This week I'm participating for the first time in the Paranormal Love Wednesdays Blog Hop, a weekly blog hop featuring paranormal romances.
So here are four paragraphs from WOLF'S SONG, my shifter story for Decadent Publishing's Black Hills Wolves series.
I mean...a wolf shifter and a skinwalker cat who takes the form of a raven...you don't get much more paranormal than that!
Brick stacked the
cord of green firewood on a pallet in a corner of the porch, keeping the logs uncovered to let them season. The sharp
scent of pine melded with the
sweeter smell of maple he’d already cut. He did the U-Haul thing with another armload, toting the split
white fir into the cabin, filling the rack next to the stone hearth. Screw Glade Plug-ins. Nothing finer than
the natural tang of fresh-cut wood.
He’d left his
flannel shirt outside next to the chopping block. But his recent exertions had left him sweaty and—sniff—a
little ripe. His flesh called out for
some wet-and-soapy, but the pristine chrome-and-tile Kohler in his bathroom didn’t make the short list when
the other candidate glittered fresh and natural
beneath the late afternoon sun out back of the
cabin.
The wolf wanted the lake. Paced inside him with restless insistence until Brick sidled closer to the front door.
The sharp, crisp scent of spring socked him
through the open window; the rich mineral regeneration of damp ground, new grass, wild flowers fighting to burst
free. And something else. Something he
couldn’t place curled around him like a fist. Got the juices flowing, his hormones bubbling. A muted growl burbled
out of him. Trying to wrest control back from
his other half on the pressing issue of where to dunk his fragrant carcass seemed futile.
“What’s the
deal, bro?” he murmured. No answer, of course. But his skin prickled as if two paws-worth of claws did a funky Harlem
Shuffle beneath the surface. “No
moon tonight, Dog. But you’re edgy enough to shave my whiskers.” And so was he now. Responding to the call from
outdoors, the howl within.
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