Discover the next book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world: J.R. Ward's Claimed

“This emotional roller coaster does not disappoint.”—Publisher’s Weekly

Welcome to the Lair of the Wolven.

Get ready to be Claimed…

Claimed, the first book in an all new epic series, Lair of the Wolven from #1 New York Times and bestselling author J.R. Ward is now available!

A heart-pounding new series set in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world, with a scientist fighting to save the timber wolves—and getting caught in a deadly trap herself...

Lydia Susi is passionate about protecting wolves in their natural habitat. When a hotel chain develops a tract of land next to the preserve, Lydia is one of the most vocal opponents of the project—and becomes a target.

One night, a shadowy figure threatens Lydia’s life in the forest, and a new hire at the Wolf Study Project comes from out of nowhere to save her. Daniel Joseph is both mysterious, and someone she intrinsically wants to trust. But is he hiding something?

As the stakes get higher, and one of Lydia’s colleagues is murdered, she must decide how far she will go to protect the wolves. Then a shocking revelation about Daniel challenges Lydia’s reality in ways she could never have predicted. Some fates demand courage, others require even more, with no guarantees. Is she destined to have true love... or will a soul-shattering loss ruin her forever?

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About J.R. Ward

J.R. Ward is the author of over thirty novels, including those in her #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood. There are more than 15 million copies of Ward’s novels in print worldwide and they have been published in 25 different countries around the world.

After graduating from law school, Ward began working in healthcare in Boston and spent many years as Chief of Staff of one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation. She lives in the south with her incredibly supportive husband and her beloved golden retriever. Writing has always been her passion and her idea of heaven is a whole day of nothing but her computer, her dog and her coffee pot.

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New Release Spotlight: J.R. Ward's Claimed

 

Enter the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood in the spin-off series featuring Wolves. The new series is set in the BDB world and I know I am not the only one who is excited to see where the incomparable J.R. Ward goes in this vast world and if the brothers will show up in this one as well. So get ready for the Lair of the Wolves.

Release date: July 27th, 2021

Paranormal Romance

About the book:

Lydia Susi is passionate about protecting wolves in their natural habitat. When a hotel chain develops a tract of land next to the preserve, Lydia is one of the most vocal opponents of the project—and becomes a target.

 

One night, a shadowy figure threatens Lydia’s life in the forest, and a new hire at the Wolf Study Project comes from out of nowhere to save her. Daniel Joseph is both mysterious, and someone she intrinsically wants to trust. But is he hiding something?

As the stakes get higher, and one of Lydia’s colleagues is murdered, she must decide how far she will go to protect the wolves. Then a shocking revelation about Daniel challenges Lydia’s reality in ways she could never have predicted. Some fates demand courage, while others require even more, with no guarantees. Is she destined to have true love...or will a soul-shattering loss ruin her forever? 

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 Sneak Peek Excerpt:

CLAIMED

Chapter 1

 

Town of Walters, est. 1834

Upstate New York

 

Lydia Susi’s Destiny came for her in the veil, on a random Thursday in the early spring.

                As she ran along the wooded trail, two miles into a loop that would take her through the preserve’s northeastern acreage, she was measuring the glowing line that topped the contours of the mountains. Soon, the stripe would expand to an aura, and after that, the sun would accept the handoff from the moon, and day would arrive.

                Her grandfather had always told her there were two twilights, two gloamings, and if you wanted to find your past, you went into the pines in the evening as the sun went down. If you wanted your future to come to you, you went alone into the forest in the veil, during that sacred transition of night into morning. There, he’d told her, when the distinction between that which ruled the light and that which held domain over the dark was at its narrowest, when the moon and the sun reached for each other before the rotations of their orbits tore them asunder, there was when the mortal could brush up against the infinite and seek answers, direction, guidance.

Of course, that did not mean you got good news. Or what you wanted.

But life was not an à la carte buffet where you could choose everything that went on your plate—another words-of-wisdom from a man who had lived to be 101 years old still smoking a pipe and drinking a glass of sima after his dinner year round.

