Book Title: A Taste of Danger: A Subparheroes book
Author: Morgan Brice
Publisher: Darkwind Press
Cover Artist: Dianne Thies
Release Date: September 5, 2024
Pairing: MM
Tense/POV: third person, past tense, alternating POV.
Genres: Romance, Mystery/suspense, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Tropes: Superhero with minor psychic abilities, odd superhero employment agency, craft brewer, secret agent, shifters, supernatural mobsters, fish out of water, small town
Themes: Learning to trust, balancing love and career
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 65 000 words
It is a standalone book and does end on a cliffhanger.
It’s part of a multi-author, shared world series Subparheroes, and it also connects to my Fox Hollow series.
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An unlikely rookie superhero and a dog shifter beer enthusiast team up to stop a nefarious supernatural plot.
Blurb
Food reviewer Scott Dixon didn’t just lose his job—he started getting premonitions linked to random tastes, a new ability he’s not sure how to manage. When an interview lands him a position using his visions to help people and stop criminals, Scott finds himself chasing bootleggers who create beverages specially formulated to control people with psychic abilities. The trail leads to upstate New York, where he meets a sexy craft brewer who takes his breath away, but might be more than he appears, testing Scott’s trust.
Craft brewer and Belgian Malinois shifter Gage Merrick never fit in with his law enforcement family. He loves beer and spent years developing brews designed to taste good to different types of shifters. When he meets Scott, sparks fly. But Gage’s passion for paranormally optimized beverages raises Scott’s suspicions, threatening their chance at happiness.
Will Gage be the love of Scott’s life, or will their affair leave a bitter aftertaste?
A Taste for Danger is a feel-good paranormal super-powered hero MM romance romp filled with secret agents, found family, good beer, quirky humor, sexy shifters, soulful psychics, and supernatural skullduggery!
This book is part of the multi-author MM Romance SubParHeroes series and is also linked to the Fox Hollow series.
Scott had already filled out some initial paperwork online, enough to get his direct deposit and health insurance set up. More documents surprised him, but he dug in hoping to make his first day go smoother.
Have you ever fomented revolution in a foreign country?
No.
Are you now, or have you ever been, on a watch list for revolutionaries?
No.
Have you ever been renditioned? If so, please explain.
No.
Have you died and been brought back to life more than once?
No.
Scott checked to make sure he hadn’t opened some sort of joke form by accident. They either have a really strange sense of humor or an exceptionally thorough human resources department.
Please list any personal experience with Weapons of Mass Destruction. Be sure to include poisons (solid, gas, liquid) and radioactive materials.
He quickly put N/A.
If you have attracted the ire of any covens, nests, or packs, please provide details.
Scott stared at the question for a moment. This is a joke, right? They want to see how well I react to strange situations. I can show them I go with the flow. Another N/A.
Please list any unusual abilities. If you have come to the attention of any governmental organization, public or secret, please make a note.
What the fuck?
Scott thought about his clairgustance and decided that was too odd. He certainly hadn’t attracted attention from any spy organizations. Would I know if I had? Erring on the side of caution, he mentioned the ability, but downplayed it. That should cover my ass.
Do you have any unusual allergies (sensitivity to silver, holy water, or salt, for example) that we should know about?
Scott generally thought he had a good sense of humor, but this was starting to weird him out.
None—not even garlic, he wrote, then backspaced over the last three words.
Do you require any special shielding materials to be in place to protect others’ safety or privacy from your talents?
Scott couldn’t help snickering like a twelve year-old. Regular condoms work just fine, he thought, but marked N/A.
Please name your next of kin, memorial service religious preferences (if any), and any dangers inherent in burial or cremation. If an alternative disposal is required, please note how and why.
Scott sat back and stared at the form. “Next of kin? Alternative disposal? Are they expecting me to fall in a radioactive frying vat?”
He filled out the answers, feeling sad that the best he could do for his next of kin was his sister, who like the rest of his family, was estranged after he came out. Julie might at least make arrangements long-distance. That’s the best I’ve got.
Any personal weapons brought onto the premises remain the responsibility of the owner. SPAM will not be responsible for damages or discharge.
I’ve been in plenty of hot kitchens, but never with anyone packing heat. Except for that one guy, Gino, at the pizza place in college. I’m still pretty sure he was delivering weed with the pizzas.
The stereotype of diva chefs with quick tempers exists for a reason. Letting them bring weapons doesn’t seem like a good idea. Maybe the test kitchen is in a bad part of town, but it didn’t look like it from the maps.
He had thought it odd that the SPAM headquarters hadn’t shown up on the satellite photos as if something obscured the building from view. Maybe there are power lines overhead. That can mess up images. Weird.
Scott finished the questionnaire and started on the medical form. It seemed more normal, although the allergy question came up again. Some questions made him give the laptop a boggled look.
Do you heal exceptionally fast or slow? Please explain.
That wasn’t too weird.
In the event that you are unconscious, do you require extra sedation to keep your abilities under control?
Like I’m going to sing karaoke or something? He marked No.
What is your kryptonite?
Scott had heard personal development trainers ask that question—metaphorically—but had never experienced it on a health questionnaire. Green chiles and andouille sausage give me indigestion, he finally wrote.
Morgan Brice is the romance pen name of bestselling author Gail Z. Martin. Morgan writes urban fantasy MM paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. Gail writes epic and urban fantasy, with less romance, more explosions.
All of the modern-day Morgan Brice and Gail Z. Martin series crossover, so characters from one series appear in cameos and on page in important secondary roles in books from other series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but the more you read the more the expanded universe of friendships and connections becomes clear.
Morgan and Gail believe that paranormal elements make any story even better, and her worlds are full of ghosts, psychics, shifters, creatures, vampires, monster hunters, and magic.
She’s also a huge fan of the TV show Supernatural. (Chibi art by Kamidiox)
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