DIVIDED LOYALTIES
ASHWOOD FALLS, BOOK 4
BY
LIA DAVIS
Divided Loyalties, Ashwood Falls, #4
By Lia Davis
Blurb:
Trained to hunt rogues and protect the human race from the threat
of shifters, Christa Baker is beginning to rethink her career choice.
Especially when her niece and nephew—who she’s raised on her own—end up in the
crossfire. Now she’s looking for a way out and disappear off Shield’s radar for
good. She never thought her out would be a gorgeous wolf who kidnaps her after
raiding Shield HQ.
Hayden Raines has always followed the rules. As the Ashwood Fall
wolf Marshal, he has to set the example for those working under him. When he
sets his sights on the beautiful human hunter things go downhill, fast. Fate
has a funny way of turning things inside out—because the woman he kidnaps, the
enemy he might need to protect his family from, just happens to be his mate.
Warning: Contains one woman on a path she’s not ready for, a
man who thought things would be different, and a heated exchange that turns out
to be the best thing ever.
GUEST POST
Why I love paranormal
Hi everyone! It is a pleasure to be here today to talk about my
love for paranormal romance and yes of course my sexy shifters. *wink*
Well, I love the fantasy worlds, the worlds where everything and
anything is possible. I’ve always been a fan vampires and werewolves. My dad
loved horror movies and always watched those movies with gigantic bugs and
other creatures. He called them creature features.
I also love to read romance. I love the happily ever afters and
the journeys to get there. So naturally when I started reading paranormal
romance, I wanted to write my own. Although I love vampires, I just couldn’t
nail down a mythology of my own that I’m completely happy with. I did keep all
my notes for later use.
Then I moved on to witches and demons, and now shifters. I’d
never thought that Ashwood Falls would be so much fun and the huge success that
it’s become. I love the world of leopards, wolves, tigers, jaguars, puma
(mountain lions), and bears (yes, bears are coming in the future).
Divided Loyalties by Lia Davis – Excerpt Three
One of her captor’s allies, an
auburn-haired man, advanced down the hall. He came back a few minutes later and
said, “He’s not here.”
The man holding her firmly to his
body growled. “Let’s go.” He shot the last soldier before turning her around to
face him.
She gasped. No fucking way. He
was a shifter.
The way his eyes reflected off
the light told her that. Frantic, she shoved against his chest. He wouldn’t
budge. “Let me go!”
He lifted a brow and studied her for
a moment or two as though he was trying to read her mind or something. Oh, no
he wouldn’t. She yanked her knee up and connected with his balls, hard. He
cursed and let go of her as he doubled over.
She didn’t waste time. She ran
for the door, only to skid to a halt as the auburn-haired man appeared in front
of her. What the fuck? A teleporter? No, he hadn’t materialized in front of
her. She’d seen it done before. Fucking shifter speed was what he’d used to
reach her so fast.
Christa patted her hip. Damn.
She’d left her gun in her car because it was always too tempting to shoot Vance
if she took it into the meeting.
She tried to fake a left and then
moved right to move around him when the other man gripped her by the arm. A
sharp stick in the arm made her jerk. She peered at the man as he pulled a
needle out of her arm.
Son of a bitch.
Her vision blurred, and her legs
wobbled, no longer able to hold her up.
“Bastards,” she managed to say
before everything went black.
****
“What the fuck did you do that
for?” Hayden gritted out as he straightened, his balls still throbbing.
Damn female.
Kirk, the leopard sentry, capped
the needle and slid it into a red plastic bag. “She’s a runner and a liability.
Unless you preferred me to let her go, because I wasn’t going to be the next
one she racked in the balls.”
Tanner, who was currently holding
the female steady, bent to scoop her up in his arms, but Hayden sent him a
warning growl and halted his brother. With a raised brow, Tanner waited for
Hayden to hobble over and take the female from him.
Hayden led his brother to the
Range Rover while Kirk stayed behind to wait on Blaine, the new leopard Alpha
of Ashwood, to teleport in with another sentry to clean house. Blaine normally
couldn’t teleport to a place he’d never been, but he could flash to someone who
was linked to him. Kirk, as well as Tanner and Hayden, were tied to the leopard
Alpha by a blood bond. So Blaine could teleport to them without effort.
It was a good thing too.
Hayden had left a mess of dead,
mutant-infected humans in that office building.
He tossed the keys to Tanner and
climbed into the back seat with the female. Before he settled himself in for
the long drive back to North Carolina, he checked her pockets. He found a small
zippered wallet and a cell phone. Opening the wallet, he smiled as he pulled
out her driver’s licenses.
Christa Baker. Age thirty-nine.
He slid the card back inside the
wallet then handed it to Tanner. “When we get to a secure place, call Dane and
see what he can pull up on her.”
“Will do.” Tanner opened the
console and tossed the wallet inside before starting the Range Rover.
Hayden slid her cell phone into
his pocket and propped Christa up the best he could and fastened her seatbelt.
He leaned his head back on the seat and closed his eyes. This had been one
fucked-up operation. Not only had they failed to catch Vance, Marshal of the
rogue Pack Onyx, but Hayden had stooped to a new low.
Kidnapping.
Good one, asshole.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lia Davis is a mother to two young adults and two very
special kitties, a wife to her soul mate, a paranormal romance author, and
co-owner to Fated Desires Publishing, LLC. She and her family live in Northeast
Florida battling hurricanes and very humid summers. But it’s her home and she
loves it!
An accounting major, Lia has always been a dreamer with a very activity imagination. The wheels in her head never stop. She ventured into the world of writing and publishing in 2008 and loves it more than she imagined. Writing is stress reliever that allows her to go off in her corner of the house and enter into another world that she created, leaving real life where it belongs.
Her favorite things are spending time with family, traveling, reading, writing, chocolate, coffee, nature and hanging out with her kitties.
An accounting major, Lia has always been a dreamer with a very activity imagination. The wheels in her head never stop. She ventured into the world of writing and publishing in 2008 and loves it more than she imagined. Writing is stress reliever that allows her to go off in her corner of the house and enter into another world that she created, leaving real life where it belongs.
Her favorite things are spending time with family, traveling, reading, writing, chocolate, coffee, nature and hanging out with her kitties.
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