Excerpt <\/strong><\/p>\nBackground:\u00a0 Our hero and heroine are locked in a fae prison cell. Cyn, our fae anti-hero, is their guardian. In this scene, Nicca has distract him from Evan who is working on something to facilitate their escape.<\/p>\n
. \u201cHey, Cyn. Can you let me out of here for a minute?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust you, doll? I knew a rat couldn\u2019t keep your interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
The door evaporated. She winked at Evan before stepping into Cyn\u2019s lair. The door immediately reappeared, without the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cYum. You\u2019re wet enough to sate ten fae guardians,\u201d Cyn said without preamble as his gaze strolled up and down her body. \u201cYou mostly just talked in there, and he got you this juiced. Maybe Amaris was right to want to fuck the rat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swallowing down the green monster trying to come out as a snarl, she focused on something that confused her. \u201cWhat\u2019s a fae guardian?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProtectors, mediators, peace keepers. I think that\u2019s enough synonyms to get the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t say warriors, soldiers, fighters, which was what she had immediately assumed. Cyn kept throwing out competing images. He was either trying to confuse her or, like with the cards, tell her something.<\/p>\n
He walked around her slowly, his body brushing against her like it was copping a feel. She shuddered, part unsated desire, part revulsion. At least she was buying Evan time.<\/p>\n
He sniffed her hair and down her neck. \u201cA wolf and a rat\u2014who\u2019d have thunk it?\u201d He licked along the edge of her ear, and she swallowed a gag. \u201cIt won\u2019t last. When your bed gets cold, think of me. I\u2019m always available, and I\u2019m sure you don\u2019t get too many offers coming your way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat woman could resist that proposition? A fae and a shifter\u2014who\u2019d have thunk it?\u201d She inched away, grabbing distance from all the weirdness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want hot, sweaty sex games. No commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you know about the fae in the unclaimed territories?\u201d she asked, trying to change the conversation, but not really expecting an answer.<\/p>\n
Cyn\u2019s stare drilled through, and her whole body trembled as if he were groping around in her soul. \u201cYou created them. They\u2019re yours to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShifter, you need to get your head out of your ass and see the world beyond your door. Stop pretending like you\u2019re separate and apart. There is a price to all walls, especially the ones in your own head.\u201d Anger vibrated through the air, tearing through her like a tornado. Her trapped wolf howled.<\/p>\n
Cyn shook himself, as if trying to gain control. In that moment, she knew she saw the real Cyn. The rest was bluff, blunder, and misdirection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tire of your narrow mind. Get back in your cell and occupy yourself with these if the rat bores you.\u201d He pushed the cards into her hands so hard, the edges cut into her flesh.<\/p>\n
About Shari<\/strong><\/p>\nHello, I’m Shari. By day, I crawl out of bed, mainline coffee, walk the dog, get my kid off to school, hop on the metro, and save cities within the four walls of my office. Usually by email.<\/p>\n
At night, the other Shari emerges. \u00a0I take off the suit, curl up on the couch and let my imagination play, with words and images until stories take shape (while periodically checking on my teen-ager, hiding out in the bedroom and plotting world domination with her furry minions). \u00a0As my alter ego, I save cities in a cape and spangled tights, wander space and time on a surfboard, fly over the Himalayas on feathered wings, make six-toed footprints in indigo talc snow on the sixth planet in the Andromeda galaxy or eavesdrop on Olympian gods while pretending to whip up a bowl of ambrosia.<\/p>\n
In all these wondrous worlds, romance and passion blossom. I can’t resist a happy ending. And I am particularly prone to writing happy endings for those who have given up on ever getting one. That gives me immense satisfaction.<\/p>\n
Join me on my journey. The best ideas\u00a0emerge from team work.<\/p>\n
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Unnatural Allies (Shifting Alliances, #2 by Shari Elder Genre: M\/F Paranormal Romance Release Date: April 28, 2017 Cover Artist: Jay Aheer Thank you so much for hosting me on Compelling Beasts. My newest paranormal romance Unnatural Allies, Book Two in the paranormal romance series, Shifting Alliances, released from Evernight Publishing on April 29. Although part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,4],"tags":[74,281,19],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excerpts","category-general","category-guestposts","tag-antiheroes","tag-featured","tag-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unnatural-Allies-evernightpublishing-2017.jpg?fit=216%2C324&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kq3e-ti","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}