Please welcome my guest blogger today, the lovely and talented Maia Dylan with her newest release:
BLESSED WITH AN ANGEL – GREY RIVER 5
Blurb:
Angel
Navarez came to Grey River
looking for a better life for her and her son, but she hadn’t counted on having
to fight a man looking for revenge to live it.
Noah
and Chris Carson both recognized Angel as their Fated mate the moment they
met. But Noah firmly believed that his
past actions made it impossible for him to have a future, so he left fully
expecting his brother to find happiness with their mate without him.
But
that changes when Angel is threatened and Noah drops everything to be there to
protect her. Chris convinces Noah that
he’s worthy of their dream, but he can’t fight for their future if he continued
to fight his past. They must work
together to earn back Angels trust and convince her that they can be the mates
she deserves.
Just
when their dream is within their grasp, the past catches up with them and the
threat becomes very, very real.
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The Story...
STORY
EXCERPT:
“Oh God, Chris, I don’t know if I can do this,” Angel sobbed and Noah
felt a pain settle in his heart at her distress.
“Angel, of course you can,” Noah tried his best to channel the soft and
encouraging tone his brother had been using.
“Noah’s right baby, you are one of the strongest women I know! You want
to meet your baby boy, I know you do, and I can assure you he wants to meet you
too,” Chris moved lower and Noah watched his hands working to help Angel birth
her baby, and from the way she was tensing again, Noah knew a contraction had
just hit her. He leaned into her, pushing her forward like she wanted and took
her weight for her.
“That’s it, Angel! Here he comes, baby, here he comes... I’ve got him!”
Chris announced as Angel collapsed, sobbing uncontrollably against Noah. A few
seconds later there was a small cry, then a full-on wailing as the baby
screamed his displeasure at what had just happened. Chris tore of his shirt,
wrapped the baby in it and then immediately moved to place the bundle on his
mama.
“Oh, my god, oh my god,” Angel cried as she wrapped her arms around the
precious bundle and stared into the wrinkled little face. “Hi! Hi, baby boy,
I’m your mama. Oh! You are so beautiful,” she whispered as she pressed her lips
to his little forehead. Noah had to agree, he was looking at a strikingly
beautiful baby, despite being fresh out of the oven and covered in...stuff.
“Fresh out of the oven,”—Chris’s laughing voice came down their link—“I
dare you to say that out loud!”
Noah sent him a small smile and shook his head. He might have only just
met Angel, but he knew that she wouldn’t find that description flattering at
all. He had registered the sirens in the distance in the final moments of Angel
giving birth, but hadn’t paid it any notice. Now he felt relief when he heard
another ambulance screech to a halt outside the house.
“The ambulance is here, Angel,” Chris said tenderly, and Noah watched
with a heavy heart as Chris leaned over and pressed a kiss to first Angel’s
forehead and then the baby’s. “They are going to take you straight up to Labor
and Delivery to get you cleaned up and I’ll meet you there, okay?” Angel’s head
flew up and whatever Chris saw in her gaze had him reassuring her. “I promise,
baby, I will only be a couple of minutes behind you. I need to talk with Noah
for a moment and then we’ll come up and see you.” Angel nodded hesitantly and
Noah knew she would have rather had Chris go with her.
“Go with her, Chris.” Noah used their link for the first time, in a very
long time. “She’s scared and she needs you.”
Chris was quiet as his gaze bore into Noah and he felt almost stripped
naked by the intensity of it. “There is nothing I want more than to go with
her, but I think you and I need to have a conversation first.”
The next few minutes were filled with people moving quickly and
efficiently to get Angel onto a stretcher and then they hustled her to the
front of the house. Noah stayed back and out of sight. His head was spinning
now that the adrenaline of the moment had faded, and it reminded him that he
had recently suffered significant blood loss, still had three bullets in his
back and a system full of jax. All in all, it was fucking surprising he was
still on his feet.
“Noah,” Chris moved toward him, and Noah couldn’t stop himself from
taking a small step back. He saw the pain on Chris’s face and immediately
regretted the move, but Noah was worried about whether or not the poison could
be absorbed by Chris if he came in contact with his blood. Until he found out
for sure, he was keeping his brother safe. Just as he always had and always
would.
Chris made a frustrated sound as he ran his hands through his hair, a
move Noah knew very well. “Shit, Noah. You’ve been gone for eight months. Eight
fucking months with no word from you! You closed yourself off from our bond,
and like a dumbass little brother I kept talking to you. Did you even hear me
at all?”
