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Publisher: Torquere Press
Cover
Artist: Kris Norris
Series: Bloodrose
Book: Nine
(Though it could be read as a standalone, Julia
suggests reading book 4, Belling the Cat,
for background information.)
Release
Date: September 23, 2015
Goodreads
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/46902-bloodrose
Blurb:
When Jonny, the owner of club
Bloodrose finds out his shifter mate Luc has a twin brother, he decides Yves
needs protection from the bad guys who have tried to kill Luc. He sends Reuben,
a werewolf security agent, to keep Yves safe from the killers. And from Yves
himself.
Reuben has never met someone as determined to find trouble
as Yves. The guy has this obsession with a set of emeralds, a dead younger
brother, and some kind of demon ritual. All of this should make panther shifter
Yves a bad bet as a mate, but that doesn't keep Reuben from falling hard. Can
he and team Bloodrose keep everyone alive long enough to convince Yves they're
made for each other?
Pages or Words: 23,000 words
Categories: BDSM, M/M Romance, Paranormal
Excerpt:
Jonny glanced up from his stack
of surveys and geological reports, frowning. Kasey rarely sounded so serious
these days, which for a broody older vampire was quite a feat. Hooking up with
a werewolf had been the best thing for the fellow, really.
"What's wrong?"
Kasey's black brows drew
together in what looked to be a puzzled scowl. "We have a situation."
He barely held back his eye
roll. "Goody."
"Yeah, yeah. Deke got
these today. Came in from our monitoring entry into the country." Kasey
handed him a stack of printed photos. Of what looked like his lover, Luc. No,
not just looked like. This was Luc, except that his slinky werekitty was asleep
in cat form four feet above him on the top of his armoire.
He let one eyebrow raise and
pinned Kasey with a look. "Explain."
"Yeah, somehow I think we
might have to ask Luc to do that." Kasey walked over and pulled that fuzzy
black tail hanging down like a lamp chain.
He did enjoy his lover's speed,
the wild yowl, the flash of claws. Good thing Kasey had a vamp's reflexes.
"Hey, furball. I need you
to be human for a minute," Kasey said.
Luc muttered, calling Kasey a
wild assortment of things, including a few insults about Kasey's mother, as he
crawled down the armoire.
"It's not as if he can see
the photo, Kasey," Jonny reminded gently. "He's blind."
"Oh. Right." Kasey
grinned over at him. "He's so good at everything, I forgot."
Jonny did glare at his mate,
however. "Tell me, sweet, do you have family I don't know about?"
Luc stretched, totally
unconcerned with hurrying to console him in the least. Possibly. Which one in particular?
"One who looks just like
you?" It was uncanny, really.
Ah. My
twin. Yves. So casual. Ah yes, my twin -- as if it were nothing.
Jonny glared, knowing Luc would
feel his disapproval. "This didn't seem important?"
"Children, we need to
share the information with the investigator," Kasey reminded them.
"He has a twin,
apparently." Jonny nudged Luc with the toe of this shoe. "Come speak
to Kasey."
Luc sighed, a sound that came
out as a cough for a kitty, before shifting to his human form, which always
made Jonny's ears pop.
"I thought you knew,"
Luc murmured.
"How could we know?"
Luc shrugged. "He's never
in the States. He's always in South America bonding with the natives and
hunting precious gemstones. He's an addict. Has to hunt. I haven't talked to
him in..."
Luc stopped and frowned, and
Jonny didn't like this. Not at all.
"...in a bit."
"How long?" Kasey
asked, tone sharp. Someone else felt the weird vibes, too.
"Right before I met my
mate, I think. I spoke to him then."
Jonny exchanged a glance with
Kasey, who scowled. "What did you talk about?"
"Emeralds. He had asked me
to acquire a certain pair, I did the job, put them in a safety deposit box, and
let him know."
"Oh, for fuck's sake. Who
else knew about these emeralds?" Now Kasey was growling as though he was
the werewolf instead of his lover, Deke.
"I have no idea. I had an
address, a window. That was it."
Jonny nodded slowly. "Okay.
Kasey, you and Deke find out who else had an interest and if Silvia has
anything to do with this. Luc, you need to get ahold of your brother. I want a
detail on him."
"What does that mean?"
Luc scribbled down an address, a safety deposit box number. "He'll go
here. I mean, I'll put an ad in the paper, see if he hollers. He's... slippery."
"That means if we thought
he looked like you, someone else might think he's you," Kasey said. "I'm
on it, Boss."
Jonny sat back with a sigh,
drew his mate into his lap. "You are a very great deal of trouble, sweet."
"I'm worth it." Luc
kissed him. "Yves is... not like me."
"Tell me about him?"
Jonny stroked Luc's hair, curious as hell.
"He's addicted to
gemstones, to the stories behind them. It's like a sickness, worse than the
jobs I used to work, I think, because I was at least collecting funds for it."
Luc leaned in, snuggling close. "There was another of us. He died fighting
insurgents in the desert, long before there were troops on the ground. Yves
went a little crazy when we lost Girard."
"I'm sorry, sweet."
His family had been gone so long that he barely remembered them fondly.
"It was a long time ago;
he'll get over it."
The sudden stiffness in Luc's
body said perhaps that was a bit of a fib. Jonny didn't remark upon it; he
simply touched and kissed until Luc relaxed.
"Love you, Mate." And
that was that, yes? What they had together, it was love.
"And I you, Luc." He
kissed Luc's jaw. In fact, he loved his kit enough to want to finish off
whoever had hurt him and to protect this unknown brother Yves.
Good thing Kasey and Deke knew
what to do from here.
Someone needed to have a
clear head in all this. He hoped his friends could do that for him.
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Meet the author:
Julia Talbot lives in the great Southwest, where there is
hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and potatoes to
the best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia has been published by Torquere
Press, Dreamspinner and Changeling Press. She believes that everyone deserves a
happy ending, so she writes about love without limits, where boys love boys,
girls love girls, and boys and girls get together to get wild, especially when
her crazy paranormal characters are involved. Find Julia at @juliatalbot on
Twitter, or at www.juliatalbot.com.
Where to find the author:
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/juliatalbotwriterpage
Twitter: https://twitter.com/juliatalbot
Website: http://www.juliatalbot.com
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