Martial Arts Adventure & Romance: A fight choreographer on vacation matches wits and romance with a deadly seductress.With too many B-grade movies and bad relationships under his black belt, former karate champion Race Richards leaves Los Angeles on a "top-down-all-the-way" road trip to northern Minnesota. His simple goal; fishing, camping, and relaxing on a friend's secluded lake shore property. But headed for the same destination is Kendra Vaughn, a scheming femme fatale deployed by a greedy real estate mogul. Accompanied by a trio of rough-and-tumble associates, her simple goal; make the same property market available for an upcoming multi-million dollar casino deal - no matter what the cost! But her target, the owner, isn't there. Instead, Kendra discovers only Race occupying the area. And he's now part-owner. And while he fends off her dangerous comrades with his high-impact fighting skills, the stunt-fighter has a tougher challenge once Kendra starts using every sexy trick in her dirty little book.

Will she seduce Race Richards? Or simply kill him? It might be fishing season, but somebody's going hunting.Author Mike Rutter grew up on Minnesota's rough-and-tumble Iron Range. A lifelong martial artist, Rutter was personally certified in jeet kune do by Ted Wong, one of Bruce Lee's original students. His articles have appeared in Black Belt and Inside Karate magazines, and Rutter has traveled extensively throughout China sharing his martial art skills and knowledge. KickBack is the first in a series of adventure romance novels featuring the Race Richards character.