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Visit Belle’s Book Bag To See My Guest Post Today! @mariann297 @insatiablereads

Please join me today at Belle’s Book Bag where Mariann is very kindly allowing me to guest post as part of the Insatiable Reads Book Tour. My post is about Shifters and Their Mates, and there’s a giveaway you can enter just by leaving a comment. While you’re there, check out some of the other great posts on her blog!

Guest Post on Read Between the Lines Today! @amdase @insatiablereads

Anna at Read Between the Lines has very graciously allowed me to guest post on her blog today as part of the Insatiable Reads Book Tour. Stop by to read an interview she did with me, enter a giveaway (just by leaving a comment), and check out some of the other great posts on her blog!

#SneakPeekSunday: Protecting the Pack

Thank you for visiting my site! I hope you enjoy this snippet from Protecting the Pack. Visit http://sneakpeeksunday.blogspot.com/ for more snippets!

He couldn’t help but turn and watch her walk into the bar, enjoying the sway of her hips. God, to have those legs wrapped around him. How amazing would that be?

And she was a wolf. He’d caught a whiff as she walked by. All he needed to know was which pack she was in–that was the pack he’d join.

Imagining his beautiful she-wolf between the sheets, he headed to the hotel.

Protecting the Pack, An MMF Erotic Romance

In an otherwise modern world where werewolves mate in triads, one threesome faces overwhelming obstacles to everlasting love.

Chris leads a pack of werewolves threatened by a rival group. Alexandra follows love away from home and into trouble. Ben seeks a new home but cannot escape the ghosts of his past. The mating lust pulls Chris, Ben and Alexandra together, flooding them with the desire to mark each other and seal their bond. But their differences combine with outside forces to pull them apart, possibly forever. Their future, their love, and even their lives hang in the balance.

You can buy Protecting the Pack as an ebook at these locations:

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Excerpt:

Ben figured he’d done enough recon for the night. After an hour of sitting with pack members and listening—talking some, too, but mostly listening—Ben approached Chris at the bar.  God, that guy was big.

“Thanks for introducing me,” Ben said.

“Not a problem,” Chris said. “What do you think?”

He needed more time. “Seems like a nice town. I want to see Liam before making any decisions about the packs. I’ll see him tomorrow.”

“Sounds good. I’m here most nights. If you want to talk more about Roanoke, just come and find me.”

“Thanks.” They shook hands.

Ben headed out. He had walked here, so he didn’t have to worry about driving. He passed the bar’s parking lot as he headed for the hotel. A young woman stepped out of her car and headed in his direction.

She was gorgeous. Maybe not conventionally beautiful, but to him, she was nearly perfect. She had her black hair cut short in a bob that framed her high cheekbones and porcelain skin. Her eyes flashed at him as she caught him staring. He couldn’t tell what color they were, but they were certainly full of life.

And her body. She was a good eight inches shorter than he was, maybe 5’6″, every inch of it a luscious curve. Every man’s wet dream.

He couldn’t help but turn and watch her walk into the bar, enjoying the sway of her hips. God, to have those legs wrapped around him. How amazing would that be?

And she was a wolf. He’d caught a whiff as she walked by. All he needed to know was which pack she was in—that was the pack he’d join.

Imagining his beautiful she-wolf between the sheets, he headed to the hotel. He’d ask Liam about her tomorrow. If he still remembered her by then.

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Chris noticed the woman as soon as she walked into the bar. She was young, younger than he’d expected. And a hell of a lot more beautiful. Actually, she looked exactly the way he’d want a woman to look, if he ever constructed his perfect girlfriend. And if he’d been ten years younger. All of it—the short dark hair, the pale skin, the large breasts and curvy hips.

Dana smacked him on the arm. “Stop staring at her.”

“Sorry.” He said it automatically. It was never a good idea to piss Dana off. Just one more reason he hoped she was wrong about their being mates. He didn’t think he could live with her temper for the rest of his life.

Keith walked up to the beauty by the door. He had his back to Chris, but by the look on the woman’s face, he must have said something rude. Or mean. Chris fought the urge to smack Keith.

