{"id":9408,"date":"2022-08-10T01:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2022-08-06T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T03:24:22","slug":"what-are-you-staring-at-mfrwhooks-mmromance-paranormalromance-katehillromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9408","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Staring At? #MFRWHooks #mmromance #paranormalromance @katehillromance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the MFRW Book Hooks Blog Hop!<\/p>\n<p>This excerpt is from Snake Charmer, a M\/M erotic paranormal romance that&#8217;s part of my Pandemonium world.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for stopping by, and don&#8217;t forget to check out excerpts from authors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com\/\">MFRW Book Hooks Blog Hop!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Excerpt from Snake Charmer by Saloni Quinby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(M\/M Erotic Paranormal)<\/p>\n<p>This city stinks. It\u2019s not like the mountains where I grew up. The smell of gasoline was rare. Smog and smoke? Never. I was happy there. Free. Rogue wolf, they call me. I\u2019d rather live alone than belly up to any alpha, but when the demons came, when my kind was threatened, everything changed for me. It\u2019s still unbelievable. Like a nightmare. Wolves hunted on our own land, rounded up and slaughtered or imprisoned in the hellish towers that have risen all around the world. Rumor has it that my kind are used as entertainment &#8212; pitted against each other to fight to the death for the amusement of demons. After all I\u2019ve seen, there\u2019s nothing I wouldn\u2019t believe anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Someone\u2019s screaming. Even with my heightened senses it\u2019s hard to tell the difference between a cry for help &#8212; and there are so many &#8212; and shrieks of demonic joy mixed with general pandemonium.<\/p>\n<p>I slow my bike just enough to spin around and fly down a dark side street. Three pale-faced, dark-eyed demons toss around a black- haired vampiress. She hisses, cat-like, and fights back, but they toy with her, letting her land a few blows before smacking her down. She smashes face down on the pavement and even before I cut the engine on my bike I hear her nose break and smell blood.<\/p>\n<p>Gagging, she pushes herself weakly to her hands and knees, but one of the demons &#8212; a gangly blond &#8212; presses his booted foot to her back, pinning her to the ground. He and his two buddies turn to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you staring at?\u201d a dark-haired demon sneers in my direction, his black eyes glittering.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t speak, but stride toward them, hands flexing at my sides. My inner wolf awakens. Time for my nightly workout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, ugly, are you deaf? Mute? Maybe you\u2019ve lost your tongue?\u201d taunts the blond.<\/p>\n<p>Ugly? I nearly laugh at that bullshit insult, but I\u2019m not about to break my silence because it can be more intimidating than the loudest words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skye: I\u2019m a lone wolf, but I\u2019ve left the forest to fight against demons who\u2019ve taken over the world. Right now I\u2019m with a pack in Baltimore, but their alpha respects my ways. I take assignments from him, but I live alone and fight alone \u2014 until the night I\u2019m attacked by a swarm of bat demons and a hot little snake dancer jumps in to back me up. For me, it\u2019s lust at first sight, but it\u2019s more than that. I think this adorable little tough guy is my mate, even though he\u2019s not a wolf.<\/p>\n<p>Erik: I\u2019m called Snake Charmer. Dancer. Contortionist. Spirit twin to an alien serpent who has always been my protector. My life has been a series of horrors with some beautiful experiences tossed in. I\u2019ve learned to be independent, especially after my best friend and I were brutalized in an attack that left her dead. Now I\u2019m out for revenge, and it\u2019s brought me to Maryland, directly into the path of a gorgeous werewolf who makes me feel things I never dreamed of. It can\u2019t last, though, and nothing, not even desire this deep, will come between me and my vendetta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning<\/strong>: While set in a futuristic paranormal reality, Snake Charmer includes references to previous child abuse, rape, and murder that may be triggers to some readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchase Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.changelingpress.com\/snake-charmer-confessions-1-b-3032\">Changeling Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- start LinkyTools script --><\/p>\n<p><b>Powered by Linky Tools<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/wordpress_list.aspx?id=305830&amp;type=basic\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7387 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book Hooks Blog Hop\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the MFRW Book Hooks Blog Hop! 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