~Blog Barrage~ Hunted by a Jaguar by Felicity Heaton
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Here’s more about Hunted by a Jaguar, including an excerpt from this paranormal romance novel.
A jaguar shifter with a dark secret, Kyter has spent his entire life running from his demons. When a tragedy takes him back to his pride’s village, he is set on a path of vengeance that will see him collide with the terrible ghosts of his past and a beautiful vision of his future.Hunted by a Jaguar is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/hunted-by-a-jaguar-paranormal-romance-novel.php
Iolanthe deals in finding artefacts for discerning clients, but this time her client is one of the deadliest men in Hell and her mission has the highest stakes imaginable. Failure is not an option when your life is on the line, but things take a dangerous turn when she crosses paths with a handsome and mysterious male on the hunt for the same artefact—a male who declares she is his eternal mate.
Can Iolanthe resist Kyter’s wicked allure and find the artefact before he does? Can Kyter face his demons and win the heart of his fated female? Or will this deadly game of cat and mouse claim both of their lives?
5 love me a Jaguar stars!!!!!
The coming together of Iolanthe and Kyter was highly amusing! Kyter comes from a culture where the woman submits and obeys when paired with her mate. So, when he meets Iolanthe and feels the mating pull kick in this is kind of what he expected... but that is NOT what he got. Let's just say that a female elf who values her freedom and independence that she's enjoyed for several thousand years isn't too inclined to be collared to any man. Yes, Kyter had to work a little bit to win her over and he had to "compromise"... not easy to do when it goes against his very nature. They are both on the hunt for the same artifact and there are definite trust issues that must be overcome. Can they work together?? You'll have to read to find out... :)
Kyter is the sexy Jaguar shifter who owns the Underworld club and we met him in a previous book. His back story truly moved me and he is the kind of character that has you rooting for him to find love. Having been rejected by his pack because he was born different, he was quickly tossed aside as someone who would never have a mate. But, Iolanthe, even though she was an elf... was surprisingly the perfect woman for him. His differences and her ability to adapt to them were what made their match work... and, they had some serious chemistry together. Yes, there was purring and tickling... they had very playful schmexy time... my favorite kind!
We get to spend some time with Bleu in this book and I have to say I teared up a little... I need him to meet his mate... please tell me he's getting his own book! I wanted to reach inside the book and give him a hug.
So, this is my FAVORITE PR series right now... I have loved each and every book in this series...
Bring on book five... I'm ready!
Excerpt
Kyter smiled to himself, feeling a little
smug as he snuck up on the female under the veil of darkness. He had made swift
work of crossing the moonlit ruins of Herculaneum, not needing to follow her
scent to know where he would find her.
He could hear her digging in the room she
had been in before, her pick working overtime with strokes that sounded frantic
and rushed when compared with the measured ones she had used yesterday. Why was
she in a hurry? Because of him?
He stalked silently towards the open door.
When the sun had risen, he had concealed
himself in an underground room in the ruins on the opposite side of
Herculaneum, as far from her dig site as possible. He had passed the day there,
allowing his scent to clear from the area so she would think he was gone. It
hadn’t been difficult to remain in one spot all day. He had limitless patience
when stalking his prey. He had once waited three days straight to ambush an enemy.
The female had fallen for his ruse and he
had caught her scent just five minutes ago as it had drifted down into his
makeshift den. She was already hard at work. Either she could conceal her
scent, could move extremely quickly, or she had other methods of travelling at
her disposal, because he had been on high alert since sunset. He should have
picked up her scent the moment she had arrived back at the ruins.
She came into view as his eyes adjusted to
the darkness inside the room. She stood with her back to him, her pick coming
down hard. Her black combats clung to her backside as she worked, cupping pure
perfection and making him a little jealous. He wanted that job. Hell, he wanted
to step up behind her, slide his hands around her waist, and play at being her
bra by cupping her breasts through her silver-grey camisole.
It was hard, but he managed to resist that
urge, knowing it would probably end with him intimately acquainted with the
pick she wielded.
Instead of manhandling her, he opted to
lean his right shoulder against the doorframe, cross his boots at his ankles
and fold his arms across his bare chest, admiring her as she worked.
She had made swift progress with her hole.
It was twice as deep as it had been last night and she stood knee-deep in it,
her long black hair hanging down her back in tangled ribbons. She muttered to
herself in an odd language, one that had a lyrical quality to it. He wasn’t
familiar with it, but then that hardly surprised him. Besides fae, the common
demon tongue of the seven realms and English, he spoke only broken Portuguese.
