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Title: Logan
Author: Melissa Schroeder
Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance

Blurb:
A man who always sees beneath the surface. 

Logan has lived his dream of being an artist for hundreds of years. He’s painted some of the most beautiful women in the world, but none of them compare to Meghan Campbell. When they are paired up to go after the next jewel, resisting her becomes almost impossible, but he knows he must. The witch is hiding something and until he knows what that is, he cannot fully trust her. 

A woman who can lure any man. 

As a witch with siren abilities, Meg has never had a problem with the opposite sex. That is, until she met Logan. The irritating man seems to be the one person in the world who doesn’t succumb to her spell. Unfortunately, he is the one man she really wants. No matter how hard she tries, he resists her. 

As they embark on their quest for the next jewel, tempers flare and passion ignites. But when a new layer of the curse is revealed, they discover their failure could put lives in danger. The two must work together to fight the rising power against them and hope that those who support the Clan survive the fight.

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Excerpt:

Logan rolled over trying to get comfortable in his bed, but he knew it was useless. His brain wouldn’t shut off. The trip ahead, not to mention his companion, had him antsy. He couldn’t seem to quit thinking about the way she had looked tonight, the way she had smiled at him, and the sound of her voice. He had been truthful when he said that he hadn’t been lured by it. But…now he couldn’t get it out of his head. 

He slipped out of bed. After stretching the kinks out of his back, he pulled on a pair of pajama bottoms and a t-shirt, and decided to have some tea and biscuits. As he made his way to the kitchen, he started to make a mental list of places he wanted to visit while they were in Paris. It had been a few years since he’d been there. He knew they were there for the quest, but there was no reason he couldn’t enjoy the art. It would be more convincing for their cover story. He might even take Meg to a place or two.

Thinking back to his last trip, he wondered if they had been there at the same time. The timing was pretty close so they would have to compare notes. There is one thing he knew without a doubt. If they had come into contact with each other, he would have remembered her. 

It was hard to ignore Meghan. With the riot of honey brown curls that spilled down her back, those amazing whiskey brown eyes, and the curvy body she showcased proudly, most men took notice. But, there was another quality, something beneath the surface that he could not seem to comprehend. That is, if she wasn’t irritating him.

He shook his head as he stepped into the kitchen.

He was not alone. 

Standing at the stove, dressed all in red, was Meg. There was only the light above the stove to light the room. 

Logan watched her for a few seconds. She seemed so alone there, so quiet. Even in a silk robe that screamed seduction, there was a quietness about her Logan had never seen before.

He must have moved because she jumped and spilled some of the boiling water on her hand.

“Damn,” she said and dropped the kettle. It crashed against the burner, but he paid no attention to it as he rushed forward. 

“Did you get burned?” he asked, as he grabbed her hand.

She tried to wiggle free of his hold. “Well, it was boiling water, so yeah.”

He slipped his hand up to her wrist and tugged her over to the sink. After turning on the cold water, he stuck her hand under it.

“I know how to take care of a burn. I am not an infant.”

He heard the annoyance in her voice, and it rubbed against him the wrong way. He did nothing but come down to the kitchen, and she acted as if he had done something horrible.

“Feel better?” he asked, but he said it from behind clenched teeth. 

“Yes.”

Logan noticed she didn’t say thank you. He turned off the water and handed her a towel.

“Mind sharing your water?”

She glanced back over to the pot, then offered him a small smile. “Since you tended my injury, I must be gracious.”

He chuckled. “Were you going to have some tea?”

She nodded. “Mine always sucks though.”

Logan snorted. “American.”

“Yes and proud of it.”

He grabbed some tea and measured it out for two cups. 

“But you spend all your time here.”

She sighed. “I have a soft spot for Scotland. And Ireland, oh and Paris.”

The way she said Paris made him think that it made her sad. “But you’ve never been back to Paris since you lived there before.”

“No.”

No other explanation. Of course not. The woman was filled with secrets, but then, he could not accuse her of that. His family was steeped in them.

“Is there any chance that Morin would have people looking for you?”

“No. Well, okay, maybe. I know he keeps someone on the apartment. Last time Rena was there she saw them.”

