Monday, June 28, 2021

Please Welcome Linda Thomas-Sundstrom as She Tells Us About Her Paranormal Shifter Romance, LIGHTNING WOMAN, Wolves of the West, Book 1


Lightning Woman
Wolves of the West 
Book One
Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

Genre: Paranormal Shifter Romance
Publisher: GothicScapes
Date of Publication:  June 28, 2021
ASIN: B096PTNWZ5
Number of pages: 282
Word Count:  60,000
Cover Artist: Magnetra

Tagline: Meet the Arizona wolf pack and the ghosts that haunt them.

Book Description:

Are the ghosts of Macy Lyons' past stronger than the promise of a future with her new lover?

Macy Lyons is a respected member of the wolf pack housed in an old Arizona tourist attraction. Her special Were abilities make her a good scout, and also enable her to see the ghosts that haunt the desert. When those ghosts lead her to a visiting lawman from another state, she must find out why...and if those ghosts have a hand in shaping her future.

Florida detective Logan Carter has chased a criminal all the way from Florida to Arizona, and now can use the help of the secretive wolf pack housed at Desperado to find the crazy werewolf he seeks. But will his attraction to Desperado's beautiful she-wolf scout be a help or a hindrance to his mission in a landscape so different from his own?



Excerpt:

As Logan studied this female vision that had appeared like a desert spirit borne on the blistering hot wind, he couldn’t help but appreciate her uniqueness. In fact, this representative of the Desperado pack was quite stunning, and radiated enough personal power for her outline to waver.
Pretty and dangerous...
Moonlight slid down each strand of straight black hair that fell to the she-wolf’s waist like sparkling water dripping from the skies. All that hair curtained a narrow body with few noticeable curves and very few wolfish traits, even though she had shape-shifted.
She was tall and slight of frame, with long, shapely legs. Her bare arms were beautifully sculpted with a layer of smooth, lean muscle. One arm bore the swirls of a colorful tattoo Logan couldn’t get a read on from where he stood because his focus kept returning to her face.
A slightly elongated facial structure, shadowed, angular, and with prominent cheekbones, was the real proof of what she was, and made him think this female might be a pure-blooded Were. Under the moonlight, the shadows on her face represented her missing patches of fur, or where fur would have been on any normal werewolf under a full moon. In fact, she bore no fur anywhere that he could see.
Crossing her right eye socket and extending two or three inches beneath it were three stripes of color that could have either been paint or tattoos. White. Black. Green. The effect suggested to Logan she might have Native American roots, though lots of women had unusual tattoos these days.
Damn, though. Maybe she really was some kind of a spirit.

Topic: What is it about this book that makes it special?

The Arizona desert landscape where I've set Lightning Woman is an unusual one for a werewolf pack, and reflects my passion for wolves, western ghost towns, abandoned retro tourist attractions, and old gold mines -- places where desert ghosts and other kinds of creatures might congregate.

Toss a Florida lawman into a place so foreign to him, hoping to solve a mystery, and the beauty the resident Arizona wolf pack sees on a daily basis opens up a whole new perspective on being a fish (or in this case a werewolf) out of water. I like the dichotomy of this, which adds even more danger to the mystery that lawman must solve.


About the Author: 

Linda Thomas-Sundstrom is an award-winning author of 40+ stories in the realms of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy. She has been published by Kensington Publishing, HarperCollins/Harlequin Nocturne and Desire lines, and GothicScapes.




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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Free! Additional Scene From STONE, an Urban Fantasy Romance

This month, I'm offering up a FREE additional scene from STONE, an Urban Fantasy Romance
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Brielle awakens to find Garenth has returned to the underground dig where he was first discovered in his gargoyle form by her uncle. He is on a personal mission, and only her love will allow him to succeed.