Title: Metamorphosis
Author: Jennifer Carole Lewis
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal Romance
Publication date: February 2016
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Ron McBride thought his life couldn’t possibly get any worse. He’s been physically transformed, hunted across most of North America and is haunted by the failures of his past. Now it looks like he’s about to die in the Canadian wilderness.
When he wakes up in the tiny community of Bear Claw, he thinks he’s died and gone to heaven. Particularly when he meets Lily Charging Bull, a beautiful young woman whose family runs almost everything. But there’s a reason why no one has found Bear Claw before.
Lily and her family are skinwalkers, able to shift between human and animal form. For generations, they’ve protected the lalassu who can’t blend easily with human society, often lethally. The question is, will they offer Ron sanctuary or will he vanish like last year’s snow?
EXCERPT
Snow’s ethereal
silvery beauty was best appreciated by someone who wasn’t having to slog
through it, Ron McBride decided, pushing his way through clinging white drifts.
Halloween might be a few weeks away but this far north, winter already had a
solid grip. Light-headed and dizzy, he shook his head against the illusion of
the dark trees merging with the sky, forming a cage around him.
Without the strength of his enhanced
muscles, this cross-country detour would have dropped him hours ago. As it was,
he began to wonder if he’d made a fatal mistake. Hell of a thing if his
paranoia ended up killing him.
Four months of running. Four months
of carrying the burden which weighed down his jacket pocket. Never staying in
any one place for more than a few days. Always making his way further north and
west, searching for the tiny community Virginia Harris had told him about. He’d
already learned the fine art of scrounging for cash-only day labor but after
his captivity he needed to be extra careful. It was too easy to accidentally
lift more than he should have been able to or move faster than human reflexes
allowed. People noticed and then he had to leave quickly before his hunters
showed up on his trail.
He’d been moving steadily, trying to
fulfill a promise with little more than one name which didn’t appear on any
maps and another name which had been an alias. He’d been forced to try and
research both without drawing any attention to himself. All he could do is keep
moving forward and hoping that he would eventually find someone who would
recognize one or the other. He was exhausted, worn out from constantly being on
edge. He’d had a few lapses, blackouts which ended with mad scrambles to
escape. Just a few days to rest. If
he could get them, maybe he could finally start planning rather than reacting.
Find a way to fulfill his promise and then find a way home.
Yesterday, he’d hitched a ride with
a trucker who’d promised to take him to one of the remote supply towns in
northern Canada, near the Alaska border. Ron couldn’t even remember the name
through the fatigue fog drowning his brain. It had been lost but he did
remember the man at the rest stop, poking at the collection of sunglasses,
candy and toiletries under the harsh fluorescent lights. The one dressed in
plaid and jeans, with a baseball cap pulled low over his features. There had
been a jarring addition to the traditional trucker uniform. Expensive leather
boots.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Carole Lewis is a full-time mom, a full-time administrator and a full-time writer, which means she is very much interested in speaking to anyone who comes up with any form of functional time-travel devices or practical cloning methods. Meanwhile, she spends her most of her time alternating between organizing and typing.
She is a devoted comic book geek and Marvel movie enthusiast. She spends far too much of her precious free time watching TV, especially police procedural dramas. Her enthusiasm outstrips her talent in karaoke, cross-stitch and jigsaw puzzles. She is a voracious reader of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction and always enjoys seeking out new suggestions.
She is a devoted comic book geek and Marvel movie enthusiast. She spends far too much of her precious free time watching TV, especially police procedural dramas. Her enthusiasm outstrips her talent in karaoke, cross-stitch and jigsaw puzzles. She is a voracious reader of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction and always enjoys seeking out new suggestions.
AUTHOR LINKS
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jennifer-Carole-Lewis/266116980245327
PRAISE FOR REVELATIONS
Bk#1 Lalassu
From Writer
in Progress: http://writerip.blogspot.ca/2015/05/review-revelations-jennifer-carole.html
“This is
one of the best love stories I have read in a long time.”
From
Romance Novel Giveaways: http://romancenovelgiveaways.blogspot.ca/2015/04/revelations-by-jennifer-carole-lewis.html
“I was on
the edge of my seat with ‘Oh my gosh, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!’ almost constantly
coming out of my mouth.”
Thank you for sharing my cover. I have a giveaway running on my website for a $ 20 Amazon card for all those who are interested: www.jclewis.ca. I can't wait to share more of Metamorphosis with you.
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