“And they’re still alive.”

She smiled. “Yes, I told her killing them would only cause me more problems, so she abstained. She was very sad though.”

The half-fae was definitely deadly.

“I know you don’t like me, Logan.”

“I don’t trust you.”

She sighed. “And you don’t trust, which I don’t blame you. You don’t know me.”

Logan didn’t like the sadness in her voice or the way it made him feel. There was something about it that resonated within his soul. He pushed those thoughts aside.

“It doesn’t mean I don’t like you.”

She stilled, then swallowed. When she spoke, she didn’t look at him. “So, you like me?”

Her southern accent deepened. It danced over his nerve endings, sunk into his soul. It did more to him than her singing the night before. Right now, he would fight dragons to the death to make her his. 

She shook her head. “Never mind.”

He had been keeping the feelings at bay for weeks. It had taken a lot of his control not to act on the need he had for her. Now, in the dark kitchen, with the silent house around them, he couldn’t resist her. He stepped closer. 

“More than is good for me,” he said. 

She looked up at him, her mouth half opened. He could smell the spicy scent of her, the one he dreamed about. It lured him unlike anything else before. It was so quiet around them, the peaceful night cloaking them from the rest of the house.

“Then…” she broke off. He held back a groan as he watched her tongue dart out to lick her bottom lip.

“What?” Even he heard the arousal vibrating in his voice. 

“Then why do you treat me the way you do? You always look at me as if I disgust you.”

He shook his head. “You doona disgust me. You tempt me when I shouldn’t be tempted. We have no time for being muddle-headed right now.”

“But?”

“Aye, lass, but,” he said, as he slid his hand around her waist and pulled her closer to him. She fit him perfectly—too perfectly. “I’m tired of resisting.”

He damned them both as he bent his head and kissed her.

Author Bio:

From an early age, USA Today Bestselling Author Melissa loved to read. First, it was the books her mother read to her including her two favorites, Winnie the Pooh and the Beatrix Potter books. She cut her preteen teeth on Trixie Belden and read and reviewed To Kill a Mockingbird in middle school. It wasn’t until she was in college that she tried to write her first stories, which were full of angst and pain, and really not that fun to read or write. After trying several different genres, she found romance in a Linda Howard book.

Since the publication of her first book in 2004, Melissa has had close to fifty romances published. She writes in genres from historical suspense to modern day erotic romance to futuristics and paranormals. Included in those releases is the bestselling Harmless series. In 2011, Melissa branched out into self-publishing with A Little Harmless Submission and the popular military spinoff, Infatuation: A Little Harmless Military Romance. Along the way she has garnered an epic nomination, a multitude of reviewer’s recommended reads, over five Capa nods from TRS, three nominations for AAD Bookies and regularly tops the best seller lists on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Since she spent her childhood as a military brat, Melissa swore never to marry military. But, as we all know, Fate has her way with mortals. She is married to now retired AF major and is raising her own brats, both human and canine. She spends her days giving in to her addiction to Twitter and spends her days thankful for their new home and the short trip to Wegmans.

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~~Author Wednesdays--Kate Douglas & Giveaway~~

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Happy Wednesday everyone!! It's Author Wednesday at For Whom The Books Toll and my guest today is the fantastic Kate Douglas. Welcome Kate and thank you for being here today.

Thanks, Julianne, for the chance to chat about my newest book as well as my upcoming books—I’ve been a bit busy the past few months! St. Martin’s Press has bought a new series from me—I don’t have a name for it yet, but the first novella is called Tangled, and the first novel, the one I’m working on now, is Intimate. Both of these are set in the wine country here in Sonoma County, California, where my husband and I live, and it’s a huge change to be writing sexy contemporary romances set in my home town rather than my über-sexy paranormal shapeshifter stories!

I’ve really enjoyed getting back to my writing roots—I started out with contemporary romances in 1998 when I sold my first stories to Hard Shell Word Factory, one of the early ebook publishers—but I’m not giving up on my Chanku! I’m publishing my erotic paranormal series, Spirit Wild, independently, and the fourth in the series, Dark Refuge, released a couple of weeks ago. The print version will be available sometime this week. 