Why limit spring to just Vappu? he’d said.

Lydia had never believed in his superstitions. She was a researcher, a scientist, and the kinds of things that her isoisa had gone on about did not fit in with that Ph.D. in biology she’d bought on layaway from the federal government and was still paying off.

So no, she was not out looking for any prognosti-cation from the universe this morning. She was get-ting her workout done before she headed into her office at the Wolf Study Project. With the way things had been going lately, she was going to blink and it would be seven at night. Short-staffed and under-funded, everything was a fight for resources at WSP, and by the time she locked things up every evening, she was exhausted. So Carpe Cardio was her motto and why she was out in this misty darkness—

Lydia let her stride peter to a halt.

Her breath pumped in clouds that captured and held the moonlight, and as a breeze came across the trail, her body did the same with the chill, grabbing it out of the air and bringing it in under her wind-breaker.

As she shivered, she looked behind herself. The trail she was on was the widest one in the preserve, a highway rather than a street, but she couldn’t see much into the trees. Pines crowded up close to the shoulders of the packed path, and the fog wafting through the craggy trunks and fluffy boughs obscured the forest even more.

                In a quick calculation, she figured she was a good three miles from any other human, two miles from her car at the trailhead’s parking area, and a hundred yards from what had caught her attention.

                There, up ahead, something was close to the ground, moving.

                Fight or flight, Lydia, she thought. What’s it going to be.

                She reached around to the small of her back. There were two cylinders mounted on the strap of her fanny pack, and she left the Mace where it was. Clicking on her flashlight and bringing it forward, she swung the beam in a wide arc—

                The eyes flashed over on the left, a set of retinas flaring the light back at her as pinpoints. The stare was about three feet from the ground and the pupils were set close together, as predators’ were.

                Lydia looked around again.

“I’m not going to bother you,” she said. But like the gray wolf spoke English?

                The growl was soft. And then came the rustling. The animal was prowling toward her.

                “Oh, shit.”

Except . . .

Lydia kept the beam down on the fallen pine needles as she, too, walked forward. Something was wrong with the wolf, its gait wobbly and uneven. Yet the spirit of the hunter remained undeterred—and she was identified as its target.

                She was about twenty feet away when she got a sense of the fully mature male. He was filled out, at a healthy weight of about a hundred and thirty pounds, and his mottled white, gray, and brown fur was thick and lush, especially at the tail. But his head was hanging at a bad angle, and he was dragging his back paws as he continued to close the distance between them.

                It was obvious when the wolf was going to collapse. Though his head remained forward, his body listed to the side, his will staying strong even as his rear legs, and then his forelegs, gave out.

                He landed on the soft bed of pine needles on his side, and the struggle was immediate, useless paws batting at thin air and ground cover. As Lydia drew a little closer to him, he snarled, flashing long white fangs, his golden eyes narrowing.

                “Shh . . .” she said as she kneeled down.

                Her hand shook as she got out her cell phone. As she called a number from her favorites, she tried to keep her breathing steady.

                In the flashlight’s beam, she could see the grayness of those gums. The wolf was dying—and she knew why.

                “God damn it, pick up, pick up—” Her words ma-chine gun’d from her mouth. “Rick? Wake up, I’ve got another one. On the main trail—what? Yes, it’s the same—enough with the talking, get your ass out of bed. I’m on the loop, about two miles into the—huh? Yes, bring everything, and hurry.”

                She cut the connection as her voice gave out.

                Letting herself fall back to a sit, she stared into those beautiful eyes and tried to project love, acceptance, gentleness . . . compassion. And something got through, the majestic male’s muzzle relaxing, its paws falling still, his flank rising and falling in a shuddering breath.

                Or maybe it was dying right now.

“Help is coming,” she said hoarsely to the animal.

Also part of the Black Dagger Brotherhood World:

Jackal

Black Dagger Brotherhood: Prison Camp Book 1

Available at Amazon

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sinner brings another hot adventure of true love and ultimate sacrifice in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world.