There were countless languages in this
realm and in Hell that he didn’t know. Hers could be any one of them. He wished
he knew what she was speaking though, because it might give him a clue as to
her species. Guessing what she was had kept him awake most of the day and had
become his favourite way of passing the time since sunset.
Well, guessing her species and replaying
how she had sat crouched on his chest, one slender hand pressed against it,
branding his skin with her touch as her beauty seared itself on his heart.
Kyter ran a steady gaze down her, slowly
taking in her curves. If she turned to face him, would she be as beautiful as
he remembered? Would she be as beautiful as she had been in the dreams he’d had
whenever he had succumbed to sleep?
Just recalling the lustful visions of
making love to her in the room where they had met last night, pinning her
against the plastered column as she clung to him, kissing him fiercely as he
took her hard and fast, a primal and violent mating, had him filling with need
again. He palmed his length as it twitched to life, fighting to tamp down his
rising hunger.
He silently drew her scent over his teeth
and wanted to growl at her smell and what it did to him. He was instantly rock
hard in his combats, straining against the button fly. He crushed the need to
growl, unwilling to reveal what he was. He liked keeping her guessing, and
almost couldn’t wait for her to notice him and ask him again what he was.
His mixed blood would keep throwing her off
his scent.
He had a feeling that despite her age she
hadn’t met a jaguar before.
“What do you expect to find in that hole?”
he said.
She gasped and whirled to face him, sending
her long black hair flaring outwards from her shoulders, her eyes enormous and
dark in the low light creeping in from outside the room. The smudge of dirt on
her left cheek would have made her look adorable if it weren’t for his gut-deep
feeling she was dangerous.
Her green eyes narrowed. “What do you
want?”
She went back to her work, as if he wasn’t
a threat to her. Nothing for her to worry about. Her acting ability was
improving. He knew that he had startled her and he had caught the momentary
flicker of self-castigation in her eyes before she had turned her back on him.
She was ashamed that he had been able to sneak up on her.
“Go away,” she grumbled, hefted her pick
and brought it down harder than before. Taking out her frustration on the
ground now?
She could take it out on him if she wanted.
He had a perfect way of releasing pent up frustration.
“Not going to happen.” His gaze drifted
down her tall frame again, taking in every inch of her. His mate. He still
couldn’t quite believe that he had one, or that this female was his. She struck
the ground again and spat out something in her strange tongue. He smiled.
“There’s nothing down there.”
She paused and glared over her shoulder at
him.
His smile broadened. “I found an entrance
in another building last night after you left. I figured that maybe you would
have known about it… being so old and all.”
Her glare blackened into a scowl and her
lips settled into a firm line.
“I know a guy who looks at people that
way,” Kyter said and scrubbed a hand around the back of his neck. “It’s not
very becoming of a lady though.”
Iolanthe ignored him, nimbly leaped out of
the hole, and set her pick down. She leaned forwards and brushed down her black
trousers, giving him a wonderful view down her top. Her head snapped up, her
accusing glare pointless considering he hadn’t stopped looking at her breasts.
She straightened and stalked towards him, a
sway to her hips that had his gaze dropping lower and a smile curving his lips
again as he imagined claiming those hips and drawing her against him. She
lightly pressed two fingers against his left shoulder.
The world whirled past in a blur of sombre
night tones and pain exploded across his back as he slammed into something
solid.
He dropped hard and crumpled into a heap,
dazed and confused for a split-second before his head cleared and his vision
stopped swimming. He grunted and frowned at the pavement beneath him. It wasn’t
possible. She had tossed him across the street with only a touch, sending him
crashing into the wall.
What the hell?
He bared his teeth at her and picked
himself up, his bones aching from the blow. Bitch. He pressed his hand into his
back and arched forwards, cracking his spine back into place, and almost
growled when he saw she was already halfway along the narrow paved street.
Kyter stalked after her, swiftly closing in
on her. He tamped down his fury with each long-legged stride, determined not to
let her get to him and goad him into losing control. He had a plan and he meant
to stick to it. Losing his shit was definitely not in the plan, no matter how
much he wanted to fight her for what she had just done to him.
“Maybe we should work together.” He tossed
her another smile as he came up beside her and she threw him a look that said
she was considering tossing him across the road again.
She was more powerful than he had thought.
It should have unsettled him, warning him away from her, but all it did was
make him want her even more. The thought of fighting her had his blood burning,
on fire with a need to tangle with his little kitty.
