Series: SoulShares
Book Names: Hard As Stone, Gale Force, Deep Plunge & Fire Storm
Author Name: Rory Ni Coileain
Author Bio: Rory Ni Coileain majored in creative writing, back when Respectable Colleges didn’t offer such a major, so she designed it herself – being careful to ensure that she never had to take a class before nine in the morning or take a Hemingway survey course. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen, sent off her first short story to an anthology being assembled by an author she idolized, got shot down in flames, and found other things to do, such as nightclub singing, for the next thirty years or so, until her stories started whispering to her. Now she’s a lawyer, a legal editor, a sopraltenor in her church choir, the mother of a budding video game designer, and amanuensis to a host of fantastic creatures who are all anxious to tell their stories, and sometimes even wait their turns.
Author Links: www.facebook.com/rory.nicoileain, www.facebook.com/Soulshares
Twitter: RoryNi
Cover Artist: Allan Penn
Publisher: Ravenous Romance
HARD AS STONE BLURB:
Tiernan Guaire is a Fae in exile. Forced from the Realm into the human world for the unimaginable crime of a brother’s murder, he lives by a century-old vow, to trust no one, and never to allow himself to love or be loved.
Kevin Almstead has just lost his future, to a vote of the partners at his law firm. Trying to escape for an evening, he ventures into Purgatory, the hottest all-male nightclub in Washington, D.C., where he allows himself to be seduced by a stranger with long blond hair and ice-blue eyes.
Drawn into a Soulshare bond with his intended one-night stand, Tiernan soon learns that the most ancient and evil enemy of the Fae still walks the human world, and it will stop at nothing – certainly not Kevin Almstead – to possess the magick of a Noble Fae.
EXCERPT HARD AS STONE:
Tiernan stirred, muttered under his breath, the first signs of distress he’d shown since falling asleep. Passing out. Whatever. Kevin sighed, resting a hand lightly on the blond’s smooth chest; in short order, he found himself running his fingertips lightly over his lover’s chest, tracing the lines of the muscles, and then down, a fingertip traveling along the intricate tattoo over his hip. Tiernan wasn’t buff, not like some men were and Kevin himself tried to be. Lean, hard-bodied, almost impossibly fit. And with that long, unruly blond hair, and his crystalline blue eyes, Tiernan would turn heads in rooms full of men or women. And no doubt had.
Mine.
The Fae rolled onto his side, away from Kevin; chuckling softly, Kevin settled himself behind his lover, glancing over the shoulder in front of him at the bedside clock. He could still get almost three hours of sleep if he was lucky. He wrapped an arm around Tiernan, nuzzled into the curve where neck met shoulder, breathed in the scent of wild hair and sated male body and honey, and closed his eyes. So this is what magic smells like.
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GALE FORCE BLURB:
Conall Dary is the most powerful mage born to the Fae race since the Realm was parted from the human world, over two thousand years ago. But that very power condemns him to a lifetime of celibacy, because sex calls to power, and he has power enough to drain a world. When he refuses to use his talents for a Noble lady’s petty revenge, he finds himself shanghaied to the human world, his soul torn in half and his magick blocked.
Josh LaFontaine is the beautifully inked owner of Raging Art-On, a Washington, D.C. tattoo and piercing parlor. While taking part in New York City’s Pride march with a former lover’s dance company, his world changes forever when the man of his dreams materializes out of nowhere at his feet. Josh’s sensual and loving touch, the first Conall has ever known, may be enough to give him back the magick he’s lost. But before they can complete their Soulshare, a terrible accident leaves Conall bodiless, lost, and invisible, to everyone except – maybe – the human with whom he shares a soul. But Josh will need to find him before the ancient evil of the Marfach does or everything they have – and more – will be lost.
GALE FORCE EXCERPT:
The sense of relief as he got out of the taxi was like nothing he’d ever felt before, and even knowing most of it wasn’t his own didn’t make it any less overwhelming. Only the presence of the foot traffic in and out of Purgatory kept him from falling to his knees in gratitude, maybe doing some pavement-kissing.
