Please help me welcome Author Shauna Allen to my blog today!
About the Author:
Shauna grew up an only
child with two open and loving parents in Central Texas. She’s married to her high school sweetheart
and is the mother to three fantastic (no, that’s not a typo!) teenagers.
When she’s not writing,
editing, or acting as a personal assistant to a NYT Bestselling author, Shauna
enjoys reading, movies with Gerard Butler, vacays to the beach, and hangin’
with the kiddos–even if they don’t like hangin’ with her!
The Halo Effect
The Cupid
Chronicles
Book Two
Shauna
Allen
Genre:
Light Paranormal
Publisher:
Soul Mate Publishing
ISBN: 13:978-1-61935-232-2
ASIN:
B00D2KZCYE
Number of pages:
346
Word Count: 94K
Cover Artist:
Rae Monet
Book Trailer for the first book in the series,
Inked by an Angel: http://youtu.be/EDdKGsa_kjA
Book Description:
He’s gotta earn his wings…again.
Love Detail’s favorite angel has his sights set on
his next target: the stoic and mysterious Noble Blackfeather. And it just may prove to be his toughest case
yet. Noble’s reclusive ways keep his
angel at wing’s distance, and love even further. But he’s not playing a part – he’s truly
masking a painful secret and a profoundly wounded heart.
A cupid’s worst nightmare.
Noble’s been paired with Braelyn Campbell, the
cute single mother next door. She’s
adorable, friendly, fun…everything Noble needs.
This should be a Love Squad slam dunk.
Except she’s making a fresh start in Texas to protect her son from a
volatile ex, and she’s not about to risk her heart or her son on another
man. Even if he’s sexy as sin and always
coming to her rescue.
Thank God for possibilities.
But, reluctantly, they are drawn together – thanks
to their cupid’s dogged efforts and a whole lotta chemistry. Can the girl next door learn to trust again
and help heal Noble’s wounded heart? Together, can they save the lost, hurting
boy she's raising? Can the angels help
it happen before it's too late?
Thank God for love.
Excerpt:
Chapter 1
Crash! Noble bolted up in bed
at the resounding clang of metal hitting concrete. The ear-splitting rah-bah-bah
drone of hardcore death metal music made his head pound. He glanced at the
digital clock on his nightstand. Shit. He’d only managed to snag a
couple hours sleep.
He padded to the window and cracked the
mini-blinds. He reared back when the sun pierced his tired eyes and let the
blinds snap shut with a curse.
He was about to give up and slide back
into bed with a pillow over his head when the hideous grating noise started
again followed by a screeching sound, then the obnoxious wailing music cranked
up infinitely louder. His new neighbor wasn’t usually this noisy. Cute, yes.
Loud, no.
With a tired sigh, he squinted his eyes
to prepare for the sunny onslaught and tipped the blinds open again to figure
out what in the hell all the racket was about. How could one tiny woman make so
much friggin’ noise?! He wouldn’t be so tired if his boss and best friend, Jed,
hadn’t left him babysitting the business while he went away on his honeymoon.
All those extra shifts kept him up too damn late.
He scanned the tidy, postage-stamp-sized
yard next door. She’d already planted some pink flowery things. That probably
explained the sweet scent on the breeze when he came home at night, but there
was no sign of her right now. He had no idea what her name was or her story.
Only that she was little and cute and had a killer ass.
Wait. A movement caught his
eye from inside the open garage. But it wasn’t Sweet Cheeks, as he’d
come to think of her. A lanky figure dressed in a black hoodie snuck inside and
disappeared almost as quickly as Noble caught sight of him. His heart began to
beat double-time as he wrestled with what to do. Call the cops? Go make sure
she was all right?
“Damn it.”
He let the blinds slap closed again and
threw on the same jeans and T-shirt he had discarded just a couple of hours
earlier. Barefooted, he ran down the hallway, ducked out the front door and
raced across the yard.
Quietly, he pressed himself against the
brick exterior wall, which was already warming with the sun’s rays. His eyes
darted around, searching for any sign of his neighbor, but he didn’t see
anything. The music was unbelievably deafening now and his eardrums rattled
with each beat of the bass drum.
How could she not hear this? Was she
already hurt? Had she turned the shit on and this guy was using it as his cover
to get in and . . . His heart rate picked up speed as he thought of the
possibilities.
He peered around the corner into the
garage and caught sight of the guy in the hoodie and black jeans tinkering with
something in the corner of the room near the door to her house. A
protectiveness surged through Noble and he knew he had only moments to keep
this hoodlum from getting inside.
Never taking his eyes off the back of the
guy’s head, he inched his way inside the garage and along the wall. The pungent
mixture of gasoline, degreaser, and fertilizer combined with the punch of
adrenaline that pumped fast and furious through his veins, forming a potent
cocktail. The bass drum now beat so loud it thrummed in his chest as he got
almost close enough to grab the hoodie. Just two more steps. One more.
Noble grabbed the guy from behind and
pinned him against his chest. He reached over and flipped off the stereo. His
ears rang in the deafening silence. His ragged breathing filled the
grease-scented air. “What do you think you’re doing?” he growled into the
hoodlum’s ear.
The guy squirmed against him. He was much
smaller than Noble had originally thought. “I, um . . .” His voice cracked.
Noble spun him around and stared him
down. He was just a kid, and he was wide-eyed with fear. He looked ready to
piss his pants.
The door to the house flew open. “How
many times have I told you about that blasted . . .? Tristan?”
Noble and the kid both looked over. Oh,
shit. Sweet Cheeks.
“Mom?” the kid croaked.
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Please thank Shauna for joining us today! Check out her links and buy a book!
Keep Writing!
Jodie Pierce
Hi Jodie!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for having me! What a wonderful blog you have. Hope your readers enjoy the book. :)
~Shauna