Even Alpha Males Can’t Fight Fate
Excerpt:
Malcolm looked through the glass of the refrigerated pie case at
the old McGillacutty Dinner as he perused the offerings. He wasn’t about to
show up to Mama Carol’s completely empty-handed. A bright yellow flyer attached
to the outside of the dessert case with scotch tape caught his eye. He studied
the image of the missing girl printed above the lettering spelling out her
name, age, and where she’d last been seen along with a phone number and offer
of a reward. She was nineteen, blond and had a nice smile, but since he didn’t
recognize her and couldn’t be of help, he turned his attention back toward the
pies.
After deciding on the chocolate chess, he paid and headed out. He
held the box with his desert under his left arm as he wrapped the fingers of
his free hand around the glass door’s handle. As soon as he pulled back enough
to let in the slightest breeze, the sweet all-consuming aroma from earlier hit
him like a ton of bricks. Almost immediately, his heart thumped so hard his
chest ached. His mind blanked, his cock twitched and his senses nosedived down
into some dark, primal place he hadn’t realized existed. He might have
involuntarily shifted right then and there if he hadn’t nearly knocked right
into the curvy, brunette beauty who’d spoken with him at the funeral.
Her dark eyes widened and her eyebrows lifted as she gasped and
reached out, saving his dessert by a narrow margin. Her hand briefly brushed
against his fingers as she steadied the box. Perspiration misted his forehead
and the back of his neck as he regained control of his mental faculties.
“Sorry. Are you okay?” He managed to force the words up from his
suddenly dry throat.
Shakily, she looked up at him through long, dark eyelashes and
nodded. “Uh-huh.”
For what seemed like an eternity, the two of them stood staring at
one another until an old lady with a tight, gray perm came up behind Malcolm
and demanded, “Move it, sonny.”
He stepped out of the way, holding the door for the elder woman as
she shuffled out holding hands with a short, old guy wearing a flapjack hat.
Malcolm couldn’t help but smile. He’d always imagined there were couples who’d
found each other and stayed in love for all their lives even though none of his
relationships seemed to last longer than a month or two. In the last few years,
he’d only dated humans which didn’t allow for complete openness or a deeper
intimacy.
Malcolm watched as the man walked his lady over to a white Toyota
Avalon and opened the passenger side door for her. As he glanced at the
brunette, she tore her gaze away from the same couple and his line of vision
synced with hers. For some reason, as if they’d somehow understood they’d been
sharing the same thought, a warm blush covered her cheeks. Malcolm looked away
as his face burned.
Blurb:
An abusive childhood and an accident in his teens left
stallion-shifter, Malcolm Patterson, with a distrust for his father and a lot
of holes in his memory. When his dad passes away, Malcolm returns to Horse
Mountain to fulfill his obligation to settle his old man’s affairs but finds
the shifter community’s near hero-worship of the late doctor disquieting. He’s
further shaken to meet a curvy beauty at the funeral who makes his heart gallop
and his primal instincts take over.
Suki Marks has been in love with handsome and noble Malcolm
Patterson ever since he saved her from bullies who called her an abomination
when she was ten. He was the first person to be straight with her about the
reasons some people shunned her family and he was quick to debunk those
prejudices as the ignorant folktales and stupid superstitions they were. Even
after Malcolm graduated high school and left town, she couldn’t forget him, but
becoming Doctor Patterson’s live-in nurse in his last year of life was a
coincidence. She never expected to be named in the wealthy physician’s will.
Malcolm assumed he’d be disinherited, but even from the
after-life, his father continues to turn the knife, using his will to set up an
elaborate scheme to taint Malcolm's feelings for the woman who might be his
fated mate. To make matters worse, a dangerous shifter-purist movement is
brewing among a small segment of the Horse Mountain Clan, and they’re
determined to prevent Suki from passing on her genes to a new generation. Will
Malcolm be able to work through his past in time to secure his and Suki’s
future?
Warning: Saving Suki is a smoking hot romance with graphic, put-you-in-the-moment
love scenes. If you're offended by sexual language, you might want to consider
another book. The book can stand alone without reading the others in the series,
but reading Horse Mountain Shifters 1-3, will add to the enjoyment of the experience.
Other
Books in the Horse Mountain Shifters Series:
Horse Mountain Heat
Real Cowboys Love Cats
Bridling
Lucy
About the Author:
Sierra Brave is a multi-published author of smoking hot
romance. Her love of erotic fiction started in her last year of high
school when she read the sensual classic, Fanny Hill. She felt so
naughty yet liberated with her copy tucked away in her book bag and hopes her
work will have the same delicious effect on her readers.
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