Well, that and a sense of haste only slightly less urgent than a cattle prod. He fumbled the keys off the hook at his belt and unlocked the deadbolt, then keyed in the combination on the touchpad, wincing as the tiny crystalline tones tried to pierce his eardrums.
Are you sure you can do this, lanan? There might be another way. Just let me think, now that I can.
Josh shook his head. Letting himself into the small client lounge in the front, he locked the door behind himself and made straight for the tattoo studio. “No time. Every minute you’re disembodied makes it less likely you’ll ever get back, you said so yourself. And me…” He paused, his hand on the doorknob of his studio. “I’m not sure how much longer I can stand this.”
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DEEP PLUNGE BLURB:
For the last six hundred years or so, the only things reminding Lochlann Doran he’s a Fae have been his faceted aquamarine eyes and the fact that he can’t die. He’s been a wanderer for so long in the human world – over two thousand years – that he’s lost his magick, including the gift of healing that goes along with being a Fae of the Demesne of Water. Finding his SoulShare might get it back for him. But it might kill him, too.
Garrett Templar has been living on borrowed time, in a sense, since he was eighteen, when one of the johns he entertained to pay the bills while he danced at Purgatory infected him with HIV. It was always supposed to be a “manageable” disease, though, at least until a cure was found. Except he’s just found out that the virus in his system has inexplicably mutated into full-blown AIDS, and no known drug cocktail can even slow it down.
And when Lochlann and Garrett find each other at last, on Purgatory’s dance floor, the only thing as urgent as their need for one another is the hunger of an ancient evil to do whatever is necessary to possess Lochlann’s magick…
DEEP PLUNGE EXCERPT:
Shit. His grip tightened on the strap of his bag, ready to swing it — or ditch it, if it looked like that would help him escape . And for one sick, sweaty, gut-wrenching moment, he was ten years old again, hearing the kids closing in behind him, knowing there was no way in hell he was going to get away without another split lip, ruined shirt, blackened eye. Almost hearing his mother’s voice again. Garrett Lee Templar, I swear, you find more trouble than any ten other boys ever dreamed of. Do you think I can just make new clothes appear out of thin air?
“Garrett?”
He recognized that voice from somewhere. Slowly, he turned. And stared up into eyes that gleamed blue even in the crappy light from the streetlight on the corner.
“Lochlann?” He hadn’t had to rent his ass out for a while now, but the idea of a john following him home from the club still made his skin crawl. Yet there was something about those eyes, something different.
No. Fuck that shit. You get hurt the worst when you let yourself hope.
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FIRESTORM BLURB:
Rian Sheridan is a foundling, a Northern Irish Catholic corner boy whose world was destroyed in fire, and reborn the same way, beside an Orangemen’s bonfire last July the Twelfth. A consuming, dimly-remembered pain in his past calls to him, taunting him, daring him to find it and lose himself to it in the S&M underground of Belfast.
Cuinn an Dearmad is the last surviving Fae Loremaster, and he’s just seen the beginning of the death of the Realm, the haven of the Fae race. The only hope of stopping it starts with him finding the Prince Royal of Fire he stole from the cradle, and lost in the human world, many years ago. He has a few guesses about where that hope ends, and he doesn’t like any of them.
Rian and Cuinn are an impossible pairing, two SoulShared Fae. Any two Fae will strike sparks, but these two Fae are a conflagration. Unable to stand one another, yet drawn into an escalating series of sexual collisions, their passion will either save a world or destroy it.
FIRESTORM EXCERPT:
He gave up on trying to sleep, rolling onto his back and lying sprawled out in the great bed fit for a king. Or a Prince. Shite. He didn’t want to be a fecking Royal. Whatever that meant. But if there was one thing he could say he’d learned in life, it was that what he wanted had fuck all to do with what happened to him.
Though ever since the Twalf, last summer, there was one thing he nearly always got, when he wanted it. The thrill. They’d thought to break him that night, and perhaps they had, but after the breaking he’d been made anew. Into a man who craved what the bastards sought to shame him with, and who used them, in the end, more cruelly than they had used him. After all, he could use them, and others like them, any time he liked.
Addicted? Hell, no. Victorious.