But his presence explained a few things. The beauty must be the young female Keith had mentioned, the one who wanted to join his pack. As much as Dana welcomed Ben’s joining, Chris knew she wouldn’t want this female anywhere near them. Or near him, to be precise.

Keith and the woman walked toward him.

Chris leaned toward Dana. “I’ve got some business with them. Once it’s done, we can leave. But for now, we need some privacy.”

Dana frowned at him then leaned over and kissed him. Not a peck, either. Chris let her. He knew what she was doing—letting the other woman know who Chris belonged to. As though Chris would ever date the little beauty. She was hot, but far too young for a thirty-something like him.

Dana sauntered off, swinging her hips suggestively, just as Keith and the woman stopped in front of him.

“Hey, Chris,” Keith said.

“Keith.”

“This is Alex, the wolf I told you about. She wants to join.”

Chris stuck his hand out to her. “I’m Chris.”

As she shook his hand, her mouth moved in a semblance of a smile that vanished so quickly he wasn’t sure he’d seen it. “Hi.”

“Why don’t you sit down and we’ll talk,” Chris said.

Alex sat in the chair next to him, and Keith grabbed the stool next to her, dragging it toward them to make a small circle.

Chris stopped him. “Just the two of us. If Alex wants to join, I need to hear it from her.”

Keith shot a glance at Alex. Chris couldn’t quite make out what the expression on his face meant. Was he angry? Frustrated? Annoyed at not being able to stay?

“Sure, no problem,” Keith said. He returned the stool to its spot and walked off.

“So, Alex,” Chris said. “Why do you want to join Roanoke pack?”

In the background, a voice raised over the ambient noise, then fell down again.

She pressed her lips together. Up close, she looked a little older than he’d thought. Not necessarily just out of diapers. But he’d be surprised if she was much past high school.

“I heard it’s a good pack,” she said. “Keith said it’d be good.”

That was the lamest reason he’d heard yet. “Are you and Keith a couple?”

Her face screwed up. “I wouldn’t date him if he were the last man on earth.”

Chris barked out a laugh. He couldn’t agree more. “All right, then. You’re awfully young.” He wanted to say—why aren’t you still in your parents’ pack? But maybe something terrible had happened to her. Maybe her parents were dead, or maybe she was one of those rare cases where a wolf is brought up by a Loner.

Before he could think of how to ask, she answered him. “I’m nineteen. Not that young.”

Again, a voice shouted over the crowd, loud but indecipherable, then faded away.

“And the pack you grew up in?” Chris said.

“I left.” She tucked her hair behind one ear and wouldn’t meet his eyes.

“Did they hurt you?” He kept his voice low.

“No.” Her voice sounded sharp. “My parents are good people. They’d never hurt me.”

“Then why did you leave?”

She opened her mouth then closed it. “Long story.”

He waited. If he were going to be her Pack Alpha, he needed to know all of that long story. And he needed her to trust him enough to tell him.

Now two voices rose over the din, shouting at each other. He tuned it out.

“There was a guy,” she said. “And my parents didn’t like him. He wanted me to leave with him and they forbade it. So I went anyway.”

Great. She goes off with this guy then he dumps her. “Where is he now?”

Her eyes shifted to the side. “Not here.”

The crack of wood breaking snapped through the crowd. Two wolves rounded each other, one of them holding a partially broken chair.

The one with the chair was Mad Dog, one of the new wolves in Roanoke. The other was a guy from Stonewall, Kevin somebody. Mad Dog smashed the chair over Kevin’s head, further splintering it. He dropped the remains and charged Kevin instead, picking him up by the thighs and dropping him forcefully to the ground.

“Hey!” Chris yelled. From the other direction, Chris’ second and third, Nick and Matt, pushed their way through the crowd.

Mad Dog smashed his fist into Kevin’s face, again, and then again.

Some of the other new wolves, including Keith, were making it hard for Nate and Matt to get to Mad Dog. Chris was a lot closer. “I’ll be right back. Stay here.” Chris pushed past the couple of people in the way and hauled Mad Dog off of Kevin.

The room fell silent.

