Hunter's Need...releases 12/1

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She was—a memory he’d tried damn hard to forget came rushing up, the night she’d suckered him in, on the trunk of her car.  He’d followed her out there, didn’t bother to tell his partner he was heading out, too focused on the woman and the hunger he scented coming from her.  Too focused, too impatient to wait, once they’d reached her car, he pulled her against him and kissed her, deaf, dumb and blind to everything but her.

The way her breath caught when he slid his hand under her shirt and cupped her breast.

The way she bit her lip when he slid a hand under short, snug skirt and pushed it up over her hips before spreading her out the trunk.  In public—where anybody could see—she’d said as much, and he’d whispered, “It’s dark.  Nobody can see us…” Plus, he would have heard anybody coming before they get close, and he just couldn’t wait.

Then he made her come, tugging her simple white panties and aside and going down on her in the corner of a dark parking lot.  Dark, but not so dark his refined vision couldn’t make out the pale, smooth perfection of her body and the silvery blonde curls that covered her sex.

His cock stiffened under the tight confines of his jeans at the memory.  He swore silently.

Hated it.  Hated how a memory could do this to him, how he could still remember how sweet and soft she’d been—how easily she’d lied to him.

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:

• Runs through 12/1.
• Read the complete rules here.
• Comment @ my blog (Not via facebook, amazon, myspace, etc) to enter. Each comment gets you one entry. You can enter via blog comments once each day.
• If you post a link to the contest and then email me @ contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional ten entries. Put link in the subject line.
• If you preorder and forward the receipt to contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional twenty entries. Put receipt in subject line. Please remove all sensitive personal data.
• You can enter each way-if you post a link, comment and preorder, that is 30 entries, as well as one entry for each day you visit the blog to comment. You could get up to fifty entries for the grand prize.
• Names will not be shared/sold/traded/spraypainted on a billboard.
• Please note, to enter for the small daily giveaways done during the week, you must comment @ my blog.
• Daily giveaways will be Monday-Friday. Winners will either be posted here or notified via email so please make sure you check back often.
• Please do not cheat-trying to comment more than once a day, using different names/emails, is cheating and you’ll likely end up disqualified and barred from entering future contests.
• Do not post to sweepstakes sites. These contests are for current and potential readers and I do not want to them to be posted at sweepstakes sites. Should this contest end up at sweepstakes sites, I reserve the right to end the contest without warning and without giving away the rest of the prizes in the contest.
• Each (daily) contest thread will be closed within a day or two of its original posting.  So enter while it’s open!

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I’m scheduling up some guest blogs to do in December when Hunter’s Need comes out and I’ve got to figure out WHAT to blog about…

• Will probably do a post on location, since I based the book in Alaska, and actually started it while I was on vacation there.
• Will probably do a post about Ana-I know a lot of people are curious about why she was chosen for a heroine-a lot of people don’t see much heroic in her, but her story is a journey, and that journey…well, it’s her story, about how a person can do terrible things and then still turn their life around, try to become a stronger, better person.  Besides, Duke chose her, I didn’t.

Any other suggestions?  Things you’re curious about?

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There seems to be a common theme in the comments…people want to know exactly how/why Ana betrayed Duke.  The answers to that are in one of the previous Hunter books, Hunting the Hunter.   For those who haven’t read it…I’ve posted a few brief snippets from that book, where they were introduced.  But it’s a complicated story there and your best bet is to read Hunting the Hunter. Also, please note…the below snippets are not the finalized version, but I can’t find the right file so I’m making due with these.

Snippet 1:

Duke had had enough of Miss Analise Morrell.   But she wasn’t going anywhere.  He could smell her. The soft sweet scent of her skin called to him as much now as it had that first night.

Fuck, had it just been three nights ago?

“Duke?”

Shit.  Can you not even let me ignore you in peace? he thought wearily.  Opening his one good eye, he stared at her coolly.  “Get away from me,” he said hoarsely.  His throat was raspy and dry.  Duke hadn’t had a drink of water or a bite to eat since he’d left the bar.  That wasn’t good for a shifter.

