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Why you must read Lynne Cantwell’s Undertow

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Lt. Darrell Warren, Navy SEAL and Potawatomi medicine man, has been reassigned from the Pentagon temporarily to a command in Virginia Beach. He thinks he’s there to investigate a rumor of a terrorist attack against the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, but his commander wants him to go undercover to infiltrate the terrorists – a job that’s way outside Darrell’s wheelhouse.

And this time — unlike two weeks before, in Washington — his two housemates aren’t available to help. Sue, the Right Hand of Gaia, is at the beach for a much-needed weekend of relaxation – and she’s met a man who might just be The One. And Tess, who has an uneasy relationship with the Morrigan, is chasing Hurricane Hubert, a storm more powerful than Katrina. Tess thinks she can report on hurricane preparations while running down the rumor about the terrorists – and deciding how she feels about Darrell.

The terrorists are not who they appear to be, and the hurricane is inching closer. To thwart both disasters – as well as cope with their own relationships – Darrell, Tess, and Sue will need the help of the gods.

This is the second book in a series, so we need to get caught up with the first, Crosswind.
I’ve put a little summary of the plot of that book in the front of “Undertow” so you shouldn’t have to read “Crosswind” first.

What genre is this?
I’m calling it urban fantasy, or maybe contemporary fantasy. But this particular book is a little bit of a thriller, too.

Tell us about Lt. Darrell Warren.
Darrell Warren was a Native American medicine man, until the Ojibwe culture hero Nanabush told him to join the Navy so he could help the gods preserve peace. He’s still angry about it, and that’s one of the things he is working through in this series.

And Tess and Sue?
Tess Showalter is a network TV news reporter who doesn’t want anyone to get too close. She’s been drafted by the Irish goddess of war, the Morrigan, to fight for the gods — but Morrigan scares Tess to death.

Sue Killeen is a project manager for a nonprofit in Washington, DC. She’s also the Right Hand of the Earth goddess Gaia. She has a serious lack of self-esteem and is jealous of Tess’s ability to attract men, which is a problem when Tess starts seeing Darrell.

We always ask authors how much of themselves are in their characters.
I used to be a broadcast journalist, so I identify with Tess in terms of what she does for a living. I’ve had self-esteem issues in the past, so I understand where Sue is coming from. And Darrell is from a part of Michigan that’s just up the road from where I grew up.

Ah, we knew there’d be a connection. What else do we need to know about you?
As I said earlier, I’m a former broadcast journalist; I wrote for CNN briefly, and I also worked for Mutual/NBC Radio News for a couple of years. I have a master’s in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. And I’m a contributing author at Indies Unlimited.

Have you written anything else we should read next?
I’ve written a five-book series called the Pipe Woman Chronicles that comes before “Land, Sea, Sky” chronologically.

Do you have a website where we can keep up with your work?
I blog at http://hearth-myth.blogspot.com.

How can we follow you on Twitter and/or Facebook?
Here you go: @LynneCantwell
http://www.facebook.com/LynneCantwell

What’s next?
I get to write the sequel to “Undertow” and wrap up this trilogy. The final “Land, Sea, Sky” book will be called “Scorched Earth”. It should be out sometime in June, 2014.

How easily do new storylines come to you? If we give you four random words 
– Man, Woman, Mexico, Future – can you give us a brief storyline?
Those four are it, huh? Okay:

A fortysomething American woman, trying to forget her failed marriage, treats herself to something she’s always wanted to do: a trip to Mexico to tour the pyramids. There, she meets a handsome Hispanic man who may or may not be a bad guy (haven’t decided yet). On their “special tour” of the ruins, the two of them are somehow teleported a couple of years into the future, where they discover her ex-husband is searching for her — he’s involved in some shady deal with a drug lord and needs a thing he once gave her that she happened to be carrying when she went through the portal. Mystery and danger ensue.

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