Please welcome to Cowboy Kisses, guest author Sierra Brave. Sierra
released her new contemporary,
paranormal western, Saving Suki on April 1, 2020. She joins us today to give a
peek inside.
Blurb:
An abusive childhood and an accident in his
teens left stallion-shifter, Malcolm Patterson, with a distrust for his father
and a lot of holes in his memory. When his dad passes away, Malcolm returns to
Horse Mountain to fulfill his obligation to settle his old man’s affairs but
finds the shifter community’s near hero-worship of the late doctor disquieting.
He’s further shaken to meet a curvy beauty at the funeral who makes his heart
gallop and his primal instincts take over.
Suki Marks has been in love with handsome and noble Malcolm Patterson ever since he saved her from bullies who called her an abomination when she was ten. He was the first person to be straight with her about the reasons some people shunned her family and he was quick to debunk those prejudices as the ignorant folktales and stupid superstitions they were. Even after Malcolm graduated high school and left town, she couldn’t forget him, but becoming Doctor Patterson’s live-in nurse in his last year of life was a coincidence. She never expected to be named in the wealthy physician’s will.
Malcolm assumed he’d be disinherited, but even from the after-life, his father continues to turn the knife, using his will to set up an elaborate scheme to taint Malcolm's feelings for the woman who might be his fated mate. To make matters worse, a dangerous shifter-purist movement is brewing among a small segment of the Horse Mountain Clan, and they’re determined to prevent Suki from passing on her genes to a new generation. Will Malcolm be able to work through his past in time to secure his and Suki’s future?
Suki Marks has been in love with handsome and noble Malcolm Patterson ever since he saved her from bullies who called her an abomination when she was ten. He was the first person to be straight with her about the reasons some people shunned her family and he was quick to debunk those prejudices as the ignorant folktales and stupid superstitions they were. Even after Malcolm graduated high school and left town, she couldn’t forget him, but becoming Doctor Patterson’s live-in nurse in his last year of life was a coincidence. She never expected to be named in the wealthy physician’s will.
Malcolm assumed he’d be disinherited, but even from the after-life, his father continues to turn the knife, using his will to set up an elaborate scheme to taint Malcolm's feelings for the woman who might be his fated mate. To make matters worse, a dangerous shifter-purist movement is brewing among a small segment of the Horse Mountain Clan, and they’re determined to prevent Suki from passing on her genes to a new generation. Will Malcolm be able to work through his past in time to secure his and Suki’s future?
Excerpt:
Malcolm looked through the glass of the
refrigerated pie case at the old McGillacutty Dinner as he perused the
offerings. He wasn’t about to show up to Mama Carol’s completely empty-handed.
A bright yellow flyer attached to the outside of the dessert case with scotch
tape caught his eye. He studied the image of the missing girl printed above the
lettering spelling out her name, age, and where she’d last been seen along with
a phone number and offer of a reward. She was nineteen, blond and had a nice
smile, but since he didn’t recognize her and couldn’t be of help, he turned his
attention back toward the pies.
After deciding on the chocolate chess, he
paid and headed out. He held the box with his desert under his left arm as he
wrapped the fingers of his free hand around the glass door’s handle. As soon as
he pulled back enough to let in the slightest breeze, the sweet all-consuming
aroma from earlier hit him like a ton of bricks. Almost immediately, his heart
thumped so hard his chest ached. His mind blanked, his cock twitched and his
senses nosedived down into some dark, primal place he hadn’t realized existed.
He might have involuntarily shifted right then and there if he hadn’t nearly
knocked right into the curvy, brunette beauty who’d spoken with him at the
funeral.
Her dark eyes widened and her eyebrows
lifted as she gasped and reached out, saving his dessert by a narrow margin.
Her hand briefly brushed against his fingers as she steadied the box.
Perspiration misted his forehead and the back of his neck as he regained
control of his mental faculties.
“Sorry. Are you okay?” He managed to force
the words up from his suddenly dry throat.
Shakily, she looked up at him through long,
dark eyelashes and nodded. “Uh-huh.”
For what seemed like an eternity, the two
of them stood staring at one another until an old lady with a tight, gray perm
came up behind Malcolm and demanded, “Move it, sonny.”
He stepped out of the way, holding the door
for the elder woman as she shuffled out holding hands with a short, old guy
wearing a flapjack hat. Malcolm couldn’t help but smile. He’d always imagined
there were couples who’d found each other and stayed in love for all their
lives even though none of his relationships seemed to last longer than a month
or two. In the last few years, he’d only dated humans which didn’t allow for
complete openness or a deeper intimacy.
Malcolm watched as the man walked his lady
over to a white Toyota Avalon and opened the passenger side door for her. As he
glanced at the brunette, she tore her gaze away from the same couple and his
line of vision synced with hers. For some reason, as if they’d somehow
understood they’d been sharing the same thought, a warm blush covered her
cheeks. Malcolm looked away as his face burned.
Saving
Suki is part of Sierra’s Horse Mountain Shifters Series and can be purchased
here:
About
Sierra:
Sierra Brave is a
multi-published author of smoking hot romance. Her love of erotic fiction
started in her last year of high school when she read the sensual classic, Fanny
Hill. She felt so naughty yet liberated with her copy tucked away in
her book bag and hopes her work will have the same delicious effect on her
readers.
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