C.M. Stunich's Blog

Update - all things C.M.!

TL;DR, Chaos at Prescott High is coming soon as a live release followed by Mayhem at Prescott High. Very Bad Wizards releases on the 18th of March. The Bully Me antho releases March 24th, and the full-length version of my story from that antho releases May 1st (blurb included below, cover reveal coming soon). Book signings, copies ordered from my website, and audiobook info included below.

New Release: The Ruthless Boys

New Release!Happy August, my friends! The sequel to my mystery/bully romance "The Secret Girl" is finally here! And it's a long one, too: 100,000 words of awesome to sink your teeth into. When you get to the end, you might want to come chat with other readers about it on our discussion thread here or here. Enjoy! P.S. I am currently working on book #3, "The Forever Crew", so it shouldn't be too long of a wait! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WM1YF41 START BOOK #1 HERE ---> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S7JSLT3Blurb:Psst, I know a secret. The same secret that the Student Council—the super-rich, super handsome elite of Adamson All-Boys Academy—knows, too. Jenica Woodruff, the only girl to ever attend the academy before I showed up, didn't commit suicide: she was murdered. Now, someone is after me, too, but no matter where I go, the killer follows. My new high school isn't safe, and turns out, neither is my old one. I'm not a member of the Student Council, but after everything we've been through together, after the horrible things we've seen, I may as well be. These ruthless boys have taken me under their wing. Church, the fearless leader (and hopeless coffee addict). Ranger, the bada** VP (and naked baker). The identical McCarthy twins (and MMA enthusiasts). And Spencer, the boy who was willing to question everything about himself to fall for me … oh, Spencer. Murder and romance are both in the air at Adamson; I'm just not sure which one will kill me first.UPCOMING RELEASE After I launch "The Forever Crew", the final book in the "Adamson All-Boys Academy" series, I'll be releasing "Orientation", a crossover novel featuring characters from that series as well as my "Rich Boys of Burberry Prep series". It will take place after the end of both series, and have POVs from the main female characters. After that, I'll be releasing "Rich Boys of Bornstead U", a new series featuring Marnye and her boys in college. Stay tuned for more info!Need to start the Adamson Academy series? Click here!Need to start the Burberry Prep series? Click here!

New High School Bully Romance

NEW RELEASEIt's time for another blog post! As you might know, I don't do this very often. I'm super active in my readers' group The Bookish Bat Cave, but I don't do a lot else on social media as I'm mostly interested in writing more books for y'all to enjoy. If you're reading this on Goodreads, just know that I don't answer any messages or comments left there (I wish I could, but there's not enough time in the day!); if you'd like to contact me, I do answer emails at author(at)cmstunich.com.I have a couple of quick announcements for this post, the first of which is my brand-new release, "The Secret Girl". This is a reverse harem, bully/mystery high school romance. If you've read my "Rich Boys of Burberry Prep" series, this is much lighter, and with a murder-mystery plot going on alongside the romance.You can grab book one here, and get ready for the release of book two, "The Ruthless Boys" which is expected on or before July 3rd. The final book in the series will release by the end of July, and there will be a crossover novel featuring the characters from both this series--Adamson All-Boys Academy--and the Rich Boys of Burberry Prep.Blurb:Shh, I have a secret.The sinfully gorgeous members of the Student Council—Church, Ranger, Spencer, Micah and Tobias—can't ever find out.I already get picked on because my father's the headmaster.I don't need them to know I’m the only girl, too; I’d rather dress like a boy.Adamson All-Boys Academy now has its only female student, but I'm not about to be their guinea pig.Not when there's a secret at this school nobody is talking about. Not when the last female student here ended up dead.UPCOMING RELEASEThe fourth and final book in the "Rich Boys of Burberry Prep" series, "In the Arms of the Elite", will be released on or before June 6th. Check out the blurb below, or start the series by clicking here. The first three books are currently available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.Choose between the rich boys.I’d rather face the Harpies than make that choice.How can my four years at Burberry Prep really be coming to an end?No, Tristan, Zayd, Creed, Zack, and Windsor are everything to me right now.My strength, my passion, my heart, my empathy, my joy.Love is a cruel master, but I have no one to blame for this but myself.***We fell in love with the charity case.Idols of the school, the kings of the campus, and we’re nothing without her.Marnye Elizabeth Reed.This girl has twisted our world upside down, but the Infinity Club is about to knock us all on our asses.Big money, political ties, family bonds, obligations: shit is going down at the academy.The rest of our lives, the rest of her life … it all comes down to this one, final moment.UPCOMING RELEASEThe fourth book in the "The Seven Mates of Zara Wolf" series, "Pack Ivory Emerald", will be released on or before June 20th, pre-order available here. There are currently four of seven books out in the series now, and you can start them by clicking here.This series is reverse harem, new adult, urban fantasy featuring werewolves, vampires, fae, demons, angels, and witches. NEW RELEASES*It's been a busy few months!* LOLFEATURED UPCOMING RELEASE

