Shapeshifter Love
Anyone who is familiar with my books knows I love writing paranormal stories. I’ve written all kinds of shifters—lions and tigers and bears, oh my, and some dragons and werewolves, too.
My Legacy series was my first foray into the world of shifters. I created a world where werewolves and vampires might own your local bar. Their battles with the bounty hunters who hunt them played out in isolated forests as well as major cities.
Then came my Hades’ Carnival series. An ancient curse kept a group of seven immortal shapeshifters locked in their animal form for thousands of years. Now it is time for the curse to be broken. One by one, a special woman comes along and frees them. But Hades is not ready to give up quite so easily and they have to fight to save their lives and their souls. I loved having a different kind of shifter for each book.
I also have a dragon series. Or as I call them, drakons. A drakon is the son of a pure-blooded dragon and a human female. Their dragon sires left long ago, leaving their drakon sons behind. These men are tough, solitary, and at war with a secret society that wants to capture them for their treasure and their blood, as drakon blood heals disease and prolongs the life of whoever drinks it. The time is ripe for them to fall in love, if only they can get past their mistrustful nature and evade the people trying to enslave them.
As you can probably tell, there is a lot of freedom in this genre. The only limit is imagination. Shifters don’t follow the same rules as most humans. They can’t. They’re more primal, closer to their animal natures. They’re stronger and faster than we are and have their own mating rituals and laws.
Which leads me to my Salvation Pack, set just outside of my fictional town of Salvation, North Carolina. I love this pack and this world. The original pack consisted of two brothers and their three friends who broke free from their home pack to start their own, but has expanded quite a bit as the series has progressed. There is an all out war with their former pack, as well as problems with other packs. Then there are their dealings with humans, which can be challenging, especially when a wolf falls in love with one.
But in Wolf of her Own both the hero and heroine are wolves, and since the werewolves in this world have a lifespan of twice that of a human, they are still considered to be in their prime, even though they are both in their sixties. This is a book near and dear to my heart. The heroine is dealing with the psychological problems that come from having a former brutal mate. He may begone, but the emotional scars remain. It takes a lot of courage for her to even consider getting involved again, not just because of her past, but also because her son is the alpha of the pack. But Mikhail is more than up for the task, even if they do have to hide their relationship, at least at first…Wolf of her Own Salvation Pack,
Book 9
Mikhail Matheson may be an outsider in Salvation, but he stays with the pack to be close to his sister. It has nothing to with the fact that Elise—the most fascinating woman he’s ever laid eyes on—is part of the pack. Mikhail has wanted Elise for years, but being with her could cost him his life. Soon he’ll have to decide if he’s going to leave the pack or risk it all to pursue a place at her side.
After escaping her abusive mate, Elise LaForge has made a home in Salvation with her sons. She never expected to have her emotions stirred up by the always serious and seriously handsome Mikhail. But can she finally put her past behind her and dare to move on?
When danger creeps into the pack, both she and Mikhail have to be willing to sacrifice everything to have a chance at love.
EXCERPT
He turned and got his first real view of her bedroom. This was Elise’s private domain. Sheer white curtains hung at the windows, allowing in light and giving the illusion of privacy. The bed was queen-sized and covered with a white comforter edged in lace. The quilt that she’d had wrapped around her this morning was folded and sitting on the edge of the bed.
Drawn to it, he walked over and ran his fingers over it. The colors were pale and feminine—pink, cream, green, blue, and peach. He noticed the other little touches—a pale pink bench at the end of the bed, a chest of drawers painted white with glass knobs, and a wicker chair in the corner with throw pillows in colors that matched the quilt.
It was totally and utterly feminine. There wasn’t a hint of masculine anywhere.
And wasn’t that the point? Her mate had probably had everything his way in the years they’d been married, so it was only natural she’d swing totally the other way when she was designing a space for herself.It suited her—intensely feminine without being too fussy. There were only a few extra pillows piled on the bed and the only lace was a thin band around the edge of her comforter. He really felt like the big bad wolf standing here in her room.A smile tilted up the corners of his mouth. Damned if he didn’t like it.
She really needed something masculine to ground the space—see, watching all those decorating shows with his sister years ago had taught him something—and he was just the something masculine that was needed.
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N.J. Walters is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has always been a voracious reader, and now she spends her days writing novels of her own. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, time-travelers, seductive handymen, and next-door neighbors with smoldering good looks—all vie for her attention. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to live it.
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