Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brave Heart | 1993 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
The American Heroes: Against All Odds continuity was a Harlequin project in the early 1990s that brought together multiple authors to write books around a shared military theme. Lindsay McKenna, already well established in military romance by that point, contributed Brave Heart in 1993.
McKenna had been writing military-themed romance since the early 1980s, so a project of this kind was a natural fit. Her entry features the kind of soldier hero she returned to throughout her career – someone shaped by service, carrying a sense of duty that extends into his personal life. The romance develops against that background of military loyalty and personal risk.
For collectors or completists working through McKenna’s back catalogue, Brave Heart represents an interesting chapter in how the genre treated military heroes during that period, when the post-Vietnam era was giving way to a new wave of stories shaped by the Gulf War.