Wolf’s
Song
Black
Hills Wolves
Taryn
Kincaid
Genre: Paranormal romance
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Date of Publication: January 30,
2015
ISBN: 978-1-61333-676-2
ASIN: B00QKLHNQM
Number of pages: 59
Word Count: 19,000
Cover Artist: Fiona Jayde
Book Description:
Ten years ago, visions of death
and the babble of lupine voices in his head, drove lone wolf Brick Northridge
to challenge his cruel and greedy pack alpha. Beaten by the alpha’s thugs and
banished from the pack, Brick lives a life of seclusion in a mountain cabin in
the Black Hills.
Born into a rival clan of feline
shifters, skinwalker Summer McCoy, in her guise as a raven, watches Brick from
afar, giving him back a reason to live through her sweet songs and special
gifts.
But when her clan attempts to
tear them apart and threatens the pack that banished Brick so many years
before, will their love be strong enough to withstand the forces bent on their
destruction?
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Excerpt:
Summer McCoy perched in the
uppermost branches of her special Ponderosa pine, in raven guise, engaging in
her favorite pastime, spying on the lone wolf chopping wood below. Two days’
worth of whiskers shadowed his rigid jaw. She loved when he forgot—or didn’t
bother—to shave. Scruffy stubble suited him.
The sun beat down on the back of
his bronzed neck and shone on his hair, the color of roasted coffee, a shade
lighter than the dark shadow that charcoaled his face.
She fluffed her feathers in
anticipation. Take your shirt off, Brick.
She’d heard the giant werebear,
Gee, call him that name a decade ago. He’d made some joke about a wall and the
hardness of the male’s head. But Brick hadn’t laughed back then. Not ever.
He’d fascinated her from the
moment he’d arrived in the glade, bruised and battered. Once she’d learned his
name, she’d treasured it, taking pleasure from repeating it often. Secretly, of
course. Unwrapping the syllable frequently to admire its radiance in the
privacy of her tree house, the way a woman wearing pearls against her warm skin
enhanced their luminosity and iridescence.
Now, as if he’d heard her silent
urging, he complied with her plea, shrugging out of the plaid flannel and
flinging it onto a tree stump. Her beak opened as she sucked in breath. Sweat
glistened on his torso, glazing rippling pecs and abs, shoulders broad enough
to span the Badlands. A huge, incredible specimen of masculinity. Thick biceps
flexed as he wielded the ax. Her heart beat faster than a hummingbird’s wings.
Heat licked her.
My Review
First I love werewolves. I have not read the other books of this series, but this is a sweet, short, and fun read with excellent adventure and a quick plot. Brick is 18 when we meet him, he's scrawny and is BFFs with a werebear who owns a bar where he lives. His alpha sucks, can we just say that. And one day, even though he knows he'll probably die from it, he won't take his alpha's crap anymore. And then he literally gets beaten and shoved out on his own. His bear friend takes him to a cabin in the remote woods and tries to help him. So Brick has been living on his own for a long time. Enter Summer. She's a shifter and she's been watching Brick as a bird for the last 10 years. She knows she loves him, but she's the niece of the rival cat clan's alpha and there's no way she can love a wolf, much less mate one. But she doesn't want a cat, she wants Brick. So this is their story. Can they find love and happiness between two rival about to go to war cat and wolf shifters?
I loved this little short story. I like the poetry references and I loved that they fell in love with each other over 10 years without really knowing each other or that they were falling. I really enjoyed this one! so 4.5 WOLFY PAWS :)
First I love werewolves. I have not read the other books of this series, but this is a sweet, short, and fun read with excellent adventure and a quick plot. Brick is 18 when we meet him, he's scrawny and is BFFs with a werebear who owns a bar where he lives. His alpha sucks, can we just say that. And one day, even though he knows he'll probably die from it, he won't take his alpha's crap anymore. And then he literally gets beaten and shoved out on his own. His bear friend takes him to a cabin in the remote woods and tries to help him. So Brick has been living on his own for a long time. Enter Summer. She's a shifter and she's been watching Brick as a bird for the last 10 years. She knows she loves him, but she's the niece of the rival cat clan's alpha and there's no way she can love a wolf, much less mate one. But she doesn't want a cat, she wants Brick. So this is their story. Can they find love and happiness between two rival about to go to war cat and wolf shifters?
I loved this little short story. I like the poetry references and I loved that they fell in love with each other over 10 years without really knowing each other or that they were falling. I really enjoyed this one! so 4.5 WOLFY PAWS :)
Author Interview
First, tell me a
little about your book :)….
WOLF’S SONG is part of the hot new Black Hills Wolves series,
from Decadent Publishing. It’s a shared world, multi-author series. The first book in the series, WOLF’S RETURN,
by series co-creator, Rebecca Royce, released earlier in January. My book,
WOLF’S SONG, is the fourth book in the series. It’s great to read them in order
to get the full flavor of the Black Hills Wolves world, but they are all
standalone, and that’s not necessary. My hero was banished from the pack by its
evil alpha ten years earlier. The
heroine is part skinwalker and half feline shifter from a rival clan that
threatens the Black Hills Wolves territory. She takes the guise of a raven most
often, due to a mishap when she was a kit. And it’s as a raven that she loves
Brick from afar…helping to bring him back to life and living with her sweet
songs and carefree games. When they first meet as man and woman…it’s sizzling
and explosive!