“No,” Noah felt acid boiling in his stomach. He had never lied to Chris.
Oh, sure he had omitted stuff, but what older brother didn’t? But bald face
lied to his face? Never. Not until that very moment.
Chris exhaled hard, as if Noah had actually punched him in the stomach.
“Okay then, so you left and severed contact with me. Why?” The pleading in his
voice and filling his eyes almost had Noah telling him everything, just to get
Chris to feel better.
“I’m just not meant to be here, Chris.” Noah didn’t lie this time. He
truly believed he wasn’t worthy of returning to Grey River. Working
as an Enforcer, and taking out shifter assholes that break their laws was his
penance. “I can’t be here.”
“What about Angel? I know you felt the Quickening, the same as I did.”
Chris stepped right up and got in his face and Noah almost smiled. Chris was
the healer, not the fighter of the two brothers, but for his mate, he would
stand toe-to-toe with a killer, and that was exactly what Noah was. “Are you
just going to turn your back on our triad? Everything we hoped for and prayed
for growing up is right in fucking front of us for the taking. Are you gonna
reach out with me, and grab a hold of her and never fucking let her go?”
© MAIA DYLAN, SIREN PUBLISHING, 2015
Excerpt R
“Sweetheart,
I want you so damn badly I ache,” he said softly. “But I want this to be about
us, not just about me. Tell me you want me. Tell us you want us and how you
want us to take you and it’s yours. Everything we have, everything we are, is
yours.”
Angel’s
grin became wicked. She stepped into him, lifting her hand up to unclasp the
front of her bra and drop it to the ground at his feet. Noah’s tongue quickly
became stuck to the roof of his mouth as it dried out.
“Oh,
Noah honey, I’m sure it will be all about us. And everything that I am belongs
to you and Chris, so I guess that trade is even.” She wrapped her left hand
around his neck and her right dropped down and behind her to tug on the pocket
of his jeans and she tugged them both closer.
“Now,
physically I know how things can go in a ménage relationship.” Angel paused as
she leaned to the side so both he and Chris could see her face and gave them a
coy look, “I’ve ah—loved ménage books for a long time now, and I’ve always
thought it would be hot to be taken by two men at the same time.”
Noah
shared a quick startled glance with Chris. They wanted that more than anything,
but they didn’t think she was physically ready for that, and Noah fought to
find the words to tell her that.
“Angel—”
both he and Chris said at the same time, but Angel spoke over them, not giving
them the chance to finish.
“But,
I’m not ready for that yet. Soon, but not now. But because I love being pressed
between you, do you think there is a way for me to stay pressed between you?”
Her voice dropped to a sultry whisper at the end of her request and Noah
nodded. Hell yeah there was a way.
He
quickly sent his plan to Chris down their link who nodded eagerly in agreement.
“Sweetheart,
wrap your arms around my neck.” Noah waited while Angel did as he asked and he
rubbed his nose against her, loving her sweet giggle. “Good girl. Now, I’m
going to lift you up against me and I want you to wrap your legs around my
hips. Once I’m buried to the hilt inside that beautiful soft, naked pussy of
yours, I want you to lean back so that you’re leaning on Chris.”
Noah
reached down and lifted their mate high against his chest, loving that her legs
came up immediately to wrap around him. She surprised him a little when she
leaned back and clasped his dick in her hand, making him curse.
“Oh
Noah, you feel like hard steel wrapped in warm silk.” The awe and need in her
voice had his heart pounding hard in his chest. “I’m on the pill and I can’t
wait to feel you inside me.”
Noah
started counting slowly to ten when she moved to press the head of his cock
against the lips of her pussy. He could feel the wet heat of her and he called
on every ounce of control he had in his body. She slowly lowered herself on him
and when he saw her wince, he gripped her hips.
“Did
that hurt?” He gritted between his teeth. Chris stepped in closer and pressed
against her back.
“Are
you in pain, Angel?” his concerned voice was slightly muffled as Chris pressed
his lips to the soft skin at their mate’s neck.
“Oh
no! Not at all. I just realized that even though I might not have a concern
about you being naked inside me, you might want to wear a condom.” Noah hated
to hear the doubt in her voice, so pushed forward until he was settled balls
deep inside her and she gasped as her arms flew up to wrap around his
shoulders.
