I am happy to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for PRIMAL SHIFTERS by Kira Shayde! I have an excerpt to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!
About The Book:
Three
novella-length paranormal romances in one overarching story of sociopolitical
conflict.
BANE OF HER DESIRE
When Holly Ainran’s brother goes AWOL from an elite military force in
Tanzania, she confronts Commander Bane Ojore, a rare melanistic lion shifter.
Sparks ignite, but Holly finds a challenge in taming this brooding, hostile
beast. Bane does not expect the daughter of a high-ranking parliamentary
executive to be a smart, code-breaking expert adamant about abolishing the lion
caste hierarchy and ending the lion-hyena conflict. Nor does he expect such a
stunning lioness to fall for him. But Bane’s job is to find the traitors
supplying weapons to the hyenas, and all signs point to Holly’s brother. Holly
won’t give up on her brother though…or Bane. As their passion escalates, so do the risks, the danger, and
ultimately, their love.
DESIRES AT WAR
Months as a POW leaves lion shifter Fix Ainran struggling to recover, but
he can’t get the curvaceous Caryn Plumar out of his mind. Yet the beautiful
daughter of the hyena chairman only torments the disabled former soldier with
heated trysts before pulling away. No matter how much she desires Fix’s touch,
Caryn’s obligations involve more than fighting for an independent hyena state
in a land ruled by lions and fraught with war. She must sacrifice any chance of
happiness and freedom by marrying within the clan to ensure her safety. Unable
to stay apart, Fix and Caryn defy societal rules and risk their lives as they
battle enemies, search for the truth about his captivity...and fall in love.
COOL BLUE DESIRE
When Alina Van der Stel agrees to spring an imprisoned lion shifter in
southern Africa and hand him over to the rebels in return for information about
her birth parents, she doesn’t expect the man to capture her mind as much as he
does her body. Falsely accused of conspiracy, Kipper Lumbwi has no intention of
allowing the icy blonde to sell him to the very traitors who landed him a stint
in prison. Yet her ethereal blue eyes reflect years of sadness as a snow
leopard trapped in a land of lions, and he understands her need to find her
true kin. Except she’s not the only one targeting him. With a bounty-hunting
hyena and the Defence Force in pursuit, Kipper and Alina agree to an alliance…one that leads to her
finally experiencing the joys of desire. Can their passion earn them the trust
they’ll need to survive?
Book Trailer:
Now on to the excerpt!
Excerpt from Desires at War
Lying on the
physical therapy table, Fix Ainran stared at the door, hoping Zuri was his
therapist for the afternoon. That girl rocked a drool-worthy booty, not to
mention he could lose himself in her big, dark eyes.
A slender blonde
entered the room instead. Damn.
Alina, the ice queen. Nothing he said or did ever seemed to warm her up.
“Hey, sweetheart,”
he drawled, attempting to thaw her composure. Even an added wink did nothing to
budge her frozen expression.
Without a word, she
spread a towel over his lower torso. What was the point? He never got physically
aroused around her. Then again, she’d make any guy’s wood shrivel. Zuri on the
other hand always seemed happy when he tented the towel. Happy for him since at
least that aspect still functioned. A lot of guys with spinal-cord injuries
couldn’t say the same.
The ice queen
seemed even more clinical than usual. She didn’t bother with the deep massage
to his quads, giving only a cursory rub over his legs. As his spinal injury was
incomplete, he had intermittent feeling, and today her hands felt like stinging
nettles on his skin.
“I’ve been having
cramps in my upper thighs, so don’t forget—”
“I am aware of my
job,” she said curtly without so much as a glance at him.
Fix turned his
head, compressing his lips. Yup. Cold as ice. He stared at the blank wall, and
his thoughts drifted. As always, no matter how hard he tried to suppress the
memories, he returned to that day. The day his life changed.
He’d been sent on
a solo mission to the rugged cliffs of Tanzania along the borderlands. Known as
the hyena hellhole, an area so barren no one lived or hunted there. An area
used only by hyena forces for military training…
Crouched by the cliff edge for a better view, Fix
raised his binoculars to his face when a hard shove against his back knocked
him off balance. Scrambling to regain his footing, he tried to twist around and
grab the rock edge, but the dirt on the cliff gave way beneath his feet. He remembered screaming as the air rushed over his face. Then
blackness.