“What the hell are you doing?” Chris said.

Insatiable Reads – We Can’t Get Enough…Books, Authors & Giveaways!

 

A few months ago, I got very, very lucky and fell in with a group of romance authors just starting to plan a book tour. Together, the sixteen of us worked feverishly on our novels while setting up the framework for the tour…the guest blog posts, the Facebook page and Twitter account and on and on. It was a huge amount of work, more than I’d even imagined, but we did it! This is week one, and the fun has just begun!

If you’d like to read more about how the tour got on its feet, check out one of my fellow Insatiable Reads’ blog posts, The Insatiable Reads Book Tour: Just Me and 15 of My Craziest Writer Friends with Erika Masten.

As part of the tour, we have multiple giveaways going on. Here’s the giveaway for the Insatiable Reads Book Tour. Further down is my own giveaway. And for yet another, visit Marina Maddix‘s website and check out her giveaway.

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Like any good book tour, Insatiable Reads has blog posts galore. So far, I’ve only been featured in one on the official Insatiable Reads website, which gives a sneak peek of my novel. Here are some of the guest blogs already posted this week:

Author Spotlight Ringmaster by Erika Masten Jordan Bell Guest Post…The messy, sweaty, painful, exhilarating, and maddeningly complicated path to Romance How I Wrote My Hero by Erika Masten and Giveaway! Day 1 of The Insatiable Reads Book Tour: Sonoran Nights by Carré White… Book Spotlight PLUS G!veaway: The Ringmaster: Cirque de Plaisir by Erika Masten Getting Romantic in Las Vegas by Marina Maddix Giveaway and Guest Post The Fortune Tellers Daughter by Jordan Bell Day 2 Insatiable Reads Book Tour: The Fortune Teller’s Daughter by Jordan Bell… 100 Books: Fire Always Burns by Krista Lakes

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In the coming weeks, there will be more guest blogs, more giveaways, more, more, more! My novel is one of the ones featured next week, so expect to see posts about the wonderful, amazing blogs who agreed to host me. I’ve also signed up to do some blog hops, each of which will have its own giveaway, so make sure to stay tuned for that.

Sneak Peek Sunday Blog Hop, March 10

Lucky in Love Blog Hop, March 15-18

Big Cocks and Shamrocks Blog Hop, March 17-24

Rites of Spring Blog Hop, March 20-23

Tabitha Conall Releases Protecting the Pack for Just $0.99 March 4 Only!

Set in the same world as the Stonewall Pack Alpha series, Protecting the Pack tells the story of Roanoke pack and their Alpha. For a limited time only, get the full-length novel Protecting the Pack for just $0.99 as an ebook on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

The Alpha’s Obsession, An MMF Erotic Romance

Hidden in an otherwise modern world, werewolves mate in threesomes dictated by a mating lust that tells them without doubt who their fated mates are.  After struggling through years of separation made worse by the mating urge riding them all, three werewolves come together once again.  Maeve, Nate and Damian must face their past in a fight for their love and their lives.  Can they overcome their demons to find a love that lasts?

You can buy The Alpha’s Obsession as an ebook at these locations:

Amazon

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Excerpt:

Nate thought it was pretty strange when the Pack Alpha called him and asked him where he was. “I’m at home,” he said.

“And Damian?”

“He’s home, too. Why?”

“You have any plans this afternoon?” Jake said.

“No.”

“Good. Stay home. That’s an order.” Jake hung up.

What the hell. Did their new leader have a problem with gays or something? If he did, that’d be awfully strange, considering he palled around with his own mate. Would it make a difference to him if he knew Damian and Nate were mates?

Damian came in from the garage, wiping his hands on a towel. “I heard the phone. Who was it?”

“Jake. Ordering us to stay home this afternoon.”

“Ordering?” Damian said.

Leave it to Damian. He was alpha enough that he’d probably want to go out just because he’d been told to stay in.

“His words. ‘That’s an order.’ I have no idea why. But since we weren’t planning to go anywhere anyway, it doesn’t make a difference.”

The muscles around Damian’s eyes tightened. Nate could almost read his thoughts written on his face. Time to distract him from thinking about defiance.

