Hawk’s Heart (Stranger Creatures book 5) is finally finished! I had a couple of unexpected health issues, followed by some unexpected inspiration for a couple of short dystopian science fiction stories, as well as a ton of poetry, but I’m happy to say Hawk’s Heart is with my publisher and editor now, and will be available soon!
About Hawk’s Heart:
Interior designer and empathic psy, Jordan Hayes, is
overworked and stressed out. With her best friend and business partner, Val,
away on her honeymoon and their office manager out on medical leave, work is
piling up into a nearly unmanageable mess. Even worse, her ex is blackmailing
her with a cryptic threat about exposing the fact that she’s an empathic psy.
Jordan has never met anyone with abilities like hers until she crosses paths
with a sexy, scarred, and seemingly cold-hearted man who is intent on bursting
her bubble of safety.
Nobody’s ever accused empathic psy and hawk shifter, Luke
Daniels, of being a cinnamon roll but he’s not as cold and mean as he appears.
Life has made him guarded, but when he meets interior designer Jordan, he falls
fast and hard for the kind, beautiful psy. But would she ever want a guy like
him?
An entrepreneur attempting to create an indestructible
empire of greed has his sights set on Jordan, convinced she’s an easy target.
Jordan and Luke will have to put everything on the line to survive and save the
lives of dozens of captives. Will the bond growing between the two of them get
severed or will they win the fight against everyone and everything standing in
their way?
Short excerpt:
Luke was a rare hawk shifter, which came with an unusual
capability. People in the shifter community seemed to look upon shifters who
could become something in between shifter and human with a mixture of fear,
awe, and mistrust. Would Jordan be afraid of him? Would she even want him
knowing who he was and what he could become? For more than a few nights?
For reasons he couldn’t explain, he
didn’t want to jump into an arrangement where he and Jordan both had a little
fun and agreed to walk away. He didn’t know if he could walk away from
her. And that was a problem.
Hawk’s Heart will be available soon,
but in the meantime, you can get caught up on the rest of the series. The best
part? Each book can stand alone because each story in my Stranger Creatures
series features a different couple on their road to happily-ever-after.
Welcome to the town of Great
Oaks, where the road to love is full of strange and wonderful surprises.
Wolf’s Challenge (Stranger
Creatures book 1)
When Sydney
left Seattle two years ago, she was scared, traumatized, and done with men for
good. Now, she has a good job, a hobby that's fast becoming a second career,
and best of all, she's adopted a little girl named Angel. Life is good and
Sydney's not about to let charming lawyer Derrick mess that up, no matter how
sexy he is, or how sweet he seems.
Things aren't
always as they appear in the town of Great Oaks, Virginia. Derrick
isn’t the ladies’ man Sydney thinks he is, but he does have a few secrets, such
as his ability to transform into a powerful wolf at will.
Can Derrick
convince Sydney to give him a chance, something more than her elusive maybe?
More importantly, should he? He's still trying to forgive himself for being at
the wheel during the accident that killed his son.
A troubled
woman running from her guilty conscience has Sydney and Derrick in her
crosshairs, and she’ll do whatever it takes to win her game. Will Sydney and
Derrick survive long enough to be together?
Excerpt:
“We’ll meet soon to discuss progress.” The rich, deep tone
of his voice filled the room and surrounded her like a favorite song. He looked
straight at her. His bloodshot, blue-gray eyes were unlike any color she had
ever mixed with her watercolors or oil paints. While she was trying to decide
which shades of gray she could mix with the blue, Derrick had finished talking.
She’d been in Sydneyland, mixing paint colors and listening to the timbre of
his voice like it was a background song.
“Uh, what? Sorry.” Her cheeks got hot at being caught not
paying attention, though he would never need to know why her mind had drifted.
He laughed, the sound beautiful and…kind of rusty. “We’ll
plan on meeting up again soon to discuss progress,” he told her.
