I almost forget, it's Excerpt Friday!

Friday snuck up on me again! Today's excerpt is from Hunter's Moon:

Hunter’s Moon was my first published story, my first contracted story and so far, my personal best seller. I’m still amazed by how well this story has done and the wonderful feedback I’ve gotten from readers. I do plan to write a sequel to it-it’s on my very long to-do list and I hope to see the idea of the Sha-Shiri taken much farther than there was room for in this story.

4 ANGELS The love scenes [in HUNTER’S MOON] are very hot, …– in fact, they are among some of the best love scenes I’ve read this year.
- Jean, Fallen Angel Reviews



Blurb:

He’s never been with a human female, she’s never been with a man she can trust. Alliana and Adam are from two different worlds and when he’s stranded in hers, she begins to realize it might be time to take another chance on love.


HUNTER’S MOON

Once again a mass of conflicting emotions, Alli padded down the stairs to the kitchen. She was disappointed to find it empty. The door to the basement was locked, as was the front door. The entire house was dark and silent and Adam was nowhere.

Panic gripped her when she found the door to the mudroom standing open to the back garden.

He’d gone outside.

Worry and anger rose in her as she slipped her feet into an old pair of moccasins she kept in the mudroom. He had to know how dangerous it was to go prowling around outside, even in the dead of night, unless he’d already managed to transform completely into human form. The thought disappointed her.

She wanted to watch him change because she wanted to remember his real form, his exquisitely smooth skin and his feral countenance. The human body he’d patterned was fine--a handsome face, a perfectly formed body, but something in her responded so viscerally to his Sha-Shiri form. She was afraid that when he changed again, he would become nothing more than another man to her, a form she’d spent a long time mistrusting and hating.

She could accept Adam in his alien form because he was something she had never experienced before and therefore carried no bad memories. She realized if she could watch him change she might be able to overcome the aversion and maybe she would always see him in her mind as he truly was.

The back door clattered shut and Allie made her way through the garden. The back gate stood open and she let her gaze follow the path that led up the hillside and away from her property. In a copse of trees halfway up the slope, she saw it.

A green light glowed from within the tightly spaced birch trunks. Adam had to be there. The light was the color of his eyes.

Alli took off running. She hit the old road at a sprint, ignoring the fact that the moon hadn’t risen yet and she could barely see. When she was halfway up the slope, she called for him.

There was no response. Alli pushed her tired body to its limits and ran until the cool September air burned her lungs. When she finally reached the tree line, she steadied herself against one of the pale trunks. She fought the urge to double over to ease the stitch in her side.

There were shadowy forms moving through the trees, their outlines blurred against the brilliant glow from within.

“Adam!”
Alli ventured deeper into the tight copse of trees and she stopped, stunned when she heard harsh voices conversing. The dark shapes slid in and out of her field of vision but even though she couldn’t see anything clearly, she knew exactly what was happening.

Adam’s companions had returned for him. He said they wouldn’t, but they had come anyway, despite their laws. And he had gone to them.

Of course. Why would he pass up a chance to go home?

“Adam...”

“Alliana!” His voice reached her through a surreal haze. She felt suddenly lightheaded, foolish and alone.

A voice she didn’t recognize shouted. “Lead the human away now before she sees us.”

“It’s too late.” It was Adam’s voice. “She has seen us. But she won’t alert the others.”

“She will expose us. We should never have come back for you K’vshtin. Now we could all be in danger because of this creature.”

Alli tripped over a root and fell to her knees. The pain jarred her senses and she looked up into the sneering face of a Sha-Shiri. It wasn’t Adam. This one looked cruel and hard. His skin was steel gray and his eyes were a cold, glittering blue.

“A female? You’ve taken a female as a mate?” The gray one hissed something unintelligible as Adam appeared and folded Alli into a protective embrace. She clung to him instinctively but her gaze was on the gray one.

“How do you know?” Alli demanded. “And what business is it of yours anyway?”

“She understands us? What else have you told her, K’vshtin?”

“We should leave, Sa’tarlis,” another voice pleaded. “If this one found us, there will be others.”

“K’vshtin--we will have to kill her to protect ourselves.”

“No!” Adam let go of Alli and rose in front of her. He raised his claws to the gray one and snarled. “She will not expose us.”

“Humans cannot be trusted,” Sa’tarlis replied. “Get in the ship now and I will dispose of her quickly.”

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