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Exclusive Excerpt of Leopard's Blood for #Horrorweek
I'm so excited that Leopard's Blood will be released on October 24th!
As part of our #Horrorweek celebration I thought I'd give you a sample from the book!
Excerpt-
She wasn’t going to text him to come to her. Joshua Tregre paced back and forth along the upper balcony of the plantation house. In the past two hours, he’d looked over toward Sonia’s home a hundred times. Evan told him repeatedly he was going to wear a hole in wood that had withstood a hundred years or more of wear and tear.
“She’s afraid, Joshua. Look at you. You’re intimidating as hell and you scared her,” Evan pointed out.
He knew that. He didn’t want to hear it. He’d been crazy with her. He couldn’t keep his hands off her. “Never thought I’d find her,” He admitted to his best friend. “Never. Not in a million years and certainly not now, not when I’ve got this mess on my hands. We’ve got a huge deal coming up and I can’t afford to be thinking about my runaway mate.” That was all he was thinking about.
Normally, Joshua was known for his cool. His utter calm. He wasn’t a hothead like so many leopards, that was why he’d been chosen to take over Rafe Cordeau’s territory. He didn’t get ruffled no matter the circumstance. Until Sonia. She was beautiful, sexy, intelligent and scared to death.
Shadow, his leopard gave him impressions of a fiery car dropping into the ocean, of Gatita and Sonia running for their lives. Gatita hadn’t shown much else, only giving the big male the impression of the two females dead and that meant they were safe. From that, he’d gleaned, someone had tried to kill them and thought they’d succeeded. That was unacceptable to him.
“She’s in trouble, Evan, big trouble and she isn’t going to tell me about it.”
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If you'd like to read the entire first chapter you can find that here-
First Chapter Leopard's Blood
As part of our #Horrorweek celebration I thought I'd give you a sample from the book!
Excerpt-
She wasn’t going to text him to come to her. Joshua Tregre paced back and forth along the upper balcony of the plantation house. In the past two hours, he’d looked over toward Sonia’s home a hundred times. Evan told him repeatedly he was going to wear a hole in wood that had withstood a hundred years or more of wear and tear.
“She’s afraid, Joshua. Look at you. You’re intimidating as hell and you scared her,” Evan pointed out.
He knew that. He didn’t want to hear it. He’d been crazy with her. He couldn’t keep his hands off her. “Never thought I’d find her,” He admitted to his best friend. “Never. Not in a million years and certainly not now, not when I’ve got this mess on my hands. We’ve got a huge deal coming up and I can’t afford to be thinking about my runaway mate.” That was all he was thinking about.
Normally, Joshua was known for his cool. His utter calm. He wasn’t a hothead like so many leopards, that was why he’d been chosen to take over Rafe Cordeau’s territory. He didn’t get ruffled no matter the circumstance. Until Sonia. She was beautiful, sexy, intelligent and scared to death.
Shadow, his leopard gave him impressions of a fiery car dropping into the ocean, of Gatita and Sonia running for their lives. Gatita hadn’t shown much else, only giving the big male the impression of the two females dead and that meant they were safe. From that, he’d gleaned, someone had tried to kill them and thought they’d succeeded. That was unacceptable to him.
“She’s in trouble, Evan, big trouble and she isn’t going to tell me about it.”
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If you'd like to read the entire first chapter you can find that here-
First Chapter Leopard's Blood