“Were you coming in for lunch?”

Damian’s focus snapped back to the here-and-now. “Yeah. Want a sandwich?”

“That’d be great.”

A half hour later they were putting the dishes in the dishwasher when they heard a car pull into the driveway.

“Could it be Jake?” Nate said.

Damian scowled. “He could have just told us he was coming over, instead of ordering us to stay put.”

Nate put his hand on Damian’s back and rubbed it a few times. “Jake’s still figuring out how to be a pack leader. He’s already way better than Ted.”

“You’re too quick to give him slack.”

“Maybe you’re too quick to criticize.”

Nate realized he hadn’t heard the car door open or close. The car had been turned off and then nothing.

His eyes met Damian’s.

“Let’s go find out what Jake wants,” Damian said. “Since he won’t even deign to come to the door.”

As they stepped into the garage, the mystery car door opened. Nate immediately smelled the most amazing smell. He froze.

 

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“Mate,” Damian said, voice low and gravelly.

She’d come back. Oh, God, she’d come back. Nate ran out of the garage to the woman standing beside the car, but stopped short a couple of feet away. He wanted to yank her into his arms. He wanted to hold her and kiss her. He wanted to mark her with no preamble, so she’d never leave again.

He couldn’t do it. When they’d first found each other, he and Damian had scared her so much she’d left. He couldn’t take the chance of scaring her again, no matter how much he needed to touch her.

Damian slowly followed him, his face rigid, brows drawn down. He stood near the front of the car with his arms crossed.

For her part, their mate trembled. Maeve had never looked so vulnerable. They’d known her as kids, even though they hadn’t recognized each other as mates until she, as youngest, went through puberty. She’d always been sweet and a little shy as a child. That’s why he knew when she left that it was their fault.

“I’m sorry,” she said softly. She put out her hands toward each of them.

The Alpha’s Pack, An MMF Erotic Romance

An overwhelming lust draws werewolves to their two mates in this otherwise ordinary world. Deirdre, Jake and Sam find each other only to discover they must conquer an intractable foe or be separated forever. Their enemy breaks every rule to get what he wants. Can these three mates overcome their obstacles to find everlasting love?

You can buy The Alpha’s Pack as an ebook at these locations:

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Excerpt:

Jake had never smelled anything better in his life. It was like earth and sex and home all rolled up together. He’d been looking for a restaurant where he could get some lunch, but ever since he’d smelled that scent, he couldn’t do anything but follow it.

He walked down a sidewalk lined with trees and quaint storefronts. The sun shined bright overhead. He passed a photo store, a butcher, and a book store as the smell grew stronger. As it became overwhelming, he felt himself growing hard. What the hell?

He had no control. Like a siren holding him in her grasp, the smell wrapped around him, sliding over his hair, heating his skin until he felt more turned on than ever before. He knew what this was. There was only one thing this could be.

Jake turned a corner and went down a little alley that opened into a flower-filled courtyard. A woman stood in the middle staring at him, and on the far side of her another man walked through a different alleyway entrance.

He’d found his mates.

Jake approached the woman. She was beautiful, to him. About medium height, shiny brown hair that brushed her shoulders, big blue eyes surrounded by thick lashes. Her skin was that pale that never tans, only burns. Her body was well-muscled yet slender, the perfect she-wolf’s body.

She watched him curiously but without fear. “Hello?”

Jake slid his hands around her waist and buried his nose in her neck. So good. She smelled so damn good.

Another pair of hands brushed against his as they took hold of her hips. Their third pressed his face into the other side of her throat.

“Oh, God,” she whispered.

He lifted his head enough to look into her eyes, their foreheads almost touching. “I’m Jake.”

“Deirdre,” she said.

The other man looked up, his eyes meeting Jake’s. “Sam.”

Sam had light brown hair and blue eyes that were a lighter color than Deirdre’s. He was a little shorter and less bulked up than Jake, but that wasn’t saying much. Jake stood at 6’2″ and lifted at the gym regularly in order to enhance his natural wolf strength.

