{"id":1363,"date":"2016-08-04T01:05:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T05:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2016-08-04T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T02:25:06","slug":"story-sample-wolf-in-his-heart-by-n-j-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/08\/04\/story-sample-wolf-in-his-heart-by-n-j-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Sample: Wolf in his Heart by N.J. Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1362\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/08\/04\/story-sample-wolf-in-his-heart-by-n-j-walters\/njwolfinhisheart72lg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/njWolfInHisHeart72lg.jpg?fit=216%2C324&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"216,324\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"njWolfInHisHeart72lg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/njWolfInHisHeart72lg.jpg?fit=216%2C324&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1362\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/njWolfInHisHeart72lg-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"njWolfInHisHeart72lg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/njWolfInHisHeart72lg.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/njWolfInHisHeart72lg.jpg?w=216&amp;ssl=1 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Title: Wolf in his Heart<\/p>\n<p>Author: N.J. Walters<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Paranormal Romance\/Werewolf<\/p>\n<p>Blurb:<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a wolf where it counts\u2014in his heart and in her bed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Salvation Pack<\/em>, Book 7<\/p>\n<p>Exiled from her wolf pack for rejecting her parents\u2019 choice for a mate, Rina Matheson has been on her own for over a year. Now she\u2019s running for her life from a man who knows what she is and is obsessed with hunting her down.<\/p>\n<p>Sage Gallagher\u2014organic farmer, half-breed werewolf, and member of the Salvation Pack\u2014finds more than a lost hiker while camping in the Great Smoky Mountains. So much more. Instant attraction slams through him with knee-buckling power the minute he sees Rina. His first instinct is to get her home where he and his pack can protect her.<\/p>\n<p>Rina doesn\u2019t trust easily. Especially not half-breeds, who she was raised to consider abominations. But Sage\u2019s quiet strength calls to her lonely soul, and amazingly enough, her wolf responds. As he slowly works his way past her guard, she is soon in danger of losing her heart\u2014even as danger draws closer to taking her life.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>She kept one eye on Sage, which wasn\u2019t exactly a hardship. He was big and handsome and part wolf. It had been over a year since she\u2019d been in the presence of her own kind.<\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s a half-breed<\/em>, she reminded herself. They were weak and shunned by the packs. Well, she\u2019d been shunned too, and she was full-blooded, so in the end what did it really matter? She\u2019d learned a lot in her time alone. What a person did was a hell of a lot more important than what they said.<\/p>\n<p>Family might be everything to her kind, but when push had come to shove, her parents had chosen their pack above her, their own daughter. They\u2019d stood by and watched as she\u2019d been cast aside. Mikhail might have stood with her, but he\u2019d been away working at the time of her banishment.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d been alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is after you?\u201d His question jolted her back to the present.<\/p>\n<p>She shook her head. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s not your problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sage shook his head. \u201cNow that\u2019s where you\u2019re wrong. It\u2019s definitely my problem. You need to come home with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was official. The only werewolf she\u2019d met since she\u2019d left home and he was a half-breed crazy. \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t think so.\u201d The alpha would not approve of bringing a strange wolf home, especially one who\u2019d been banished from her own pack. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She liked his calm manner. Most of the men she\u2019d known were ultra aggressive, always trying to assert their dominance. Sage had a quiet power about him. It was as if he was confident enough of his own strength that he didn\u2019t need to prove anything to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Her wolf found it very alluring. Come to think of it, so did she.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just bring home a strange wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sage shrugged. \u201cSure I can. Won\u2019t be the first time the pack has opened its doors to a strange wolf.\u201d His smile would have sent her to her knees if she hadn\u2019t already been sitting. He was lethal to her senses.<\/p>\n<p>Was it because he was the first of her kind she\u2019d seen in months? Or was it because he was being kind to her? God knows, her soul was starved for some kindness. Or was the attraction something more?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that proved her pack was right about her. That she was defective. After all, she\u2019d turned away a dominant, full-blooded male werewolf and was drawn to a seemingly laidback half-breed.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase Link(s):<\/p>\n<p>Samhain Publishing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhainpublishing.com\/book\/5823\/wolf-in-his-heart\">https:\/\/www.samhainpublishing.com\/book\/5823\/wolf-in-his-heart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B01AVGJRVU\">http:\/\/amzn.com\/B01AVGJRVU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barnes &amp; Noble:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Aa39M2\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/Aa39M2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARe:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allromanceebooks.com\/product-wolfinhisheart-2015499-140.html\">https:\/\/www.allromanceebooks.com\/product-wolfinhisheart-2015499-140.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kobo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/dnPIDm\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/dnPIDm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>N.J. Walters is a <em>New York Times<\/em> and <em>USA Today<\/em> 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\u2014all vie for her attention. It\u2019s a tough life, but someone\u2019s got to live it.<\/p>\n<p>Author Links:<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njwalters.com\/\">http:\/\/www.njwalters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njwalters.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/www.njwalters.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newsletter Group: <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/awakeningdesires\/info\">https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/awakeningdesires\/info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook Author Page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/N.J.WaltersAuthor\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/N.J.WaltersAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njwaltersauthor\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/njwaltersauthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goodreads: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/NJWalters\">http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/NJWalters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/njwalters\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/njwalters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BookBub: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/n-j-walters\">https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/n-j-walters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-via=\"compbeastsblog\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Wolf in his Heart Author: N.J. 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