A warm welcome to author Victoria Sue , joining us today here at Love Bytes to talk about her new release “Full Circle”, Book 7 in the Sirius Wolves series.
Welcome Victoria 🙂
Coming Home.
Next month is our six-year anniversary of coming to live in the U.S. We didn’t move because we had to. There was no job or family commitments dragging us 4000 miles across the Atlantic.
We moved because we wanted to.
It wasn’t because I suddenly didn’t like England where I had been born and lived for over forty years of my life – we just wanted to do something different before we got too old to appreciate it. Nothing too drastic – same language (sort of) We still lived in a house, not in a tent in the middle of some exotic desert. Still drove a car, and still had to work for a living.
We have family in both countries now so we travel backwards and forwards at least twice a year to the UK for visits.
I’m always asked by Americans if I’m going home. (Meaning to England) There is always an assumption that we aren’t home now.
I guess it’s because I wasn’t born here but I felt home from the second we stepped off the plane.
I have another home as well. The one that I write about.
For the last two years I have spent at least twenty-five hours a week travelling to incredible destinations filled with sexy werewolves, cute boys, and hot men. Baddies are always slain and the good guy always wins. Broken hearts are mended and prejudices set aside. What is inside is always more important than what is on the outside, and you don’t have to be a model-worthy stud to get the love of your dreams.
You just have to dream.
Never underestimate that love can change the world. Make the shy and insecure get noticed by the hoy guy in the office. Have the battle-scarred vet find comfort and peace in the touch of his lover. Give the scarred overweight nobody the somebody who falls in love with him just the way he is, and finally give the drunk the happiness at the bottom of his last bottle so he never needs to pick up another one.
Heal every wound and kiss every hurt. Dream that the love you weave can mend every damaged soul. Grab life. Get on an airplane and fly home or fly back there, or even better make your own just where you are.
Love is the most powerful force on earth. It can do all these things. Make it do all these things. Write about it enough and make people read it. If they read it enough, eventually they’ll start living it.
Home isn’t where you live. It’s where you want to be.
TITLE: Full Circle
SERIES: Sirius Wolves #7
AUTHOR: Victoria Sue
PUBLISHER: Dark Hollow Press
COVER ARTIST: Dark Hollow Press
LENGTH: 50,000 words
RELEASE DATE: October 18, 2016
BLURB:
“Win the love of the wolf with the hardest heart.”
Faced with eternal banishment to hell, Anubis, god of the underworld, has found a loophole in one of the oldest laws which will allow him to unleash his evil on an unsuspecting human world. Orion’s only hope to stop him is to accept his challenge: send a champion to win the love of the wolf with the hardest heart. It will take someone with a pure heart to soften a closed one, so faced with the threat of losing not only the werewolves, but the destruction of the human race, the gods can only do one thing — send Adam, one of their own.
Adam quickly realizes that the werewolf whose love he must win is Jed. Wounded after the loss of his wife and son, Jed promised he would never love again or be responsible for someone else’s happiness. Adam has been given a near impossible task.
Anubis is eager to see Adam fail, and unbeknown to everyone takes matters into his own hands to make sure of it. Everything happening now is part of his master plan, and finally it has come full circle.
Even if Adam succeeds and wins Jed’s heart, will that love survive when Jed discovers the whole thing was nothing more than a bet? Or when Adam does the one thing he mustn’t and falls in love himself, will he not only break Jed’s heart but completely destroy his own?
Jed gentled his hand as Adam mewled in the back of his throat, both of Adam’s hands surrounding his neck and pressing tightly with an overwhelming urge to simply hang on.
They shared kisses. Shared air. Jed swallowed every reaction from Adam because it was precious. Finally, he wiped his hand and their bodies clean on the sheet and drew Adam in closer.
His heart beat loudly in his ears. Jed didn’t want to think about what they had just done, and let reality intrude on the bliss that seemed to wrap them both up. It wasn’t the whole fucking a guy thing, even though he was still in shock about that. It was the need inside of him, the nameless urge that transcended sex or narrow bigoted views of what made other people happy. In a lot of ways, it wasn’t even the fact that Adam was human and Jed was not.
It was his unshaking doubt that as soon as Jed trusted, as soon as Jed let in a little belief, as soon as Jed started thinking in terms of forever… That’s when it would happen. That’s when his forever would be ripped away. It had with his family. The day his father hadn’t returned from the hunt because of a human’s bullet. The day they’d fled their home because the forest was cleared to make a human town, and his family had no idea how to live in one. The day he was out scrounging for food to fill their empty bellies because it was winter and they should have been warm and safe in their homes, and his little sister had been attacked by a rogue. The rogue had been insane, half-mad with whatever injustice had caused him to attack a pup, and his mom had died trying to defend her.
And then he had trusted once more. Raye had waltzed into his life and danced his objections away. Then it had happened again, as surely as Jed feared it would.
He clutched Adam tighter, knowing his hold wouldn’t last, knowing Adam would be ripped from him like everyone else…
He no longer had any dreams that could be taken from him. He’d accepted long ago that the pack would be his life, but he would go home alone every day. He almost didn’t mind because he knew it wasn’t a matter if Adam would realize he was a pathetic old man and would leave.
It was simply a matter of when.
Has loved books for as long as she can remember. Books were always what pocket money went on and what usually Father Christmas brought. When she ran out of her kids’ adventure stories, she would go raid her Mom’s. By the age of eight she was devouring classics like Little Women, and fell in love with love stories.
She’s still in love with them. Any size, any shape, any creature – love is love, no matter what it says on the box.
In fact if they don’t fit very neatly into any box she loves them even more!
She has a very patient husband and three wonderful children. In 2010 in search of adventure they all moved from the UK to the US and are happily settled in Florida.
In 2013 after reading love stories for so long she decided to write her own.
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You can also email Victoria at – victoriasueauthor@gmail.com
Winner’s Prize: An e-copy from Victoria Sue’s backlist
October 19: Sue Brown
October 20: Drops of Ink
October 21: The Purple Rose Tea House
October 24: Loving Without Limits :: Because Two Men Are Better Than One
October 25: MM Good Book Reviews
October 26: Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words :: Prism Book Alliance
October 27: Wicked Faeries Tales And Reviews :: Book Lovers 4Ever
October 28: Alpha Book Club
October 29: Love Bytes Reviews
I haven’t read any titles from this series but this sounds like an amazing story, so I’ll have to get started. Thanks so much for offering the tour and Giveaway!
As Sue knows I’m a massive fan of her Sirius wolves (#team Marcus) and loved loved The Innocent Auction but still plenty more in her backlist for me to sink my werewolf wannabe teeth into!