A
native of New Jersey and lifelong nerd, AmandaLance recently
completed her Master in Liberal Arts at Thomas Edison State
College after her BA in English Literature and AFA in creative
writing. As an avid reader of all genres, some of her favorite
authors include Hemingway, Marquis de Sade, Stevenson, Bukowski
and Radcliffe.
When
she isn’t writing or reading, Amanda can found indulging in film
noir or hiking with her other half and their extremely spoiled
dog. She is obsessively working on her next book and trying to
tame her caffeine addiction.
Lia Davis is a mother to two young adults and two very special kitties,
a wife to her soul mate, a paranormal romance author, graphic designer, and
co-owner to Fated Desires Publishing, LLC. She and her family live in Northeast
Florida battling hurricanes and very humid summers. But it’s her home and she
loves it!
An accounting major, Lia has always been a dreamer with a very activity
imagination. The wheels in her head never stop. She ventured into the world of
writing and publishing in 2008 and loves it more than she imagined. Writing and
designing are stress relievers that allow her to go off in her corner of the
house and enter into another world that she created, leaving real life where it
belongs.
Her favorite things are spending time with family, traveling, reading,
writing, chocolate, coffee, nature and hanging out with her kitties.
She’d fought fate against one, but she’s no
match for two.
Senior enforcer, Cameron Nickels has found her perfect mate. Blaine
Andrews, leopard Pack Marshal, is strong, dominate, loyal, and passionate. He
knows all her strengths and weaknesses—not to mention her pleasure points.
Cam’s known Blaine most her life, but she’s always felt like something was
missing and her jaguar refuses to fully accept him. Yet, she can’t walk away
from him. When architect and sexy mountain lion shifter, Graham Griffin, comes
to town to design the new den nursery and school, Cameron finds herself in a
mating dance that throws her and her jaguar into flight mode while Blaine must
decide if he cannot only share his mate, but welcome another.
After his lover walked out on him a year ago, Graham has
no intentions of entering another relationship any time soon. But he
realizes that the fates have other plans for him when he meets Blaine and
Cameron. When his ex-lover’s children are chased into Ashwood territory by a
group of rogues, he discovers the male he shared a life with had died freeing
the kids from the Onyx Pack. Graham must work side-by-side with the two
enforcers to uncover lies from the past while his heart opens to his true
mates.
Warning: Contains one-hot headed leopard, a man who thought he’d lost
it all, and a woman who is about to rub up against both in the best possible
ways.
A closer look at the heroes of A
Mating Dance
Two heroes are better than one, right? Well if they are anything like
Blaine and Graham they are. *grins* I loved writing A Mating Dance. I loved
Blaine and Graham and their connection to one another and to Cameron. I also
loved how different they.
Blaine is the Marshal of Ashwood Falls. His Pack duties are to aid his
father, the Alpha, in ensuring the Pack is safe and stepping in his father’s
place when needed. Blaine also leads the enforcers and sentries. He strong,
possessive, protective, and his hard shell can only be softened by those who
are closest to him.
Graham is the stepbrother of Nevan Mathews, mate of the leopard Healer,
and has a beta male personality. He’s compassionate, but strong. He’s the
adopted father of his ex-lover’s two kids—Max and Sammie. He balances out
Cameron’s and Blaine’s dominate personalities. His job as an architect will be an added value
to Ashwood Falls in times when they need to expand and with the new plans the
wolf Alpha, Luna, has for the nursery and school.
Together these two are sexy, powerful, and holds the key to Cameron’s
heart, next to Max of course.
You can find out more about this hot couple and their mate in A Mating
Dance.
Excerpt from A Mating Dance by Lia Davis:
Cameron sat at Dani and Nevan’s dining table with Max balanced on one
knee as she helped him cut his waffle, dip it into the syrup, and bring it to
his mouth. When he dropped the fork and stuck his hand in the syrup, she
squeaked and grabbed his wrist. Graham came over with a wet cloth to clean him
up. Max grunted his frustration then gripped Cam’s hair with his sticky
fingers, tangling his fingers around the strands. “Oh, Max.” Cameron stood,
only to come nose-to nose with Graham.
Her skin heated and her heart skipped a few beats. His blue eyes
darkened slightly, then a flash of bright blue told her that his puma wasn’t
far from the surface.
Graham gripped Max’s hand and tried to unwrap her hair from his sticky
fingers. Cameron laughed, trying to ignore the heat blooming between them.
“You’re making it worse.”
