The Problem with Paddy (Shrew & Company) (13 page)

She rolled her eyes and thrust her empty wine glass out to him. “No, we can have a date next week. Tell me we can come help deal with the weres, and I’ll make sure every little mountain lion in heat in that clearing knows you’re taken.”

He had a sudden urge to bite her neck and wrestle her down to the floor, but somehow he managed to resist.

“You realize you’re offering to commit to a dirty cat, right?” he asked as she backed out.

“Yeah. I’ve never had a cat. I think you’ll be fun.” She winked, gave him a mock salute, and disappeared into the hall, the sound of her high-heeled boots clacking against the old wood.

He stabbed the power button on his computer and straightened the stack of invoices on his desk. He grinned again. He didn’t know which of them was the one who needed taming. Maybe both. Maybe neither. Maybe wild was just fine.

It damn sure felt like it.

End of Story I

Look for more Shrew & Company, more were-politics, and another “missing” man in May 17, 2013 with Sarah’s love story:
Framing Felipe
—a novel.

After six weeks working a grueling undercover job, the last thing Sarah Miller wants is to jump headfirst into another assignment. She doesn’t have a choice. Business is booming at Shrew & Company, and besides the boss lady herself, Sarah’s the only woman equipped to handle the latest were-bear drama. When she gets to the mountains—ready to go in with guns blazing—Dana reassigns her. The circus is in town, and their most famous acrobat has gone missing.

Except…he
hasn’t
.

Felipe Castillo is on the run, and whatever is giving him chase is scaring Dana, too. Dana won’t tell Sarah why, but it’s now her job to coax the slippery Spaniard out of hiding and get him someplace safe. That is, assuming they can keep their clothes on. Felipe may not speak English well, but the way his body moves needs no translation.

Sarah’s not interested in commitment, especially not with a man who cheats death for a living. Something about the acrobat has her enthralled. Maybe it’s because he has just as many secrets as her…or even more.

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Love by Premonition
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Coming June 2013

Holley Trent is a Carolina girl gone
west. Raised in rural coastal North Carolina, she has Southern sensibilities but her adventurous spirit drove her to Colorado for new experiences.

Holley writes sassy contemporary romances threaded with oodles of conversational humor, and fantasy/paranormal romances set in her home state.

Her protagonists regularly fall victim to her odd sense of humor and find themselves in improbable situations (with happily-every-after outcomes). Holley's cast of characters tends to swear, drink and do a fair amount of carousing, but they're generally well intentioned and obey all laws and ordinances. Usually.

She’s a member of Romance Writers of America as well as Colorado Romance Writers and CIM-RWA: the Cultural Interracial and Multicultural special interest RWA chapter.

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