Hello everyone! Thank you for joining me. And thanks to Love Bytes for hosting me. M.D. Grimm here and very excited to talk about my new release “Wisdom’s Allegiance” (The Shifter Chronicles Book 13). This book can be read as a stand-alone, however, so if you’re intrigued and don’t want to start at the beginning, just check this one out.

I wanted to be a little different with this one. I’ve tried to be diverse in my shifter series by having not only different shifting animals but also including various nationalities and ethnicities. This time around I wanted “unconventional beauty.” This is also my first time writing a threesome. My editors were great in helping me handle Dexter’s character with care and respect. Dexter is a big man with low self-esteem and fragile confidence. He is the sweetest and most loyal guy but is painfully shy around strangers, especially attractive men. Due to his personality, I had to make sure his potential mates were outgoing and had a “take-charge” attitude. Enter Talon and Orion. I really love these guys. They are complete opposites in personality, and because of that they know they need a third person in the relationship to balance it out. Talon is reserved and seems stuck-up while Orion is bubbly, bouncy, and painfully cute. They are also both owl shifters – a great horned owl and an elf owl respectively.

Have you ever seen an elf owl? They are the cutest little poof-balls ever! I modeled Talon and Orion’s personality on their owl types, and I’m satisfied with the end result. So of course I had to make Dexter a bird-lover with owls being a special favorite of his.

Their courtship is rather short so I wanted it to be obvious from the start how right they were for each other. I also wanted to help the reader suspend disbelief a bit. My guys fit together like puzzle pieces and it was greatly satisfying to get them through their low points so they can have their happily ever after.

But of course it wouldn’t be shifter book if I didn’t have enemies involved in trying to keep our heroes apart. However, the Knights (my big bads) don’t play a huge role in this one. The danger comes from within the shifter community and hits rather close to home for all three men. I won’t say anymore! Don’t want to spoil anything.

I set the story at UC Boulder, Colorado, and while I’ve never been to the campus personally, I scoured their website trying to find all the needed details. However, I am only human, and those who’ve actually been to UC Boulder will probably be able to pick out flaws. Sorry, I did my best! I do work at a university myself, but on the west coast of the USA, so there were some norms across university culture I know intimately. Of course now I want to visit UC Boulder after all the research I did! And go hike in the Rocky Mountains….

This story went through several incarnations, as most of mine do, and the original title, “Sanguine Truth” didn’t fit anymore. After brainstorming for some time, I decided to play off the stereotype of owls being wise and used “Wisdom.” Then I realized “Allegiance” was going to be a big theme in the story so I just slapped those two together and there you go! Sometimes titles are just there without me thinking about them and sometimes it’s like pulling teeth to come up with the right one.

This story starts the third part of “The Shifter Chronicles” which is entitled “Blood.” Part One was “Beginning” and Part Two was “Scrolls.” I labeled the parts after connecting themes that play within each book. Part Four will be “Masters” where we get to meet four other master shifters, and the fifth and final part is “War.” I am halfway done with the series. However, I might have to self-publish the rest of the series, which is fine. So for those of you who’ve been following me, never fear! I will continue on. I have a lot more stories to tell and then I’ll end everything with an epic battle where all secrets are revealed. I’m looking forward to that.

I am currently working on several projects—an m/m fantasy trilogy, book 7 of my The Stones of Power series, and book 2 of my Saga of the Bold People.

Thanks for joining me and may dragons guard your dreams,

M.D. Grimm

Wisdom’s Allegiance (The Shifter Chronicles: Book Thirteen)
Release date: May 28th, 2019
Blurb: Can a loyal and sensual owl shifter couple woo a human mate who’s convinced he’s an ugly duckling?

When socially awkward Dexter Fortis rescues an elf owl blown off course by a storm, he has no idea the bird is a shifter named Orion. Or that his life is about to change.

Orion falls in love with the kind custodian, but he must convince his long-term partner, Talon, that Dexter is just who they’ve been searching for to establish a permanent ménage.

Even if they can gently break down Dexter’s walls, they’ll have to contend with a dangerous cult rising in the shifter community and a hidden enemy determined to keep Dexter from them.

Buy link: Dreamspinner Press

Author Bio:

M.D. Grimm decided to become an author in the second grade (kind of young to make life
decisions, but whatever) and nothing has changed since then (well, plenty of things, actually, but
not that!). Thankfully, she has indulgent parents who let her dream, but also made sure she
understood she’d need a steady job to pay the bills (they never let her forget it!). After graduating
from the University of Oregon and majoring in English (let’s be honest: useless degree, what else
was she going to do with it?), she started on her writing career and couldn’t be happier. Working
by day and writing by night (or any spare time she can carve out), she enjoys embarking on
romantic quests and daring adventures (living vicariously, you could say) and creating characters
that always triumph against the villain (or else what’s the point?), finding their soul mate in the
process.

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