The location of the glymera’s notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth—and meets a male who changes everything, forever.

The Jackal has been in the camp for so long he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Trapped by circumstances out of his control, he helps Nyx because he cannot help himself. After she discovers what happened to her sister, getting her back out becomes a deadly mission for them both.

United by a passion they can’t deny, they work together on an escape plan for Nyx—even though their destiny is to be forever apart. And as the Black Dagger Brotherhood is called upon for help, and Rhage discovers he has a half-brother who’s falsely imprisoned, a devious warden plots the deaths of them all…even the Brothers.

About the Author:

J. R. Ward lives in the South with her incredibly supportive husband and her beloved golden retriever. After graduating from law school, she began working in health care in Boston and spent many years as chief of staff for one of the premier academic medical centres in the nation. She is the author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Fallen Angels series.

Find all about the author and their work at 

http://www.jrward.com

Welcome Clare Dargin today

Meet Callum Blake- The Errant Son and Warrior of Wolf's Blade 

“My father and brother are blind to the realities of pack life.” - Callum Blake

Introducing Callum Blake: Wolf Shifter, Lead Paladin Enforcer for His Pack and Son of An Alpha

Callum Blake is the main character of my new book Wolf's Blade, the first in the series, The Paladins.  He is the second son of his pack's former alpha and the twin brother of the newly installed alpha of his pack- The Blake Pack.  Callum loves his twin brother, Corwin, but would rather not remain with the pack under his twin brother's rule because at times Corwin's arrogance blinds him to the problems around him.

As the lead Paladin Enforcer for his pack, Callum is single minded in his mission to protect the alpha and go to war against anyone who threatens their pack, despite his misgivings about his brother's leadership.  And when his brother ignores his warnings about the imminent threat to their sacred relic, The Kheta Dagger, Eryx Leva, also a Paladin, takes advantage his alpha's error in judgment and steals it.  The knife is a silver bladed knife that is not only deadly to all wolf kind but can only permanently wielded by the shifter male who is king of all wolf kind and Eryx Leva wants it.

And that is not all, Callum chases the man to a small town in Michigan where in the midst of it all he meets his mate, Samantha Dixon.  She is strong, courageous and beautiful.  Everything Callum has always wanted in a woman, there is only one small detail about them getting together forever, she does not his dark secret.  He is no ordinary wolf shifter.  The members of his pack are cursed and the darkness inside of him could endanger her life.  The last thing he wants to do is hurt the woman he loves.

Callum's mission has become the challenge of a lifetime--rescuing the woman he loves and saving all of wolf kind.

In the upcoming books we will see more of his fellow pack members who know what it means to give their all when it comes to protecting the people they love along with the unique abilities they possess.

Wolf's Blade

Author Clare Dargin

Series The Paladins

Book # 1

Genre Contemporary, Paranormal, Shifters, Wolves

Heat Level 4

Words 32,000

Content Notes Intense, Extreme Violence, Non-Sexual Physical Assault

Publication Date 12/28/2015

Samantha Dixon rescues a wounded wolf shifter in the woods near her home … and unwittingly gets drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a murderer. Callum Blake is on the trail of an evil man who would be king of all wolf kind, no matter the cost … it’s up to Callum to stop him. How can Callum fulfill his duty to protect his pack and save the woman who is destined to be his mate?

Erotic Excerpt

He finished loading their bags into the truck and walked over to her and kissed her. She leaned into the kiss. It was both sweet and sexy, filled with the same passion he showed her the night before. She gave in to it, his heat, scent, and licorice taste. Heat surged through her, setting her nerves on fire. Her nipples puckered against her shirt and her pussy dripped moisture, wetting her panties.

“Mmmm,” Callum said, pulling away with a hiss. “I can taste your arousal.”

“I guess the alpha can wait a while longer,” she replied in between nipping his lips.

