Heat of the Moment

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By Lori Handeland

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Love is timeless . . .

The folks in my hometown of Three Harbors call me Doc Becca aka Rebecca Carstairs. As long as I can remember I have heard the thoughts of animals, but I learned to keep those "conversations" to myself. Crazy is as crazy does, and a veterinarian who thinks she can talk to animals doesn't last long in small town Wisconsin.

A string of missing pets are found mutilated in the abandoned "witch's house," which also happens to be the childhood home of the only man I've ever loved. Owen McAllister broke my heart when he joined the Marines and left me behind. Now he's back following an accident that left both Owen and his K-9 counterpart in bomb detection injured. Being over him was easy when he wasn't everywhere I turned.

However, the missing animals are only the beginning. Pentagrams, cults, witches—real ones—show up with disturbing speed. And what about the wolf with the oddly human, florescent green eyes that has been a companion since childhood?

When a stranger arrives calling me sister, questions about my past resurface, but before they can be answered, someone tries to kill me. After that, there's no keeping Owen away.

But who wouldn't want a Marine and his military working dog as bodyguards when it seems like the whole world has gone mad?

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“The hits keep on coming!Becca Carstairs is a pretty and gentle flame-haired beauty, with a broken heart. The solace she finds comes from her ability to "listen" to animals and to heal them (though she doesn't know it). She always hid that part of herself out of fear and denial, but once the handsome Owen McAllister comes back to town, on the heels of strange occurrences, she has no choice but to follow her intuition. Strange, creepy, and downright disgusting rituals are being performed, and the body count keeps climbing. Knowing that witches are the ones being brutally murdered does nothing to quell the hysteria. Then, Owen comes back, right at the same time, and she's still in love with him. Owen is a little damaged too, as a man back from combat, he has to fight to adjust and to deal with his Mother's psychosis. Unfortunately, the it's hard to deal with a psychosis that may actually be a result of evil. To find out the truth, the two must work together, and after Raye and Bobby are thrown into the mix, along with a few others, chaos ensues. Now, they're fighting for their lives, and trying to save Becca, the next target. Ultimately, the enemy wins this round, and now the sisters must find their lost third to make their power whole, and to complete the bond that only true blood and relation and can bring in such a regard. This book was so good! Couldn't wait to start Smoke on the Water! Happy Reading!”

About Lori Handeland

Lori Handeland is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 60 published works of fiction to her credit. Her novels, novellas, and short stories span genres from paranormal and urban fantasy to historical romance. After a quarter-century of success and accolades, she began a new chapter in her career. Marking her women’s fiction debut, Just Once (Severn House, January 2019) is a richly layered novel about two women who love the same man, how their lives intertwine, and their journeys of loss, grief, sacrifice, and forgiveness.

While student teaching, Lori started reading a life-changing book, How to Write a Romance and Get It Published. Within its pages. the author, Kathryn Falk, mentioned Romance Writers of America. There was a local chapter; Lori joined it, dived into learning all about the craft and business, and got busy writing a romance novel. With only five pages completed, she entered a contest where the prize was having an editor at Harlequin read her first chapter. She won.

Lori sold her first novel, a western historical romance, in 1993. In the years since then, she has written eleven novels in the popular Nightcreature series, five installments in the Phoenix Chronicles, six works of spicy contemporary romance about the Luchettis, a duet of Shakespeare Undead novels, and many more books. Her fiction has won critical acclaim and coveted awards, including two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Paranormal Romance (Blue Moon) and Best Long Contemporary Category Romance (The Mommy Quest), a Romantic Times Award for Best Harlequin Superromance (A Soldier’s Quest), and a National Reader’s Choice Award for Best Paranormal (Hunter’s Moon).

Lori Handeland lives in Southern Wisconsin with her husband. In between writing and reading, she enjoys long walks with their rescue mutt, Arnold, and occasional visits from her two grown sons and her perfectly adorable grandson.

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