Hi! Happy season of love and welcome to the Valentines Day Gift Hop! There are 170 great authors appearing in the Hop with so many prizes it will make your head swim! Every stop on the Hop has its own prize and you have six days to go and try to scoop them all up. What can you win at our delicious event? Keep reading!
- A Kindle Paperwhite, or
- A Digital basket of new adult romances
Every comment on every Blog in the Hop counts as an entry toward the grand prizes, so be sure to comment. PLUS, from your comments, i’ll be choosing the winner on MY blog.
On MY Blog you can win —
- A $5 Amazon GC, AND
- an e-copy of my new release, The Pack or the Panther
To win both the grand prizes and my prizes, all you have to do is comment. If you want to Like my Facebook Page, that would be nice too, but not required.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day is a natural for romance authors. Romance is our life’s blood. So for fun, i’m posting a pretty sexy (and i hope romantic) excerpt from my new bestselling release, The Pack or the Panther. Love is so often unlikely, and these two are literally fighting the battle of cats and dogs.
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Excerpt: The Pack or the Panther by Tara Lain; MM paranormal; The Battle Between Cats and Dogs!
Available Dreamspinner Press AMAZON ARe And other resellers
Cole Harker, son of an alpha werewolf, is bigger and more powerful than most wolves, tongue-tied in groups, and gay. For twenty-four years, he’s lived to please his family and pack—even letting them promise him in marriage to female werewolf Analiese to secure a pack alliance and help save them from a powerful gangster who wants their land. Then Cole meets Analiese’s half-brother, panther shifter Paris Marketo, and for the first time, Cole wants something for himself.
When Analiese runs off to marry a human, Cole finally has a chance with Paris, but the solitary cat rejects him, the pack, and everything it represents. Then Cole discovers the gangster wants Paris too and won’t rest until he has him. What started as a land dispute turns into World War Wolf! But the bigger fight is the battle between cats and dogs.
Cole took hold of a branch a few feet from Paris. “Do you think the alliance will stand?” He shrugged. “Hard to say. I know everyone hopes so, so I hope so too.” Cole pulled his eyebrows together. “But you don’t really care.”
Paris looked up sharply. “Yes, I care. I care about my parents. They’ve been good to me and I owe them a lot. I’m a freak by wolf standards, and my father has never abjured me. I honestly believe he kept me separate for my well-being more than his own. He acknowledges me as his son even though I remind him of his greatest sorrow.”
“Your panther mother.” He nodded. “And Trixie isn’t a brave female. My existence is difficult for her, but she’s been nothing but good to me. She had to stand against the combined disapproval of a lot of other females for me. They didn’t know what I was, but they knew I was Merced’s first wife’s son. They weren’t kind. She was. I value her and want the best.”
Cole nodded. If there was one thing he understood, it was loyalty.
“And then there’s you.”
Cole glanced up. Look at that mischievous face. He’d switched from deeply serious to court jester in one second flat. “What about me?” He grinned.
The cat danced around his tree, unfastening buttons on his shirt with intricate skill. “You want the alliance and I want you. Isn’t that an Aristotelian principle? If A equals B and B equals C, then Paris wants Cole to have his alliance so Paris can have Cole’s big yummy cock in his ass. An ass, I might add, that’s been throbbing like a voodoo drum since I first looked in your silver eyes, wolfman.” He whipped off the shirt, leaving his upper body bare.
Wow. Even knowing what was coming, that sight was hard to believe. The cat’s skin glowed in the moonlight like so much alabaster formed into a work of art. If you liked bulky, you wouldn’t like Paris. But if the look of a black leopard stealing along a branch stilled your heart, this sight would do it for you down to the ground. Not really slim. More like lean, with muscles just where they should be, but as if they were made of silk rather than stone. Fluid.
Paris reached and grabbed a branch, then pulled himself up one-armed until he leaned over the wood on his belly. Flip. He circled and came up to sitting, his upper body glowing and long legs dangling. He spread his arms out for a second as if balancing on a tightrope. Then he reached in and started to unfasten his belt. Slowly, he slipped it from his trousers, then swung it over his head until it caught on an upper branch.
He pulled himself to standing and used one hand to slowly lower his fly. White showed in the gap. Oh my. Not white underwear. White skin. Cole shuddered. He wasn’t used to this kind of sexy. Hell, who was? This cat was one of a kind.
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Now, here is your chance to Hop to all the other blogs and enter again for the grand prizes and the bloggers’ prizes. Enjoy!
