Maximillian “Max” Lipovsky has been Regent of the Atlanta coven for the past six months. His days are full of meetings and paperwork as he does his best to straighten out the mess left during the disastrous reign of Vadim’s brother Ermine. With Vadim now happily living in Cloverleah with his mate Josh, it’s up to Max to keep his friend’s coven happy and safe. Easier said than done. When it is pointed out to him it’d been more than six months since he’d fed from a willing donor, Max decides a night out is exactly what’s needed.
Lyle Roberts is tired of being scared, tiny, and alone. But mostly he’s tired. When a tall, strong man with flashing red eyes stops him getting beaten up in an alley, he thought he might have found a momentary reprieve from his rotten life. Finding out the man was a vampire, something he’d only seen in movies, Lyle decides to take a chance and asks the man to remove his curse. Only, it turns out Lyle isn’t cursed after all – unless you consider having a workaholic mate as a curse.
Lyle’s arrival at the coven seems to have brought out the worst in people. As soon as one threat’s dealt with, another one rears its ugly head. With the Alpha of the Atlanta pack pushing for a meeting, and vampires turning rogue within the coven itself, Max has his hands full. The only problem is, with his hands full, he doesn’t have anything to hold his beloved with. Will Max and Lyle ever find their HEA or will the mating curse strike its cruelest blow of all?
Bound by Blood is a complete standalone spin off story from the Cloverleah pack. Regular Lisa Oliver readers will remember Max from Watching Out for Fangs (The Cloverleah series #7) but it’s not necessary to have read that book, to understand this one. Intimate situations and some violence means this book is suitable for adults only.
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Exclusive Excerpt
Thank you so much for hosting me on your blog today. Here is an exclusive excerpt from my recent release, Bound by Blood, a standalone, Cloverleah Pack spin off story. I hope you enjoy it.
“You slept in a barn?” Max wished he could take back the question as soon as he asked. Lyle’s face went bright red and his emerald eyes filled with pain.
“I wasn’t natural, was I? My family didn’t want me in the house. This cat thing happened to me around the time my voice dropped for the first time. I was so scared, so I told my momma, and she prayed real hard to make it stop. When it happened again, I told her the prayers weren’t working. Next thing I knew I was living in the barn. It wasn’t so bad,” Lyle added hurriedly, and Max wondered if he was losing his knack of keeping his emotions off his face. “I’m a lot stronger than I look and momma kept up my schooling, even though my step-daddy said I didn’t need it because I was going straight to hell.”
Taking a moment to collect his thoughts, which were not pretty ones, Max tried to gentle his tone as he asked, “If your parents knew what you could do, why did they kick you out of home so many years later?”
“I was useful on the farm, but then some people started to talk.” Lyle’s voice dropped to a whisper. “It used to get cold in the barn some nights, and so sometimes I’d curl up in my fur, under the blanket to try and keep warm. My half-brother Ronny came into the barn one morning just after dawn and saw me dozing as a cat. He went running out of the barn yelling, ‘Daddy, Daddy, Lyle’s got a pet cat. Why can’t I have one?’ Some of my step-daddy’s congregation were there. They used to hold all night prayer services sometimes, right there at the house, and that’s when my step-daddy lost it.”
“You don’t have to say anymore.” Max’s heart broke. His true match, his beloved, had been through so much in his short life and none of it sounded good.
“I’d barely got my clothes on, when he dragged me from the barn and started preaching to the people gathered. He cast me out, just like Jesus did to those money lenders in the temple. My clothes were ripped away, and it was so cold. I couldn’t help it. My cat just came out, right there in front of everybody. That’s when my step-daddy reached for his shot gun. I ran. I’ve never moved so fast. I’ve been running ever since.”
The pain in Lyle’s voice was too much to bear. The need to have Lyle in his arms, so he could shelter him from the evils of the world like his step-daddy was too strong. Max moved, faster than the eye could see, swooping Lyle up and cradling him close to his chest as he moved them to a low armchair he kept by the fireplace. To his credit, Lyle didn’t seem to mind – his thin arms curled around Max’s torso as Max stroked down his braid.
“You are not a curse, my beloved. Please, don’t ever think that about yourself again. Doesn’t the bible tell you that the Christian god created all beings, from the lowliest ant to the mighty eagle, as well as the humans that walk the earth?”
Lyle nodded. Then he looked up and there was the tiniest hint of mischief in his eyes. “The bible never said anything about creating a being that walks on two legs some days and four legs at other times.”
“Maybe they got lost in translation.”
Lisa Oliver had been writing non-fiction books for years when visions of half dressed, buff men started invading her dreams. Unable to resist the lure of her stories, Lisa decided to switch to fiction books, and now stories about her men clamor to get out from under her fingertips.
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