She seemed to know that, too.  In one hand, she held a glass of water and as she held his gaze, she lifted the water to his lips.  But Duke just turned his head away. “Get away from me, Analise,” he rasped, staring at the wall in front of him so he wouldn’t have to see her face.

“Duke, you need water.  Drink it.  And I’ll bring you some food once…once she leaves for the night,” Analise said as she tried once more to offer him the water.

Duke jerked his head away almost violently.  The glass bobbled out of her hand and fell tot he floor, shattering at his feet. Staring angrily into her eyes, he rasped, “I said get away from me.  That bitch wants me dead, so why in the fuck does it matter if I’m thirsty or hungry?”

Analise backed away, staring at him with eyes he couldn’t read.  “Don’t you care if you live or die?”

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Snippet 2:

Duke sucked in a painful breath.  Breathing was torture.  There were at least two, if not three, broken ribs on his right side.  “Get me the fucking water.”

“So now you want to live?”

“I never wanted to die.  But know this, Analise.  if she hurts Kendall, I’ll make damn sure I find a way to make you pay.”

Analise laughed sadly.  “I’ve been paying every single day since she found me, Duke.  Don’t worry about that.”

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Snippet 3:

Analise didn’t understand true magic.  But she understood psychic power.  She had it, after all.  It was what had drawn Cat to her.

And it was the only thing that protected Brad right now.

He had the power himself.  And his own power was strong, entirely too strong.  Cat wanted nothing more than to control the child, but so far, she hadn’t been able to.

If Brad had been a normal child, it would have been child’s play to control him.

But Brad was unique, in so many ways.  And he wouldn’t be controlled.  Walking through the door to the room she shared with the nine-year-old boy, Analise met his eyes and forced a smile.  “Hey, sweetie.”

“You have to get him out of here, Ana.  She’s going to kill him.”

Analise shook her head.  “She won’t.  She’s using him to bait a trap.  Doesn’t work as well if the bait is dead.”

Brad rolled his eyes.  “You’re so naive sometimes.  All Cat has to do is make this Kendall person think he is here, and she’ll come.  You’d do the same for me.  Get him out.  Tonight.”

Shaking her head at her brother, she said, “No.  She’d take it out on you, Brad.  I won’t risk it.”

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Snippet 4:

Kendall started to slide into the car but Kane caught her gaze.  Something in his eyes made her pause.  “Duke, first,” she whispered.  Then she looked away and climbed into the car.

Enough people had died because of her.  Because of Cat.  She wasn’t going to let another one die.

Looking into the rearview mirror, she met Analise’s gaze.  “If Duke dies, I hope you realize you go with him.”

Analise nodded.  “Just promise me, somebody will take care of my little brother.”

Guilt ripped at Kendall.  The brother played into this.  A lot.  She gave one sharp nod.

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Hope that helps a little.  If not….well, I’m afraid you’ll have to read Hunting the Hunter.  I can’t post anything else from that book without major spoilers…and a major headache since I can’t find my finalized file.  

And now, onto the winners…I’ve drawn (courtesy of randomizer.org) the first four winners in the daily giveaways.  Will draw a fifth one and post it shortly…want to make sure everybody had the chance to enter the Friday drawing.

The winners are:

Reba N

Armenia

RKCharron

Jeanette Juan

I need the winners to email me @ shilohwalker(at)gmail.com.  You’ve got about a week.  Your prizes will be chosen randomly and sent to you-if you’re chosen for one of the ebook prizes, I’ll contact you via email to find out what format you want.  Just a reminder-when you entered, you agreed to respect author copyright, so please, no sharing of the ebook files.  Also, another reminder-do NOT enter under multiple names/emails.  It’s limited to ONE entry per day per household.

If you have questions, I recommend you read my disclaimer page.

Also, there are no daily giveaways on Saturday and Sunday.

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Hunter's Need...releases 12/1

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Dominic snorted.  “Well, hell.  She’s got a lot in common with me, already.”  He braced his pool stick on the ground and watched as Ana made her way through the people, heading for the small library tucked off to the side of the rec room.

