This book has a special place in my heart because it marks a couple of firsts. It was the first time I'd ever joined a world (the Black Hills Wolves) that had been developed by someone else. It was my first (but not last) project with Decadent Publishing and the book is also the first new story I'd submitted in a couple of years.
HIS TO PROTECT
Paranormal/Urban Fantasy
Blurb:
After ten long years,
desperation has forced Luna Sinclair back to Los Lobos but nothing in her
experience has prepared her for the heat that Pack Protector, Gunnar Redmond
unleashes. Her wolf is clawing to break free and run straight for the hulking
beast but what wolf in their right mind would want to be tied to her family
tree?
Not
everyone is happy about welcoming the daughter of one of the old alpha’s
henchmen, home. Old wounds and secrets are exposed and to make matters worse,
Drew Tao, the new alpha has reason to suspect that she might have revealed the
packs most closely guarded secret when she escaped the crazed survivalist that
had been keeping her prisoner.
None
of that matters to Gunnar. He’s known Luna was his mate since finding her naked
and shivering on pack land and he’ll do anything to keep her. With their wolves
clawing to mate and danger closing in, anyone who wants to hurt her will have
to go through him first.
Excerpt: PG13
The second afternoon of working at Gee’s, she knew
the reason the back of her neck itched all of the time was because Gunnar
wasn’t the only one watching. Not really a surprise. The community didn’t
accept outsiders as a rule, and, apparently, she’d been gone long enough to
merit suspicion. Some didn’t bother hiding their anger or mistrust.
Like the pretty young blonde woman dressed in a
vintage denim dress and cowboy boots, clenching and unclenching her fists
beneath the table. A toddler sat next to her in a booster seat and danced a
blue plastic dinosaur over the table in time with the off-key tune he hummed.
“I’ll be back with your iced tea as soon as I give
your order to the cook,” she said and attempted another smile the woman
ignored.
“What were you thinking?” The woman’s whispered
comment nearly exploded out of her mouth.
Luna, apparently, had been the only person who’d
heard it. Everyone else seemed more concerned with their next bite of food or
conversation.
“Excuse me?”
“Do you have a mate? Children?”
Luna shook her head and glanced at the toddler who
seemed unaware of his mother’s escalating anger.
“I guess I shouldn’t expect anything less from Ed
Sinclair’s daughter. Whatever possessed you to drag your trouble back here?”
Two days of stares and whispers had left her temper
frayed. “You’re looking at all I dragged back here. My mother and I were as
much his victims as anyone else,” Luna snapped.
“Well, I guess she took care of that.”
Luna did a double take. What?
“Is there a problem, Chloe?” Gunnar asked.
Luna hadn’t heard him slip up behind her. For once,
the heat he generated comforted instead of enticed. It didn’t, however, warm
the woman’s chilly demeanor.
“Of course not,” the woman said tightly.
“Because if there’s a problem, I’m sure Drew would
want to know if you thought he wasn’t doing enough to protect Los Lobos.”
The woman Gunnar called Chloe grew pale and her lips
thinned. “Drew Tao is my alpha and I obey his word as law, but you have to know
we still haven’t forgotten the damage one rampaging murderer managed to do
here. He has to know many of us wouldn’t be happy about welcoming someone who
may have invited another to our doorstep and endangered our children.”
“We invite trouble by our very existence, Chloe.
Luna isn’t any different in that respect. Her coming home protected this
community from outside scrutiny. You need to give her a chance.”
“She needs to prove she deserves one.”
Luna glanced at the child who had finally become
aware of the tension between the adults. He clutched his toy while his lower
lip trembled. She tugged at Gunnar’s arm and nodded toward the boy. How many
times had her mother needed to protect her in the face of a situation out of
her control?
“I’ll bring your drink order,” she said, once more,
eager to bring the discussion to an end. Threats wouldn’t win her any
popularity contests.
“Don’t bother.” The woman scooted out of her seat
and reached for her son who grabbed onto her neck like a little monkey and
tucked his head into the curtain of his mother’s long blonde hair. “I’ve lost
my appetite.”
Luna tried not to let the stares and whispers reach
her. She pretended they didn’t matter as she wiped the table clean of
nonexistent crumbs. How the hell had anyone found out about what happened to
her?
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May the universe hand you a smile,
Paris Brandon
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