Please welcome my dear friend and writer Lea Barrymire to my blog. Today she is here to promote her latest in the Coyote Bluff Series [#2] Feel free to leave a comment in the comment section asking about her new [Or any of her others!] book. Also, at the bottom of this post there is a link to the first chapter of Tempering Steel, a little something to wet your appetite. Enjoy!
Blurb:
After months of aching to be with grumpy Sheriff Connor
Manning, Margarete Barrie finally gets her chance when a coyote shifter takes
refuge in her home. She burns with need every time they’re close, but even she
can only take rejection so many times before giving up.
Connor’s resolve to stay away from Margie weakens when she
takes in his packmate. Fighting his inner animal and jealousy makes him
question his decision to leave women and love alone.
They’re thrown together to catch a trapper or hunter
threatening the pack. But once things start to heat up even the possibility of
danger doesn’t cool the tension between them.
Series Teaser:
Coyote Bluff is a small, quaint town in the mountains of
Virginia. With its diner run by Mama, the police force of one and a single stop
light it's much like every other small town in America. Well, until you take a
closer look.
Feel free to come visit Coyote Bluff... but keep an eye on the wildlife.
Feel free to come visit Coyote Bluff... but keep an eye on the wildlife.
Author
Bio:
Lea lives in Western New York with her hubby, three children,
and miscellaneous critters. Before the rug rats, she lived a life of adventure,
following her husband all over Europe with the US military. She's slept in a
car outside Paris, drove six hours just to see tulips in the Netherlands, and
knocked ash from her shoes at Pompeii. Now she spends her time in life's
adventures at soccer games, PTA meetings and school plays.
Lea has loved reading from a very young age, spending many sleepless nights devouring books. Science fiction and paranormal were her favorite genres to read as a teenager, and that love bled into her adult life. She started writing during a bout of insomnia, to fill time, and found it filled a creative void. Now she communes regularly with the characters in her head and tries not to laugh out loud when they say something funny.
When Lea isn't reading, writing or corralling kids, she enjoys watching movies and sciencey shows, or just kicking back and listening to some music.
Lea has loved reading from a very young age, spending many sleepless nights devouring books. Science fiction and paranormal were her favorite genres to read as a teenager, and that love bled into her adult life. She started writing during a bout of insomnia, to fill time, and found it filled a creative void. Now she communes regularly with the characters in her head and tries not to laugh out loud when they say something funny.
When Lea isn't reading, writing or corralling kids, she enjoys watching movies and sciencey shows, or just kicking back and listening to some music.
Twitter- @leabarrymire
First kiss:
“You… you shot me.”
“I did.”
“Why?”
He was already
listing to one side and she rushed forward to help me sit against a tree.
“Because you needed to calm down. I need to look at this wolf and I can’t do
that if you’ve got him all pissed off.”
“Dangerous.”
His eyes drooped. She
leaned down and kissed the lines of confusion between his brows. “I know.
That’s why I gave him a little more than you. He’ll be sleeping like a cub in
about two minutes.”
“Sorry about being
mad. She called me that before she left.” Connor mumbled.
The slurred words had
her ears perking up like a fox’s after hearing the squeak of a mouse. She.
Margie squashed the questions bubbling up. Instead she turned, gathered her
gear and slowly approached the downed wolf. In the back of her mind Connor’s
words swirled. Someone had hurt him. Some female. A growl of her own
laced with jealousy and anger vibrated in her chest.
Excerpt #1:
His gaze swung back
immediately and she could see the resolve gleaming from the dark depths of his
eyes. “Sorry, Margie. I don’t mean to worry you. I came by for two reasons.
First I was going to check on Zeke, but as you’ve said he’s gone. I also wanted
to know if you’d accompany me to Cammie and Ian’s mating ceremony on Saturday.”
Her mind froze.
Mating ceremony. Go with him? Together? “Um.”
“You don’t have to,
but I thought seeing I’d be driving by your house and you don’t know the way to
the farm I could pick you up.”
The small flutter of
hope died a tragic, fiery death in her chest. “Right. You’re going to be
driving by anyway, and me, being a woman and all, might have a tough time
following directions. I see.”
Something that
sounded close to ‘stupid moron’ fell from his lips, too quiet for Margie to
hear. It didn’t matter. She’s taken as much shit from the man she’d craved for
over two years as she could take.
“Connor Manning. You
will leave my property right now or you’ll be held responsible for my
actions. I’ve had enough of your redneck, condescending, male-chauvinistic
bullshit to last me a lifetime. I have a fucking GPS in my car and know damn
well where the farm is. I’ve been treating you people ever since I moved
here. Hell, Skip has a tab account now because I spend so much time out there.
And anyway, Zeke already asked me if I wanted to go with him. You don’t need to
take care of lil’ ol’ me.”
Excerpt #2:
Margie couldn’t help the giggle which
escaped her lips as she rounded the corner of the doorjamb. To have Connor
whistle at her like that, and so loudly, as well as leave his scent all over
her was too much to hope for. Her heart soared. He really was claiming her, and
wasn’t being quiet about it.
“Damn, girl. You stink.” Ian’s voice
carried from deeper in the barn and the sound of something solid hitting him
let her know Cammie was there.
“Shut up. You can’t tell her she
stinks. God, you’ll give her a complex.” Cammie’s words were punctuated with
smacks to Ian’s arm.
“Fine. Ow. Stop hitting me, woman, or
I’ll turn you over my knee.” He growled a little at his wife and she blushed. Well.
Margie laughed. “Look at you two.
Married and already bickering.”
Cammie raced over and clamped tight
arms around Margie’s waist. Her friend whispered, “I’m so glad he’s finally
come around and accepted the truth.”
“Yes, he has and I’m so glad
everyone needs to keep reminding her about my issues.”
Connor’s growl had everyone spinning,
and most of the people standing around looking off, scuffing their shoes in the
dirt of clearing their throats. Margie wanted to laugh, but then again, what
was the fun in allowing him to get away with being gruff with all of his
friends. Even she could sense the unease.
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Chapter One-Free Read
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