Of Love and Darkness
Twisted Fate
Book One
Tami Lund
Genre: Paranormal, Shifters
Publisher: Soul Mates Publishing
Date of Publication: June 24, 2015
ASIN: B00ZJ7SRB8
Number of pages: 181
Word Count: 60k
Cover Artist: Syneca Featherstone
Book Description:
OF LOVE AND DARKNESS kicks off the new Twisted Fate shape-shifter series. There are two kinds of shifters: Rakshasa and Light Ones. Rakshasa want to snack on human bones. Light Ones want to protect the humans.
Unfortunately, the Rakshasa are currently winning the battle, as the Light Ones are not fertile. Only one type of Light One, exceedingly rare females called Chala, are able to produce offspring. The Rakshasa know this, and have managed to nearly decimate the population.
Enter Gavin Rowan, a cursed Rakshasa who believes he is a Light One. He feels all his Rakshasa urges to kill, but has been cursed to protect the Light Ones instead.
Throw Sydney Amataya into the mix. She is a Chala– except she doesn't know it. At least not until Gavin saves her from a Rakshasa attack and then declares her as his mate.
But that’s not how Sydney operates. Encouraged by her cross-dressing Fate, William, she refuses Gavin’s claim. If he wants to mate with her–once she gets over the shock of discovering this supernatural world, that is–he's going to have to woo her, impress her, wine and dine her. Romance her. She deserves no less, end of the world be damned.
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It was silent for long
moments before Sydney realized the two animals had stopped fighting. She risked
a quick glance over her shoulder and saw that one of them, the larger, bulkier
one lay on the ground in a pool of blood, his lifeless eyes staring at her,
unseeing. Sydney swallowed back bile and turned away from the grisly scene.
And found herself staring
at Gavin’s T-shirt-covered chest, as he crouched in front of her and cradled
her wounded arm with more gentleness than she would have given him credit for.
She tried to wrench her arm free and let out a gasp of pain.
“Stop moving,” Gavin
commanded in his gravelly voice. He gently slid her shredded coat off her
shoulder, as if he meant to inspect the wound more closely.
“Where the hell were
you?” Sydney demanded. “I just got attacked by a rabid dog. A really big dog. I
need to go to the hospital. I need a rabies shot. Damn it, that hurts.” She
hissed as he ripped off the arm of her sweater, instead of trying to tug the
entire thing over her head.
“Hey,” she protested, “that’s
my favorite sweater.”
Gavin gave the sweater a
look that indicated he could not quite understand why it was her favorite, and
then he prodded the wounds on her arm. Blood poured freely from four long
slashes, dripping off the tips of her fingers and onto her now-ruined coat.
“I doubt he had rabies,”
he muttered as he continued to inspect the wounds. “And I just rescued you, so
you’re welcome.”
Sydney gaped at him.
“Rescued me? Rescued me? You ran like a cat when somebody pulls out the water
hose, you moron. There were two dogs. One jumped out at me and the other
attacked him. They started fighting and I somehow got caught in the crosshairs.
We should probably get the hell out of here though, because only one of them is
dead back there. The other one might decide to come back and attack us.”
“He won’t,” Gavin said
with an odd inflection in his voice. “But you’re right, there are others, and
the scent of blood will bring them relatively quickly. Especially your blood.
What are you?”
To Sydney’s utter horror,
he leaned close to her wounded arm and sniffed, like a dog checking out another
dog’s scent.
She gave her arm another
jerk, but Gavin held her in a death grip. “What are you doing?” she asked as he
bent closer still and then . . . licked
her wounded arm.
“Ew!”
Gavin’s eyes glazed over,
as if he had fallen under some sort of spell. He blinked dazedly for a few
heartbeats, his hands grasping her arm in a tight enough grip she thought the
appendage might go numb. And then he bent his head and licked her wounds again,
this time with earnest, licking over and over, as if he intended to clean up
every last bit of blood. By the time the entire area was cleansed of all traces
of blood, he was panting heavily and his eyes were still glazed. Sydney
couldn’t be certain, but the bulge in his pants seemed to have gotten larger.
“Gross,” she snapped.
“Now I have to get a rabies and a tetanus shot. I hate shots. Can you
get hepatitis this way? I bet you have some sort of sexually transmitted
disease, and now you’ve given it to me.”
“No disease,” he managed
between pants and licks.
“I’m supposed to take
your word for it? Get away from me.” She twisted her shoulder, and slid her arm
out of a grasp that had gone slack. She was startled that she only experienced
a twinge of pain, and when she looked down at her arm, her eyes widened as she realized
the four long gashes were no longer bleeding, and in fact, appeared to actually
be healing right before her eyes.
“What the . . .?”
“Chala,” Gavin whispered,
his eyes still glazed and, were they glowing?
It was the third time that evening she thought she saw glowing eyes. Sydney
glanced up at the darkened, cloudy sky and wondered if it wasn’t some trick of
the lights in downtown Detroit.
“Chala,” he whispered
again.
Sydney gave him a cross
look. “My name isn’t Chala.”
“You are a Chala,” Gavin
said. The glazed look faded from his eyes, and while they still appeared to
glow faintly, they had taken on a far more calculating look. Despite her
current situation, she couldn’t help but think he had lovely silver-blue eyes.
“And you are my mate.”
About the Author:
Tami Lund likes to live, love, and laugh, and does her best to ensure the characters in her books do the same. After they've overcome a few seemingly insurmountable obstacles first, of course.
Tami is multi-published, both self and with a few publishers, including Crimson Romance, Liquid Silver Books, and Soul Mates Publishing. Chances are, there is a new book coming out soon. Be sure to stalk her on social media, so you know when.
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1 comment:
Raven sounds like an intriguing character! Thanks for sharing information about her and for the giveaway.
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