I am so pleased to welcome
multi-published, mega-talented Nancy Gideon to Creative Hodgepodge! Nancy is an
active member of my local RWA chapter, and she’s gearing up for the release of Remembered by Moonlight, the latest in
her Moonlight/Shadows series. I happily signed on for her blog tour.
Remembered
by Moonlight, like the rest of the series, is a paranormal romance. Here’s what Nancy has to say about her new book:
Ever have characters that just won’t leave once you’ve put the book away?
You wonder what they’re doing, if they’re still together, if they had kids,
boys or girls. Now imagine that you’re not just the reader but also the writer
of that book and the creator of those characters.
That was the problem I had back in 2008.
One book just wasn’t enough to say all that needed saying. So at the end of book one, I didn’t stop. I
kept writing- book two, book three, book four about the same hero and heroine:
deliciously dangerous shape-shifter Max Savoie and tough-as-nails New Orleans
detective Charlotte Caissie. Even then,
their story and their intricate, intriguing “By Moonlight” world wouldn’t leave me alone. So I moved next door, into the “Shadows” where my hero and
heroine could visit while different heroes and heroines had the spotlight and
their world could continue to spin on.
But that STILL wasn’t enough. Not
for me as the writer and not for the rather rabid fans who insisted that Max
and Cee Cee have the happily-ever-after they deserved.
So, because the road to happily-ever-after is never smooth, I invited Max
and Charlotte back in REMEMBERED BY MOONLIGHT and writing it was like coming home again
where everyone knows your name (or is that a TV show?).
For readers who’ve never visited the “By Moonlight” world, don’t
despair. REMEMBERED BY MOONLIGHT is the
perfect starting point—if you can believe that of book nine! Because our hero Max has had his memories
erased, the reader can learn about his past, his friends, the dangers he faces
as Max does, through his eyes. And won’t
want to look away.
Welcome to my “By Moonlight” world with REMEMBERED BY MOONLIGHT available
October 13, 2014!
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Does this sound delicious? Here's the blurb for the book:
Because
the road to . . .
Clever, cool and preternaturally
lethal, Max Savoie is leader of a secretive shape-shifter clan, heir to a
mobster’s legacy, and the love of New Orleans’ top cop . . . but he can’t
remember any of them. The only way to recover his past, and his rightful
place in the arms of the woman who risked all to save him, is to surrender to a
mysterious visitor who could use him as a weapon against all he’d loved.
Happily-Ever-After
. . .
After rescuing her mate from his
ruthless captors in the North, hard-hitting Detective Charlotte Caissie is now
painfully vulnerable—a stranger in his eyes . . . and in his bed. The key
to his memories is locked in a tortuous past. To reclaim the strength of
their passionate bond, Max must learn to trust her enough to face that darkness
at her side before the threat it hides exposes the secret Cee Cee carries.
Is
never smooth.
When an investigation into grisly
deaths in an underground Shifter fight club points to more than just dangerous
clan rivalries, Cee Cee enlists Max’s help to find a traitor in their midst
while there’s still time to turn a deadly invading tide. But the cost of saving
their treasured future may mean sacrificing his past. Especially when the enemy
they pursue . . . might be Max, himself.
Like that? Here’s an excerpt:
The bare wall of windows let in the
lights of the city against an ink-black sky, silhouetting a solitary figure.
Her throat clutched as she recalled the first time she’d seen him there when
the building was still a metal skeleton, toeing the edge of the beam, his dark
coat billowing behind him like the wings of a fallen angel. His pose was no
less dramatic now, sleek, dark and solitary as he stared out into the night.
Cee Cee bit down on her initial
impulse to demand where he’d been, knowing her panic would shine through. No
pressure. Don’t push. Give him space. Her restraint was rewarded by the quiet
murmur of his voice.
“I didn’t mean to wake you. Giles
and I were going through the books at LEI, and time got away from us. There’s
so much I need to learn if I’m to maintain the masquerade of knowing who I am.
I apologize if you were worried.”
He’d been with Giles at Legere
Enterprises International tending his inherited ill-gotten and now nearly legal
gains. All anxieties addressed and answered. She relaxed.
She could tell by his hesitation
that there was more he wanted to say, so she remained silent and let him work
up to it. Still, his question took her by surprise.
“What was that this morning?”
“I had a very busy morning. Be more
specific.”
“Between us.”
Specific as a heart attack. No use
tiptoeing around it.
“We’ve had a sort of psychic
connection since we bonded.” Thankfully, he didn’t ask her to explain thatprocess.
“We can get inside each other’s heads.”
He had yet to look toward her. She
didn’t need a psychic bond to feel him locking down tight to prevent her
unauthorized entry.
“How does it work?” How can
I stop it? That’s what he really wanted to know.
“I’m not sure. We share thoughts,
feelings, dreams.”
“All the time?” Oh, such wariness
in that simple question. So Max.
“No. Of course not. It’s not something
we’ve explored. It happens rarely, in times of stress or when we . . .”
Have sex. That dropped between them
like a ticking bomb.
“Don’t worry,” she concluded, tone
brittle. “I knock before I come in, and wait for permission.”
He turned slowly to face her.
The past months of anxiety and fear
fell away as she stared at him, heart seizing. Here was the Max Savoie she’d
fallen helplessly in love with against all her best intentions. Impeccably
dressed, the lines of a designer suit skimming his long, lean and lethal frame,
the toes of his athletic shoes peeping from beneath tailored slacks in sassy
juxtaposition.
Darkness and shadow carved out
features too rough and bold to be handsome, yet too compelling to be ignored.
Unblinking eyes, as pale and green as the still waters of the bayou, shone with
an eerie intensity from beneath an uncompromising line of heavy brows and
unruly black hair nearly tamed by a stylishly short cut. Faint stubble shaded
the set of his rugged jaw, lending a harshly dangerous air to his outward
sophistication.
He was thuggishly elegant, graceful
yet seething with raw power, aloof and still undeniably fascinating. Legere’s
enigmatic enforcer turned influential businessman and philanthropist.
Traumatized orphan child who’d polarized a group of frightened misfits into a
tight community family. Everything she’d ever wanted.
She’d worried over him, missed him,
needed him but until this moment, when the unexpected mention of sex reared its
wicked head, Cee Cee hadn’t realized just how long she’d gone without the
physical side of their relationship. Seeing him standing there fit and fine,
wreathed in stillness and mystery, so tempting, so inviting, a fever hot dream
personified, her body burned until only a fire extinguisher could cool her intention
of coaxing him back into an intimate bed.
Until he spoke.
“How is this possible, you being a
human?”
It was her turn to hold back behind
silence.
His eyes narrowed into long
cautious slits. “What are you, Detective? What makes you different?” What
makes you dangerous to me? was tacitly implied.
“I’m like you. I’m more.”
Remembered
by Moonlight will be available on October 13, 2014 at your favorite ebook
outlet. In the meantime, there's a giveaway!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