He never saw who
attacked him. Never even heard a sound.
When he came to,
face down in a gully, he tried shifting to lion form, believing he could handle
his injuries more easily as a lion than a human. Dead wrong. An unbelievable
burn exploded across his back as if he’d been ripped in two. He screamed in
agony, his head pounding like a jackhammer. Unable to hold on to his sanity, he
begged and pleaded to the gods, offering up his future firstborn son. Anything
to stop the pain.
Crumpled on the
rocks, half-human, half-lion, he lacked the strength to reshift. Minutes passed,
maybe hours—time held no
meaning while he drifted in and out of consciousness—he heard voices. One carried above the
others. A voice he recognized but couldn’t put a name to. Although at that
moment, he couldn’t come up with his own name.
As he was set on a
board, he fought to remain focused and resolute, although a small whimper
escaped through his clenched teeth, and he bit back a howl when thick canvas
straps tightened across his chest. Once again, blessed blackness overtook him.
When he awoke, he
blinked against a harsh light, and his nose wrinkled from the strident odor of
disinfectant. A tube trailed from the back of his hand to a clear bag hung on a
pole. A hospital room? No. Yellow flowers adorned the quilted bedcovers draped
across his legs, and on the other side of the room, an oval mirror perched
above a dainty woman’s vanity dresser, like the kind his grandmother had in her
bedroom.
A deep grunt to his
right sent an instinctual rush of adrenaline through Fix’s veins. Jerking his
head, he willed his body to follow, but to no avail, and his hands bunched into
fists. A swarthy man sitting next to the bed narrowed his eyes, then rose and
left the room. Gritting his teeth, Fix sank back into the pillow.
Within minutes, a
string of unfamiliar faces paraded past him, and questions were asked for which
he had no answers. He had no use for these surly men and their meaningless
riddles.
Then she lingered at the doorway. A halo of
walnut-colored curls framed a sweet, compassionate face with the warmest brown
eyes he’d ever seen. His gaze drank in her generous curves emphasized by a
tight tank top and jeans. Her lush softness sent his heart racing.
“Caryn,” a gruff
voice called from outside the makeshift hospital room.
A slight frown
drew her eyebrows together as she turned toward the voice.
Fix’s breath
hitched. She could help him. He felt it in his bones. “Caryn,” he whispered to
her, drawing her attention.
She tilted her
head. “What’s your name?”
The memory came to
him. “Fix.”
“Fix? Can’t say
I’ve heard that name before.” Her smile revealed deep dimples in her cheeks,
and she leaned against the door frame.
“A nickname,” he
replied, distracted by the tempting view offered by her top’s low-cut neckline.
But a strange
thought erupted in the back of his mind. She was not his kind.
About Kira:
Kira Shayde is a paranormal romance author
who writes about animal magnetism and intrigue, where the heroes bring the heat
and the heroines save the day. She explores somewhat atypical pairings and
settings and can’t help adding a twinge of societal awareness to her works, but
the focus is always on the developing romance, passion, and happy endings.
While some of her books are erotic romances, you won’t find any hard-core BDSM.
Kira prefers the hero and heroine to share the power and share the love.
On a personal level, she’s devoted to animal
and ecological conservation, loves devil’s food cake, and pretends she can
sing.
Kira is currently working on Ancient
Bond, the second book in her Followers series, and also a non-romance
science-fiction thriller.
Giveaway Details:
1 winner will win a finished copy of PRIMAL SHIFTERS Box Set & a
$10 Amazon GC, US Only.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
2/25/2019- Ogitchida Kwe's
Book Blog- Spotlight
2/26/2019- BookHounds- Excerpt
2/27/2019- Lisa-Queen
of Random- Spotlight
2/28/2019- Lone Tree Reviews- Excerpt
3/1/2019- Down The Rabbit Hole- Review
Week Two:
3/4/2019- Kelly
P's Blog- Excerpt
3/5/2019- Two
Chicks on Books- Excerpt
3/6/2019- Owl
Always Be Reading- Excerpt
3/7/2019- Ramblings of a Book Nerd- Review
3/8/2019- Christine's Book Corner- Spotlight
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