The rec room was crowded, but for a rainy Saturday evening, that was to be expected.

All too aware of the vampire’s interest, Duke focused on the pool table.  The edgy, twitchy sensation in his gut expanded and he shot a dirty look at the window.  He didn’t mind water.  But he hated getting drenched and if he shifted in that downpour, he’d end up soaked to the bone.

He needed to shift, though.  Had to do something to release the edgy, nagging tension that had been building inside him over the past few weeks.

“You know her?”

Duke lined up his shot and took it before straightening and meeting Dominic’s gaze.  “There’s close to five hundred students in this school—you think I know them all?”

Dominic shrugged.  “Well, you know her well enough to say she shouldn’t be here.”

Duke could have bit his tongue off.  Yeah.  He had said that.  “Her name’s Ana.  She’s a psychic, here to get that under control, not because she’s Hunter material.”

Running his tongue over his teeth, Dominic cocked his head, watched as she disappeared through the doors leading to one of the numerous libraries.  “She’s cute—blonde.  Shit, I love blondes.  And I bet she’s blonde all over…”

She was—a memory he’d tried damn hard to forget came rushing up, the night she’d suckered him in, on the trunk of her car.  He’d followed her out there, didn’t bother to tell his partner he was heading out, too focused on the woman and the hunger he scented coming from her.  Too focused, too impatient to wait, once they’d reached her car, he pulled her against him and kissed her, deaf, dumb and blind to everything but her.

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:

• Runs through 12/1.
• Read the complete rules here.
• Comment @ my blog (Not via facebook, amazon, myspace, etc) to enter. Each comment gets you one entry. You can enter via blog comments once each day.
• If you post a link to the contest and then email me @ contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional ten entries. Put link in the subject line.
• If you preorder and forward the receipt to contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional twenty entries. Put receipt in subject line. Please remove all sensitive personal data.
• You can enter each way-if you post a link, comment and preorder, that is 30 entries, as well as one entry for each day you visit the blog to comment. You could get up to fifty entries for the grand prize.
• Names will not be shared/sold/traded/spraypainted on a billboard.
• Please note, to enter for the small daily giveaways done during the week, you must comment @ my blog.
• Daily giveaways will be Monday-Friday. Winners will either be posted here or notified via email so please make sure you check back often.
• Please do not cheat-trying to comment more than once a day, using different names/emails, is cheating and you’ll likely end up disqualified and barred from entering future contests.
• Do not post to sweepstakes sites. These contests are for current and potential readers and I do not want to them to be posted at sweepstakes sites. Should this contest end up at sweepstakes sites, I reserve the right to end the contest without warning and without giving away the rest of the prizes in the contest.
• Each (daily) contest thread will be closed within a day or two of its original posting.  So enter while it’s open!

Hunter's Need...releases 12/1

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A ham-sized fist caught up on the side of the head and he went flying, coming to a stop only when his body crashed into a reinforced wall.  Head spinning, he shoved to his feet and stared across the mat at Shawn.  Rubbing his ringing ear, he muttered, “Good one.”

Shawn shrugged, a wry smile creasing his dark face.  “Not really.  You’re off.”

Off—yeah.  He was that.  “Maybe.”  Scanning the students seated at the edge of the mat, he singled out Lindsey Sue Whittaker.  Petite, delicate, her head barely reached the middle of Shawn’s chest but when the black man saw her rising from the floor, he swore.  Lindsey fluttered her lashes at him and blew him a kiss before bending over and stretching out her legs.

Then she straightened and without so much as a blink, lunged for him, crossing the distance with a speed no mortal eye could track.  Werewolf quick.

As the vampire set about fighting off the werewolf, Duke retreated off the mat and tried to get his head focused and his thoughts off Analise Morell.

*

“Who is that?”

Duke glanced up, first at the vampire standing across the pool table, and then towards the door.  But even before he saw, he knew.  Raking Ana over with a contemptuous gaze, he looked back at the vampire.  Dominic—the last name escaped him.  Here from Nashville, Tennessee where he served as a lieutenant for the local master.  “Somebody that shouldn’t be here.”

