life to the fullest. In a tribute to the organ donor who gave her another chance at life, Chloe joins onto a USO tour to thank all the soldiers who put their lives at risk so often. Never expecting her life would so

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