Hello, everyone. I hope you had a great week. I don’t think I got to everyone’s posts. We had a few doctor’s appoints and some not so good days, so I think I missed a few of you. Sorry.
Today, I’m sharing from Marked, book one of my Valeterra series. This novella is a paranormal romance set in a parallel universe. It is currently in its second round of editing, but I do have a tentative synopsis and a cover, both of which you’ll find after the snippet. I’m aiming for a first of June release date if all goes well.
I’m picking up from where I left off last week. This is still from Valerie’s point of view, and shows Stephanie meeting her for the first time.
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After a long moment, she snapped from her perusal of me and followed me, saying, “Ms. Stutts, is there somewhere private we can go to talk?”
“Yes,” I said, as I continued to dress the table. I didn’t look up at the woman once.
“Could we go there please?”
I could feel her nervously shifting on her feet beside me, but I didn’t acknowledge her presence for a long moment.
“Nope,” I finally said when I had the centerpiece just right.
“Excuse me,” she said with a gasp, moving to stand across from me so that she would be in my line of sight when I leaned away from the table.
“Look, I’m here by myself. I have to finish these tables before the deli opens in five minutes. You’re more than welcome to join me in my office the second my opening manager gets here and can take over,” I said coldly, looking down at my watch. “She should be here in ten minutes.”
“All right,” she said.
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***Side Note**** I’ll do my best each week to read all the post, but I take care of two older adults, one with dementia and one showing early signs of it, pretty much twenty-four hours a day, so some weeks, depending on health issues and doctors’ appointments, I might not get to everyone. I apologize if I don’t get to you.
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Marked, Valeterra Series Book 1 – A BBW Paranormal Romance June 2017
For ten years, the people of Valeterra have watched a plague sweep across their world, killing nearly every supernatural creature in its path. As scientists from both the human world and Valeterra work on the way to stop the plague, the Valeterrian government is working on the way to repopulate their world with babies born immune to the disease.
In her thirties, single, and a bit of a bigger girl, Valerie has given up on ever finding love. She’s resigned herself to running her bookstore and growing old with only her baby sister. When a strange woman comes to her store with a story full of parallel universes, supernatural creatures, and plagues, and a proposal for how Valerie can help save Valeterra from extinction, Valerie is sure the woman is insane. Valerie’s opinion changes, though, when she loses her livelihood. Sad and angry, she throws caution to the wind and embarks on a journey that she fears will either kill her or break her heart.
Jackson lost his first mate over fifty years ago. He knows his world is in peril. He knows his pack is on shaky ground, but all the alpha wants to do is wallow in his grief. When he discovers that his second mate is a human woman who is also immune to the virus sweeping Valeterra, he has some hard decisions to make. He doesn’t want a new mate. He also knows that he can’t deny his second chance at love and the first real chance his world might have at eventually recovering from so much death.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34802780-marked-valeterra-series-book-1
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