Cover reveal: Heart Mates by Mary Hughes!
**COVER REVEAL**
Title: Heart
Mates (Pull of the Moon Book One)
By: Mary Hughes
Release Date: 04/28/2015
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SKPXWYS/
Synopsis:
Heart Mates (Pull of the Moon, Book 1)
Witch plus wolf? They’re allergic. Except no one told their hearts.
Shifters and witches? Forbidden on pain of death. Might as well stick a
fork in a light socket. Yet those are the kind of sparks witch princess Sophia
Blue feels when she meets wolf shifter Noah in her aunt’s bookstore.
But Sophia is stuck. Her aunt is missing and Noah, the last person to
see her, is Sophia’s only hope. If not for that and her aunt’s new, cute little
doggie, Sophia would run as far as she could from the sexy, hard-hewn alpha.
Noah’s stuck too. Before disappearing, the aunt hit him with a hex gone
horribly wrong—he’s the doggie. By day he’s fifteen pounds of yippity-yip, and
with five anti-alpha wolves nipping at his heels, that’s deadly dangerous. Only
Sophia can help him, but she has lost her magic.
Then an evil mage from Sophia’s past shows up with murder on his mind,
and all Noah’s instincts shout to protect the woman his misguided heart thinks
is his mate.
Warning: Sinfully sexy alpha thrown together with a hot witch in a small
town. Sass, sparkle, a meddling aunt, snafus, growling, fighting, and oh yeah,
sex. Might want to get up to date on your shots.
Enjoy the
following excerpt for Heart
Mates:
Sophia,
looking for her missing aunt, seeks alpha wolf Noah at beta Mason’s garage.
“I don’t
know where Noah is. How could I?” Yet even as Sophia spoke, that snarl of
awareness curled up her nape.
Mason said,
“He phoned just a minute ago. Said you named him Kin—”
“—someone to
help,” a bass voice thrummed from the dark depths.
Sophia spun.
That masculine voice, vibrating with power, plucked a long string of deep,
throbbing need.
A man
emerged from the blackness, gliding into the sharp white light. Her entire
belly turned inside out.
Crane-her-neck
tall. A smooth prowl, all muscular grace, extraordinary strength and endurance.
A fall of black hair over a high, regal brow. He was total alpha—powerful,
deadly and sexy as hell.
Her eyes
widened, her jaw dropped and her heart beat hard against her ribs as her
hormones plonked “Endearing Young Charms”—and then exploded. Not really, but
the full-body shiver and the rush of hot need through her veins was anything
but mild.
He stopped a
few feet from her, standing with breathtaking stillness. Werewolves were
usually ruled by their aggression, so the man’s cool composure was even more
striking.
Definitely a
were, though. His honed jaw was textured by the rough black morning-after-sex
stubble all male wolf shifters seemed to have. Her body splashed with a hot me want of desire.
Their eyes
met.
Power shows in the eyes. This man
had power, and to spare. She was stunned by irises of pure silver around pupils
which opened to her like velvety black pools. She fell in and happily drowned.
“Noah,
finally,” Mason said. “I found Marlowe, but he’d already gotten rid of the…” He
cut Sophia a glance. “The thing. I read the kid the riot act, made him do some
work around here and sent him home.”
“Good.”
Noah’s answer was for Mason but his gaze was still locked on Sophia. He took a
step nearer, his eyes flashing. “You’re Linda’s niece.”
“Yes.”
Nervously, she fingered her pearls. Those gleaming silver eyes knocked her
off-balance, drilling into her very thoughts. She sucked in a breath, got a
lungful of hot male and nearly imploded when her body zinged like every hormone
she had was shouting alleluia.
Damn it, no. He was a shifter. Worse, he
was pack alpha, bound to be mated. An ex-witch slavering after a mated alpha?
Smiting was
happening for sure.
He glided
another step closer, his muscles sliding easily under his skin and clothes. He
raised his hand and caught her fumbling fingers, stilling them.
The warm
pads of his fingers pressed against her skin were stunningly sensual. Her lips
fell open because she was having trouble breathing. She blinked at him.
He lifted
her hand from her pearls and brought it to his nose. Finally those remarkable
eyes closed as he inhaled. A tiny, appreciative smile curved his lips, as if he
were enjoying the bouquet of a fine wine. “You smell amazing.” His voice
rippled with a low, sensual growl.
Her body
responded with “Endearing Young Charms”. Boom-boom.
When his
lids lifted, his gaze had gentled. The wolf within was very strong, but the man
controlled it utterly.
A half step
closer, him or her, she wasn’t sure who. Their auras kissed. A thousand
butterflies jigged inside her. Pure male heat rolled over her skin, edged with
virile, wild magic. A tremor hit low in her belly. If she leaned in a fraction
of an inch, she’d touch him, flesh-on-flesh…she swallowed hard. Touching him
might be like completing an electrical circuit, and she’d be the one fried.
“Look, I’m trying to find my Aunt Linda.”
His gaze
dropped to her mouth as she spoke. “She owns the bookstore.”
“Yes.” Under
that silvery gaze, her lips felt too full, throbbing. The word was hard to
form. She licked.
His pupils
dilated until his eyes were pure black, riveted to her mouth. “You’re the
gor—the woman in the picture.”
What had he
been about to say? Gorilla? Gourmand? Gorgeous?
“What picture?”
“Your aunt
has a photograph of you.” He released her hand to slide a finger under her
chin.
All her
breath expelled. Without oxygen, she let him tilt her face to one side, then
the other. The throbbing in her lips intensified.
His lids
lowered, lazy with promise. “Your nose is longer than I expected.”
Wow. Just
what a woman wanted to hear. “Thanks.”
“It’s a good
nose. Honest. Elegant. I like it.”
Instantly
the throbbing was back, but she pushed it away, mirrored it by stepping back.
“An honest, elegant snout is still a snout.”
He followed
her. “Your nose is unique, like your scent. Exotic. Deeply enticing.”
He was right
on top of her. She stared up into eyes glowing between lids slit, not in
suspicion, but heavy-lidded with intent.
The intent
to kiss her.
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