All The Best News

Hey everyone! This is C.M. Stunich checking in with a blog post. I know I don't often post on here, but I'd rather write y'all more books and post less, so that's what I've been doing. ;) If you haven't seen the news recently, I started a high school bully romance series called "Rich Boys of Burberry Prep". Books 1, 2, and 3 are all out, and I'm working on book 4 for this month which will complete the series.I've got quite a few other projects ongoing at the same time, including finishing up some of my unfinished series. I'm going to do a quick post here, but if you really want to keep up on all my latest, check out my readers' group here: facebook.com/groups/thebookishbatcave for all the latest including exclusive teasers, cover reveals, giveaways, announcements, and more.If you're seeing this post on Goodreads (I have my blog set to auto-update on there), then I'm sorry if I haven't responded to any messages/comments. I don't often get a chance to do much with Goodreads, but if you have a question/comment for me, feel free to email me at author(at)cmstunich.com.RICH BOYS OF BURBERRY PREPThe first and most exciting bit of news I have is about my new reverse harem/bully/high school romance series "Rich Boys of Burberry Prep". The first three books are out now, and the fourth will be out this month (May 2019), completing the series. All three are available on Amazon Kindle/Kindle Unlimited. (the links below go straight to Amazon)Book 1 ---> books2read.com/FRBBook 2 ---> books2read.com/FRB2Book 3 ---> books2read.com/FRB3Break the new girl. That should be easy, right? Trash like her doesn’t belong at Burberry Prep. No, Marnye Reed is going down, and we plan to make a spectacle out of it. Let’s see who can make her fall in love first. Bet’s on. Any takers?***Take on the filthy rich boys. They’re the idols of the school, veritable gods on earth. Old Money. New money. A rising star. These guys are nothing like the ones at my old school. I might come from nothing, but I’m determined to be someone, and I won’t let them get in my way. They say they’ll make my life a living hell; I think they mean to keep that promise.UNDERCOVER SINNERS TRILOGY w/ TATE JAMESSo, once upon a time, there were two authors who liked to co-write about magical plumbers (click here to see what that's all about). They decided to write a sexy, dark romance under the pen name "Kate Morgan". After a while, they retired the name, and now they (and by they, you know, I mean us LOL) are re-releasing it with a beautiful new cover and a clean edit.Releases May 14th. Pre-order on Amazon here ---> books2read.com/ABF(will also be on KU)UPCOMING BOOK SIGNINGComing up in 2020, I'll be returning to Australia for BABE -- Ballgowns and Books Events -- which is an incredible signing organized by my co-write buddy Tate James and her co-write buddy Jaymin Eve.The line-up is beyond incredible including authors like Lauren Kate, Kelley Armstrong, and Marissa Marr.Tickets are on on sale here ---> Click HereAnd you can pre-order books from me here to pick up at the signing ---> Click HereFacebook group --->https://www.facebook.com/ballgownsandbooksevent/RECOMMENDED READSFrom the same ladies who are organizing the above signing, Jaymin Eve and my fellow co-writer Tate James have a dark high school/bully romance they've just released. Book two should be out very soon, and has a pre-order. It's next on my to-read list, and with a dynamic duo like this creating the story, you know it just has to be dope AF.Book 1 ---> books2read.com/darklegacy1Book 2 ---> books2read.com/darklegacy2They rule my new town, my school, and with more money than God, there’s very little out of their reach.Four gorgeous, perfect, scary boys. There used to be five, but one of them died, leaving a fifth position that I now fill. I didn't ask for this. I didn't want to be part of this billionaire-boys-club. But no one cares about what I want.Sebastian Beckett is the worst of them. Their leader. He draws me in, and strips me of every defense I have. He calls me Butterfly, but it's not a pet name, it's a threat. Beck wants nothing more than to break my wings, pin me to a board and watch me writhe.He wants to see me broken. Body, heart and soul.And what these elite want, they get.Only they've never met Riley Jameson.Let the battle begin.

Complete Series, woot!

Guess what time it is?Time for another book release? Make it two.Time for a completed series? Done.♠️♥️♣️♦️ NEW RELEASE/COMPLETE SERIES! ♦️♣️♥️♠️"The time has come," the author said,"to talk of many things.Of books and series; time to readOf Allison's hot Kings."Book three is LIVE!! And with that, the Harem of Hearts series is COMPLETE! Almost 300,000 words make up this dark fantasy reverse harem romance. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. ;)BOOK 3: books2read.com/cmsaliceinwonderlandrh3BOOK 2: books2read.com/aliceinwonderlandrh2BOOK 1: books2read.com/aliceinwonderlandrhAll free with Kindle unlimited, or only $3.99 a piece.Paperbacks are available for books 1 and 2, and book 3 is expected by the end of the month. An audiobook is available for book 1 with book 2 expected by December; book 3 audiobook expected by January's end. The other new release I have this week is a co-write with Tate James (author of "Kit Davenport" and "Royal Trials: Imposter"). Our story is a reverse harem, fairy-tale retelling based on the Russian fairytale "Vasilisa the Beautiful". This is a novella length story and it's included in a box set with over twenty other novels, including one by G. Bailey!! Grab it here---> books2read.com/OUAR

Winner of Blog Giveaway!

