Author: Angel
Castle
Email: jazzgenie@hotmail.com
Genre: Paranormal/Erotic Romance
Excerpt
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In the
heat of the Australian Summer, Tinder Munro has been sent to an obscure little
town, in the Australian bushland, to uncover its secrets. What she never
expects to discover, is the devastatingly sexy Hawk Black, who seems very
intent on embedding himself into Tinder’s body mind and soul.
Hawk,
Panther shifter and beta of Black Town, volunteered to baby sit a
Photojournalist, only to discover the feisty red head his is true mate.
Now
nothing will stop Hawk from getting into Tinder’s life, and keeping her just
were she belongs, with him, in his arms. But when others discover the truth
behind Black town, they decide to make Hawk and Tinder pay a high price, in
more ways than one.
Hawk
races against time to save Tinder, and keep the secret of Black Town secure.
EXCERPT
Pictures speak more than a
thousand words; Tinder Munro's mother, the artist, drilled the words into her
head at an early age. So, what was the picture before her trying to say? It was
odd and out of place. No way, this couldn't be real; someone was playing a
prank on her.
She didn't care. Even pranks
which kept her mind off her current situation were better than sitting around
stewing over things she couldn't change.
She sighed, needing to get
closer. Blackened, scorched ground crackled as she lowered herself to her
knees, inhaling the still-smoky air of the surrounding bushland. It was a few
weeks since the devastating fires ripped through this part of the Black
National Park.
Her current, and temporary,
employer sent her up into the New South Wales Mountain region to an obscure
little town to investigate.
It was good to get out of
the city. When this job was done, she would like to find a smallish town with a
little newspaper. She hoped someone would employ her and buy some of the many
photos she had collected over the years as a photojournalist.
She had nothing to go back
to. What little she did have was stuffed in the boot of her beat up old car.
Black Town Motel would be her home until she finished this job, got the rest of
her money, and moved on.
Tinder ran over the odd
conversation in her head a few times, trying to figure out what the Sydney
money tycoon, Felix Roads, wanted exactly.
'I want anything and
everything suspicious reported. There is something not right with those Black
brothers, and I want to know what it is.'
'Are you sure you want to
use me, Mr. Roads? I'm a photojournalist not a private detective.' She stood in front of his six-foot wide, polished
mahogany desk, in the tall fifty-five story building in the Sydney business
district, overlooking Sydney Harbour bay and the Opera house.
'No, you're exactly what I
need. I want picture evidence of whatever they're up to. There is something odd
with those Black Town people. I think you would do better than any
detective…someone they wouldn't suspect as much.'
'Just what do you expect me
to find in Black Town?'
'I want any dirty secrets
which can discredit them from the contract they stole from me.'
Basically, she was being
sent in as a spy. But how could she object when Mr. Roads handed her a
three-thousand-dollar check?
'Half now, half when you
bring me evidence of what I need to get my contract back.'
This is money she
desperately needed to start over. She would do her job to the best of her
ability; if it was secrets Mr. Roads wanted, then secrets he would get.
After doing a little background
digging on Black Town, via the internet, she kept coming across rumour after
rumour of big cat sightings in the area. Tinder contacted the local park ranger
to obtain permission to have a look around.
During her travels through
Africa, she had photographed many majestic big cats, and had seen their paw
prints in those counties, just like the ones she now studied.
Leaning closer to study the
odd paw prints in the scorched earth, she saw the solid evidence those cat
rumours were true.
She sat back on her heels
and reached for her tan canvas equipment bag, riffling around to find her tape
measure. Leaning back over, she placed it along the side of the print, careful
not to disturb the ground. She lifted her digital camera, placing it over her
right eye and closing the left as the automatic focus adjusted.
Her trigger finger pressed
gently to snap a few shots.
"This has to be too
good to be true." Her got voice lost in the soft whistling of the warm
summer wind in the burnt trees.
Tinder climbed to her feet,
bent over to follow the print trail. She peered over a fallen, two-foot log,
where this cat obviously leapt, leaving lovely, deep prints.
Her excitement bubbled; oh
yes, big cat indeed. If she could be the one to capture it on film, would this
be what Mr. Roads wanted? She shook her head; at this stage she didn't care.
Maybe she could earn some more money by finally proving there is a big cat
living around Black Town Forest.
Her clothes were now
probably streaked with soot, but it didn't matter as her finger pressed down on
the trigger again.
"Holy shit!"
The sudden deep masculine
voice from right behind her jumpstarted her heart into a junkie's, high
adrenaline spike. Her scream pierced the tranquil air and she spun around, only
to lose balance and fall backwards onto her large arse.
She stared up into a pair
of striking, pond-blue eyes. He looked just as startled, his handsome face
twisted down into a fierce frown, making her scramble back further.
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