When there’s a shift in the plot…
Not a total change, but something happens that changes just enough of the storyline. For me, it’s those little changes that keep things interesting. Keeps the mystery and suspense alive. Sometimes those small changes are needed for to strengthen the characters and the world they live in.
In Surrendering to the Alpha that small shift in the back story happens. I only hinted to the reason because I believe in building on that change over time. After all there will be 10 books in the Ashwood Falls series.
What is that change? Well it’s a shift in power and if you read A Mating Dance, you know what that is. *wink, wink*
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Surrendering to the Alpha
Ashwood Falls #3
Published by Fated Desires Publishing
She’s given up hope of peace, yet the Alpha’s touch offers promises too hard to run from.
Ashwood Falls’ leopard Alpha, Keegan Andrews holds onto the pain of his deceased mate as his own personal hell—a reminder that not all things are what they seem. The Pack Scribe, Addyson Lewis is no exception. She’s intrigued him like no other since the day she stumbled into Ashwood territory about twenty-five years ago. When he discovers that just being near her calms the storm inside him, he can’t stay away even if it means exposing her to the evil she tried to escape.
Over a hundred years of psychological torture at the hands of the rogue Onyx Pack has left Addyson with no memories of her life before captivity and with the inability to control her psychometric nature. Anything or anyone she touches sends her into their darkest past and secrets, causing her pain she wouldn’t wish on anyone. Without the ability to control it, she’s forced to deny her leopard the connection she craves from the Pack that welcomed her with love and without judgment. That is, until the day Keegan involuntarily touches her bare skin and she finds the peace she’d craved for far too long.
Warning: Contains one sexy alpha leopard who craves the most decadent of dreams, a hidden treasure contained within a spunky woman, and the ability to create a mating bond that’s the most explosive yet.
Excerpt:
He stepped closer and studied her as she turned back to the omelet. Keegan ground his molars, took a deep breath, and calmly asked, “Do you like it here?”
She peered back at him, her eyebrows bunched together before she smoothed out her features in that practiced control she used around others. “It’s not home, but it’s nice. I don’t need much, Keegan.”
He took another step toward her. She turned the stove off and handed Will his plate. The boy stood, watching Keegan as if he would harm Addyson. It made Keegan proud of the kid that he’d want to protect Addyson.
Without looking at the teen, Keegan said, “Will, take your breakfast in the living room and eat before it gets cold.”
From the corner of his eye, Keegan saw Will peer at Addyson. When she gave him a nod, he left them alone. Keegan took another step forward, stopping inches from her. He heard her heart beat speed up and smelled her strawberry scent intensify, but not in fear. She was turned on by his presence.
He inhaled deeply, taking in her scent. His leopard rubbed up against his chest, trying to feel Addyson. He’d never imagine in the past thirty-seven years that he’d find another mate. Then Addyson stumbled into his life about twelve years after losing Cate. He wasn’t ready then, the pain still too raw to see what the leopard tried to make him see.
He’d finally started to accept it, accept the fact that Addyson has a place in his heart and in his bed.
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A little about Lia:
Lia Davis is a mother to two young adults and two very special kitties, a wife to her soul mate, a paranormal romance author, and co-owner to Fated Desires Publishing, LLC. She and her family live in Northeast Florida battling hurricanes and very humid summers. But it’s her home and she loves it!
An accounting major, Lia has always been a dreamer with a very activity imagination. The wheels in her head never stop. She ventured into the world of writing and publishing in 2008 and loves it more than she imagined. Writing started out as a stress reliever that allow her to go off in her corner of the house and enter into another world that she created, leaving real life where it belongs. Now it has become her career. A real life dream come true.
Her favorite things are spending time with family, traveling, reading, writing, chocolate, coffee, nature and hanging out with her kitties.
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Giveaway!
Lia will be giving away an eBook and Coffee prize pack, which includes a Starbucks coffee cup, a cold cup tumbler, a $15 Starbucks GC, and ONE eBook copy from her backlist (winner’s choice). Follow the Rafflecopter instructions below to enter. Giveaway ends Oct. 15th.
Love this series a prize pack that includes coffee you just put me in heaven books and coffee 2 of my favorite things
Huge fan of Lia’s books, love her stories. This is a great series. Loved the excerpt for this book. Have this one in my TBR pile, but have not got to yet. Love alphas and love leopards, so my prefect type of reading.
My questions for Lia are: What is your favorite genre to write? Do you write under any other names, like Pen names? And if you were not a writer, what would be your other job choice?
Thanks for the chance to win.
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Hi Chris! Thanks for stopping by! My favorite genre is paranormal. Lia Davis is my only pen. And if I wasn’t a writer I’d be stuck in an office crunching numbers. I have a BSB in Business Accounting. 🙂
Thank you, Kelly for having me over today!
Like your book blog.
So loved the excerpt! However, I cannot start in the middle of a group of stories. I guess I just have to go back to the beginning. How intriguing!
Coffee sounds good but the book sounds better. 😉
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