Thank you to all who entered my giveaway! We took everyone from here and the post in my readers group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebo... and combined the two since some of you were having issues leaving comments on my blog! The winner is Chelsea Jones! Chelsea, please email me to claim your prize! I'll need your email and you can contact me at author@cmstunich.com and we'll get your amazon gift card sent to you!

Blog Giveaway & New Release

So, if you take a look at this blog, you will see that I am absolutely terrible at updating it. Not only because I have quite a few tasks on my daily plate, but also because it doesn't seem to get much engagement. I focus most of my energy on my book club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebookishbatcaveHowever, I thought it might be fun if I did a daily update on here, something to let you know my progress as I work my way through my never-ending list of projects. Let me know what you think in the comments!For now, I'd like to celebrate my new release, and give you a quick run-through on what I've got planned:***NEW RELEASE: ALLISON AND THE TORRID TEA PARTY***books2read.com/aliceinwonderlandrh2The second book in my Harem of Hearts Series, Allison and the Torrid Tea Party, is out now and available to read with Kindle Unlimited. We're still working on getting Amazon to approve the paperback, and the audiobook will be out somewhere toward the end of November/early December.You can start book for FREE with Kindle Unlimited, here: books2read.com/aliceinwonderlandrhUPCOMING-Allison #3, releases October 22nd-The Family Spells, special reverse harem Halloween release, October 31st-Spirited #3, Zara Wolf #4, and more incoming!-More information will be posted tomorrow!**** GIVEAWAY! **** $20 Amazon Gift CardThis is a *blog only* giveaway! One winner will be chosen in 72 hours, and all you have to do to enter is comment below! The winner will be announced in another post in 3 days, and you'll need to email me your email address to claim your prize.

