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Blood and Bone by Patricia Logan
U.S. Marshals I.S.R. (Interspecies Response), Book 2
Aristotle Brown is starting to like his new job with the U.S. Marshals Interspecies Response unit. If anyone would have told him vampires, shifters, werewolves, and space aliens existed a few months ago, he would have called them crazy. But meeting his new partner has proven to be the best part of the I.S.R. He’s settling into the new job and the new man nicely. When he moved out to Los Angeles from Lexington, Kentucky a few months ago, he thought he might try finding a guy, but he never expected to feel that way about his new partner.
Eoghan Sapphire thinks Ari is beautiful and brilliant, and that’s probably a good thing since they spend a lot of time together. Very quickly, he realizes that the feelings he’s having for the man, aren’t purely professional. He wishes things would slow down for just a minute but when work gets in the way, he realizes they can’t stop moving for even a minute. On the way to northern California to help the local sheriff locate a fugitive shifter Eoghan once put behind bars, he and Ari drop in on a friend before coming face to face with a couple of unexpected predators. If their life wasn’t crazy enough, a couple of cephalopods give chase.
Better still, a case involving a vampire with a very unusual oral fixation, has both of them grateful for the blood-sucker’s restraint. Just when both men think things might settle down and there’ll be an end to the madness, they’re tasked to meet a couple of the scariest shifters they’ve ever heard of. And just to put a cherry on top of the assignment, it turns out these guys aren’t exactly the forgiving kind. As Eoghan and Ari enter a world neither could have prepared for, they come face to face with something thought to live only…in legend.
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“Oh, are there others with you?”
Elroy’s head bobbed and then turned to look back at the crack between the pop machine and wall. He said something in a strange, hissing language, and Ari watched as two more creatures which looked much like Elroy cautiously came out from behind the machine. They joined Elroy, standing on either side of him and stared up at Eoghan. Eoghan held out a hand and the three reached out and tapped his fingers with their tiny hands. It was like watching his partner get a high five from three tiny lizards. Ari watched the entire display as he felt humor fill his whole being with warmth.
This job is so fucking cool.
“What are you doing here?” Eoghan asked. “When Frank and I saw you last, you were on your way to Reno.”
“Reno?” Ari asked, snorting.
Eoghan glanced up at him. “It’s not that far from here and Powmays are shameless gamblers.”
“Gamblers?” Ari asked, dumbfounded. “How the hell—?”
“Underground alien gambling joints,” Eoghan said. “There’s a shitload of them in Reno but if you think that’s crazy, you should see how many there are in Vegas.”
“Vegaaasss…” All three Powmays started clapping their little hands and stomping their tiny feet.
“Are we talking Tatooine here…or is it more like the vampire bar at the beginning of Blade?” Ari asked.
Eoghan screwed up his features, clearly trying not to laugh, and then huffed a breath, not answering before turning back to Elroy and holding out the palm of his hand. The creature crawled into it before Eoghan straightened to his full height.
Ari watched Elroy cock his tiny multi-eyeballed head to the side as he examined him. His tail eyeball stretched over his back almost to where his shoulder would have been if he’d had one. Ari assumed it was so he could get a better view of him. The eye watched him closely, blinking several times with that odd vertical eyelid.
“The underground bars in Vegas are more like Tatooine than the vampire bar in Blade,” Eoghan said. “Let me put it this way…you’re not going to get drowned by blood coming from sprinklers, though, you may see a lot of creatures who resemble those Tatooine aliens from Star Wars.” He shrugged as if what he’d just said was the most normal thing in the world. “I’m sure you’ll get to experience an underground alien gambling joint at some point. Usually, the Vegas I.S.R. takes care of any incidents which arise with them, but every once in a while, they call us for backup.”
Ari couldn’t do anything but shake his head and laugh. This whole conversation was ridiculous.
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Check out Book 1 in the U.S. Marshals I.S.R. (Interspecies Response) Series: Tooth and Nail
The very last thing U.S. Marshal Eoghan Sapphire wants is a new partnership. Worse yet, the transfer from Lexington, Kentucky is a civilian. That means it’ll be Eoghan’s responsibility to break him into the I.S.R. and the unique way their particular U.S. Marshals Service unit operates. He decides being a jerk to him and keeping him at arm’s length just might be the way to handle things…until he meets him.
Aristotle Brown isn’t like anyone Eoghan’s ever known before. He’s polite, willing to learn, and most of all, devastatingly handsome. Eoghan’s actually happy they’re thrown into a dangerous situation with a WITSEC protectee the first day his brand-new partner is on the job. Dealing with this particular man will let Eoghan know what Ari Brown’s made of. Will he break under pressure?
Dealing with humans is standard everyday stuff in the U.S. Marshals Service but other non-human species like shifters, other paranormals, and aliens from distant star systems…well, that’s where things promise to get downright interesting. Their second day on the job is no different. And he’s not prepared for Ari’s cool-headed composure when he comes face to face with an example of everything the I.S.R. deals with every day.
To top it all off, the marshal sent to back the two men up when things get dicey in Griffith Park isn’t as reliable as Eoghan had hoped. The impulses of the guy nearly get them all killed but fortunately, Ari performs like a dream, helping extract everyone when things go from bad to worse. Eoghan is sure of a couple of things…acting as this man’s training officer isn’t going to be such a struggle after all, and keeping his hands off him is going to be the hardest part about this assignment.
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International bestselling author Patricia Logan, resides in Los Angeles, California. The author of several #1 bestselling romances in English, Italian, French, and Spanish lives in a small house with a large family. When she’s not writing her next thriller or paranormal romance, she’s watching her grandchildren grow up way too soon, and raising kids who make her proud every day. One of her favorite tasks is coaxing nose kisses from cats who insist on flopping on her keyboard while she types. Married to a wonderful man for 36 years, she counts herself lucky to be surrounded by people who love her and give her stories to tell every day.
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