For tiger-shifter, Samira Anderson, leaving home for the first time to attend Harmony University should unnerve her. She’s never submitted to the fear of a challenge and doesn’t plan to start now. Meeting her dorm mates and touring the campus excites her and her cat. Although when she meets Gavin Stone, she’s not only nervous around him but fears she might lose the tight control she has over her tiger.
After a bad break up with his high school sweetheart, Gavin has no intentions of repeating past mistakes. Or so he thought until he sees the beautiful, smart, Samira at the dorm welcome party. Drawn to her like no other, he can’t stay away or shake the feeling Sam isn’t telling him everything.
When he discovers her secrets, a whole new world opens to him, filled with danger, unknown possibilities, and a passion so intense it could last many lifetimes.
people piled into the dorm, Sam was going to scream. The ground floor of the
house was elbow to elbow. She couldn’t walk to the bathroom without feeling
like the ball in a pinball machine. The human-shifter ratio was fifty to one.
learned humans were pretty clueless to their surroundings—at least this crowd
of students were anyway.
crowds,” Jesse spoke softly beside her.
play the music too loud.
handed her and Jesse earplugs, but they only helped to muffle the noise. A
headache had moved in, and Sam was ready to crawl out of her skin. Literally.
Her tiger begged to go for a run, go find that stream she heard when she’d
arrived that morning.
an odd awareness drew her attention to the entrance. Three guys stood in the
doorway. One of them looked about as thrilled to be there as she felt. Poor guy. He stood by the door, his
hands shoved in pockets as he scanned the room with a frown on his lips. Sam
couldn’t get a read on his emotions from so far away, but she could tell he’d
rather be doing something else. His
friends probably dragged him away from his video game.
hair that barely covered his ears, but his bangs fell in his eyes in a sexy
kind of way. His wire-rimmed glasses kept sliding down his nose. Scanning down
to his broad shoulders under a deep purple button down, she grew more intrigued
by the human. Something about him called to her.
cool fingers brushed her hand, drawing her attention away for the human to
glance at her friend. The leopard lowered her eyes and withdrew her hand. Sam
sighed and covered the female’s hand and gently squeezed. Submissives weren’t
normally so timid, but Jesse was the poster girl for the word.
it?”
cute.” She blushed and glanced to where the new guy stood.
“Yes, he is, and very human.”
sensing her watching him, he lifted his lashes and stared right at her. Her
pulse spiked while her tiger purred. When he started to advance toward them,
Jesse tensed slightly, but Sam paid it no mind. She was too focused on the guy
who held her captivated.
stopped at the table, she nearly groaned when his cedar-and-mint scent flowed
around her, alluring and intoxicating. Damn, she wanted to bury her nose into
his neck and bite—
Gavin.” He held out his hand.
Oh.” Sam shook his hand and suppressed the urge to purr as some kind of
electrical current passed through the connection. What the hell was that?
Hi! It’s so great to be here, sharing my new release and talking about why I write. Before I talk about how I became a writer, I’d like to introduce myself for those who don’t know me. I’m a mother, wife, reader, and creative mind. I write in multiple genres including, but limited to, contemporary erotic, new adult, gay romance, and, my first love, paranormal.
I’ve always written things down, kept journals, made random notes about anything that came to mind. The main reason was because my mind wouldn’t stop. The wheels always turned and new ideas emerged. I really didn’t understand this until I started writing with the goal to be a published author in 2008.
I told myself I wouldn’t read it. I read historical romance because it took me to another time and I love history. Paranormal was something I watched on TV. Never considered reading romance books involving vampires and other creatures of magic and the night. Yet, when the movie came out, I watched it. Damn, I got sucked in and had to read the books.
Yes, I’m talking about Twilight. I read all four books back to back within a 2 week time period.
After I finished I wanted more so I searched Amazon for vampire romances and went through them like crazy. Then I moved on to other paranormal romances. A whole new world of reading opened up and I decided to give writing them a try. So I started researching myths and legends and other paranormal things.
I wanted to write vampires, but there were so much out there with them, it was hard for me to create a fresh new world. I spent so much time working and reworking, writing and rewriting, storylines and plot ideas and nothing worked. So I moved on the witches and developed my first series The Divinities and contracted the first book in late 2011 with a release date the following July. Then I came out with my shapeshifters and released Winter Eve in December 2012.
This year I started branching out. I wrote a contemporary erotic titled Business Pleasures—now available—and a MM military romance set to release in a bundle titled Unconditional Surrender next month. Also next month my first NA paranormal, Imperfect Mate, comes out as part of the Decadent Publishing ROAR line. These won’t be the only stories I do in these genres. I will be writing more of them along with my paranormals.
So what happened to my vamps? I am happy to say I have finally came up with a world that works. I have my vampires. The first book, IT’S A VAMPIRE CHRISTMAS, comes out in December.
I love meeting new friends. Feel free to friend and follow me.
Coastal Magic is a super casual, urban fantasy and paranormal romance focused convention in Daytona Beach, FL. With panels designed to start interesting discussion, and meet & greets with fun themes, we’ve got something for every fan. Join us for reader, blogger, and author shenanigans, and lots of “supernatural” inspired activities. Saturday’s charity book sale and signing is open to convention attendees, and FREE to the public. Come take a bite out of the beach with us!! Feb 5-8, 2015
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Lia Davis is the author of the bestselling shifter series, Ashwood Falls, a mother to two young adults and three kitties, a wife to her soul mate, 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 active 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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