ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: What is the best scream you’ve experienced? Readers…take a look at Kendall’s website and you’ll understand why I asked.
KENDALL’S GOTTA ANSWER: Oooo, that’s a great question. I love a good adrenalin rush so it’s hard to pick one, so I’m going to choose two, one quick one and one that lasted much longer. In Rio de Janeiro I hand glided off the top of Tijuca National Park and landed on the sandy Sao Conrado beach. My guide spoke very little English and the safety briefing lasted 60 seconds which is why I screamed so hard when we jumped, that my throat hurt for a day or so.
My second favourite scream happened while scuba diving at Christmas Island. With my husband as my dive buddy, we dropped into the water and gradually cruised down Perpendicular Wall, which is exactly what it is. This dive site is a fathomless vertical wall bustling with enormous coral fans, hundreds of colourful tropical fish of all shapes and sizes, eels that dart out and disappear just as quickly, and of course sharks, turtles and stingrays.
About 40 minutes into our dive, my hubby indicated he was nearly at his air limit. He’s what’s known as an air pig - in that he consumes his air way too quickly. I was a tad annoyed about this as I had at least another 20 minutes of air time remaining. But as every good dive buddy knows, you stick with your partner. So together we gradually floated toward the surface.
This is when the magic happened.
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| KENDALL TALBOT |
I feel completely blessed to have experienced this rare, close encounter with a gentle giant of the sea, even if it did scare the crap out of me.
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TREASURED SECRETS
Sept 2015
See the feature in Part One
TREASURED LIES
Oct 2015
Treasured Series, Book 2
DOUBLE TAKE
MIRA publishing
available in Australia or to registered Amazon Australia users
The police know a bank will be robbed on Melbourne Cup Day. But they don't know which one, and time is running out.
A fresh, fast-paced cocktail of a heist, a good cause and some seriously unexpected consequences…
Jackson Rich is an unlucky man – he’s lost his job, his house and it looks like he’s going to lose the love of his life. To buy his terminally ill wife Candice more time, he’ll try just about anything. Including robbing a bank, on the one day of the year everything shuts down: Melbourne Cup day.
To do it, Jack calls in a promise from his old gang. It’s been a long time since they were all together, but they'd do anything for him – at least that’s what he’s banking on. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Until a couple of kids overhear Jack and his gang planning the robbery.
Even after thirty-odd years as a cop, Detective Steel has never been presented with a scenario like this, but he has to act upon the tip-off he’s been given. Somewhere in Brisbane, sometime during the running of the 1992 Melbourne Cup, a bank is going to be robbed. But to catch the thieves, Steel must let the heist happen. He’s about to make the quickest bust in history. What could go wrong?
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LOST IN KAKADU
An action adventure novel set in the Australian jungle where two unlikely people prove just how attractive opposites can be...
Winner of the 2014 Romance Writers of Australia RUBY (Romantic Book of the Year) Award for Stories with Romantic Elements!
It’s
pretentious socialite Abigail Mulholland’s worst nightmare when her plane
crashes into an ancient Australian wilderness. Things go from bad to downright
hellish when rescuers never come. As she battles to survive in an environment
that’s as brutal as it is beautiful, Abigail finds herself also fighting her
unlikely attraction to Mackenzie — another survivor, and a much younger man.
Mackenzie
Steel is devastated by his partner’s death in the crash, the only person with
whom he shared his painful past. Now, as he confronts his own demons, he finds
he has a new battle on his hands: his growing feelings for Abigail, a woman
who’s as frustratingly naïve as she is funny.
Fate
brought them together, but they’ll need more than luck to escape Kakadu alive.
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Abigail was exhausted, hungry and she
craved a hot shower and a decent sleep. But that wasn’t going to happen. She
stood back as Mackenzie scavenged through the luggage throwing the empty water
bottles and a few other bits and pieces into a backpack.
“What do you want me to do?” She heard
reluctance in her own voice.
Mackenzie blinked at her as if seeing
her for the first time and seemed to agonize over her question. “Just come with
me.” Then he threw the pack over his shoulder. “We’ll check out the back of the
plane again. Ready?”
She followed him into the bush and
with each feral shrub she struggled over, she wished her legs were as long as
his. Mackenzie soon stopped at a tree, sliced off a couple of weird looking
mushrooms and dropped them into a pocket of the backpack.
“What are those for?”
“We might be able to eat them.”
“But I don’t like mushrooms.”
He spun toward her, his honey coloured
eyes darkened to molasses. “You’re kidding, right?” His hands were clenched at
his sides.
She frowned. “No.”
“You still don’t get it, do you? We’re
lost in the jungle.” He was raising his voice now. “We’ll have to eat all sorts
of things to survive. And it won’t matter whether you like it or not, you’ll
need to eat it just to stay alive.”
Not impressed with his tone of voice,
she glared up at him. “There’s no need to yell at me. I’m right here.”
“But you don’t understand.”
She unclenched her jaw. “I understand
our situation fully. My husband is dead, I’m half way through digging his grave
and I haven’t showered, slept or eaten anything decent for days.” She put her
hands on her hips. “And I still don’t like mushrooms.”
Mackenzie grumbled under his breath,
spun on his heel and stomped away. He pushed past a long thin branch and it
flicked back like a whip.
Abigail ducked away from the branch
just in time. “Ha! You missed,” she yelled, smiling to herself.
Mackenzie’s angry pace ensured he
progressed further and further ahead of her, but she was confident she could
easily follow the path. She took her time, absorbing her surroundings. The only
noise she heard was Mackenzie’s grumbling. The thick air was suffocating and
she found it a little difficult to breathe. Sweat burnt her eyes as it trickled
off her forehead. A large log lay across the path ahead, its rough bark a
spectrum of light and dark green. She cringed as she dusted the log with her
fingers. Then she sat on a section clear of moss, removed her handkerchief from
her pocket and dabbed sweat from her forehead.
As Abigail breathed in she felt the
tightening in her back from the injuries she sustained in the crash. It had
been four days since Toni knocked her out. For a fleeting second she felt pity
for the young woman, but then it was gone. Abigail had already suffered a
lifetime of emotions since the crash and with the way things were going, it
didn’t look like the agony was going to end any time soon.
“Four days,” she said aloud. She
looked up through the dense canopy in a half-hearted search for a rescue party.
She wondered, and not for the first time, if Mackenzie had imagined that
helicopter. After all, she hadn’t heard it. Surely, it couldn’t be the only
search party they’d send. Her mind drifted to her friends back home and how
much gossip would be going on over her disappearance, but then she realised they
weren’t even expecting her return for three more days. She sighed.
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KENDALL WANTS TO KNOW: Treasured Secrets weaves from an Australian tropical reef to historic Tuscany to the luxurious Greek Islands. These are all amazing places I’ve visited. Where is the most amazing place you’ve been to and why did you love it?
