{"id":873,"date":"2015-12-14T01:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2015-12-14T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T00:13:12","slug":"release-day-party-strained-by-marcia-colette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/12\/14\/release-day-party-strained-by-marcia-colette\/","title":{"rendered":"Release Day Party: Strained by Marcia Colette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About the Book<\/h3>\n

\"strained_original\"<\/a>Title:<\/strong> Strained<\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> Marcia Colette<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Urban Fantasy
\nAlexa is keeping a secret from her husband and being half werewolf isn\u2019t it. After all, he\u2019s a full-blood and doesn\u2019t care that there are those who think their union is an abomination. Despite their abnormalities, the Yorks have settled into suburbia and gone out of their way to look like the couple next door.<\/p>\n

Their rouse may have fooled an entire community, but not the Georgia Pack. The Yorks have encroached on their territory. Most interlopers end up dead, especially when the bounties on their heads invite stalkers, killers, and psychos to collect. Despite the trouble the Yorks have brought with them, the domestic suburbanites have intrigued the pack.<\/p>\n

Alexa\u2019s less domestic than she seems. Eight months ago, her bounty hunting club disbanded after several team members lost their lives in an ambush. Since then, the club has reemerged and are expecting Alexa to take her rightful place among the ranks.<\/p>\n

Keeping the truth from her husband about her extracurricular activities will strain the Yorks\u2019 marriage and risk everything they\u2019ve worked hard for. But, that\u2019s the price Alexa pays when her deception becomes deadlier than her aim. A deception that also keeps her alive.<\/p>\n

Author Bio<\/h3>\n

Author Marcia Colette didn\u2019t start out reading or writing books. She had earned a bachelors in Biomedical Engineering before going on to complete her Masters in Information Technology.<\/p>\n

While riding the MBTA train back and forth to her job in Boston as a software consultant, she picked up a copy of John Saul and never looked back. It wasn\u2019t long after that when she started writing her own stories. Five years later, she signed a contract with Double Dragon eBooks to publish her first urban fantasy novel.<\/p>\n

Her next novel was a paranormal romance entitled Unstable Environment and was picked up by Parker Publishing, LLC. She went on to sell her next urban fantasy entitled Stripped to Samhain Publishing, LLC. During that time, she also released Bittersweet (YA), Hazardous Environment (Paranormal Romance), The Spider Inside Her (Urban Fantasy), and Deadlier by the Dozen (Urban Fantasy) under her own independent publishing label Dusk Till Dawn Books. She has sold several short stories and novellas to Mocha Memoirs Press and has continued her Alexa York series with Purple Sword Publications.<\/p>\n

Marcia also writes science fiction under another pen name.<\/p>\n

Still holding her own as an IT Manager, Marcia is a single mom who lives in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Links<\/h3>\n

Website: http:\/\/www.marciacolette.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog: http:\/\/marciacolette.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher: http:\/\/purplesword.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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