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:

• Runs through 12/1.
• Read the complete rules here.
• Comment @ my blog (Not via facebook, amazon, myspace, etc) to enter. Each comment gets you one entry. You can enter via blog comments once each day.
• If you post a link to the contest and then email me @ contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional ten entries. Put link in the subject line.
• If you preorder and forward the receipt to contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional twenty entries. Put receipt in subject line. Please remove all sensitive personal data.
• You can enter each way-if you post a link, comment and preorder, that is 30 entries, as well as one entry for each day you visit the blog to comment. You could get up to fifty entries for the grand prize.
• Names will not be shared/sold/traded/spraypainted on a billboard.
• Please note, to enter for the small daily giveaways done during the week, you must comment @ my blog.
• Daily giveaways will be Monday-Friday. Winners will either be posted here or notified via email so please make sure you check back often.
• Please do not cheat-trying to comment more than once a day, using different names/emails, is cheating and you’ll likely end up disqualified and barred from entering future contests.
• Do not post to sweepstakes sites. These contests are for current and potential readers and I do not want to them to be posted at sweepstakes sites. Should this contest end up at sweepstakes sites, I reserve the right to end the contest without warning and without giving away the rest of the prizes in the contest.
• Each (daily) contest thread will be closed within a day or two of its original posting.  So enter while it’s open!

Hunter's Need...releases 12/1

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He still had scars from those days, days that ran together in a pain-filled, delirious blur.  Just a few days, but even a few minutes under those circumstances would be too much.  She’d used him, figured out what and who he was and toyed with him, making him believe she wanted him and convincing him to leave the club with her.

He’d done just that, but instead of taking her to a motel or some dark, quiet apartment where she lived, she’d taken him to hell.  To Cat, a feral vampire with a few mental issues.  Something about Ana’s gift fucked with his instincts and he’d been blinded to the fact that the house he was following her into the territory of a feral vamp’s.  Ferals—the kind of creature that Duke hunted down and killed.

Blind to everything but Ana, he’d been so caught up in her, in the taste of her mouth, the feel of her body against his, he hadn’t realized the danger until it was too late.  He’d been shot with silver and in the brief period he’d been unconscious, somebody had chained him up, bound him head to toe with chains of silver and titanium—the silver drained him, burned him and ate into his flesh, while the titanium was too fucking strong for him to break away.

And that was how he’d spent the next couple of days, up until help arrived, in the form of Mary Kendall and Duke’s old friend Kane.  Somebody from his life before.  Life before the Hunters.  Life before he’d ever met up with a sad-eyed psychic—a life that had been a helluva a lot easier.

He didn’t remember much of the days he spent in captivity, beyond Ana.  Almost every damn time he swam up out of the black well of pain and weakness brought on by starvation, she’d been there, urging water past his parched throat, giving him just enough to keep him going.  A natural shifter, he ate more, drank more than a mortal.  A mortal could go a decent amount of time before starvation left them weak.  But for a shifter, a couple of days without food was enough to put him in a bad state.

For the thousandth—no, probably the millionth time, he found himself wondering why she’d made the pretense of helping him, of caring if he lived or died under Cat’s hand.  Found himself wondering why she was here—why she’d come, and why they’d allowed her to stay.

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:

• Runs through 12/1.
• Read the complete rules here.
• Comment @ my blog (Not via facebook, amazon, myspace, etc) to enter. Each comment gets you one entry. You can enter via blog comments once each day.
• If you post a link to the contest and then email me @ contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional ten entries. Put link in the subject line.
• If you preorder and forward the receipt to contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional twenty entries. Put receipt in subject line. Please remove all sensitive personal data.
• You can enter each way-if you post a link, comment and preorder, that is 30 entries, as well as one entry for each day you visit the blog to comment. You could get up to fifty entries for the grand prize.
• Names will not be shared/sold/traded/spraypainted on a billboard.
• Please note, to enter for the small daily giveaways done during the week, you must comment @ my blog.
• Daily giveaways will be Monday-Friday. Winners will either be posted here or notified via email so please make sure you check back often.
• Please do not cheat-trying to comment more than once a day, using different names/emails, is cheating and you’ll likely end up disqualified and barred from entering future contests.
• Do not post to sweepstakes sites. These contests are for current and potential readers and I do not want to them to be posted at sweepstakes sites. Should this contest end up at sweepstakes sites, I reserve the right to end the contest without warning and without giving away the rest of the prizes in the contest.
• Each (daily) contest thread will be closed within a day or two of its original posting.  So enter while it’s open!