That’s the best thing about the popularity of ebooks—the fact that, when a publisher decides not to continue publishing a series, the author and readers aren’t left hanging. I absolutely hate that—getting hooked on a story line and characters and then suddenly they’re gone. It’s every bit as tough for the author—I never know what’s coming next, and when I first realized Kensington wouldn’t be publishing anymore of my series, I had this horrible sense of guilt at having not only failed my readers, but my characters as well. They still have stories to tell, and I can’t imagine not having Anton Cheval in my life. I mean, he’s a pain in the ass at times, but he’s so real to me that I count on him for story ideas. 

(And no, I do NOT need therapy. Really. I’m okay...  )

I’m taking my Spirit Wild stories a step further though, and bringing them out in print as well as ebooks, but I have enough readers who are interested in print that I really feel as if it’s an important step. Besides, I still love my print books, and it’s also nice to know I’m not the only Luddite in the room. I may have started out with epublishing long before most people knew what ebooks were, but I still want that print book to hold when I’m reading. Since it’s important to me, I completely understand my readers who ask for print.

I can’t share any of my new contemporary story excerpts yet—the anthology it’s in with Lora Leigh and Shiloh Walker won’t release until April of 2015—but I can share a snip of Gabriel Cheval’s story. He’s the hero in Dark Refuge who falls in love when he reconnects with a childhood friend—the adorable little girl of Oliver and Mei’s, all grown up. It’s a big adjustment for Gabe to discover that “little EmyIzzy” isn’t cute and chubby anymore. No, she’s all grown up, and more than a match for him.

But it’s the darkness inside Em that’s got both of them struggling to find answers—and they’re answers that could impact the entire Chanku pack.

I had a lot of fun imagining Gabe’s first night seeing Em after so many years:

====Excerpt from Dark Refuge, Book 4 of Spirit Wild====

This trip to San Francisco was looking better all the time, and once he got over the shock of seeing EmyIzzy again... Crap. Emeline... He actually sighed. Sighed! What the hell was that all about? Em had been just one more little sister, attached at the hip to his baby sister Lucia, and Gabe had figured she’d still be much the same—sort of like Luci. Cute and silly and someone he could tease and relax with. He hadn’t seen her in...Goddess. He hadn’t seen her in at least six or seven years.

It appeared a lot could happen to a woman in six or seven years, and looking at Emeline now wasn’t the least bit relaxing. She’d been short and cute, and a little on the pudgy side, but somehow that baby fat had managed to rearrange itself in absolutely stunning fashion.

Em waited for him in the entry by the door to the garage. She was tinier than a lot of the young women in the pack, with her father’s slight build, but she had all her mom’s sex appeal.

Except he didn’t want to see Em that way. It wasn’t easy, though, ignoring the subtle, sexy sway of her hips as he followed her down the steps to the garage. She’d put on tight black jeans with high black leather boots that almost reached her knees, and a dark blue sweater that showed off more of Emeline Cheval than Gabe ever imagined she’d have to show.

It was a struggle, reminding himself she was EmyIzzy, for Goddess’s sake. Not a fuck buddy. Besides, he’d just had excellent after-run sex with Aaron. There was no way he was going to screw with Em after what he’d been doing with her brother a few hours ago. Nope. Wasn’t going there.

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So that should give you an idea of what I’ve been up to, and what’s coming. Dark Refuge is out now, and it will be awhile before my St. Martin’s Press books release, but I’m hoping to slip another Spirit Wild book in between now and the time when the SMPs are out. I’m not going to be hanging out on Facebook as much, but I always answer my email, so don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have questions.

Julianne, I’d like to give away a couple of print copies of Dark Moon, if you’d be so kind to pick winners for me. Now I really need to get back to work, but thanks so much for stopping by.

Kate Douglas

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I'd be happy to Kate. Ok commenters, leave Kate some love!!! Answer this question: Have you read any of Kate's Chanku books?  Do you have a favorite?

Two random commenters will chosen. This is a US ONLY giveaway since the books are print. Kate will also be signing these books for! So make sure to leave your email so I can contact you if you win.

