Imagine, if you will, being so different that a life alone is the only future you can imaging for yourself. The happiness you see in other couples around you can never be more than a dream for one such as you—one so different, so unnatural. Then, someone unexpected, so opposite everything your own life is based upon turns your world and your emotions upside down. Do you thank your lucky stars . . . or are you living on borrowed time?
POLICE DETECTIVE CHARLOTTE CAISSIE AND HER SHAPE-SHIFTING PARAMOUR MAX SAVOIE THOUGHT THE PAST WAS BEHIND THEM. BUT IN NANCY GIDEON’S IRRESISTIBLE NEW ROMANCE, THEY DISCOVER IT MAY NEVER LET THEM GO. . . .
THEY SWORE THEY’D BE TOGETHER FOREVER.
Detective Charlotte Caissie is suddenly sharing drawer space and making local news with her shape-shifter lover, Max Savoie. He’s determined to be accepted by her peers—so how can she ask him to return to his criminal roots to help her solve a complex case?
BUT THOSE THEY TRUST THE MOST . . .
Working undercover with her partner to find the serial killer who’s kidnapped a colleague’s daughter, Cee Cee is caught between her job and her fiercely possessive lover. And when she calls on Max’s preternatural talents to aid his hated enemy, she crosses a line that strains their relationship to its limit.
. . . WILL DO ANYTHING TO TEAR THEM APART.
With his secret spreading, Max is forced to protect his family and his clan. The only certainty is his love for his human mate . . . unless the loyalties that define them divide them forever.
The Excerpt
He’d dreamed of her for so long, the reality of her soft and naked next him sometimes took him by surprise upon waking. He’d find himself frozen with dread, fearing somehow it was just some cruel trick, that she wasn’t really there. So he’d carefully sniff at her hair, cautiously taste her warm skin, slowly curl himself about her as if expecting her to leap away in alarm. The sound of her contented sigh, the feel of her snuggling into him was every prayer of a lonely life answered.
Now he lay awake in the early dawn hours in solemn study of the scars marring the slope of her shoulder—the marks he’d put on her to claim her for his own in a savage taking he could scarcely recall. He’d been out of his mind for her, out of control. She’d pushed him to it, goaded him into throwing off the human guise he wore to become the beast that lived inside, to prove to them both that she was strong enough to be his match as he’d taken her with the primitive violence of his kind. He’d feared she’d regret it, surrendering herself to something so foreign, so different from what she knew and was. But she said no, and he believed her. Except on nights like this one when old worries haunted him, whispering through his soul with a spectral chill.
Shapeshifter Max Savoie and NOPD detective Charlotte Caissie are as opposite as guns and roses, but both are determined to make their unusual and some would say, unnatural, romance last a lifetime. I’m so excited to get BOUND BY MOONLIGHT, this fourth book in my “By Moonlight” series (unfortunately the first three are unavailable) back out to readers. I’m in the process of going through my original manuscript for additional scenes and picking out steamy (hey, it IS New Orleans, sha!) cover art. Once that’s done, it’s off to my virtual assistant so she can do that formatting hoodoo the she do so well.
What a wild few days here in Michigan as our weather has gone from blizzardy ice and snow mix to gorgeous sunshine and melt runoff. Winter to spring in the blink of an eye . . . then back again for at least the rest of the month (Spring begins on the 20th but here that’s just a suggestion!). Let it do what it will says this retiree, as long as we have heat and internet!
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I LOVE that last line - tingles in the spine. Tweeted. Thank you for commenting on my blog - that was the wrong post - I had put up the wrong time for it to post.
Wow. How did he get so lucky as to find her? To be accepted for who he is has to be amazing to him. Nearly unbelievable. You make him sound so grateful.
She must be an unusually strong woman to be able to accept someone so utterly different from her. You describe his longing and their differences so perfectly! Great snippet! Tweeted.
It always amazes me that with a love as strong as these males seem to feel, they can't believe that someone else can love them back just as strongly...
I LOVE that last line - tingles in the spine. Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting on my blog - that was the wrong post - I had put up the wrong time for it to post.
Everything can't be perfect - or there'd be no reason to read on! Whoops-it was a good post, though.
DeleteWow. How did he get so lucky as to find her? To be accepted for who he is has to be amazing to him. Nearly unbelievable. You make him sound so grateful.
ReplyDeleteThey're BOTH lucky and he's wise enough to know it.
DeleteShe must be an unusually strong woman to be able to accept someone so utterly different from her. You describe his longing and their differences so perfectly! Great snippet! Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteThey've rescued each other to find happiness worth fighting for.
DeleteThey do have a strange relationship, although presumably it works since they'retogether.
ReplyDeleteIt's built from trust, transparency and love. Not bad building blocks to have.
DeleteLove the solemn moment of his thoughts. Great snippet.
ReplyDeleteHe's smart enough to realize what he has . . . and what he has to do to keep it.
DeleteIt always amazes me that with a love as strong as these males seem to feel, they can't believe that someone else can love them back just as strongly...
ReplyDeleteProbably an ego thing . . .
DeleteI really like how vulnerable he is. Cool snippet!
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