Great Valentine’s Hop. I’d love a shot a winning The Pack or the Panther. Thanks for the yummy excerpt and giveaway.
thanks for the giveaway, great expert
Thank you for the chance to win! I hope that everyone has a wonderful Valentine’s Day.
Pati
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thank you for the wonderful giveaway
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Oooooo, hot and definitely a unique perspective on the wolf pack books!!
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Wow love the excerpt! Shifters and Alpha males please sign me up! Sounds like an amazing book! Thanks for sharing!
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I admire the talent it takes to write a story of this nature.
thanks for sharing
Hi Tara!
I love the excerpt. 😉
Thanks for having the hop. I get introduced to a lot of authors I have yet to read.
Yummmy!! I love this hop! I hope everyone benefits!
*rubbing hands together* LOVE LOVE L. O. V. E shifters and MM shifters are so yummy! Thanks for being part of this hop! I’m so freakin’ happy at finding so many new to me authors!
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Love the excerpt–your shifter boys are always fun!
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sounds great. thanks so much for the chance.
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Loved your excerpt and cover! I really want to know Cole now!
Mmm… Oh yes, sexy!
Hot excerpt! But of course it would be…it’s you! 🙂
Looking forward to reading this one–it’s on my wish lists.
Thanks for the chance to win!
That excerpt is a perfect tease! Thanks for offering a wonderful giveaway!
That excerpt was amazing! Thank you! Happy Early Valentine’s Day! I also want to thank you for being in the hop and for your generous giveaway.
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I have to confess I am a fool for cat shifters, of any variety, wild or house.
Thanks for the giveaway!!
Love the excerpt! Fan of your work. Thank you for the chance.
WELL…This changes my view of kitty cats a little bit…LOL.
Thanks for the opportunity! And happy valentines day!
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Great excerpt! I like you on FB as Lisa Fisher Walker
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thank for the hop and sexy guy
Nice looking book covers ya got there 😉
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
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The end of the excerpt really give you the feel that Paris is part animal.
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Thanks for the excerpt and for participating in the hop.
leighannecrisp at yahoo dot com
I’m new to both your work and shifter stories in general. This was a fun introduction! Thank you.
Thanks for participating and for the opportunity.
Happy V-day
I love the new excerpt. Please count me in. Thanks!
I like your writing much. Please count me in.
I really enjoy your books. Thanks so much for the giveaway.
Definitely count me in, I need to read the rest! Thank you!
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Thanks for a great giveaways. Free is good.
wow what a great excerpt, definitely going to have to read this!
I’ve been eyeballing this one for awhile now! Would love a chance to win it!
More hot shifters from Tara, huzzah!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Great contest! thanks for this chance
Thanks for the giveaway, this book sounds very good!
I really enjoyed the excerpt, thank you for the giveaway!!
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Love the books! Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway.
Thank you for the chance.
Love the excerpt! Can’t wait to read it. Thanks for sharing the hop and your giveaway. Happy Valentine’s Day! evamillien at gmail dot com
Great excerpt. Definitely can’t wait to read it and I love the cover.
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sounds like a fun one happy valentines day!! – regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com
I love your books cos they always put a smile on my face! & Would love to enter the giveaway :-). Happy Valentine’s everyone!!
Great excerpt! Thanks for giveaway!
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Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Thanks for the giveaway.
Happy Valentine’s day!
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
In the battle between cats and dogs, I’d have to pick cats!
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Thanks for the giveaway!!! Love the excerpt!!! Can’t wait to read it!!
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Thanks for joining the blog hop!
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Congrats on the new release Tara! It sounds great 🙂
Thanks for the great giveaway.
June
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Nice excerpt
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Oh MY!!! Yummy excerpt!! Meeeow! 😉
I love shifter stories. Count me in! 🙂
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Hi! Happy Valentines! Awesome excerpt! Thank you for sharing and for the amazing giveaway!
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Love shifters and would love to win a copy of your book. Fascinating excerpt. Thanks for the great giveaway!
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That was hawt!
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Thanks for the giveaway.
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Interesting blurb.
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Thanks for the chance.
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Love the excerpt and cover. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Thank you very much for the giveaway opportunity
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I love the excerpt. 😉
Thanks for taking part in this and the chance of reading a new author. 🙂
Thanks for the great blog hop! 🙂 Happy Valentine’s to all! jjo7796 at hotmail dot com
Thanks for the giveaway!
Looking foward to this one
Count me in! 😉
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Loved the excerpt!
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Great title! Thank you for a chance to win.
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The Hop is now over. PAM is the winner of my prizes. Congratulations! Thanks to everyone for entering! : )