Title: Dark Refuge

Author: Kate Douglas

Series: Spirit Wild #4
Genre: Paranormal/Erotic Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing

Publication Date: May 11, 2014

Print: Last week of May 2014

Blurb:

Gabriel Cheval has watched his packmates find love, but he wonders if there will ever be a woman for him, one who is his perfect match. He doesn’t expect to find her in Emeline Isobelle Cheval. They share a last name, and though they’re not related, Gabe still treated little “EmyIzzy” as a bratty kid sister. Now Emeline is all grown up, and she needs Gabe’s help. But Em’s troubles are even darker and deeper than the human trafficking ring she’s uncovered. There’s a terrible darkness in her soul, and a horror inside Em can’t fight. Gabe offers all he has—but is  his light and love enough to bring Em safely out of her Dark Refuge?

Emeline Cheval has always felt a darkness in her soul, an emptiness she blamed on her controlling parents. After years of unrest, Emy has finally found some sense of peace by living quietly far away from her family and her pack. But her world is thrown into chaos when she discovers a fellow Chanku trapped in a human trafficking and prostitution ring. Now Emy must turn to the very pack she left behind for help. 

On the outside Gabe Cheval has it all. Stunningly handsome and strong, he’s a prominent and valuable member of the pack—but he carries a fear that he will never find a woman of his own. He remembers Emy from his childhood, and he’s shocked when he goes to help her and discovers that the silly young girl has grown into a sensuous and beautiful young woman—one who tantalizes him with the sense that she could be the perfect mate to finally end his loneliness. 

But even as Gabe and Emy come together to rescue the captive woman and explore the undeniable attraction building between them, the dark menace that lurks deep in Emeline’s heart threatens to push them apart. Through Gabe’s loving and erotic touch and Emy’s open and passionate trust in him, they uncover a horrible secret that could threaten the very core of the Chanku hierarchy.

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Title: Dark Moon
Author: Kate Douglas
Series Spirit Wild #3
Genre: Paranormal/Erotic Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Publication date: January 28, 2014

Blurb:
Chanku spirit guide Igmutaka has known since the day he held the newborn daughter of Tala and Mik Fuentes in his hands, that she would grow up to be his. Unfortunately, no one thought to copy Mikaela Star on the message. After years of avoiding her overbearing spirit guide, Star has decided to return to Montana and face the beautiful and irritating man who has haunted her nights for much too long.

But first, she takes a small vacation in California, where Igmutaka just happens to be waiting.

Sunny Daye has known this day was coming. She and Ig have been lovers for years, but both of them accept that they are not meant to be a mated pair. When Igmutaka tells Sunny her man is "out there, and coming closer," she can barely contain her excitement. But Fen Ahlberg is not at all what Sunny expected--in fact, he is so much more that his mere existence will change the Chanku forever.


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Title: Dark Spirit
Author: Kate Douglas
Series Spirit Wild #2
Genre: Paranormal/Erotic Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing
Publication date ebook: January 6, 2014
Publication date print: January 20, 2014

Blurb:
Romy Sarika has spent much of her life suffering at the hands of a sadistic cult leader. Twenty years earlier she watched him kill her mother, and now she waits to suffer the same fate. But when the self-proclaimed prophet orders Romy killed, the wolf inside her--the one she has tried to call--rises up, and for the first time she shifts. She escapes, leaving death and chaos in her wake.

Jace Wolf and Gabe Cheval, two powerful Chanku on their annual survey of wild wolf packs in the Pacific Northwest come across a dying wolf. When Jace uses his abilities to heal the animal, he makes an unexpected discovery: the wolf is a shapeshifter. Now only does he heal her terrible wounds, he helps Romy unleash sensual desires in her that are as new and intense as her wolf-like abilities. But just as Romy is opening herself to this erotic world and the passionate connections she’s forming with both men, danger closes in.

Bent on revenge and driven by bloodlust, cult members pursue the trio. With their lives at stake and the safety of the Chanku race in jeopardy, Jace, Romy and Gabe must fight to save themselves and the future of their kind.