Always a big part of my life. Both my parents – newspaper
people – were talented in that way and my earliest memories are of them reading
to me. Books were always all over our house. My dad, especially, was an avid
reader. My mom (during my formative years a stay-at-home mom before returning
to her news career as a columnist and editor, footsteps I’d later follow) was
highly creative. They encouraged reading. They encouraged creativity. When I
took my own first stabs at writing as a very young child, you’d think I’d
written the Great American Novel!
What inspired you to
write your first book and what was it?
Not sure I’ve ever told this story before. When I was 15 or
16, I had a dreadfully boring summer job at the Department of Motor Vehicles,
making check marks in a lined, speckled otebook for people signing up to take
the written portion of their driver’s test. No one was at all close to my age.
To amuse myself, and pass the long lunch hour, I started scribbling a very
soapy romance. The hero was a rock star based very loosely on Mick Jagger. The
heroine was a photograph for a publication based loosely on Rolling Stone.
Hundreds and thousands of longhand words and pages later… it’s still gathering
dust in a giant cardboard box in my closet.
When I first began reading romances, I read historicals and
Regencies. Laura Kinsale’s Seize the Fire particularly resonated with me and I
tried my hand at a Regency about a combat veteran of the Peninsular War. I
didn’t much know what I was doing. (Another cardboard box in my closet.) But
the grains of the idea became HEALING HEARTS, my first contracted book,
published by Carina Press.
Are experiences
based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
Never! (My own life is much too boring!) I write a lot of
paranormals, you know! ;)
How do you chose
when/which characters die in your books?
In the Black Hills Wolves series, the various authors had a
“bible,” with some of the features that are common to all the books. The main one is that the pack is in disarray
due to its heinous alpha, Magnum Tao. We
all knew that his son, Drew Tao, would return to the back after having left it
for ten years and take on his father. So
in most of the books, Drew has returned and Magnum is dead. That made it easy
for me! WOLF’S SONG opens with a prologue in which my hero, Brick Northridge,
only 18 at the time, crazily challenges Magnum. He’s beaten into ground round
and banished from the pack. The main part of the story takes place 10 years
later. During that time, Brick has been living out in the mountains in
isolation, and Drew has just returned to build the pack up again, along with
the pack’s town, Los Lobos.
Are there any new
authors that have grasped your interest?
Many! Too numerous to mention. But I highly recommend some of
Decadent Publishing’s lines, especially the 1Night Stand series, Black Hills
Wolves, of course; and the Beyond Fairytales series for some great books by
established and new authors. Same thing with Fated Desires Publishing, which
has several new “special lines” out or coming out now.
Who do you look up
to as a writer?
One of my faves is J. R. Ward. I love what she does with
words.
Who designed the
cover? And do you help with them?
The wonderfully talented Fiona Jayde. I’m not sure whether
she’s done all the covers for the series, but all so far are exceptional. I can
safely say that, as a whole, they are some of the most stunning series covers
around. Here are the first four. Don’t
you agree? :)
And they get better and better!
Do you have anything
specific that you want to say to your readers?
I’ve read the first four books in the Black Hills Wolves
series and you’re in for a treat! While they are all stand alone stories, the
first one, Wolf’s Return, sets up the world. For me, it’s always fun to read a
series in order. But if you haven’t read
one or another, and want to start with, oh, say, Book Four ( J ), you can and you won’t be adrift at
sea!
At the end of February, I switch over from paranormals to
contemporaries for a bit. My foodie
romance, IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT, will release from Fated Desires on 2/24.
It’s available for pre-order now on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes and Googleplay. And sometime later this year, I’ll go back to
paranormals, this time with a futuristic, apocalyptic retelling of Sleeping
Beauty for Decadent’s Beyond Fairytales series. Stay tuned!
About
the Author:
Taryn Kincaid is a former
award-winning reporter and columnist, covering everything from fires and
homicides, to corrupt politicians and hero dogs. Nowadays, she haunts
courthouses (in least paranormal way).
She is the author of the Sleepy
Hollow series--LIGHTNING,THUNDER,FROST,HEAT WAVE and IN FROM THE COLD -- sexy
paranormal romances for Decadent Publishing's popular 1Night Stand series;
BLIZZARD, a short erotic romance for Decadent's The Edge line; HEALING HEARTS,
a Regency romance from Carina Press, and SLEEPY HOLLOW DREAMS, an erotic
paranormal romance from The Wild Rose Press. Books 1-4 of her Sleepy Hollow
series, plus Blizzard, have been compiled in the SLEEPY HOLLOW edition,
available in paperback and digital formats.
Coming January 30, 2015, WOLF’S
SONG, a sexy paranormal romance for Decadent Publishing's new Black Hills
Wolves shifter line. And coming February 24, 2015 from Fated Desires
Publishing, IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT, a contemporary foodie romanceCheck out
the fun videos for Thunder, Lightning and Frost.
Visit Taryn at her website http://tarynkincaid.com or her blog http://dreamvoyagers.blogspot.com as well as Twitter, Facebook , Amazon
and Goodreads.
Tour
giveaway
1 Autographed copy of print edition
of SLEEPY HOLLOW (U.S. only)
1 ebook edition of SLEEPY HOLLOW International
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