Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the blog hop where authors from across the spectrum of genres share excerpts from their work in ten sentences or less- just enough to tantalize your reading taste buds. My offering this week is from my upcoming shifter mystery/romance titled Prowl. I’m almost ready to set a release date. I have the cover and I love it! Hope to do the reveal soon. In the meantime, I’m continuing the saga of “How Jacqui met Wyatt”. Jacqui, in his cat form, decided to spy on Wyatt, his new neighbor. Unfortunately, he was startled by a pair of barking Pomeranians and ended up taking refuge on Wyatt’s shoulders- much to Wyatt’s surprise and dismay.
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“Would you help me extract this cat?” Wyatt asked, the note of tension in his voice growing tauter.
“He’s a sweetheart, really,” Claire said, making no move to come closer.
“She says as it tries to lacerate my jugular.” Wyatt tugged on Jacqui’s tail again. Painful, yet oddly arousing.
“Maybe if you stopped yanking on him and tried to calm him down.”
“Maybe if you got your fu—if you’d get your dogs under control.”
“Poor thing is all scared—bad dogs!” She snagged one of the beasts and hooked it up to the leash.
Wyatt stopped yanking and tugging and said, “Nice kitty,” through clenched teeth.
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In case you’re wondering why Wyatt hasn’t dislodged Jacqui yet, imagine several of these imbedded in your flesh.
Jacqui the Cat Mysteries, the cozy gay shifter romance mystery series the world has been waiting for~
Jacqui Corleone is a fashion designer, a yoga-instructor and a concerned citizen who selflessly helps the police solve crimes. Oh, and he occasionally turns into a small wild cat. Probably due to a wizard’s curse or an evil government plot to create super warriors.
Or, he’s a cat cursed to turn into a human and only the bite of a sexy alpha lion will allow him to remain in his superior form of Cat.
Jacqui does not have a split personality, but sometimes his cat personality can get rather loud.
Loud? You’re loud.
Jacqui Corleone is a cat shifter who doesn’t know why or how he turns into a cat. He lives a solitary life in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. He’s not afraid of intimacy (yes, he is) but sensibly refrains from potentially awkward entanglements. Unfortunately, the sexy new deputy sheriff just moved in across the street and Jacqui’s vow not to get mixed up with island dudes is sorely challenged.
When the mysterious disappearance of three blue pots draws Jacqui to investigate, he’s drawn ever deeper into danger–and into the muscular but not too bulgy or veiny arms of deputy Wyatt West (you wish).
Join Jacqui (and Cat) in this new exciting and sexy gay shifter romance mystery series from bestselling author (she wishes) Alexis Duran. Coming as soon as Alexis gets her s**t together.
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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight to ten sentences from a published work or perhaps their current work in progress. Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! I heartily invite you to participate as a reader, writer, or both. It’s a great way to discover your next favorite book. Click here or use the address: http://www.wewriwa.com
I feel for Wyatt. He’s kind of stuck in the middle of it all. I wonder how he’ll feel about it all when he learns the truth about Jacqui. That is, if he ever does.
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Although this is a painful situation, it’s also funny. It could just be me, but it seems that shifter stories tend to be short on humor.
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This is great. Can’t wait to read more.
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Poor Wyatt! I still have scars from cat claws embedded like that in my wrist when I was a kid.
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Enjoying the story, another smooth snippet!
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OMG All the snippets from this scene have been amazing. I never want it to end! 😀
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This scene is funny. It’s hard to tell from short snippets if you meant it that way. I hope you did. The humor works so well.
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Yes, I’m hoping it’s funny. Even if Wyatt doesn’t think so!
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Poor Wyatt. Poor Jacqui. Getting his tail tugged couldn’t have been too comfortable.
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Obviously she’s never tried to dislodge a cat! Those babies can hang on through a hurricane! Pulling poor Jacqui’s tail will not help matters – at least not at this moment.
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I feel for Wyatt… what I really don’t get is why Claire didn’t sense that the dogs were the problem and deal with them sooner.
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Nice kitty, lol. Claire should take the dogs away, seriously, what is she thinking?
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Poor dogs, be nice to them. Great snippet
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