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$50 #Giveaway FANG AND CLAW by Evangeline Anderson @EvangelineA @XpressoTours Ends 2.26

February 21, 2020 By Mary

by Evangeline Anderson



Fang And Claw
Evangeline Anderson
(Nocturne Academy, #2)
Publication date: February 22nd, 2020
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

My name is Kaitlyn Fellows and I’ll never be the same.
The Fire stole everything from me.
My home…my family…even my beauty.

The right side of my face is normal–even pretty. But the left side, I hide in shame. That’s where The Fire marked me…scarred me forever.
At Nocturne Academy I’m nothing–just a little Norm girl with no supernatural powers and a disfigured face.
Which is why it’s so strange that a big, Handsome Drake like Ari Reyes should take an interest in me.
But it isn’t only Ari who’s interested in me.
For under his high cheekbones and clear amber eyes, he hides another, much more frightening visage–A Drake, the fire-breathing monster that lives within him.
A monster who has decided I should be his alone.

Can I survive Ari’s love for me? And more importantly, can I survive the love of his Drake?
Because once a girl has been claimed by a Drake, the only way out is through The Fire.
What am I going to do?

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EXCERPT:

Ari

I finished my test and brought it up to the teacher’s desk to place face-down on the slowly accumulating pile. Ms. Eventide was a Nocturne with sharp green eyes and a pale face. She nodded as I put down my paper and turned to go back to my seat.

“Very good, Mr. Reyes, you may read quietly at your desk,” she murmured.

I nodded, even though I knew that I wouldn’t be reading a thing. I would get out a book and pretend to read, of course, but mostly I would be watching Kaitlyn, who was even now getting up to place her own test on the teacher’s desk.

But as she moved past me, the little human seemed to trip on something on the floor. She gasped and windmilled her arms, her test papers flying in all directions as she started to fall.

I didn’t think—I just acted. Reaching down, I scooped her up before she could hit the floor and gathered her close to my chest.

“Oh!” Kaitlyn gasped and for a moment I saw her full face, as I had that day in PE—both the lovely right side and the scarred left side. Then she turned away quickly, using her long hair to hide herself, as she always did.

“Are you all right?” I asked, worried about her.

“I’m fine. Please put me down.”

She was trembling in my arms—shaking as though she feared me. I could smell the scent of her terror too—the sharp smell of adrenalin rose around me.

But there was something else too—an added component to her usually sweet scent which I was, by now, completely addicted to. It was strangely metallic and…I don’t know how else to put this…cold. A scent like winter coming on.

What was wrong with her?

“Mr. Reyes, I believe you can put Miss Fellows down now.” The sharp voice of our teacher cut through me like a knife and I realized I had been cradling the little human to my chest and inhaling her scent, trying to work out what was different about her, while ignoring her request to be put back on her feet.

“Forgive me,” I said quickly, setting her down gently. “I just…didn’t want you to fall.”

Kaitlyn’s only answer was a frightened glance before she rushed back to her seat. But then she appeared to realize that her test papers were still all over the floor. She started to get up again, though by now, everyone in the class was staring at her—which I knew was agony for the little human. In all that she did, what she strove for most was simply not to be noticed—not to be seen.

“Let me,” I told her and bent to pick up the scattered papers. Stacking them neatly, I placed them face-down on the teacher’s desk and resumed my own seat.

Kaitlyn’s one visible eye—a lovely pale aquamarine that was striking in the pale, creamy brown of her face—followed me uncertainly. As I passed her on the way back to my desk she murmured, “Thank you,” in a voice so low I was certain no one heard but me.

I nodded and murmured, “Welcome.”

She stared at me for a moment more, then looked quickly away, her curtain of hair swinging down to hide her face.

I wished she could have met my eyes just a moment more—I hated the fact that she was clearly afraid of me. I probably shouldn’t have swooped her up like that but what else could I do—just let her fall?

