Book Title: Blue Moon Rising (Moonlight Prophecies Book 2)
Author: Amanda Meuwissen
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Kris Norris
Release Date: May 24, 2022
Genre: Shifter Paranormal M/M Romance
Tropes: Alpha with non-Alpha shifter (not A/B/O), reluctant hero, rebound relationship
Themes: Destiny, starting over, prejudice
Length: 76 000 words
This is book 2 in the Moonlight Prophecies series.
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Sometimes the right answer is the part of yourself you are afraid to face.
Blurb
Alpha Jay Russell’s broken engagement may just be the best thing that ever happened to him. His ex-fiancé’s twin, Bari, is much more his type and straightforward about his flirting and desire to unite their packs.
Jay returns home after his misadventures in Centrus City to a new prophecy, an unknown enemy, and tribal unrest over a series of racially-driven murders. Furious, Jay is determined to bring whoever’s responsible to justice… but the unrest upsets the fragile peace he’s been working to achieve, threatens his new lover’s life, and undermines his position as Alpha, which makes investigating a challenge.
Can Jay and Bari work together to fight their inner demons—and a strange adversary dead set on returning to the past—or will mistrust and political machinations tear them apart?
Blue Moon Rising is the second book in the Moonlight Prophecies series. Fans of shifters, soothsayers, and shadowy villains will fall under Amanda Meuwissen’s spell in this suspenseful, sexy urban fantasy romance.
The building housed an enormous indoor park, so expansive and filled with hills, trees, and other greenery, that if it hadn’t been for the clear glass roof displaying the night sky above, Bari could have believed this was the real thing.
There was a good dozen other people there, adults and children, all nude and in various states of transformation. It was clear some wolves were simply there to frolic and enjoy themselves, while others were training their children to shift through each of the stages. Real parks and wooded areas could be dangerous and required lookouts to ensure normal humans didn’t discover the existence of shifters, but this took care of that, since the building was clearly controlled by the pack. It was also a nice alternative to the dropping temperatures outside as winter approached.
“There are lockers through here where we can put our clothes,” Jay said, gesturing Bari through yet another door, the only area remaining inside the building that wasn’t a living part of the park.
“Getting me naked already?” Bari teased as he followed Jay.
Finally, Bari was afforded another bright blush across Jay’s cheeks. “Unless you want to ruin that outfit!”
“Now that would be a travesty.”
They undressed, hung up or folded their clothing in separate lockers, and Bari was quickly amused by just how obviously Jay was trying to not admire the merchandise. By nature, shifters weren’t as caring as humans about being nude in each other’s presence. There was a primal part to them that needed freedom and thrived off time spent in their animal forms, whatever stage. Being clothed for that wasn’t practical. But family or even strangers was different from seeing someone naked for the first time who you planned to court.
Bari didn’t want to seem like a deviant—the unspoken rule was like bathhouses in Japan: no obvious leering—but he couldn’t resist a peek.
This date was turning out splendidly.
Bari caught Jay’s eye and winked. “Race you to the top of that hill,” he said and took off running for the door, already starting to shift.
By the time Bari’s feet hit the grass outside the locker room, they were more like paws, and he was a Stage Four wolf before he was even halfway up the hill in the center of the park. Bari’s wolf coat was silver like his brother’s, and he’d seen enough of Jay partially changed in Centrus to know he was a brown wolf.
A handsome brown wolf that zoomed past Bari just as he was about to crest the top of the hill, trotted about in a circle of triumph, and howled.
Bari joined him, circling Jay before stopping to echo that howl, and then lowering himself with a wag of his tail and rolling over in the grass. Jay sniffed him, hunkered playfully, and Bari almost thought the Alpha was going to lick his nose, but at the last moment, he nudged it instead, tender and sweet and still more intimate than having seen each other naked.
Rolling back up onto his paws, Bari nipped at Jay impishly and took off running again down the other side of the hill. They chased each other, running and circling and rolling again through the grass and around trees, until Bari’s legs burned, and he returned to the top of that same high hill, unfurling himself in human form to look up at the sky through the glass ceiling. He kept a little of Stage Two about him, his eyes cutting through the dark, since there were few lights in the park, a bit of silver fur edging his body and his fangs prominent as he swiped his tongue across them when Jay joined him in a similar state.
Jay’s ears were just the tiniest bit wolflike still, trimmed in his brown fur. As they looked at each other, lying side by side, panting for breath, Bari saw that Jay’s one slightly crooked ear was a tad more bent than the other even in this form, and Bari thought the way it looked was especially charming.
A shadow of discomfort crossed Jay’s face, and he reached for that ear like he wished he could hide it.
“Sorry!” Bari said, assuming Jay must be self-conscious about the ear. “I didn’t mean to stare. It’s just so… cute.” He reached over, hesitant, giving Jay plenty of time to pull away if he didn’t want Bari to touch him, but when all Jay did was lower the hand that had covered his ear, it was easy for Bari to replace it. He gently stroked the edges of the furred and slightly pointed tip.
A rumble sounded in Jay’s throat, almost like a cat’s purr. It would have been the ideal moment to lean in for a kiss…
Amanda Meuwissen is a bisexual author, with a primary focus on M/M romance. As author of the paranormal romance trilogy The Incubus Saga and several other titles with various publishers, Amanda regularly attends local comic conventions for fun and to meet with fans, where she will often be seen in costume as one of her favorite fictional characters. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband, John, and their cat, Helga.
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