Small Town, Big Heart
By Morgan Brice
Again (Fox Hollow Zodiac #2) is set in the fictional town of Fox Hollow, located in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. It’s loosely based on the real town of Long Lake, as I remember it from years ago when my family went camping near there every year.
The real town has fewer than 400 permanent residents, although I envision Fox Hollow being at least double that size. Definitely the kind of place where everyone at least recognizes everyone else!
Fox Hollow is a haven for misfit shifters and psychics. Shifters of all types get along with each other, the psychics have the Fox Institute for Parapsychology, and the town takes pride in being self-contained enough that residents don’t have to go elsewhere for essentials (handy during the long, snowy winter).
It’s also a town where people know how to make their own fun. In addition to being in an area with lots of outdoor activities year-round, the folks in Fox Hollow have community holiday celebrations, snowmobile parties, a big summer arts festival, a local live theater program, and seminars at the Fox Institute and at the library. The fire department hosts dances, dinners, and fundraiser events. There are book clubs and bowling leagues and role playing game groups. And there are nights when everyone shifts and takes a run in their fur.
All of the year-round residents in Fox Hollow are either shifters, psychics, or family to someone who is. Most tourists aren’t in-the-know (although some are and they choose the area for its paranormal-friendliness), but they don’t stay long.
I really love writing stories set in Fox Hollow because it’s like coming home to greet old friends. I hope that once you’ve read the stories, it will feel like that for you, too!
The fast, furry, and furious! A lynx shifter, pursued by a cryptid trophy hunter. A wolf shifter desperate to rescue a lover who’s not just his fated mate—but his one true pairing across past lives. And a love that transcends time.
Book Title: Again: Fox Hollow Zodiac Novel 2–MM Shifter Romance Suspense
Author: Morgan Brice
Publisher: Darkwind Press
Cover Artist: Adrijus Guscia, cover wrap by Natania Barron
Release Date: July 5, 2022
Genres: Urban fantasy, MM shifter romance suspense
Tropes: Shifters, one true pairing (OTP), reincarnation, fated mates, mating bites, psychics, magic, curses, hurt/comfort, found family,
Themes: Long-distance relationship, having faith in each other, knowing you can depend on each other, navigating a new relationship
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 247 pages
It is a standalone book and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links – Available in Kindle Unlimited
Blurb
The fast, furry, and furious! A lynx shifter, pursued by a cryptid trophy hunter. A wolf shifter desperate to rescue a lover who’s not just his fated mate—but his one true pairing across past lives. And a love that transcends time.
Lynx shifter Noah Wilson narrowly escaped being captured by the Huntsman. While recuperating in Fox Hollow, he meets his fated mate, wolf shifter Drew Lowe.
Noah has to return to Canada to finish filming his TV projects, so he and Drew visit when they can and come up with creative solutions to their long-distance relationship. Noah and Drew are sure they’re meant for each other and start making plans.
Drew’s dreams make him wonder if he and Noah are more than fated mates—could they be a true pairing, destined to find each other lifetime after lifetime?
Then Noah accidentally records a murder, and the killer is on his trail. Can he elude a master tracker and reach the safety of Fox Hollow, or will he and Drew have to wait to find happiness in another life?
Again is a thrill-packed MM shifter romance adventure full of sexy shifters, hurt/comfort, one true pairing, reincarnation, sincere psychics, hunky mechanics, first responders, a sexy wildlife photographer, found family, and fated mates.
“I wish you could see this view in person—except for how cold it is.” Noah snapped a photo that didn’t do the colors of dawn justice, and sent it with his text to Drew.
He waited for a reply and realized Drew probably wasn’t awake yet. No one in their right mind is up at this hour.
He’d made the best of the cramped hotel room, knowing from experience to bring an extra blanket, good pillow, books, and power strips. Hotels never had enough outlets to charge his cameras. Fortunately, travel wasn’t a constant, but staying overnight to get the right light or have time to set up cameras happened fairly often.
Will that be a problem with Drew? Will he resent my photography? It’s a demanding job.
Noah cleaned his lenses and checked his batteries as he packed his day bag. Travel made it easy to find overnight company without entanglement, and he’d long ago grown tired of waking up alone. He’d had a serious relationship back in film school, which fizzled after graduation. There were a few boyfriends who lasted more than a month or two, but his irregular hours always ended up being more than anyone wanted to deal with for long.
Can it be different with Drew? We felt such an immediate bond—I’ve never had a connection like that with anyone. It’s like we’ve known each other forever.
“Of course. We’re fated mates,” his lynx reminded him, as if Noah could forget.
He smiled, thinking of their conversation that ended only a few hours ago. It wasn’t just the sex—although that was combustible in a way Noah had never experienced before. Everything took on a different light when it involved Drew. Talking about the trivial activities of the day wasn’t boring. Sharing a movie or even reading the same book and talking about their reactions now felt satisfying and fun.
I’m a Cancer—we’re protective and defend our family. Except I don’t really have any.
Noah didn’t have many living relatives. His father had vanished when he was young, and his mother died two years ago from a bad heart. He had a brother and sister, but they drifted apart, and Noah hadn’t heard from them in years. He wasn’t sure he even had valid addresses for them.
Drew is my mate. He’s my family now. And he has Russ and Liam and their friends. A pack. Someday, they’ll be my pack.
Clowder, his lynx sniffed. Lynxes have a clowder, not a pack.
Sounds like soup.
Clowder is not chowder, silly human. But we could vote to let Drew be an honorary lynx and join.
Vote? Who—you and me?
We are the only ones in our clowder now. It would be nice to add our mate—even if he is a dog.
Wolf.
Canine.
Morgan Brice is the romance pen name of bestselling author Gail Z. Martin. Morgan writes urban fantasy male/male paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. Gail writes epic fantasy and urban fantasy, and together with co-author hubby Larry N. Martin, steampunk and comedic horror, all of which have less romance, more explosions. Characters from her Gail books make frequent appearances in secondary roles in her Morgan books, and vice versa.
On the rare occasions Morgan isn’t writing, she’s either reading, cooking, or spoiling two very pampered dogs.
Series include Witchbane, Badlands, Treasure Trail, Kings of the Mountain and Fox Hollow. Watch for more in these series, plus new series coming soon!
Author Links
Website | Audible Profile | Amazon profile
Facebook Group | Facebook Page
Pinterest (for Morgan and Gail) | Twitter
Sign up for my newsletter and never miss a new release
Read a copy of my Badlands short story Restless Nights here for free
Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway for a chance to win
one of two ebooks of Huntsman (book 1 in the series)