To my readers:
This is the first of my Spirit Wild stories to be published independently. I wrote it to fit between Dark Wolf (April 2013) and Dark Moon (February 2014) for an early January release. Though the book is self-published, it is available as both ebook, and print. I've got a terrific editor and support team in Beyond the Page Publishing, and I'm very proud of this first indie-release in the series. I hope readers will continue to follow my Chanku--I've still got a lot of stories to tell.

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Print: Dark Spirit (Spirit Wild) (Volume 2)
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Title: Dark Wolf
Author: Kate Douglas
Series Spirit Wild #1
Genre: Paranormal/Erotic Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Kensington Books ~Imprint-Aphrodisia
Publication date ebook: April 30, 2013
Publication date print: April 30, 2013

Blurb:
It is a bold new beginning for the Chanku. For so long they kept their shapeshifting ability secret, but now they have assimilated into the world in ways they once never thought possible. Still there are those who want to destroy them, with dark powers of their own...

The CEO of Cheval International, Lily Cheval chooses to live alone, but a series of rapes and murders leave her wary and worried for her fellow Chanku. Then she meets Sebastian Xenakis and the connection is intense and immediate. The son of a charismatic cult leader, Sebastian is a mysteriously sensual man who uses magic to shift into wolf form. He and Lily come together in a moment of supreme ecstasy, succumbing to a primal passion that leaves Lily shaken but utterly alive. Is Sebastian her lifetime mate or is he her worst enemy?

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I should have just said, "it's all about me," right? But it's true, you know...each of us takes our own road on our journey to whatever we end up doing, and I really do believe that some people just seem to know they are meant to write. I've felt that way since I was little, but it took me a while to figure out exactly what course my career was going to take. I started out writing radio copy for KCEY radio in Turlock, California back in 1972. How could I know at the time that those 30 and 60 second commercials would help me write "back cover copy" as an author? I also wrote and illustrated an educational cartoon strip for mosquito abatement districts around the country for a number of years. If you remember Skeeter Mosquito cartoon booklets (they were handed out in a lot of elementary schools) from the seventies and eighties, that was me. Fortunately, they had little if no impact on my writing...

In the mid-eighties, I was a reporter for a small town weekly newspaper where I covered everything from high school sports to drug busts, including a huge forest fire that burned much too close to our house. I got a lot out of that job--how to meet deadlines, how to write concise prose (well, I do try... ) and what people are really like in emergencies. How they react when terrible things happen, or wonderful things. I think I connected more with a world outside mine during that short three year stint than I ever would have in my fairly insulated middle-class life. It was an experience that changed the way I see the world around me.

All during this time, I was reading romances, and thinking that one day I'd like to write them. One night I actually dreamed an entire story. I felt as if it was some sort of gift from an unknown muse, and I got up and wrote--in longhand--as much as I could recall. I still have that legal sized notepad, covered with my always almost illegible handwriting. From those scribbles, I started to write. 

I entered the first three chapters in an unpublished writers' contest and won first prize. I thought I'd be published within the year, so I worked really hard at finishing the book. I called it Rite of Passage, and then I found the names of publishers willing to look at a manuscript without an agent (there weren't many) and I sent it off. And waited. You could only send to one publisher at a time (they didn't take simultaneous submissions) and of course it was printed and mailed in a big box with enough postage to get it back if you wanted it returned. It was a slow, arduous, and ugly process. 

And depressing, when the rejections showed up, often months after submission. For what it's worth, many submissions and rejections followed. While I waited, I wrote. And wrote some more. Rite of Passage was never sold, but...

In 1998, I sold a different story to a small ebook publisher, and of course this was before anyone knew what an ebook was. I continued writing for epublishers: Hard Shell Word Factory, now owned by Mundania Press, Ellora's Cave, and Changeling Press. It wasn't until 2005, a full twenty years after finishing that first romance and after writing many other stories for epublishers, that I signed with Kensington Publishing in New York. That first book got its start at Changeling Press as an online serial, and it changed my life.

In January 2006, Kensington launched their Aphrodisia imprint of erotic romance with Wolf Tales, a compilation of the first five stories from my online serial at Changeling Press. It's a sexy paranormal series about a lost race of shapeshifters called Chanku. I was the imprint's lead author, eventually writing twelve novels and nine novellas to complete the Wolf Tales series. After that series ended, I wrote an erotic science fiction romance series--Dream Catchers--which included the opening novella, Dream Catcher in the NightShift anthology, and two novels: Dream Bound followed by Dream Unchained which tied up the story arc. 