Extra Explicit Excerpt
Excerpt #4 (from FIRESTORM) (explicit content):
Cuinn’s hips slowed at this, but Rian’s legs locked around them like bands of iron. “Almost there,” the other Fae choked. “Harder. So close. Harder.”
It wasn’t quite joy Cuinn saw in his lover’s face. But it was close. And when Rian clamped down hard around Cuinn’s throbbing length, and caught his breath and arched his back, it was more than enough. Cuinn’s balls drew up tight, he could feel his cock curving inside Rian’s clasping hold, he couldn’t breathe, couldn’t move –
Someone was shouting, a hoarse, raw cry. Cuinn thought it might be him. Or maybe it was Rian. Maybe both. Hot splashes coated Cuinn’s groin, heat pooled in Rian’s curls, around the pulsing base of his own cock. But Cuinn could only tell any of this by the feel of the fiery jets, because his eyes were rolled back in his head far enough to ache.
Even if they hadn’t been, he would have been blinded. Blinded by the pleasure, but also by the pure, staggering joy. Especially the joy. He was only dimly aware of the thick spurts jetting from him into Rian’s clasping darkness, of his own body convulsing and trying in vain to breathe. The best part of him was swept away, lost in an emotion he hadn’t let himself experience in over two thousand years.
Hell, he’d never let himself feel this. Ever. How many times had he taken someone, Fae, human, male, female, didn’t matter? Used them, controlled them, taken everything he wanted and given fuck-all nothing. Exactly like any other Fae. Thousands of years of indulging his every desire. But the joy that had whispered to him in that first kiss, and threatened to overwhelm him at the first cry from Rian’s throat, the first nearly tangible wave of the pleasure of his first real lover in all those centuries, wiped out even the memory of the rest of it.
Cuinn released the magick, gripped Rian’s shoulders, and bent over him, using that grip to bury himself even deeper as he finished emptying himself. He moaned, burying his face in the hard sweaty curve of the Prince’s shoulder, as Rian wrapped both arms around the small of his back and drew him into a fierce embrace. Rian’s fiery seed slicked them both, and he could feel the other Fae’s cock softening between their bodies.
I don’t care if the Pattern did fucking set us up. Closing his eyes, Cuinn breathed deeply, filling himself with the scents of sweat and sex and, yes, smoke. The joy, the wonder, was a gift, however it had been intended. He was bound, his half of the Sharing complete. But he felt none of the anger, the panic he’d expected, when he’d vowed to wait to take this step. Hell, he was as close to being at peace as he’d ever been in his life. Which would probably freak him the hell out once he’d had some time to think about it, but right this minute it was perfection.
Rian’s chest rose and fell under his, unevenly. The grip around the small of Cuinn’s back trembled, and it gradually dawned on him that it wasn’t just the ferocity of the grip that caused the trembling. “What is it, Elirei?” No sarcastic ‘Highness,’ this time, his scair-anam was a Prince Royal and Cuinn was feeling just mellow enough to grant him the title. Suddenly remembering the blood, he eased himself from Rian’s body, to let the Fae’s naturally rapid healing begin.
“What the feck was that?”
Startled by Rian’s tone, Cuinn raised his head, just enough to look down into the other Fae’s eyes. Eyes that looked back at him with confusion, and more panic than joy, and not even a trace of mellow contentment. “That was scair’ain’e.” He shifted his weight in the cradle of Rian’s thighs. “Soulsharing.”
Rian grimaced. “Was that why you wouldn’t give me what I needed?”
Cuinn could only stare. “You’d rather have pain than…” There weren’t any words to describe the wonder of the Sharing, at least no words he wouldn’t feel like a total idiot for speaking aloud. How could a sane male not want what I just felt?
Is this a sane male?
“I need what I need.” Rian’s voice sounded as if there was a hand around his throat. Which Cuinn had seriously been considering at one point. “I need it rough. You know that.”
“Why?” He blurted the question before he thought. Normally he wouldn’t give a shit why anyone needed or wanted anything. But there was nothing normal about this, not any more. This was his scair-anam, trying to reject the idea of Sharing.
Rian frowned. “Strangely enough, I find myself wanting to tell you.”
“So?”
The frown smoothed away. “So get the fuck out of my flat before I set your arse afire.”
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