Welcome Today's Featured Author
Dahlia
Donovan!!
Synopsis
When
a group of lonely shifters came together during their service with
the Royal marines, they never imagined the strong pack that would
develop between them. Channeling their special operative training,
they built a security firm with two alpha wolves at the head of a
motley crew of shifters not known for playing well-together.
They’ve
lived their lives as outcasts from their own individual species of
shifters choosing to form a family with each other instead. Until
Now. Follow the Blackbird pack as they fall victim to love one by
one.
Can
they guard their own hearts?
The
Blackbird Anthology is the complete Blackbird series story
containing: Ivy, Natasha, Masquerade, Twelve Days and Under Fire. It
also contains the Lorcan which will also be available as a free read
for subscribers to Dahlia's newsletter.
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Excerpt
‘No!’
Shooting
off the bed with a shuddering gasp, Ronan ran a shaking hand across
his sweaty brow. He glanced to his left to find Lorcan still
soundly sleeping—thankfully. Ruddy
nightmares. After
all these years, it seemed the horrors of the last incident in
Afghanistan might never completely fade away.
He
reached down to rub the scarred tissue at the end of what remained of
his leg. Lorcan grumbled incoherently at the jostling and
rolled over on his side. The hare shifter would be angry in the
morning if he discovered his mate had suffered in the night without
waking him.
Too
bleeding bad.
Nothing
angered Ronan more than being treated like he was broken. The
damn blast had done nothing more than temporarily steal his ability
to function. With his state-of-the-art prosthetic, he’d
believed himself to be as close to what he’d been in the past as
ever.
Everyone
else in his life didn’t seem as convinced, Lorcan being the rare
exception.
“Leg
bothering you?” Lorcan leaned up on his elbow with a mixture of
weariness and concern mingling in his eyes. “Another nightmare?”
They
both suffered them after the living hell Afghanistan had been.
The dreams had lessened over the years. Ronan wondered if they’d
ever completely rid themselves of the lingering memories.
Lorcan’s
warm hand moved over to cover Ronan’s. Twisting around on the
bed, Ronan leaned over his shifter until their lips met. He’d
always found his mate’s lips to be remarkably full and soft, given
nothing else about the man could even be considered
soft.
Lorcan
traced Ronan’s bottom lip with his tongue and reached up to catch
him by the back of the neck to hold him close. “I’m on top this
time.”
“No,
you’re not.” Ronan’s brogue tended to deepen and roll
seductively when he was half-asleep and in the
mood. He blocked Lorcan’s attempt to roll them over and caught the
shifter’s arms in strong, calloused hands. “Easy there, fuzzy
britches, you’re not going anywhere, got that straight?”
Author Bio
Dahlia
Donovan started out working in the insurance world. After ten years,
she morphed her love of investigating accidents and studying people
into writing about them. She's a bit of a hermit and despises being
in front of a camera. Her life wouldn't be complete without her
husband and her massive collection of books and video games.
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Interview With Dahlia Donovan:
1. Can you tell us a little about your books?
The
Blackbird series started out of a crazy dream. It’s a series that
focuses on a group of former British Royal Marines who have started
their own security firm. Each member of the firm is a shifter,
though they all vary in type. The pack has two wolves, a cougar, a
panther, two foxes and a rabbit—plus a few others who pop up now
and then.
The
first story in the series, Ivy, introduces the two alpha wolves who
run the pack and their non-shifter mate, Ivy. The series is
paranormal romance with just a hint of danger and suspense thrown in
with a ton of my off-beat humor.
2. When
did you know you wanted to write a book?
I
wrote my first story when I was around ten—about a bear. I’ve
always wanted to write, I just didn’t have the confidence in myself
until I reached my thirties.
3. Which
book has been your favorite to write?
So
far? Alicia.
4. Do
you work with an outline, or just write?
I
have a loose outline, but mostly I just write.
5. Do
you have a favorite spot to write?
Not
really, I do prefer to have my favourite pen and a notebook to
handwrite chapters out before I type them up.
6. Do
you listen to music while you write?
Definitely.
Each story I’ve written has it’s own playlist.
7. If
you could spend 24 hours as a fictional character, who would you
chose?
Steven
Samuels from my Blackbird series. I have a thing for silver foxes.
8. What's
your favorite video game?
Oh
that’s a hard question. A tie between Mass Effect (the entire
series) and Dragon Age: II. Lately, I’ve been obsessively playing
Destiny.
9. What
writing projects are you currently working on?
I
am currently working on a new series, The Fallen Knights, which
focuses completely on a character from the Blackbird series, Elaine
Gibbs. Her first novel, Misguided Confession, should come out next
year at some point. I’ve just started to write it now.