During that period, I was also writing a series for Kensington's Zebra imprint. DemonSlayers was completed with four novels--DemonFire, HellFire, StarFire, and CrystalFire, as well as the novella Crystal Dreams in the Nocturnal anthology. But I really missed my Chanku, and I returned to their world with the Spirit Wild series, which follows the lives of the children of the original Chanku characters from Wolf Tales. I'm having fun with that series, even though Kensington is no longer publishing them. Paranormal romances aren't as profitable as they once were, but luckily I have wonderful, loyal readers who don't seem to mind who publishes the stories, as long as I keep writing them.

The dynamic of the original Wolf Tales series has changed, and my shape shifting Chanku now live in a world that knows of their existence. The first book, Dark Wolf, released in April 2013. Both Dark Spirit and Dark Moon released in January 2014. They can be read in either order, and all three are available in both ebook and print format. Dark Wolf and Dark Moon are published by Kensington Publishing, while Dark Spirit is the first I've brought out independently, with assistance from Beyond the Page Publishing.

My husband is still putting up with me after well over four decades, though I'm convinced it's got to be hell living with me when I'm on deadline...which is most of the time. We've got two grown kids and a total of six perfect grandchildren. Doug and I have recently moved out of the mountains and are now back in the small wine country town of Healdsburg, California. And, as always, I'm usually in my office, working on the next book. 

You can reach me by email at kate@katedouglas.com

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If you'd like to see how the Chanku stories started, visit Kate's website for more info on the Wolf Tales series.

Thanks for being here today Kate!  I hope you'll stop by next Wednesday when Ciana Stone will be here.

Author Wednesdays-Lisa Carlisle!!!!

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Welcome to For Whom The Books Toll. Today it's Author Wednesday and my guest Author is Lisa Carlisle.
Lisa is sharing the top 10 reasons Tracy falls for Danton in her book, Gargoyle's Embrace. So without further ado, here's Lisa.

Lisa Carlisle’s Top Ten for Gargoyle’s Embrace

Hi, I’m Lisa Carlisle and I write a hot paranormal erotic series for Ellora’s Cave called Underground Encounters. Thanks for having me here at For Whom the Book Tolls. I’m here to give you top ten reasons the heroine falls for the hero in Gargoyle’s Embrace. First, here’s a blurb for some background.  

Gargoyle’s Embrace

Fifth in the Underground Encounters series.

Tracy isn’t sure why she’s drawn to a particular gargoyle statue in the Goth club where she works. After the stone takes human form to protect her from her abusive ex, she brings the handsome, naked male to her apartment. It’s impossible to ignore the seductive appeal of a man sculpted like a Viking warrior.

Danton has only hours in human form to spend with the woman he has hungered for. He’s convinced what’s between them is more than hot sex, but he needs to convince Tracy of that before he turns back to stone.

A Romantica® paranormal erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

Top Ten Reasons Tracy Falls for Danton

1. Danton looks like a bronzed Viking warrior.

2. His existence as a gargoyle with its otherworldly magic.

3. His body is carved with rock hard muscles.

4. She discovers other parts of him are rock hard, too. ;)

5. His physical strength.

6. His patience.

7. The way he’s cared for Tracy from behind stone for eons.

8. He longs for her and makes her feel like the most beautiful woman alive.

9. He will do anything to protect her.

10. He will also let her fight her own battles.

If you’re interested in reading more, here’s an excerpt. Hope you enjoy it!

Lisa

Excerpt:

Tracy brushed her fingers over the smooth stone of the gargoyle perched at the end of the bar of the Vamps nightclub.

“I’m stuck with the late shift tonight,” she said. “But at least I took in some good money.”

She stood over the crouched gargoyle and ran her hand over the smooth area between its two horns, down the back of its head and over its hunched back where its two wings connected. “Thanks for always listening,” she said, aware of how foolish she sounded speaking to a statue. If anyone saw her, they’d think she was stone-cold crazy. She bent to kiss its smooth, chiseled stone cheek in gratitude.