Pack Obsidian Gold - Chapter 1

Hello everyone! =D I've got another fun blog post for you today! As promised, I said when we hit 100 reviews of Pack Violet Shadow, I would post the first chapter for Pack Obsidian Gold.If you're not familiar with these books, this is a new adult/werewolves/vampires/reverse harem (one girl with seven alpha males as her love interests) series called The Seven Mates of Zara Wolf. The first two books are FREE to read with Kindle Unlimited, and book three is up for preorder with a December 31st release day (I'm doing a double release with Tate James' new book The Tiger's Ambush--eek!).If you haven't read this series, I highly recommend it as it's one of my all-time favorites--right up there with Groupie, Real Ugly, and Tasting Never. Give it a shot and let me know what you think! And for everyone who left a review on either Pack Ebon Red or Pack Violet Shadow--thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I hope you enjoy this sneak-peek!BOOK 1:books2read.com/packebonredBOOK 2:books2read.com/packvioletshadowBOOK 3:books2read.com/packobsidiangoldPACK OBSIDIAN GOLD(The Seven Mates of Zara Wolf #3)A werewolf pack is only as strong as its weakest link and ours … ours is a traitor. The only people I can trust now are my mates, the seven alpha males I call my own. Allies and enemies wear the same skins: witches, demons, faeries, vampires … werewolves. It's impossible to tell what's hiding beneath the carefully crafted facades, the sinful slashes of smiling lips. Magic died in our people long ago; today, it blinks sleepy eyes and wakes up. Ancient gods raise their heads, spirits once thought to be whispers of myth, urge us to fight. They give us the power to defend ourselves from those who would take our magic as their own. This war we're fighting, it started with a seed of hate centuries ago. Now, it's here, and the fates are unwavering in their predictions—the White Wolf heralds the start of a new era for my people … or the violent thrash of their downfall. My men and I, we'll defend ourselves with love and magic … or die trying.CHAPTER ONE((UNEDITED!!!))Waking up with seven boyfriends sprawled across my lap, I was both elated ... and amused. There were feet and hands, faces and ... cocks all over the place. It was hard for me to say which of my alpha males went with each body part.Carefully, so as not to wake them up, I moved a leg here, an arm there, and carefully crawled from the pile with a small groan of disappointment. Lying in bed with the mixed scents of the packs, the musky scent of werewolf, and the pungent reek of our earth magic was ... well, it was heaven."Had about enough of that, huh?" Silas asked from the end of the bed, smoking a vape pen--basically a cigarette without the smoke, just steam--and looking sexy as hell dressed in ink and nothing else. His wolf and tiger tattoos watched me as I climbed off the end of the bed and looked over at him. Sitting like that, with an elbow on one knee, blowing smoke from his beautiful lips, the morning sunshine catching on his scars, it was hard to remember that I had a meeting with my grandmother planned for later that day.No, staring at Silas Vetter like that, the only thing that seemed to register in my wolfy brain was how much I wanted to mate with him.Mate.Not make love to or sleep with or even fuck, just mate.I needed to make a girl's date with Faith to get my head in order. As soon as my best friend's name came up in my head, I started to think of her mother Diya, and the way she'd risen from the dead as a revenant, a broken body with an attached soul that was most decidedly not hers, just some awful clinging entity looking for a free ride."Oh, no, I liked it," I said and he smirked. "Warm, comforting ...""Lots of penises for the picking?" Silas added and I laughed, shaking my head as I opened the top drawer of the dresser and pulled out a tank top and a pair of pajama pants. Being naked was fine and dandy, and it didn't bother me, but my plan was to make some coffee and sit on the porch so I could talk to Faith for a bit.Normally, any day that was a school day was fair game for us to hang out, since I'd be on campus anyway. But tomorrow hadn't even happened yet, and it was already shaping up to be a doozy.Julian was supposed to deliver his message ... and whether it came or not, it'd be bad news. That much I knew for certain."Good point," I said as I dressed myself and Silas watched. Somehow, the act of getting dressed in front of him was more intense than simply being naked, like I was acknowledging the fact that there was something I wanted to cover up. There wasn't. It just ... made it more apparent that sexual tension hung heavy in the air between us, even after last night. "Coffee?" I asked and Silas grinned."I was trying this stupid thing out inside, so I didn't kill you all with smoke," he said, looking at the silver pen in his fingers, "but smoking this and smoking a cigarette are two entirely different things. Maybe I'll go have a drag on the real thing outside?""Be my guest," I said and smiled as he snagged a pair of sweats from a small box in the corner, the side scrawled with the words Pack Obsidian Gold. While we'd been out the last two days, Lana had gotten a crew together and moved a bunch of stuff over to the Pairing House. Most of it was sitting stacked against the wall on the opposite side of the gravel driveway, a tarp covering it to protect it from the weather. But a few of the boys had snatched a small box or two already.Silas pulled his pants on and followed me downstairs. If I said I couldn't feel him behind me as I walked, I'd be lying. His warmth, and his naturally sweet scent of cherries and vanilla, followed me down the steps and into the kitchen.Instead of going straight outside to smoke, he followed me in there and watched me make a pot."So much happened yesterday," he said, voice soft and strange, not at all like his usual asshole self. It gave me pause, so I hit the button on the coffee maker and turned to look at him, waiting patiently, watching emotions play across his golden gaze like a silent film. "What's going to happen now?"There was a small quiver there as he flicked his glance aside and I knew--I knew--he was talking about his father, the Alpha Male of Pack Obsidian Gold, Allister Vetter."I don't know," I said honestly, trying to keep my voice soft. I'd never forget the first time I'd seen Silas after he'd gotten his scar, the skin ragged and pink, almost obscuring his eye. It'd healed a lot since then, but it had never gone away. Why? I'd just pushed a silver bullet out of my body and had literally no wound to show for it. But Silas ... I needed to know more about what'd happened to him. "But I don't want you to be scared of your dad; I've got you." I paused, licked my lower lip. "We have got you.""I'm not ... afraid of him," Silas said, pursing his lips. He glanced back at me, and his expression was fierce and wild. "I know because of what he's done ... that he'll have to die. I want to be the one that kills him."Silas and I stared at each other for several long moments, and I didn't say this aloud but ... there was no way in hell I would let him do it, kill his own father. Even if he thought he needed to for revenge or vengeance or whatever the hell, it wasn't happening. It would break him.I opened my mouth to speak when I caught sight of Nikolina making her way toward the Pairing House.Her visit was not unexpected, just ... I hadn't even had a cup of fucking coffee yet.'She's here,' I told Silas in wolfspeak, and he immediately stashed both his cigarettes and vape pen aside, and moved into the kitchen.As quickly as I could, I poured myself some black coffee, snatched half and half from the fridge, and splashed it into my drink, letting Silas press his body against my left side--as far from my mother as he could get.It was a respectful move on his part; she'd appreciate that."Alpha-Heir," Nikolina purred as she stepped into the Pairing House uninvited. She didn't need an invitation to cross the words nor did she need even a polite acceptance from me. Nikolina Hallett was the Alpha Female of Pack Ebon Red and this house, the land it sat on, and all the people on it belonged to her."Alpha," I said as I put a small spoonful of sugar into the coffee and approached the counter, head down in respectful deference. I gave the drink to my mother and waited while her nostrils flared and she sniffed it carefully, checking to see if it was prepared the way she liked it. She often said that once you got to her age--the ripe old age of seventy-four--you