“Does
that feel like I am anything but turned on and harder than granite at the
pleasure and honor of being inside you with no barriers between us?” he said,
his voice harsh.
Her
beautiful brown eyes were wide and filled with wonder as she shook her head.
“I
fucking love being inside your body, and feeling every inch of your cunt ripple
around my cock makes me the happiest damn man on the face of the earth. Now,
lean back against Chris, my love, and let me have you.” He waited, his body
vibrating with the need to move, as she did as he asked and Chris took her arms
off Noah’s shoulders and drew them up over his own head so that she clasped
them behind his head. The move had her breast thrusting straight up and his
control snapped at the sight.
© MAIA DYLAN, SIREN
PUBLISHING, 2015
Five
questions for the author
Q: Every book is special to an
author. What is it about this book that
makes it special for you?
A: Quite simply it’s Noah. He came to me in the first book of this
series Lost Faith and he’s been whispering to me for the past
six months. He needs someone to love and
protect, and Angel absolutely is his other half. Then you add in the fact that he has been
lying to his brother, and you get a family dynamic that I just really loved.
Q:
Sometimes things happen when you are writing a series that wasn’t
expected at all. Have you had this
happen to you?
A: Heaps! I am not a planner. I am a write-by-the-set-of-your-panties kinda
girl. There have been moments where I
will finish up a scene and be like WTF?
I did not see that coming! Over
the next few books, there are answers that start to help explain a few things
for my characters, and I didn’t know that the connections ran so deeply.
Q.
Is that why you always include a danger element to your books?
A. I write what I love to
read. I love books that take you on a
journey, but where the characters face a challenge that adds an element of
urgency to them and to the book. As a
reader, there is nothing I like more than getting that goose bump, hair rising
on the back of my neck feeling as I join the characters within the book I am
reading on the journey to solve their mystery.
I want to give that to my readers.
Q.
What are you working on at the moment?
A. Grey River has so many stories
to tell, and I am currently working on book seven of this series. When I sat
down to start writing this book, I had a story in mind and had assumed it would
be a particular story. But, I was a
little taken a back when I started to write about a female character I had yet
encountered. And I was shocked as hell
when she turned out to be the Fated mate of two characters I hadn’t realized
even had a story to tell yet! I am also
writing Ryan and Ariana’s story in The Sherriff and his Air Goddess which is book three in my Shifters of Freedom Springs series.
I love the mythological angle of this series! There are only 2 books after this one in the
series so things are definitely heating up for the Elementals and the stakes were
never higher!
Q.
Do you have anything to say to your current readers or to those that
haven’t yet read you work?
A. If you have read any of my
books, thank you so very much! It blows
my mind that someone has actually read something that I wrote, but gosh I hope
you enjoyed it! Did you? Please let me know, I find I suffer from a
slight case of needy-nelly with my writing.
If you haven’t read my book, but you love erotic romance stories between
strong men and an independent woman, where the path to their happily ever after
can be a bumpy one, but there is always a happily ever after, and their love
and laughter is real on every page, then you’ll find my books right up your
alley!
Author
bio:
Maia Dylan lives, loves and works in beautiful New Zealand.
She married her best friend and they have two adorable, but stubborn children
who obviously take after their father.
Maia’s career has featured a lot of travel, and she has
filled her time at airports and in the air with books, books and more
books. Her love of erotic paranormal
romance has seen her amass a huge library.
She has been an avid reader and lover of ménage romances since she read
her first book in this genre about three years ago.
In January of this year, Maia submitted her first ever
manuscript to Siren Publishing. She
wasn’t at all confident that it would be accepted and in fact she was expecting
a nicely worded email with a resounding no!
Much to her surprise less than two weeks later she had an acceptance and
a signed contract in hand. Since then
she hasn’t looked back and currently has three books in her Grey River series set for publication.
Outside of writing, Maia loves to eat, so she loves to
cook! Her herb garden is legendary, but
she still has issues getting tomatoes to grow.
She’s been a performer for years, and has even sung on international
stages, she would love to own a classic Ford Mustang one day and of course have
the opportunity to race it on a race track without fear of a speeding ticket.
Although ultimately her dream is to be able to write full
time on a sandy beach with a Mai Tai at hand, she is quite happy to fit her
writing in when she can. As long as
someone reads her books, gets a laugh and maybe come to love her characters and
much as she does, then she feels that she is living her dreams no matter what!
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