Meet? Soon? The man made her break out into a sweat when she
had to talk with him. She liked him, didn’t want to like him, and hated making
small talk with people she didn’t know well. Ignoring him when they were
running would be simple, but business meetings were different, especially if
they weren’t as mercifully short as the one she’d just endured. Sydney chided
herself for being so silly. Derrick was merely a ridiculously attractive man
with whom she would be meeting about purely professional matters. Why couldn’t
she make herself feel like it was no big deal? Why did the universe want to
make things difficult? Can’t anything ever be easy?
She nodded and politely showed him the door.
“It was nice to see you again, Sydney.” His voice made her
knees weak. Clearly, something was wrong with her. They could handle business
by e-mail. She could send him files. Yet, she wanted to hear the sound of his
voice again. Soon.
Bear’s Edge (book 2):
A boss can't
date her employee—simple as that. No matter how much Shayla wants to unravel a
few of Grant's mysteries and take her friendship with the shy, sarcastic man to
the next level, she's determined to keep her fantasies of him to herself.
After bear
shifter Grant lost his girlfriend and three best friends in a fire, he did his
best to shut himself off from everyone around him. Falling for Shayla wasn't
part of his plan, but after a kiss that leaves them both speechless and hungry
for more, Grant can't keep his desire for his boss under wraps any
longer.
When things
between the two of them get hotter than he could have imagined, Grant wonders
if some of his darker desires will be too much for Shayla or will she embrace
the needs he’s kept hidden for so long?
An obnoxious
reporter and Shayla's bitter ex have teamed up to chase down conspiracy
theories that could destroy Shayla's business and worse, put her life in
danger. To find their happily ever after, Shayla and Grant will have to trust
in each other and find a way to crush all the obstacles standing in their way.
Excerpt:
What is it about
Grant? Looking at the man beside her was no hardship; that was for damn
sure. He had the tall, broad body of a heavyweight UFC fighter, but he never
used his size to intimidate the people around him. Shayla wanted to sweep his
wavy, slightly shaggy dark hair out of his gorgeous brown eyes. His dark hair
and eyes complemented his bronze skin. He was hot, in a serious, dangerous kind
of way. But in the two and a half years he had worked for her, she had hardly
learned anything about him.
The waitress at the popular nature-themed restaurant, the
Greenhouse Effect, showed them to their table. The plants growing around all
the walls and columns made the place look like a wild garden. The smell of
lavender and jasmine mixed with the delicious scents drifting from the kitchen.
She tried not to drool, but breakfast seemed like eons ago. Shayla sat next to
Sydney and across from Grant. A too-tall centerpiece of yellow-and-purple
flowers blocked most of her view. Being short occasionally sucked. Grant moved
the centerpiece to the side and gave her a shy smile. His smile made her want
answers, among other things.
Grant the mystery man—a delicious mystery Shayla would like
to unravel, piece by piece, layer by layer. Ah,
but I can’t. I’m his boss. In a different lifetime, if we didn’t have the whole
boss-employee obstacle going on…. No harm in looking, though, just a
little, since he sat so close. She promised herself to keep her thoughts
G-rated—okay, maybe PG-13. Grant had a talent with numbers and paid attention
to detail. Also, he was a little shy and standoffish to a lot of people when it
came to anything other than work. Shayla wondered where he sometimes went in
his head, because, every now and then, his smile slipped from his face, just
for a second, before being replaced with one a little harder. None of my business, she reminded
herself.
She had really wanted to hug him this morning after seeing
him so frustrated but decided it might be wiser and more appropriate to show
him there were a few people on his side. Seeing him break things and try to be
all strong and humorous about it made Shayla want to unravel the Grant mystery
even more. It kind of hurt to watch him pretending to be fine, but all she
could offer him was lunch and good conversation. Hopefully, Mr. Strong and
Silent—Sydney called him that sometimes, although never to his face—knew Shayla
and Sydney cared. And Shayla did care. Because
he’s a friend. Just a friend.
Grant raised his soda in a toast. “To things not being
worse,” he announced with a rueful half smile. “And, uh”—he cleared his
throat—“to good company.” He nodded at Sydney, and when he met Shayla’s gaze,
he held it. In his dark eyes, she saw hunger, wide-open desire, and about a
million other things she couldn’t puzzle out. Grant looked at her that way
sometimes, and she did her best to ignore it. He might have a small crush on
her, or he could have a thing for petite, small-breasted girls possessing a great
fashion sense.