Hunter's Need...releases 12/1

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His gaze cut to her and she managed to keep from flinching as his dark gray eyes connected with hers.  She lifted a hand, waved hesitantly, but he didn’t acknowledge her.  He just turned his away and strode across the rubberized floor.  She knew where he was going—the training area on the second level.  Right now, there was a class in progress for the advanced students; fighting skills, but not exactly the kind of fighting one would encounter at any legit dojo.

Martial arts were definitely taught, but the advanced students, the ones most likely to be approached about joining the Hunters, weren’t just taught self-defense.  Duke was currently one of the Hunters assigned to help train—she knew, because she did her best to quietly learn everything about him that she could.

As much as she could learn without him realizing it, anyway.

Considering she’d once been party to his kidnapping and torture, she doubted he’d be too happy knowing that she was obsessed with him.  None too happy with knowing that she still dreamed about him, more than four years after the night he’d had the bad luck to meet up with her.

*

Too fucking twitchy for this, Duke thought as he squared off with a young vampire.  Young in vamp years, but not human. Shawn Lenning would have celebrated his fiftieth birthday in just a few months if he hadn’t been attacked one night.  Not a random attack, though.  He’d been heading to his car after leaving work.  Parked on a side street in a less than respectable area of East St. Louis, he’d heard the sounds of struggle, a woman screaming and he’d gone to help.

But it wasn’t just the average rape he’d interrupted.  The woman survived, Shawn Lenning was technically listed as missing and presumed dead, and his life would never be the same.  Duke could sympathize.  He knew what it was like to have your entire life changed in the blink of an eye, although at least Duke had been a little prepared.  A natural shifter, he’d known pretty much all his life that there was a whole hell of a lot more to the world than mortals thought.

Shawn had just been simply human.  Courageous and decent, willing to risk his neck for a woman he didn’t know, but just a human and he hadn’t known a damn thing about natural shifters, vampires, psychics…

Pretty blonde psychics with eyes the color of violets and a mouth he could still taste, even four years later.

Life would be easier if he didn’t have to know about that particular psychic, Duke suspected.   After what she’d done, it wasn’t a big surprise that every time he saw her, it hit him on a deep, visceral level.

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:

• Runs through 12/1.
• Read the complete rules here.
• Comment @ my blog (Not via facebook, amazon, myspace, etc) to enter. Each comment gets you one entry. You can enter via blog comments once each day.
• If you post a link to the contest and then email me @ contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional ten entries. Put link in the subject line.
• If you preorder and forward the receipt to contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com, that will get you an additional twenty entries. Put receipt in subject line. Please remove all sensitive personal data.
• You can enter each way-if you post a link, comment and preorder, that is 30 entries, as well as one entry for each day you visit the blog to comment. You could get up to fifty entries for the grand prize.
• Names will not be shared/sold/traded/spraypainted on a billboard.
• Please note, to enter for the small daily giveaways done during the week, you must comment @ my blog.
• Daily giveaways will be Monday-Friday. Winners will either be posted here or notified via email so please make sure you check back often.
• Please do not cheat-trying to comment more than once a day, using different names/emails, is cheating and you’ll likely end up disqualified and barred from entering future contests.
• Do not post to sweepstakes sites. These contests are for current and potential readers and I do not want to them to be posted at sweepstakes sites. Should this contest end up at sweepstakes sites, I reserve the right to end the contest without warning and without giving away the rest of the prizes in the contest.
• Each (daily) contest thread will be closed within a day or two of its original posting.  So enter while it’s open!