Hi Everyone! It is my pleasure to host Rosanna Leo today to talk about Predator’s Serenade! -V
Welcome to Ontario…where the bears walk on two legs.
I’d like to offer a big thank you to my pal, Vanessa, for hosting me today! It’s a pleasure to be here.
I’m here to tell you a bit about my newest paranormal erotic romance Predator’s Serenade, book 2 of my Gemini Island Shifters series. Now, I could stand here and shout about my sexy bear shifter hero Soren Snow and his wish to avoid mating at all costs. I could tell you about Gioia Clementine, the human woman and mother to a shifter child, who wants nothing to do with rock star Soren.
But I won’t.
Instead, I’d like to talk about my home province of Ontario, Canada. It is Canada’s largest province and home to our capital city, Ottawa. It is also where you’ll find our largest city, and my hometown, Toronto. It’s a province in which you’ll find awesome ethnic restaurants, beautiful hiking trails and vibrant theatre and entertainment scenes.
Well, in my world, it’s also home to the fictional Gemini Island, a place inhabited by some very interesting people: shifters. You see, Soren’s brother Ryland built a fishing lodge and resort here and has made it a safe haven for shape shifters of all kinds. A place where they can be themselves. The fictional Gemini Island is a massive piece of land set in Northern Ontario and is perfect for fishing, adventuring or just sitting on a dock watching the sun go down.
It’s in this magical place that my shifters and their human partners fall in love, and it’s been a joy to set their romances here. As an author, it’s fun to build a world that is similar to the real world, but with some unusual quirks. To me, these books are not just romances; they are love letters from me to Mother Nature. My characters get to play in the majestic woods, traipse through trails that smell of pine needles, and duck into dark caves. I can’t think of a better place to fall in love.
Blurb:
There are three things that make bear shifter Soren Snow’s skin crawl: mothers, their children, and the great outdoors. Soren is a famed musician and playboy, and he would rather spend his days pressing the flesh with the women in his fan club than developing meaningful relationships. When his brother calls in a favor, forcing Soren to revisit the Ursa Fishing Lodge in Northern Ontario, he couldn’t be more displeased. However, he owes his brother big time.
Gioia Clementine would rather not meet Soren, her drummer son’s rock idol. But when tragedy strikes her home, it seems the only one the boy might respond to is Soren. Gioia begrudgingly agrees to let her son meet him, hoping the rock star won’t turn her tween into a musical misogynist.
When Gioia and Soren meet, the sexual chemistry threatens to set the Ontario woodland ablaze. Can these two opposites find a common ground? And can they manage to resolve their unwanted feelings, even when a mysterious stranger arrives at the lodge, threatening everything?
Excerpt:
Gioia followed Soren’s approach with a curious eye. She’d wondered if the miracle kisser would beat a hasty retreat after witnessing her boy fall to pieces, and yet here he was. He wore the same famished look he had right before he’d ruined her for any other man’s kiss. And she felt it too. The tingles between her shoulder blade, the gelatin knees, and trembling lips that wanted to gobble him up.
She couldn’t. She didn’t want to saddle him with such a wreck of a woman or family.
He came right up to her, so close, as if making a mockery of the space that sought to separate them. Weaving his fingers through her hair, he cradled her skull and pulled her close. Tucking her head against his chest, he kissed the top of her head, blazing a trail of hot reaction down her spine. He had new clothes on and smelled fresh and clean. As she breathed him in, he rained soft kisses all over her head.
He knows.
She pulled away, suddenly terrified he’d think she was a travesty of a mother. It’s what anyone would think in his case. They’d wonder what Gioia had done wrong to create a monster child. But as she attempted to remove herself from his grasp, Soren fought her by holding her still. Again she tried jerking away from his wall of a chest. He held her firm.
When she tried two more times, each time unsuccessfully, he looked at her and shouted, “Dammit, woman, I am not letting you go, so you can stop pulling away from me!”
Something in Gioia broke. She’d been carrying her sadness around for so long, trying to be strong, and Soren was offering to be strong for her. For just a moment, maybe she could surrender. God only knew how badly she wanted to give herself to the bear man.
He grabbed her tighter, and his hands slid down to mold over her ass cheeks. His warm breath was all over her face, and she took a dizzying dive into the seas of his eyes. He ground her against him, and she was forced to stand on tip toes.
“Gioia,” he whispered.
She wound her arms about his tense neck, felt him tense further. Then … a sigh somewhere in his big frame and a relaxation in his muscles. As if he needed to have her wound about him. As if it soothed him as much as her.
“Soren. Please.”
As he kissed her, he picked her up, his hands under her bottom. Her miniskirt rode up, and she spared a second to mentally curse her decision to wear it. And then she didn’t care.
Kissing her madly, Soren spirited her into the woods.
Buy link: http://www.lsbooks.com/predators-serenade-p818.php
Author bio:
Rosanna Leo is a multi-published, erotic romance author with Liquid Silver Books. Her books include For the Love of a God, Up In Flames, and Sweet Hell. When not writing, she can be found haunting dusty library stacks or planning her next star-crossed love affair. She blogs at www.rosannaleo.blogspot.com
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