Shayla forced a smile as they toasted, pretending she wasn’t
experiencing several different kinds of inappropriate thoughts and feelings for
a sexy, complicated man who was her employee and also her friend. She needed to
behave and remember things could never go any further than a panty-melting
gaze.
Tiger’s Last Chance (book 3):
An investigation into missing shifters leads Detective Nikki
Jackson to the discovery of a radical political group’s horrifying plot for
dominance. Traitors are embedded within the very organizations meant to keep
shifters safe. As the list of people she can trust dwindles, she calls on private
investigator Sean Whitman to help her unravel a web of deceit.
As Nikki and Sean fight for survival, his fear of losing her
could become a reality. Will he get one last chance to show her he loves her?
Excerpt:
For the briefest moment, Nikki felt the depth to which Sean
might be capable of pushing her. His kiss was crushing and brutal. His tongue
pushed past her lips and his grip in her hair tightened. If desire were a vine,
it would have wrapped itself around her veins and encased her heart. The heat
between them flooded her. There was a sweetness, too, in his kiss, and the
sweetness made her burn hotter.
A polite cough from inside the waiting car put a quick end
to things. Sean pulled away and met her gaze. No words, but she got the
message. She wasn’t alone. Comfort and friendship; he’d probably meant the kiss
to comfort her and had gotten carried away in the heat of the moment. He’d
carried her away with him, and she wanted to take him so much further into the
unknown.
With each second, each step towards the waiting car, she
tried to find reasons and more reasons to ignore her growing attraction to
Sean. The number one reason to forget about the kiss they’d
shared—relationships were trouble. She had plenty of other amazing things in
her life, including her career, her volunteer work, and her band, even though
the band rarely played anywhere because the members had trouble aligning their
schedules. She didn’t need a man. Besides, he was probably still messed up over
Sydney. Also, he was a regular. Or mostly regular. Not to mention he lived over
a thousand miles away in Texas. She should tell him the kiss was a mistake. One
look at him and she couldn’t bring herself to say the words. The kiss they
shared had been anything but a mistake.
Coyote’s Vow (book 4):
A brutal experiment left Kylie
Claremont with telekinetic abilities and she wants answers. The position she’s
offered as a liaison between Shifters United and the Psy Guild will give her
the chance to find the elusive research company that disappeared after
experimenting on her. The only thing standing in her way is an arrogant coyote
shifter who is convinced that Kylie is a threat to shifters. She never expected
to fall for the gruff, mistrusting man.
Coyote shifter Trevor Ryland will
never trust the psy. Still, he knows the time has come to strengthen the
tentative alliance between shifters and psy. He fully intends to ignore his attraction to the beautiful psy liaison,
but he’d never forgive himself if something happened to her. His plan to
protect Kylie from afar is wrecked when they’re forced to work together. She
could be his mate but Trevor can’t let that happen. The struggle to deny his
need for the one woman with the power to destroy him gets harder every day.
Trevor and Kylie uncover a web
of greed and deceit during their search for a travelling research group.
They’ll have to work fast and fight hard to stop the CEO’s latest plans or
shifters and psy everywhere will suffer.
Excerpt:
Kylie’s strength
and fire as well as her obvious intelligence appealed to Trevor on a level he
couldn’t describe. I can’t be with
her. His reminder to himself
lacked certainty. As soon as his time watching out for her came to an end, he’d
get her out of his mind. Until then, how hard could it be to ignore his
attraction to her? He was strong. He’d been on countless dangerous missions for
the Shifter Enforcement Army and Shifters United. He’d been injured, lost team
members, been down roads of grief and sadness that seemed to have no end, but
he’d survived. A pretty woman with a smart mouth and intensely beautiful brown
eyes wouldn’t be his downfall. He could handle occasionally working with Kylie.
He could handle having a massive crush on her and he could ignore the fantasies
of her that liked to invade his dreams. He would be fine. Everything would be
fine.
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