Of course, his hunger to fight her was
probably due to the fact that every battle with her that ran through his head
ended in a heated kiss that led to him getting between her legs and her
screaming his name in pleasure.
The feel of her gaze on him intensified,
ringing bells that warned a fight wouldn’t go the way of his fantasies and it
was dangerous to drop his guard around her.
He sidestepped to place some distance
between them but didn’t surrender his position beside her.
“I do not require a partner.” She turned
her cheek to him and picked up her pace.
He huffed and doubled his, falling back
into step with her.
She curled her lip at him and tipped her
nose up.
She could pull all the faces she wanted,
she was still beautiful to him. Moonlight stole all colour from her skin,
threaded her long black hair with silver, and turned her eyes a strange shade
of turquoise. She looked even more ethereal and otherworldly, captivating him
and making him itch with a need to draw her into his arms and kiss her.
“Come on, we’d be great together.” Because
he was her mate and he was sure that once she realised that, she would do as he
asked and would hand over the artefact to him.
She was his woman after all.
A niggling voice at the back of his head chastised
him for that thought and said that wasn’t how he should treat her, but a
stronger voice crushed it, telling him that a jaguar’s female always obeyed her
male.
It was tradition.
“I am not interested in working with you.
Go away.” She turned cold eyes on him. “Stop playing at being a treasure
hunter. This is my job.”
Kyter stopped dead, clenched his fists to
stop himself from grabbing hold of her, and fixed his gaze on the back of her
head. She slowed to a halt.
“Playing?” he barked, his voice echoing off
the crumbling stone buildings around him, and she spun on her heel to face him
in the middle of the ancient road. “This isn’t a goddamned game to me. What I’m
after, I need. For me. Not for a fat pay off like you’re after.”
Her eyes widened and then narrowed on him
and she took a single step towards him, her fingers flexing and eyebrows
dipping low. “You know nothing about my business and my reasons for doing it.”
Kyter stepped up to her, towering over her
despite her height, and snarled, “You know fuck all about mine.”
He had to admire her for standing her
ground, even when he could smell the acrid scent of fear coming off her.
She breathed hard, her pulse beating fast
in his ears, and looked torn between punching him and walking away.
And possibly kissing him.
The muscle in his jaw popped as he ground
his teeth, holding her gaze and refusing to give an inch. Silence stretched
between them, thick with a collision of desire and anger.
The breeze picked up, filling the tense
silence with the soft sway of the cypress trees that surrounded the site. It
stirred the dust, lifting it into the air, dampening the scents that swirled
around him. Including hers. He wanted to breathe deeper to catch a stronger
thread of it again and take her into him, making her a part of him.
Her lips parted and his eyes dropped to
them, a fierce hunger to claim them sweeping through him, threatening to
obliterate his anger and leave only desire behind. He clenched his jaw again,
refusing to let that happen. She had overstepped the mark and he was damned
well going to let her know it.
She lowered her head, stepped back, and
whispered, “This is not a game to either of us.”
She turned away and he reached for her,
coming close to catching her arm before his hand fell to his side and he let
her walk away. It wasn’t a game to her either. What the hell was that supposed
to mean?
She made it to the end of the street ten
metres ahead of him before he could no longer resist the need to pursue her. He
had to give chase. The more she walked away from him, the more fired up he
became, driven by a need to hunt her. He couldn’t deny that primal instinct.
He stalked her through the dark moonlit
streets, his thoughts caught on the words she had whispered. Whispered. She hadn’t spoken them with
her usual confidence. Had the cause of the fear he had detected in her been
because of something other than him?
Did she fear her client?
She had refused to speak of her client to
the demon she had met. Kyter hadn’t thought anything of it at the time, but he
did now.
He hurried after her and caught up with her
as she reached an open area that had gone to patchy grass, lined by broken
white columns.
“You need my help,” he said and she did
something unexpected.
She laughed, mocking him with the rich
sound. “You think you can waltz in and do what… exactly?”
Find all the links, a fantastic 7 chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to enter the giveaway and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/hunted-by-a-jaguar-paranormal-romance-novel.php
Books in the Eternal Mates paranormal romance series:
- Book 1: Kissed by a Dark Prince
- Book 2: Claimed by a Demon King
- Book 3: Tempted by a Rogue Prince
- Book 4: Hunted by a Jaguar
- Book 5: Craved by an Alpha – Coming January 27th 2015
- Book 6: Bitten by a Hellcat – Coming February 17th 2015
- Book 7: Taken by a Dragon – Coming March 10th 2015
Author Bio |
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Eternal Mates series. If you want to know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places: |
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