liked your coffee the way you liked it. Anything else was a waste of time."Get yourself a cup and sit," she told me, dropping any pretense of formality. Her red hair was long and loose, her silver necklace drawing blood from her skin. I watched as little drips of red drained down the front of her chest and soaked into the white silk dress she was wearing, the fabric decorated with images of red-red roses, the edges trimmed in black fur.If Nikolina was wearing clothing, then it meant she was considering going off pack property at some point today--or bringing a non-pack individual onto it. She once told me it wasn't for her consideration, that it wasn't about hiding her nakedness, but rather because she didn't want to waste time trying to get down to business with some fool who was afraid of their own skin.Good advice, that."Yes, Alpha," I said, because even if she was dropping formalities, she'd still expect me to call her alpha. I could count on my fingers the number of times I called her mom to her face.I came around the breakfast bar, giving her a nice breadth of space, and took a seat on a stool two spots down from where Nikolina sat.'How do you take your coffee?' Silas asked, because he knew that when my mother said I should get myself a cup, what she really meant was that my male should get me a cup. 'And by the way, that's something I've always wanted to know about you.''Can I take a guess?" Tidus asked, and I could feel him yawning and stretching, his body reveling at the idea of a new day. Silas and I were projecting to our special little pack rather than to just each other--smart move. Nikolina would be able to feel the buzz in the air, and we didn't want her to think we were just talking about her. Speaking through the rest of the pack would create a more even whisper of magic. 'Black?''Her coffee mirrors her moods,' Nic whispered, his voice groggy and sleepy and ... far away. He was still mired in yesterday's trauma, and how could I blame him? He'd died, literally died, and his soul ... it'd escaped his body and watched the entire scene from above.Souls don't often stick around this plane long enough to tell fortunes.Whitney's words echoed in my head. I knew spirits or souls, whatever you wanted to call them, almost immediately flew this plane to the next or else took up a new body and allowed themselves to be reborn. Since the soul entered the body at first breath, it was a matter of first-come, first-served. But Nic had stayed. He'd stayed long enough for the stag to come and bestow his gift.And I knew without even asking ... that the reason he'd stuck around ... was for me.'If she's stressed then make it black. If she's happy, add lots of cream and sugar. If she's sleepy and trying to stay up, then it needs to be some of that super sweet flavored stuff, like smoke caramel for long nights of studying or hazelnut for movie marathons ...'My heart flip-flopped inside my chest, and I felt a slight bit of color coming to my cheeks. It was a rare, sweet thing that I ever blushed, and here I was, doing it in front of my mother, the most powerful alpha female on the continent.'Roger that,' Silas said, and I knew I was getting a solid black cup of coffee this morning.Perfect."You're enjoying your males, I see," Nikolina said, studying my reddened cheeks with her ebon dark eyes, smirking slightly with those full lips of hers. "How many have you mated?""Five of the seven," I said as Silas put the cup down on the counter, bowed his head and left through the back entrance of the kitchen, past the laundry room and utility closet and out the back door.He knew better than to try to slip past the narrow space between my mother and the wall."Five of seven, such a lucky wolf," Nikolina said, picking up the spoon I'd set beside her mug and swirling it around her coffee. The motion made me think of Majka, stirring her tea with no hands. She had magic ... and I had magic, so why didn't my mother? If the silver really did protect a werewolf from the witches' slow drain spell, then why hadn't Nikolina inherited any? "I've mated three males in my life," she continued, and I almost dropped my coffee.Three.Her first love, my father, and ... someone else ...?I blinked at her as she set the spoon aside and lifted her coffee to her lips, her eyes far away and dreamy. It was a look I had never seen on my mother's face.But I knew better than to ask questions. If she wanted to tell me who this mysterious third male was, then she would. Maybe a new wolf she was considering as a mate? It was unorthodox to breed before becoming an official pair, but Nikolina was alpha and she could do whatever she damn well pleased.I wondered if it was another alpha?"You came to talk about the traitor," I continued, when it became obvious she was done with the previous subject. Nikolina surveyed the Pairing House with her strong gaze before turning it in my direction. It was like sitting under a spotlight."A traitor in the Convocation," she said, repeating my words from last night. "But you don't know who?""Just give me a few more days," I said, skirting the question. If I answered her directly, I had to lie, and I was tired of it. Montgomery's honesty was so refreshing, so ... invigorating. I wanted more of that in my life. "And then I'll let you know who it is. Alpha," I continued, nostrils flaring as I prepared myself for the rest of this conversation. "Please don't allow the Convocation to move on anything until I get back to you. This individual ... is manipulating the system. There are things ... that this person wants that can't happen.""You're being vague, Zara Wolf," she said, still sipping her coffee, still staring at me like she was trying to pull out my secrets with her gaze. On a lesser wolf, it would have worked."You already know about Kingdom Ironbound and Coven Triad's involvement," I continued, because I'd had to give her something last night amidst all that chaos. "Well, Coven Triad has a spell around a large portion of the city, a sleep spell.""A sleep spell," Nikolina repeated, waiting for me to continue, her pale skin glowing yellow-gold in the sunshine streaming through the window. "Go on.""They want us to bring war to their doorsteps, charge the Ironbound Kingdom Seat and the Triad Historical Society, so they can put our warriors to sleep and round us up." My mother listened carefully, her long, delicate fingers holding the mug as she drank. One thing I did like about her was that she didn't ask questions either--and I'm sure she had a lot. How did I know these things? Why hadn't I told her sooner? Why were our people chained up and being eaten alive?But she knew the things I wasn't going to tell her weren't important and the things I had yet to say would come eventually.Nikolina showed no emotion, simply set her coffee mug aside and turned to face me, those Ebon Red eyes flashing with a hint of … mischievousness? It was a look I'd never seen on my mother's face before, not once.“You're training with your grandmother today, are you not?” she asked, and I nodded, stiffening slightly as she reached out and put her hands on either one of my arms. “Make me proud, Zara Wolf. Prove to me and the rest of the pack that we've proven the right Alpha-Heir.” She stood up from her seat and moved toward the door.“Alpha,” I said, just as she was about to step outside. It wasn't smart of me to keep her here really, not after I'd had a human, a witch, a fae, and a vampire traipsing about the Pairing House. But still … this question was already gnawing at me, and I had a feeling that the closer I grew to the boys, the worse it would get. “What happens if I can't choose just one?”The Alpha Female of Pack Ebon Red raised a single red eyebrow at me.“One male?” she asked, because my mother was nothing if not perceptive. “Good question.”Her smile was a slice of wicked as she pushed through the door and started off across the wet, snow spotted field outside the house. She moved leisurely, as if she had nothing to do instead of everything to do, all at once. Run a kingdom, seek out a traitor, care for the wounded.Nikolina Castille was a true queen.I wanted to emulate everything about her except for her cruelty.For a moment, I just sat there and let the sunlight stream in, grateful that in this instant, everything was okay. In this instant, my men were still alive, I was still here, and a small portion of my missing pack members were no longer suffering.But in instant, everything can change.In an instant, the whole world can fall apart.I felt the spike of fear and pain through our pack connection.TO BE CONTINUED...