They chuckled as they ran inside the house. Stopping in the bedroom, they hurriedly undressed as their mouths hungrily kissed. She reached her hands out and grabbed his shoulders. She leaned onto him as her legs quaked beneath her. She blinked up at him and almost gasped at the glance he directed to her. His gaze was so intense, it glowed. Her skin prickled from her arousal. It was the sexiest thing she’d ever seen. His wolf had power and that was so hot. Her breath shuddered. He kissed her shoulders and her neck, then sucked where he had kissed. Her nipples pebbled because of his touch, while her pussy gushed.

All rippling muscles and hard angles, he was a work of art. Her gaze traveled down his body, toward the stacks of defined muscle covering his abdomen. Her mouth watered at all that tight toned flesh. Her teeth ached to bite into the wall of hard muscle, to nip into the dense flesh.

He took the tip of each of her nipples, suckling them and pulling moans out of her. She fisted her hand around his cock and pumped. His body stiffened as pre-cum coated her fingers. She knelt down and took his cock into her mouth. Thick and long, she ran her mouth up and down its length, savoring his spicy taste.

She tipped her head forward, licking and sucking the thick cock, taking more of it into her mouth. She wanted to please him as much as he did her. She treasured the idea that she was able to make him so hard. Callum slowly thrust in and out of her mouth. She added suction as he pulled out while teasing the underside of his cock. She reveled in the small grunts he gave as he responded to her ministrations.

He grabbed her by her hair and pulled her away from his dick.

“Enough. Any more and I’ll come down your throat.”

“So, I don’t mind.”  Her own need to come pooled inside her.

“I do. I want to come inside your pussy.”

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Author Bio

Clare Dargin is a multi-published romance author. She has written for several publishers in different genres, including erotic romance, military romance, contemporary, paranormal, and sci-fi. She lives in the mid-west, and when not surfing the web, she is hard at work writing her next romance novel. You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and Amazon.

Web Links- 

Clare's Blog 2 The Haven- http://claresblog2thehaven.blogspot.com

The Embraced: Scribal Love- http://theembraced.blogspot.com

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Meet Author Donica Covey

Tell us about your latest project/release. What inspired it? Is it part of a series or a stand alone?  My latest release is a romantic suspense paranormal called Cry Wolf coming from Samhain Publishing on June 8^th. It is a standalone book about wolf shape shifters, Lycans. I had been switching the television channels and came across a rerun of an old TV series called Wolf Lake about a community of shape shifters. I was like “huh…what if he was in love with her and…” I came to my computer sat down and within a matter of weeks the book was written.

Do you work on multiple projects at the same time? Yes, I do. It should be hard for me to concentrate when I have so many different irons in the fire but sometimes my brain needs to switch gears and go from writing extremely deep angsty, edgy dark to something a bit lighter. For example I just finished a romantic suspense novel for a four book series that deals with all sorts of murder, mayhem, interstate human trafficking and drug running and am anxiously awaiting the editor to contact me and let me know what they think of the series/book. In the meantime I'm writing a fairytale-esque fantasy to lighten up the mood that settled in my mind while dealing with the VERY bad guys.

What do you hope for your writing career in the next few years? Any goals that you have yet to obtain that you have set for yourself? Hmm. Well I’m actually very happy where I am. Way back when I had original taken up writing my dream was to be an award winning, bestselling author with a NY house. As I’ve grown I’ve realized the golden ring of NY is actually brass and I love the freedom that comes from being with ebook publishers. Will I ever try NY again? I try never to say never but I just don’t see it happening. So, what goals have I come up with? To be the BEST author I possibly can be. In the next five years I’d love to see my reader base multiplied by a couple hundred readers.

When you're not writing, what do you like to do to just kick back and have fun? There’s so many things I do! I love to bake, spend time with my daughter and son once removed (I am TOO young to be called Grandma!) or hang out with my friends the K&R crew. I love ATVing, shooting, hunting, fishing, hiking and reading.

Do you ever experience writer's block? If you do, how do you cope with it? Writer’s block? Please, it’s the BANE of my existence. I get it very frequently. I’ve tried all different remedies for it. Sometimes forcing myself to write even if its garbage helps, other times I put away the file and work on a new project to give myself a break. Sometimes I have to completely unravel the story and begin fresh in order to get the muse back on speaking terms with me.

