ROWE: Shadow Warriors - Book Thirteen

by Mary Kennedy

Rowe James is new to the Shadow Warriors but he’s an experienced Marine with more than a little knowledge of how terrible the world can be. He’s fought in some of the worst places in the world but hurricane recovery and rebuilding was never on his list of ‘to dos.’ Hurricane Irene had devastated their neighbors and friends but in the midst of it all, they found seven women in total, chained to concrete slabs in the bayou. Only one lived and she was the one that Rowe refused to leave her side. With her body failing, cuts, bruises, and temporary loss of some memories, the medical team was bringing her back. When she remembers it all, there are more horrors awaiting.

Mara Guillory thought she was doing the right thing. She left a job that she loved, and that she was good at, to work for an insurance company promising high commissions and much more. She should have known. It was too good to be true and the man running the show was the one man she was supposed to be hiding from. Feeling her body slowly slipping away, she never dreamed that one man could change her world completely. Victor Rossi is dangerous. What she didn’t know, was that the men of Shadow Warriors are far more dangerous. And a bit of slapstick.

155 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2026

About the author

Mary Kennedy is a national best-selling novelist and a licensed psychologist on the east coast. She has written 37 young adult novels and has a new adult mystery series with Penguin, The Talk Radio Mysteries.The first title, DEATH IS BAD KARMA was released in January 2010, and the second release, REEL MURDER, is available now. She has spoken at over 100 schools, libraries and writers' conferences all over the country. She received a grant and award for "artistic excellence in fiction" from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Please visit her online at http://www.marykennedy.net. And be sure to visit Killer Characters--it's a fun site where cozy mystery writers blog as their characters! www.killercharacters.com

Reviews

[Darcy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one picks up after Hurricane Irene. We see how bad things are for Mara, more so when she learns what happened to her niece. It seems like her will to live is gone. Then all of sudden sketchy guys are looking for her and the whole Belle Fleur crew steps in to protect Mara. From here it gets sort of mad cap, as far as the lengths that the crew goes to, to keep her hidden, with the locals playing along. I loved how they proved the bad guy and his minions were fools time and time again. Loved how things ended for them and how Mara and Rowe figured things out as a couple.

[Merle · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the danger around Belle Fleur is not room the hurricane. Some two-legged predators are running wild too. cteam has to help one of their own defeat a predator.

[Tom Prejsner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Romance

Thank you for sharing these wonderful romance novel series books. Please keep writing more of these wonderful stories. Thank you