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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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“What other kinds of shifters are you housing here?” Ari asked, changing the subject as he spotted a row of cells farther down. They had glass over the front of them, much like the six-inch shatterproof, ballistic glass they had in the tombs back in Los Angeles. As they got closer, Ari could see that they had air holes drilled into the glass just like the ones back home.
“We’ve got a wide variety but all non-violent,” Smith said.
“Why’s that?” Ari asked.
“Because if they’re violent, their clans tend to take care of the problem if you know what I mean.”
“I see,” Eoghan said, “but according to the warden, Champayne is a killer.”
“Woolworth told you that?” Smith asked, stopping in place to turn and look at them. “If he said that, it only confirms that he’s the world’s biggest liar. Beauregard is no more dangerous than the centipede shifter I have at the end of the hall.”
“Wait. What?” Ari said. “You have a centipede shifter?”
Smith smiled. “Yes. Lionel is the sweetest guy you’d ever want to meet.”
Ari just smiled and shook his head as he exchanged an incredulous glance with Eoghan.
“Here we go,” Smith said, stopping at the second cell where a man dressed in a suit sat on a bunk. “Beauregard, these are the marshals who were sent here to escort you to Peg’s mating.”
The vampire stood and walked over to them, smiling broadly and showing just a hint of fangs. “Hullo there.”
Ari’s first impressions were that he had not only a slight British accent, but that he appeared completely normal. He was about Eoghan’s height with black-framed glasses that made him look a little bookish. Lean and attractive in a classical way, he could easily pass for a 1940s or 50s film star. He had jet black hair which was parted on the side and looked like it had been slicked down with some sort of hair gel.
“Hi there,” Eoghan said. “Are you ready to go, Mr. Champayne?”
“I am. Thank you so much for doing this. Peg—that’s my progeny—is so excited. I also confess, I share her excitement. It feels like eons since I’ve laid eyes on her or my dear mate, for that matter.”
Eoghan turned and looked at Ari. “Our prisoners aren’t allowed visitors on the same schedule as other prisoners in Folsom because there’s a complicated system to get them in and out of the prison due to the secrecy we require.”
“It’s horribly lonely as a result,” Champayne said, looking very upset. “I only get one visitor every quarter.”
“That’s sad,” Ari said, feeling very sorry for him.
“We’ve tried to figure out a way to make it easier, and unfortunately, haven’t been able to do that,” Smith said. “Not to mention the fact that Woolworth doesn’t like to cooperate with us unless he’s forced to.”
“A most unpleasant individual never existed,” Champayne agreed with a nod.
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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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