Dealing with writing deadlines can be a challenge. What do you do to cope with the stress? Actually? I’ve never had a deadline issue before.  **knocks wood** I mean the only real deadlines I get are for edits and usually I have those returned within 48 hours so…

 Where can readers find you on the web? I LOVE the internet! I can be found hanging out all over:

 My website www.donicacovey.com

FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/donica.covey

Twitter http://twitter.com/DonicaCovey

Mavens of Romance website http://mavensofromance.wordpress.com

Infinite Worlds of Fantasy http://www.iwofa.net

Shades of suspense: http://tinyurl.com/c8y7zl

The Writer’s Vineyard http://thewritersvineyard.com

Missouri Authors Blog http://moauthors.blogspot.com

The Raven Happy Hour http://tinyurl.com/yc5tajo

Gateway Guardians http://tinyurl.com/dn6rp5

What summer movie(s) are you itching to see? I’m not a big “going to the movies” fan. But I’d love to see Iron Man 2, Letters to Juliet, The Back Up Plan and the Brendan Fraser movie Furry Vengeance—that looks sufficiently silly. It seems as if Hollywood has no original thoughts—they have to try to make money by recycling Clash of the Titans and Nightmare on Elm Street? Please! Show some originality. Beside’s they’ll NEVER touch the originals! I know it’s done all the time. Each decade has recycled films but it just grates on my nerves LOL

Excerpt of Cry Wolf 

The dart hit Remy in the hip and he loosed a pained yelp. He wouldn’t be able to shift now. Crap, was he ever in a bind. His plan to be captured was working just a little too well, he decided miserably before he passed out from the drug.

Remy?

He blinked several times and finally opened his groggy eyes. The cage he was in had a plywood bottom set over metal bars. He pushed into a standing position and scanned the room. Angela stood across the room from him, locked in the cage he’d seen in his dream. Her face was streaked with tears and lined with worry.

I’m all right, sweetheart. I promise.

Why did you do it? Have you lost your mind?

I had to get to you.

She didn’t reply and he tensed. A squat man with wire-framed glasses, a piggish nose and matted brown hair stepped up to the cage.

“Well, well. Hello boy. Decided to finally wake up?”

Remy felt all the hair on his body rise. He growled deep then pulled back his lips to bare his fangs.

The man merely laughed. He turned and moved toward Angela.

The fear radiating from her was a tangible thing. He could see it in a halo around her body. The yellow-green haze clung to her tightly.

Remy growled and snapped at the cage door. Memories flashed through her mind and he watched as she relived the horror of the man touching her, invading her body.

Rage surged fresh and Remy’s desire for blood grew equal to his hate.

The man paced between the two cages. His face was masked with thought. “The fertilization worked,” he said with a smile spreading across his face. He moved closer to Angela. “The cells are dividing and splitting normally, although they seem to be reproducing more quickly than normal. Of course, considering what a magnificent creature the mother is, I shouldn’t be surprised.” He moved closer. “Which would you prefer, male or female?”

Remy stared at the man but he was focusing on Angela.

“You seem shocked. You aren’t aware of this? See, when the embryo is only three days developed we can do a cell retrieval that will reveal if it contains male or female chromosomes. So, would you prefer a male or female…what, child? Pup?”

He paced away again. “Implantation—”

Remy read the moment her mood changed from fear to rage. She was swallowed in a red-tinged black mist. Her hands clenched into tight fists and there was death in her eyes.

“It will never happen,” she snarled.

The man chuckled briefly. “When are you going to learn? Things happen the way I say they will.” He seemed to hesitate. “Tomorrow. Yes, I think tomorrow, if things continue to develop as they are now.” He threw back his head and boomed a laugh. “Develop. Get it?”

I’m going to kill the crazy bastard.

Angela turned and glared at him. I don’t think so. I get that pleasure.

http://samhainpublishing.com/coming/cry-wolf

http://samhainpublishing.com/authors/donica-covey