Spirited - six ghostly boyfriends, one tough chick

Enjoy a special full chapter excerpt on me!  This book is an urban fantasy/high fantasy/ghost reverse harem (one girl, six hottie love interests).  I'll have the preorder link up soon, so stay tuned for more information. =DSPIRITEDThe Academy of Spirits and Shadows (Book 1)(C) C.M. StunichBrynn of Haversey is a spirit whisperer—a person blessed with the ability to see and speak to the dead. In the country of Amerin, she's one of a select few with magical gifts known as whisperers.Every year, the Royal College accepts a small number of new students, all magically inclined, all whisperers. Competition is brutal and the classes, nearly impossible to pass for a half-breed angel with two left feet and a massive pair of black feathered wings.Oh, and especially if she brings her six ghostly boyfriends with her to the academy (including the recently deceased crown prince, a master thief hanged for his crimes, and a former student of the Royal College). What kind of spirit whisperer is Brynn of Haversey if she can't exorcise her own soulmates? But Brynn isn't attending the most prestigious academy in the world to become a better exorcist—she's searching for a way to bring her lovers back to life …CHAPTER ONEBrynnThe instrument of my own destruction loomed above me, casting a long shadow in the bloodred rays of a dying sun. Its crumbling facade was decorated with a morbid metaphor of a face—soulless eyes, a gaping mouth, tangled green locks.Okay, so I was exaggerating the broken windows, the front entrance with its missing doors, and the cluster of wild blackberries that had morphed into a monster of their own making, but come on: the former Grandberg Manor was bust.“This is the place?” I asked, hoisting my equipment up on one shoulder and eyeing the crumbling old house with a raised brow. “It looks half-ready to collapse. You know me—if there's an even the slightest opportunity that I might trip, I will. Just be honest: am I going to fall straight through the floor?”“Probably,” Jasinda said, moving around me and over the twisted, rusted remains of the front gate. Once upon a time, this place was crawling with nobility from around the world, and its gardens … even the drawings were enough to make my mother's green thumb well, green with envy. “Air and I have a bet going on whether or not you'll make it out of here alive.”She thew a smirk over her shoulder at me and I pursed my lips.Jasinda and Air were always making bets about me despite the fact that Air was the flubbing prince and shouldn't be making bets with anyone, let alone my handler. I had to admit though: if there were anyone around that was worth betting on, it was me.First off, I was a half-angel which meant I could see spirits. And second, I was a half-human which meant those spirits actually deigned to communicate with me. A full-blooded angel was too haughty and highbrow to give any ghost the time of day, and a full-blooded human couldn't see one if they tried.This special ability of mine did end up getting me into heaps of trouble. For example, there was that one time I followed a ghost straight into the queen's chambers and found her, um, indisposed with the head of the royal guard who, you know, also just happened to be my mother.Then of course, there was the fact that I had the small, slight frame of my mother's desert dwelling ancestors but the wide, heavy span of wings from my father's side. Let's just be frank and say I toppled over a lot. Oh, and I ended up having long, in-depth conversations with people who weren't really people but were, in fact, very tricky ghosts. Even my first kiss had been with a spirit.I took a deep breath of the cool, lavender scented air and followed after Jas, tripping and cursing in my own made up language.“Go flub yourself,” I growled at a thick tangle of blackberry that had gotten wrapped around my ankle. “You bleeding blatherer.”“Are you making words up again?” Jas said, parking her hands on her hips and sighing at me. “Can't you just say you bleeding bastard like everyone else? And don't even get me started on you using the work flub instead of fuc—”“Hey!” I snapped, putting my palm over her lips with one hand and pointing at myself with the other. “Half-angel over here. Just hearing somebody use a word with an extreme negative connotation makes me lose a feather.”“Oh, please,” Jas said, pushing my hand away from her full red lips and smirking at me as I tried to rub her makeup off on my breeches. “That's a myth and you know it. Air told me that when you were kids, he used to chase you around the castle saying damn and bastard and the like, just to see if you'd lose any feathers—you didn't.”I narrowed my eyes on her as she turned and headed up what was once an impressive flight of marble steps, now cracked and chipped like an old beggar's teeth. I shivered and followed after her, examining the red stain on my palm that stunk like copperberries. A lot of women painted their mouths with the stuff, but to me that fragrant floral scent was tinged with a metallic sting, like copper. Like blood. Thus, the name—copperberries.As I hurried up the steps, I kept my eyes on the decaying black facade of the manor, all its intricate moldings and details stripped away by time and rain, the harsh winds that curled across this part of the kingdom in summer.“Let's do a quick walkthrough and see if you can't sense any residual energies,” Jas suggested as I set my black leather satchel on the floor and knelt beside it. The ground around me was littered with debris—leaves, twigs, bits of crumbling plaster, a dead mouse.“Oh, that's flubbing sick,” I whispered as I caught sight of the creature's spirit hovering nearby, its furred sides almost completely translucent as it took long, heaving breaths. Of course, the mouse didn't need to breathe anymore, but it didn't know that.I pulled a dagger from the sheath on my belt—please Goddess, don't actually ask me to use this thing in combat—and prodded at the mouse's body with the jeweled hilt.Fresh blood stained the white leather pommel and made me shiver.“Jas,” I started, because a long dead carcass was one thing, but a fresh one? Hell's bells—since Hell was an actual place it didn't count as a curse word so no lost feathers for me—but I hoped it was just a cat that had taken the rodent's life and not … something else.