“You don’t smell like Pack,” Sam said. “Deirdre smells like Stonewall Pack, but you…”

Sam smelled like Pack too. They both did, but they smelled like different packs. If Deirdre was in the Stonewall Pack, it was a good guess Sam was in the Roanoke Pack. “I’m a Loner,” Jake said.

Sam’s face tensed.

Pack wolves didn’t like Loners. That was fine; Jake didn’t like pack wolves either.

And now he was mated to two of them.

With the scent of them filling his head and his cock hard as granite, he couldn’t find it in him to care. “Let’s worry about that later. There are more important things right now.”

“We need to go someplace,” she said.

He didn’t want to go anywhere. He wanted to drag his mates to the ground and claim them right here, right now. But Deirdre was right. Humans didn’t know about werewolves and they especially didn’t know that the mate bond was for threesomes rather than couples. Now wasn’t the time for them to find out.

The problem with going somewhere was that Sam and Deirdre almost surely lived in Pack territory. They wouldn’t be allowed to pass into a different pack’s territory any more than he could go there with them. That left one option. “I have a hotel room,” he said.

“In neutral territory,” Sam said.

“Of course.” That was solved, but now the bigger problem—he’d have to let go of them before they could walk to the hotel. Plus, he wasn’t sure he remembered where it was. He’d been in a fog on his way here, just following the scent.

Deirdre pushed against his chest. “Let’s go. The faster we leave, the faster we can get there.”

Jake pulled back, then lunged forward, pressing his lips against hers, a growl rising from his throat.

Sam moaned.

Then Jake grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the alley where he’d come in, Sam following behind them.

Walking to the hotel was the longest ten minutes of his life. He tried to get his mind off the conflagration to come, though it was hard with Deirdre’s small hand in his. So few people were blessed with mates; he’d never really thought he’d find his. Or that he even had any.

He’d just come here looking for a job, not his mates. Though he’d visited larger cities, Marysburg had the distinction of not just two long-standing werewolf packs, but also a sizable neutral area. That’s what drew him here. Loners weren’t welcome in pack territory, and pack territory was damn near everywhere.

But because Marysburg had two packs, the neutral area was large and housed most of the offices and other places of business. A Loner could find a job, get an apartment, live a life. That had been the plan. Until fate knocked him on his ass.

He followed the trail of his own scent back to the hotel. None of them spoke. Jake didn’t know what the other two were thinking, but he couldn’t quite form thoughts. If he’d spoken, he’d have ended up sounding like a fool, saying “wow” over and over.

Instead, he walked as fast as possible.

The Right Man, An Erotic Romance Short Story

Beth worked hard for a long time to get Billy out of her life, and now that she has, she feels exhausted. Worn-out. Beaten down. So when Jake walks back into her life, she feels like it’s more than she can handle.

But Jake won’t take no for an answer. He let Beth go once, and there’s no way he’s going to do it again. If he has to remind her who she is in order to keep her, that’s exactly what he’ll do.

This erotika romance short story sports hot, wet sex in the shower, in the kitchen, and yes, in the bedroom, years-long yearning, a jealous ex-husband, and a dozen roses.

You can buy The Right Man as an ebook at these locations:

Amazon

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Excerpt:

“Bullshit. You’re scared.” He came over to stand a breath away from her. “Billy was an ass. But not all men are like that. Give me a chance.”

His beautiful brown eyes were warm, passionate. Part of her wanted to curl into his arms and find out just how passionate he could be. The rest of her remembered what it was like to belong to a man—to be his chattel, to do what he wanted, to have no power. Passion wasn’t worth giving up her soul.

Jake touched her cheek with the tips of his fingers, then ran his thumb very lightly over her lips. “Just give me a chance,” he whispered. “You can always throw me out in the morning.”

She chuckled. “You always could make me laugh.”

His smile flashed briefly before his lips covered hers. He wrapped her in his arms and held her tight against his body. She could feel him hard against her, shoulders to knees. Had Billy ever held her like this? She couldn’t remember ever feeling this wanted.

Then she stopped thinking entirely as their kiss deepened and his hands gripped her ass.

Published by: Little Death Books