Over the last few months, Tracy had begun talking to the stone gargoyle as if it were a companion whenever she had a few moments alone in the bar. Why she gravitated toward this one gargoyle while several others were perched around the club, she didn’t know. She found something compelling about it, drawing her in, and she often confided her secrets to it.

Tracy rested her hand on the gargoyle’s shoulder while she scanned the club. Bottles and cups were scattered in every dark corner and under the other perched gargoyles. The scent of sweat and spilled beer still permeated the club.

“Trace.”

Was it one of the guys out back? The guys she worked with were bringing out the trash and the bottles for recycling. The other bartenders had already settled up and left for the night. They rotated who could leave first and who had to stay to make sure they were stocked for the next night.

No, they knew better than to call her Trace.

“It’s Tracy,” she said, turning to face the intruder.

And stared into the face of her ex.

“What are you doing here, Brian?” The muscles in her body tensed as she gauged the distance between her and the pepper spray behind the bar should she need it.

She thought she felt a tiny movement under her hand.

No, she had to be losing her mind. As if stone could move.

She kept her hand on the stone like a security blanket, almost gripping it now that Brian had appeared.

“I came to see what you were doing tonight. Thought maybe we could hang out.” The way he slurred the words indicated he’d already had one too many, a bad sign.

“Definitely not. The restraining order should make that clear.”

“Babe, I was in a rough place and I took it out on you. Let’s put the past behind us and try again.”

The cold stone felt warmer beneath her hand. How strange. Was she so heated from the tension of Brian arriving that her palm could warm cool stone?

“No, Brian. I’ve given you too many chances and each time it ended worse than the time before.”

“Babe.” He approached her. “I would never hurt you again.”

“Don’t come any closer.” She moved away from the gargoyle to get to her purse behind the bar.

“Trace, you’re soooo dramatic.” He moved behind the bar.

Tracy was distracted by the gargoyle statue behind him. It was changing color, from gray stone to what appeared to be—flesh.

“Come on, we were good together. Don’t you miss the sex?”

The stone wings of the gargoyle statue unfurled into enormous sleek, black, feathered ones. The gargoyle reshaped itself, rising from a crouched position to stand on two legs to a full height well over six feet.

And its head. The horns sank back into the stone while light-blond hair sprouted to take their place, growing past its broad shoulders. Within a few seconds, the grotesque stone creature she found lovable had transformed into a breathtaking male with flawless bronze skin, long blond hair and the magnificent physique of a Viking warrior. Who stood before them stark naked.

“Holy shit!” she exclaimed, eyes widening.

“I know, babe. The sex was awesome.”

She fumbled for her purse, searching for the damn spray. She wasn’t even sure who she was going to direct it at now with two threats facing her.

It was too late. Brian had grabbed her wrists and tried to kiss her.

“

Get off me!”

She attempted to knee him in his testicles, but he deflected the blow by turning his body to the side.

Enormous black wings surrounded Brian and a second later he was lifted off the ground. Brian exclaimed, “What the―” which was cut off as he was thrown over the bar onto the empty dance floor.

He scrambled to his feet on unsteady legs. The gargoyle stepped over to him in a few massive strides. While Tracy’s gaze paused on his sculpted buttocks, the gargoyle raised one of his sinewy legs and kicked Brian in the gut. Brian groaned and clutched his stomach. The gargoyle lifted a foot over Brian’s head.

Tracy screamed while Brian shielded his face with his forearm to brace against the gargoyle stomping on his head.

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About Lisa Carlisle

Lisa loves stories with dark, brooding, isolated characters (Heathcliff, Dracula, Darth Vader and Severus Snape) and tough, independent, caring heroines. She’s wanted to write since the sixth grade and is thrilled to now be a multi-published, award-winning author.

She spent a short time in the Marine Corps, living in Parris Island, the California desert, and Okinawa, Japan. She then backpacked alone around the US and Europe and lived in Paris, France, before returning to the U.S. to buy a bookstore. Now she lives outside of Boston with her husband and children and draws on these experiences in her stories.

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