“Brynn, you need to see this!” Jas shouted and I sighed, wiping the mouse's blood on the already dirty leg of my breeches and tucking it away. Before I stood up, I clasped the silver star hanging around my neck with one hand and reached out to touch the mouse's spirt with the other. The poor thing was too scared to even shy away, its soul becoming briefly corporeal as my fingers made contact with its fur.“Goddess-speed and happy endings,” I whispered as the image of the mouse morphed and shivered, turning as silver as a beam of moonlight and fading away until there was nothing there but the warped and rotted boards of the old floor.I stood up, leaving my satchel where it was on the ground and rubbing my shoulder as I followed the sound of Jasinda's voice. The road up to the manor was riddled with broken cobblestones, weeds, and the skeletons of long abandoned carriages. It was too rough for any sort of pack animal to make the trek, so we'd had to carry ourselves on foot, lugging all the equipment that a spirit whisperer—that's me—might need to exorcise a ghost or two or ten.“Jassy?” I asked as I moved past the formal foyer with its double staircases, and down a long receiving hall that would've been used by servants in times past. The wallpaper was peeling like old skin, leaving behind water stained walls and flaky plaster. At some point, thieves had come in and stripped the old place of its wood moldings, sconces and chandeliers; they'd left nothing but a skeleton behind.“In here!” she called out, drawing me through an empty archway where a swinging door might've once stood and into the kitchen. As I moved, I was conscious of keeping my wings tucked tightly against my back. My clumsiness was not limited to my feet. I was notorious among the castle staff for breaking things with the feathered black wings that graced my back. As a kid, they used to call me Pigeon Girl because I caused ten times as much damage to the royal halls as the flying rats that plagued the old stone building.“What is it?” I asked as I leaned against the wall outside a small servant's room—a tiny square that would've belonged to the head cook. “Jas, there was a mouse—”“Flub mice,” she said, only she didn't actually say flub but I wouldn't lose a feather even thinking about the F-word that famously rhymes with duck. As a half-angel, my powers were bound to the light goddess and she was a serious stickler for avoiding words with negative connotations. I supposed I couldn't blame her; the very words I spoke held power. The more positivity and light I imbued those words with, the more powerful I was. “Look at this, Brynn. There's a distinct spiritual signature written all over this room.”The room itself was so small that with the collapsed remains of a small bed and a sagging dresser, there wasn't space for us both. I waited for Jas to step out, pushing her long dark hair over her shoulder, sapphire blue eyes sparkling with a scholar's excitement.“Brynn, this could be it,” she said as I took a deep breath and stepped into the room. “Our big break.”Jas was always looking for that one case, that one unique spirit that we could exorcise that would prove our worth to the scholars at the Royal College. In just two weeks, I'd be turning twenty-one and that'd be it; that was the cut off date for acceptance into the prestigious training facility. It wasn't that Jas cared about the status of being a student there, or the potential for a high-ranking position after graduation, it was the library. Only students of the Royal College were permitted to use the vast, twisting hallways of the catacombs. There were books there that couldn't be found anywhere else—not to mention ancient artifacts, exemplary professors, and vast resources that could be used for research.It was Jasinda's dream, even if it wasn't mine. I hoped she was right; I hoped this was it.I stepped over a small hole in the floor and into the tiny windowless room.As soon as I did, it hit me, the pressure of an angry spirit, bearing down on me with the cold burn of something long dead and waiting. Waves of icy winter chill tore across my skin like knives, despite the warm evening air that permeated the rest of the building. Whatever this was, it was powerful.I grasped the silver star at my throat and closed my eyes.“Haversey,” I whispered, invoking the name of the light goddess.If I were Jas, I knew what I'd be seeing: a girl shrouded in silver moonlight, her tanned skin pearlescent and shimmering, her hair as white as snow lifted in an unnatural breeze.I opened my eyes slowly and bit back a gasp.Every inch of the walls was covered in the word Hellim, the name of the dark god. What I had originally thought were decorative splotches on the wallpaper were actually his name, written in blood a thousand times over. It had been impossible to see in the dim half-light, but now that I had my second sight open, the letters glowed with a strong, angry spiritual signature.I started to take a step back when my foot went through the hole in the floor, and the rotting boards around me creaked and toppled into a black pit below.“Brynn!”Jas screamed my name as I fell through cold shadow and frost, hitting the soggy wet earth with a grunt and a crack of pain in my shoulder that almost immediately went numb. That was bad, really bad. Pain was one thing, but numbness meant that what'd just happened to me could be really serious.I tried to stand up, but my arm gave out and I found myself lying in a mound of decaying wet leaves and dirt, the scent of rot thick and cloying in the air.As I blinked to try and orient myself to the darkness, I felt a cold hand on my shoulder and a gust of icy breath at my ear.When I turned, I found myself looking into the face of a handsome—and very angry—spirit.His lips curved up in a smile meant to disarm me.“Boo,” he whispered as he reached out and pushed my dislocated shoulder back into place.White-hot pain crashed over my vision and I passed out.CHAPTER TWO ... included in the full book.  LOL  ;)  Stay tuned for the preorder!  I'm still shooting for a November/ December release on this baby.