Inside me, my Drake roared in negation. Kaitlyn was ours, he asserted passionately—ours to watch over, ours to protect. I could no more stand by and watch her fall and hurt herself than I had been able to let Sanchez get away with bullying her.

But as I sat back down in my own seat, I couldn’t help lifting my nose to catch a bit of her scent once more. Her fear had faded but the new, cold note hit my nose, making it tingle. I frowned—why did she smell so strange? So unlike herself?

I frowned as I wondered once again, what was happening to my little human?

Author Bio:

Evangeline Anderson is the USA Today and NYT Best Selling Author of the Brides of the Kindred, Alien Mate Index, and Born to Darkness series. She is thirty-something and lives in Florida with a husband, a son, and two cats. She had been writing erotic fiction for her own gratification for a number of years before it occurred to her to try and get paid for it. To her delight, she found that it was actually possible to get money for having a dirty mind and she has been writing paranormal and Sci-fi erotica steadily ever since.

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Comments

  1. Susan Smith says

    February 21, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    Sounds great, I like the cover.

  2. Penny Olson says

    February 21, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    Sounds like a suspenseful read. Thanks.

  3. Linda Moffitt says

    February 21, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    Looks like a PNR book that I would enjoy
    Thanks for sharing this book with us

  4. elaing8 says

    February 21, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    This sounds good. Thanks for posting the excerpt.Will have to check out the first book.

  5. Shirley Emitt says

    February 21, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    Sounds like a good read to me/

  6. LeonieT says

    February 22, 2020 at 5:14 am

    Sounds like a great read!

  7. Kate Sarsfield says

    February 22, 2020 at 5:25 am

    My niece is going to love this, thanks Evangeline!

  8. Cathy French says

    February 22, 2020 at 7:10 am

    I enjoyed the excerpt. From that and the description this sounds like a great YA read

  9. Dawn M. Roberto says

    February 22, 2020 at 7:18 am

    Sounds like a great series and cover is amazing

  10. Rita Wray says

    February 22, 2020 at 8:49 am

    Sounds like a great book.

  11. Danielle Hammelef says

    February 22, 2020 at 9:59 am

    I enjoyed the excerpt and want to read more.

  12. shannon zeidan says

    February 22, 2020 at 10:25 am

    This sounds so exciting. Im looking forward to reading it.

  13. latisha depoortere says

    February 22, 2020 at 11:29 am

    This sounds like a great book!

  14. Debbie P says

    February 22, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    This book sounds like an awesome read!

  15. christina moore says

    February 22, 2020 at 12:05 pm

    Sounds like a great book, Love the cover

  16. BookLady says

    February 22, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    What a fascinating book! Great excerpt. I’d love to read more.

  17. Barrie says

    February 22, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    Sounds like a great book! my kiddo would love this book.

  18. Amber Terry says

    February 23, 2020 at 12:38 am

    I love paranormal stories and this one really does sound amazing 🙂

    Thanks for the chance to win!

  19. Teresa Warner says

    February 23, 2020 at 8:41 am

    Sounds like a good one!

  20. Julie Bickham says

    February 23, 2020 at 1:49 pm

    I look forward to reading this.

  21. wen budro says

    February 23, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    This book sounds intriguing. I would enjoy reading it.

  22. Antoinette M says

    February 24, 2020 at 10:55 am

    The book sounds great. I like the cover.

  23. Amy Woolard says

    February 24, 2020 at 11:53 am

    It has been a while since I have read PNR. This one sounds like it can get me back into this genre!

  24. shelly peterson says

    February 25, 2020 at 7:46 am

    This sounds like a good read.

  25. Stephanie Jones says

    February 25, 2020 at 8:20 am

    sounds like a good book

  26. donna porter says

    February 25, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    Sounds like a book I would really enjoy!

  27. Amber Kolb says

    February 26, 2020 at 2:11 pm

    The blurb is intense!! I can’t imagine losing everything a fire and then having half your face burned.

  28. Carmen Clement says

    February 26, 2020 at 3:14 pm

    This book seems like it would be right up my alley!

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