Edged Blade

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 In the year since her life was torn apart, Kit Colbana has slowly rebuilt herself. There’s a promise of hope in the relationship with the alpha of the local shapeshifters and she no longer comes screaming into wakefulness. Life’s not perfect but then again, when was it ever?

When her best friend Justin comes to her for help, there’s little question as to what her answer will be. Witches are disappearing and Justin won’t rest until he has answers. Soon, they learn that it’s not just witches who’ve gone missing, but vampires and shifters, too.

Unlikely alliances are forged as Kit and Justin found themselves drawn into a twisted web of lies and betrayal. As the clock counts down and the culprit behind recent disappearances is revealed, those Kit loves the most become the target of somebody who will kill to protect an ugly secret.

Read on for an excerpt and a chance to win either a Kindle Fire or a tea set and some of the loose leaf tea that Kit would drink…if she was real. 😉

“Disappearances.”

My gut clenched as I said it. Sometimes Justin came to me with jobs that were just a walk down easy street. Other times, they fell into the what the bloody hell category.

We were in the bloody hell zone. I knew it without asking even a single question.

We were no longer alone in my apartment.

Padraig, a witch both Justin and I knew, had joined us and he sat on my sofa, his dreamy blue eyes cold and hard as he stared back at me. “Aye, a fair amount of them, too.”

“Are they…” I hesitated, choosing the words carefully. Over the past couple of months, there had been some odd happenings. One small wolf pack had been all but eradicated and the survivors claimed they’d been attacked by friends—by their own Alpha, one who’d gone missing some months earlier.

There were rumors of several small Houses—witches who worked and lived and trained together—facing similar attacks. One house—a strong one, though somewhat small—was gone. Every witch who’d lived inside the walls of that House had disappeared.

I rubbed my temple and met Justin’s gaze.

His eyes were hard and flat and his face was haggard.

“You’re still digging into things about the hospital,” I said. “Is this connected or is it something different?”  My mind veered down a particular road…something different. It left me cold. I’d worked a something different before.

Damon’s adoptive son, Doyle had been kidnapped. That was how we’d met, when he’d hired me to find the boy. We’d found him, but I still saw the echoes of nightmares in Doyle’s eyes.

We hadn’t been able to save everybody, though. And they’d been kids. Teenagers, most of them Doyle’s age.

“We don’t know,” Paddy said in response to my question. “These disappearances, there are no reports of violent echoes, like what was discovered in the Clearwater House.”

I looked away as he spoke. Clearwater had been the home of that one House. A House they now called silent.

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About JC:

J.C. Daniels is the alter ego of author Shiloh Walker and was created basically because Shiloh writes like a hyperactive bunny and an intervention was necessary.  J.C. is the intervention.  The name… J.C. Daniels is a play off of the three people who pretty much run Shiloh’s life.

Professional Bio

J.C./Shiloh Walker has been writing since she was a kid. She fell in love with vampires with the book Bunnicula and has worked her way up to the more…ah…serious works of fiction. She loves reading and writing just about every kind of romance. Once upon a time she worked as a nurse, but now she writes full time and lives with her family in the Midwest.  She writes urban fantasy, romantic suspense and paranormal romance, among other things.

 You can learn more and connect with JC here website|  Facebook | twitter  and Goodreads 

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Contest info

Haven’t read the Colbana Files?  You can check books 1-3, now available in a boxed set.

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