The other blog besides this one that I participate in is IWSG (Insecure Writers Support Group) with a post on the first Wednesday of the month usually regarding a group topic. This month’s prompt was to pick a word to use as your focus for 2023. Mine was Reissue. Since I have a backlist long enough to have my own revolving genre/pen name library, while I take my time revising my latest romantic suspense, I’ll keep my name “out there” by dipping into the backlist well of plenty, starting with my “By Moonlight” shapeshifter series. Since I couldn’t get the rights back to the first three books of the series due to a contractual misfortune, I’ll be starting with Book 4 which puts my characters on the paranormal ground running in New Orleans in a pre-established relationship (that’s easy for new readers to get into) with plenty of problems to work out within its “former shapeshifter criminal enforcer/NOPD top cop” dynamic. Here’s a taste of BOUND BY MOONLIGHT. . .
Bound by Moonlight (By Moonlight - Book 4)
The Excerpt
Even knowing what he was, she continued to think of him as a man. He looked human. He sounded arrogantly, maddeningly, like an everyday testosterone-fueled male of her species. If she got closer to him she’d smell man next to the pulse at his throat, she’d feel man as her palms moved over him in restless appreciation. When she parted her lips beneath his, she wouldn’t be thinking Lon Chaney Jr. of Creature Feature fame.
But that didn’t change the fact that he wasn’t an X-chromosome male. Something else flickered behind his unblinking stare. Something different. Something other. Something more.
. . . and a bit MORE!
And it was that difference that drew her, not the sameness he tried to project.
She loved him and trusted him with all that she was precisely because he wasn’t a man. Men had failed her, harmed her, betrayed her. They didn’t possess the singular, all-consuming sense of loyalty intrinsic in Max Savoie. When they said forever they meant until next month, next week, next commercial, next orgasm.
When Max said it, he meant for eternity.
I like how she appreciates his differences. She's asking a lot of him, though. I wonder how returning to his old life, even undercover, will affect their relationship? Love the conflict!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kate. I like to keep my characters twisted up ina knot of complications.
DeleteI can see why this series was so wildly popular! The characters are fabulous and the conflict is extremely high stakes. Can't wait to read more! Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jenna!
Delete(My 1st comment went astray.) It's a shame about your not getting the rights back on those 3. Still, I'm glad to see CeCe and Max again.
ReplyDeleteIt's so easy to fall right back into the storyline . . .
DeleteThat hidden difference - so sexy and intriguing!
ReplyDeleteThank you!!! They're my favorite couple!!
DeleteLoved the excerpt - the description of him draws the reader right in and made me want to know more. Definitely want to spend time with these characters! Too bad the first 3 books are unrecoverable as far as the rights but at least you got to keep the rest of the series.
ReplyDeleteI know! My editor was so sympathetic but couldn't budge on it. Knoweledge is power and my then agent did me a HUGE disservice I didn't find out about until years later.
DeleteI know I'm supposed to comment on the snippet itself, but what got me from this was the line about how most men don't mean forever when they say it, but Max does. No wonder Cee Cee loves him!
ReplyDeleteThat's one of my favorite lines. Defines their relationship.
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