SELKIE’S LURE (ORKNEY SELKIES 3) BY ROSANNA LEO
Blurb:
Amy
Woods, one of TV’s famed Beast Seekers, has come to Orkney, Scotland, to hunt
sirens. One of them killed her sister and she has sworn revenge. Most people
think she’s crazy for believing in monsters. She knows the truth. But while
patrolling one of Orkney’s cold beaches, she runs into a naked selkie man
rather than a siren, and he proves to be an alluring distraction.
Edan
Kirk is a selkie, one of an ancient race of seal shape shifters. When he hears
of Amy’s intention to hunt sirens, tragic memories overwhelm him. He knows he
must get rid of the pesky human. As much as he tries to convince her she’s on a
fool’s errand, he can’t resist trying to protect her. After all, he has heard
the enticing song of the sirens and he knows its deadly power.
As
Amy and Edan engage in a battle of wits and wills, other emotions rush to the
fore. Their connection is intense, the sort to come along only once in a
lifetime. Edan recognizes her as his mate. However, another woman has set her
sights on him as well, one whose powers of seduction are legendary. One whose
voice has driven men to madness and devastation.
Can
Amy accept Edan as her mate, making her home in the world of the supernatural?
And can they save each other from a beast that cannot be destroyed?
Excerpt:
After
patrolling the shore for the better part of an hour, Edan began to feel the
call of his bed. He might possess more stamina than a human man but it had been
a long day. Resolved to catch a couple hours of sleep before morning, he swam
toward the shore. Relinquishing his pelt, letting it slide from his body, he
stood up straight.
A
man appeared before him.
No.
A woman.
Because
she wore fatigues, he was momentarily confused, but there was no mistaking her
buxom figure. She was certainly doing her best to look like an army man, right
down to her combat boots.
The
lass smiled and aimed a camera phone at him. “Hello, sailor. Did you fall off
your boat?”
Fuck. What sort of woman walked on the beach
at four in the morning? “Something like that.”
Despite
the obvious threat posed by her camera, he couldn’t help noticing she was a
beauty. Perhaps not in the Hollywood starlet sense, but her imperfections
intrigued him. She’d pulled her chestnut hair back into a tight ponytail. There
was an asymmetry to her face that gave an edge to delicate features. Her nose
was slightly crooked near the tip and one eyebrow arched higher than the other.
Her generous mouth was compressed but it looked capable of wide smiles.
And
her scent. It hit him hard and made him see stars, like that time his younger
brother Calan lobbed a dictionary at his head. She smelled like strawberries,
juicy and ripe from the bush. Interesting, considering she was dressed like Rambo.
His
gut turned, as if skewered on a rotisserie. As his innards roiled, he couldn’t
help wondering what it would be like to wind her ponytail around his fingers,
draw her close and...
“Well?”
Her eyebrow quirked even higher.
How
much had she seen?
He stepped
toward her but when she snapped several photos in quick succession, he stopped
moving. “It’s not polite to take photos of a man in his birthday suit.”
“Yes,
but you’re not quite a man, are you?”
She’d
seen everything, then. He’d simply have to persuade her not to trust her
senses. He’d talked himself out of worse scrapes. Edan waved his hand in the
direction of his crotch. “I’m all man, lass, as you can see.”
She
indulged in a quick glance. Her eyes widened in clear wonder, as if she’d never
seen anything quite like him before. “Something more, then.” She nodded toward
his pelt. “I’ll take that, please.”
“I
don’t think so.” He hedged his bets he could convince her to give up whatever
mischief she’d planned. How had he missed her on the beach? Too distracted by
the thought of Breena, perhaps. “You’ve seen enough to understand I’m a selkie.
If you know that, you know I need this pelt. If you’re looking for a lover, you
need to be wily and steal the skin. I won’t just hand it over, unless of course
you can prove to me you’d be worth a tussle.”
“I’m
not looking for a lover and I don’t want to tussle
with you.”
“I’d
say that was a shame, you know, if you didn’t look as if you were out to
blackmail me.”
Two
men, also dressed in camouflage, emerged from behind a sand dune. One of them
looked as if his sole hobby was frequenting the gym. Although the other man was
smaller in stature, he presented more of a threat and it had everything to do
with his professional-looking video camera.
“I’d
give her the pelt if I were you,” the bigger man said.
“Who
the hell are you people?” Edan demanded as he slowly handed the skin over to
the woman.
She
took it but didn’t lower her phone. “We’re the Beast Seekers. You’re our first selkie. Smile for the cameras.”
Buy Link
Information:
Selkie’s Lure will be available for
purchase on January 16 at Liquid Silver Publishing: http://liquidsilverpublishing.com/
Preorders
are now available at:
During
release week, it will be available at Amazon, B&N and Google Play.
Author
Bio:
Rosanna
Leo is a multi-published, erotic romance author. Several of her books about
Greek gods, selkies and shape shifters have been named Top Picks at Night Owl
Romance and The Romance Reviews.
From
Toronto, Canada, Rosanna occupies a house in the suburbs with her
long-suffering husband, their two hungry sons and a tabby cat named Sweetie.
When not writing, she can be found haunting dusty library stacks or planning
her next star-crossed love affair.
A
library employee by day, she is honored to be a member of the league of naughty
librarians who also happen to write romance. Rosanna blogs at
www.rosannaleoauthor.wordpress.com
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