Graham drew his brows together, making him even more handsome. She let
her gaze travel over the masculine lines of his face. His skin was tanned, as
though he worked long hours in the sun. He had high cheekbones and an average
size nose that was just right for him. When her gaze fell on his lips, she
wondered what they would feel like against hers. His lips were slightly full,
the bottom one begging for her to bite it. When his blue gaze met hers, a wash
of desire rushed through her, heating her skin even more.
Good Lord, what the hell was wrong with her? She had a mate, or could
have one if she’d get past her commitment issues. She damn sure didn’t need
another.
The front door opened, drawing her attention to Blaine as he walked in
and shut the door behind him. Cameron immediately met his glare with one of her
own.
Damn possessive male.
She stepped away from Graham and went to the kitchen sink to wet her
hair and untangle Max’s hands. A moment later Blaine was at her side, he
pressed a kiss to her cheek and then took Max from her. Her heart lurched as
the little guy started crying and kicking his feet.
Graham appeared and took the wailing child from Blaine, and Cameron
swore she heard a growl come from one of them.
Drying the ends of her hair with a kitchen towel, Cam stepped between
them, giving Blaine a narrow-eyed glare. “Are you done?”
His leopard flashed in his eyes, and he leaned in to growl, “Not with
you.”
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Author of the bestsellers: ON THE GATHERING STORM and SHED
Plus the #1 Kindle Suspense: THE NIGHT WALK MEN
She only wanted to leave. But he took that option from her. Now she wants it back.
Set on the same island as the reader favorite Shed, the latest literary suspense novella from bestselling author Jason McIntyre picks up the Dovetail Cove saga with this story of one lonely woman...trapped.
Tina McLeod is on the cusp of a new life. Extraordinary change is rare in her world but this newsflash means she can finally leave her small island town for good. No more pouring coffee for townsfolk in Main Street’s greasy spoon, no more living under the weight of her born-again mother. That is, until Frank Moort comes in for his usual lunch and dessert on an ordinary Friday in May.
Bled sees things turn backwards and upside down for each of them. Their encounter is prolonged and grotesque, the sort of thing splashing the covers of big city newspapers. Both are changed. And neither will come out clean on the other side.
A story about taking what’s not yours, Bled explores pushing back when you’ve been pushed too far. It paints in red the horrors from our most commonplace of surroundings: right out in the open where nothing can hide behind closed doors and shut mouths.
About the Author
Jason McIntyre has lived and worked in varied places across the globe. His writing also meanders from the pastoral to the garish, from the fantastical to the morbid. Vibrant characters and vivid surroundings stay with him and coalesce into novels and stories. Before his time as an editor, writer and communications professional, he spent several years as a graphic designer and commercial artist.
McIntyre's writing has been called darkly noir and sophisticated, styled after the likes of Chuck Palahniuk but with the pacing and mass appeal of Stephen King. The books tackle the family life subject matter of Jonathan Franzen but also eerie discoveries one might find in a Ray Bradbury story or those of Rod Serling.
Jason McIntyre’s books include the #1 Kindle Suspense, The Night Walk Men, Bestsellers On The Gathering Storm and Shed, plus the multi-layered coming-of-age literary suspense Thalo Blue.
To purchase Bled, or any of Jason McIntyre's books, visit Amazon and enjoy!!
Bleeding on the page:
An introduction to the new book ‘Bled’
I started writing the untitled short story which became Bled for an upcoming anthology called Nights Gone By. When I passed 10,000 words on it, I realized I had something way bigger and more involved than a short. I also realized that some of the characters from a previous novella called Shed had crept into the cafe where the main character works in this book. Uh oh, I thought. This means we've started a series!
And, sure enough, as the word count grew, I saw how things needed to evolve on the island where these two stories take place. And, I saw more stories beginning to form. Bled will not be the last book, novella or short tale to take place in the same universe as Shed.
There are more to come.
As for Teeny McLeod, her mom and the patrons of the Highliner Cafe, I'll be honest when I say it all occurred to me when I was sitting at a cafe inside a big box store near where I grew up. Since memories of where I grew up mingle freely with the world of Dovetail Cove and Shed, the two worlds became mentally entwined.
I recognized the sixty-something waitress from when I was a kid and used to visit the same cafe with my grandparents. They would get their sixty-cent coffees and I would get a slice of pie and ice cream. Here was this waitress, all these years later, still pouring the coffee, still bringing out the dessert. I wondered what her life would have been like if, say, one thing had gone differently a long time ago.
I began on Bled, still without a title at that point, only an image of this waitress as a young woman. What might the world have looked like for her, I wondered. And away I went.