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Guess what?  It's time.  Time for the best C.M. Stunich book there is.  And yes, I know I say which each new release that that book is my current favorite, but isn't that a good thing?  I feel like book two is even better than book one, and I am head-over-heels for "Pack Ebon Red', so you know this is going to be good.Read if you like: one strong female character, seven hot alpha male werewolf love interests (Zara does not have to choose between them), reverse harem books, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, werewolves, vampires, witches, faeries, demons, supernatural politics, and steamy scenes that make you sweat, squirm and pant.Here are the links for both book one and two if you'd like to get started with the series--they're FREE with Kindle Unlimited or only $3.99 to grab your own copy.  For less than the price of a Starbucks venti mocha (yum, *drools*) you can have a 98,00o word (over 400 page) book that contains a bit of my heart, soul, blood, sweat, and tears.BOOK 2: PACK VIOLET SHADOW, FREE WITH KU or ONLY $3.99 to buyAMAZON US:http://amzn.to/2AG3ZcCAMAZON AU:www.amazon.com.au/dp/B077F2TG24/AMAZON UK:www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077F2TG24/AMAZON CA:www.amazon.ca/dp/B077F2TG24/BOOK 1: PACK EBON RED, FREE WITH KU or ONLY $3.99 to buyAMAZON US:http://amzn.to/2zWdGGMAMAZON CA:www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XZFGKJY/AMAZON UK:www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XZFGKJY/AMAZON AU:www.amazon.com.au/dp/B06XZFGKJY/***P.S. If you want to discuss what you've read with others, come join my book club, The Bookish Bat Cave here: facebook.com/groups/thebookishbatcave.  I'm offering a $25 Amazon gift card to one person who participates in the discussion/spoiler thread for "Pack Violet Shadow.***P.P.S. Book #3, "Pack Obsidian Gold", comes out December 2017.  If we get to 100 reviews on Amazon.com of "Pack Violet Shadow", I will post the first full chapter here and in my book club, The Bookish Bat Cave (link listed above in the P.S. section).