Today, I’m picking up from where I left off two weeks ago with 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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“I’m Valerie.”
I extended my hand for her to take, but she just looked at me. She looked at me for a long time, taking in every inch of my cream peasant top, brown bohemian skirt, and Earth Shoes sandals. My hair hung long and wavy over my shoulders, and the large hoop earrings I wore told her just how different she and I were from each other. The fact that all of that billowy clothing covered a size twenty-two body helped divide us also. Never in my adult life had I been a size ten, which was the size I was certain she was. Her scrutinizing gaze made me uncomfortable and self-conscious. I was obviously not who or what she thought or hoped I was.
Deciding that I could be just as rude as she was being, I lowered my hand, turned my back to her, and went to work on the next table.
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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 Coming Soon
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.
