A Touch of Flame
Flame Series 5
By Caris Roane
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Caris Roane here and I'm so glad you're touring with me. Be sure to visit as many blogs on my tour as you can and leave a comment at each one to be entered into this WOW giveaway! Don't worry if you miss a couple of blogs, visiting every blog isn't required, it just increases your chances of winning! I'll be creating a second bracelet for the WOW giveaway (International winner receives gift card) similar to the bracelet in the Rafflecopter. I will choose the winning blog then choose the winning comment some time after midnight, September 5th, Arizona time. I will use Random dot org to make the selection. Let's support our bloggers who give us so much! Hugs, Caris
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A powerful alpha wolf. A gifted witch. Each haunted by death. Can passion drive them to an everlasting love? Or will the enemy forge a hopeless chasm? Braden should have died in the Graveyard, but the witch, Maeve, saved him. The call of his wolf is on him and he wants her. She can be his alpha-mate. But she has powers that can destroy him and a disrupted memory that holds the answers to his wife’s murder. Can he ever trust a woman who can kill with the power she streams from her bare hands? Maeve has known only horror, death and destruction since her arrival in Five Bridges as a transformed alter witch. She goes to the Graveyard nightly to rescue those left for dead by the evil rampant in all five territories of her new world. She fears the power she possesses and the gaps in her memory frighten her more than anything else. But when she rescues Braden from an attack in the Graveyard and she realizes she’s drawn to the handsome wolf, the nightmare really begins. Buy Links: Caris Roane's website | Amazon ~*~*~*~*~*~ EXCERPT:
Chapter One
The Graveyard was not the place Mark Braden thought he’d breathe his last. He was sure he’d die in the pine forest of Savage Territory, chasing a drug-runner and getting hit by a spray of bullets.
Instead, he’d been ambushed.
He lay face down on the hard, rocky ground. Blood streamed from a deep gash in his skull and pooled in the debris beneath him. The rogue wolves kicked him, but he barely registered the blows anymore. One or two of his ribs had snapped and punctured his left lung. He had a deep stab wound in his abdomen. His heart felt like a bird fluttering wildly in his chest, nothing more.
The Graveyard was a cess-pit, a central place in Five Bridges used for dumping bodies at night. In the morning, Tribunal clean-up crews would arrive to cart off the dead, catalog them with unfailing carelessness, then send them to the crematory.
“He’s gone.” Ely Gammet, a powerful warlock, stood over him. The bastard had been one of six who’d drawn him to the Graveyard with the promise of information about his wife’s killers.
A few more kicks, and the crew started walking away. He had a dim view of their boots and heard the crunch through the loose rocks. Braden flared his nostrils to take in the warlock’s scent. He catalogued it in his shifter brain for future recall.
He almost laughed. What future?
His breaths were shallow now, small jolts of air he brought into lungs that barely worked anymore.
Maybe it was for the best...
I wonder if Braden is grateful when Maeve saves him from the brink of death or is he angry at first. It appears, in the excerpt from the first chapter, that he seems almost resigned to his fate.
ReplyDeleteWhen I wrote this scene, I knew he was a breath away from death. He couldn't even lift a finger save himself at this point. Then it was fun to have Maeve arrive in a Jeep and she pulls him back from the brink of death. As a writer this was an exhilarating way to start a romance...
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ReplyDeleteI want to thank Sharon for having me on her blog today! Don't hesitate to poke around and see what else Sharon has going on!
Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win the second pnr bracelet!
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My pleasure! Thank you for being on my blog!
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ReplyDeleteThe colors of your blog really complement the tour banner. I know, it has no significance other than I loved how it all goes together, lol!
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ReplyDeleteThe bracelets are fabulos , she does an excellent job . Welcome and the book covers rock .
Thank you so much for sharing A Touch of Flame today :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for being part of the tour. Loo forward to reading A Touch of Flame.
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