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Huntsmen
Michelle Osgood
Blurb:
Months after saving Jamie and Deanna from
crywolf, Kiara and her brother Cole have moved into the city. While clubbing
one night, Kiara is stunned to see her ex, Taryn, onstage. But before she can
react, Jamie notices a distinctive tattoo in the crowd: an axe rumored to be
the mark of the Huntsmen, a group of werewolf-tracking humans. The girls need
to leave immediately—and since Taryn is also a werewolf, they need to take her
with them.
The Huntsmen are more than a myth, and
they’re scouring the city for lone wolves just like Taryn. Until the General
North American Assembly of Werewolves lends a plan of action, Kiara’s small
pack is on lockdown in a friend’s apartment, where she and Taryn must face the
differences that drove them apart. Furthermore, the longer the group waits, the
more it seems the Huntsmen haven’t been acting entirely on their own.
Excerpt:
“You can’t come back here.”
Confronted by an upheld palm, Kiara halted
at the stairs that led backstage.
“This area is for performers only.” The
Latina woman’s face was set in bored lines; her yellow shirt identified her as
one of the club’s staff. Clearly it was not the first time she’d turned someone
away that night.
“Look, I’m meeting—”
“Hun, I don’t care if you’re meeting Evan
Rachel Wood herself. Performer’s only.” The woman enunciated the last part
without managing to pull her attention from the room behind Kiara.
The prickling behind Kiara’s eyes mounted
and was echoed in the flesh of her gums.
“Maria, hey.” Ryn pushed back the black
curtain. “Come on, let her through.”
“Tar—” Reluctance was heavy in the woman’s
voice. “You know I’m not supposed to.”
“I won’t tell if you won’t, ‘kay? This is my
girlfriend. We won’t cause any trouble. Promise.” Ryn held out her hand past
Maria.
Kiara placed her hand in Ryn’s and plastered
a smile across her face. “I’ll be good.” She added a flutter of her eyelashes
and coaxed a blush to her cheeks. Ryn’s skin was hot under her palm. Touching
Ryn had always felt like touching the sun.
“You’d better be,” Maria warned as she
stepped aside and let Kiara through.
“Thank you.” Ryn winked at Maria, and Kiara
heard the woman’s heartbeat accelerate in response. With a valiant effort,
Kiara swallowed her huff of annoyance.
The back of the stage was dimly lit. Ryn
kept Kiara’s hand in hers as she led the way, deftly avoiding the few other
performers who loitered about, waiting for their turns on stage.
“We have to go,” Kiara repeated. She spoke
more loudly now that they were away from everyone else.
“I heard you the first time.”
“Then what are we doing?” Kiara’s fingers
curled perfectly around Ryn’s. She wanted to yank her hand free. She wanted to
kiss the spot where they fit so well together.
“I have to get my bag.”
Ten years. Surely ten years was long enough
for feelings to fade, for the memory of what they had been to dull. She
shouldn’t feel the bright hurt, the greedy hunger, as though it had been
yesterday.
In the back of her head a siren screamed, a
warning that she didn’t have time for this. Kiara’s grip on Ryn’s hand
tightened involuntarily.
“Leave it.”
“I’m not leaving it. There’s five thousand
dollars’ worth of equipment in there.”
“Ryn, you heard me. The Huntsmen are here.”
“Maybe.” They reached a set of lockers, and
Ryn wriggled her fingers free of Kiara’s. “Aren’t you the one who told me
they’re a myth? Do you really think they’d show up in Vancouver? At a drag king
show?” But even as she spoke she opened the locker door and pulled free a large
duffle bag.
“Werewolves are supposed to be myths, too.”
“And yet,” Ryn conceded. She slung the bag over her shoulder.
“My bike is out front.”
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It’s all about the author…
Michelle Osgood writes queer, feminist
romance from her tiny apartment in Vancouver, BC. She loves stories in all
media, especially those created by Shonda Rhimes, and dreams of one day owning
a wine cellar to rival Olivia Pope’s. She is active in Vancouver’s poly and
LGBTQ communities, never turns down a debate about pop culture, and is trying
to learn how to cook. Her first novel, The Better to Kiss You With, was published
by Interlude Press in 2016.
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