Ruby
Fielding’s new shifter novella, Hunted,
was published by James Grieve Press on 16th January and is available at the
introductory price of 99 cents at Amazon for a few days only.
Should she struggle to survive alone or
give in to desire and risk the - perhaps deadly - company of others?
In a world where plague has swept
civilization away like leaves in a storm, where viruses that cause people to
shift and change have altered what it is, for most, to be human, a few
survivors hold out in a desperate attempt to save the human race. Selene lives
alone in the forest, protecting herself from human and shifter alike until one
day a stranger turns up: a young man called Skinner, out on a quest to hunt
down and destroy any shifter he can find. Torn between desire and fear, Selene
must confront her true nature and make some impossible choices if she is to
survive this harsh, post-apocalyptic future.
Hunted:
a Shifters' World novella - a shapeshifter erotic
romance of survival and desire in a deadly future from the co-author of Seduced by Moonlight and The Touch.
Read an excerpt:
With the water up to her waist, she stood close
to him but not touching. Intensely aware of his musky man-scent, of the rise
and fall of his chest, of the lean tightness of his physique.
“How do you know I’m safe to be with?”
He seemed surprised by her question.
So close... she turned, still moving, starting
to circle him.
“How do you know I didn’t flee in the night to
protect you?”
What was she doing? Toying with him like this...
Teasing him with the truth in some kind of seductress’s double-bluff.
She continued to circle and he turned slowly on
the spot, so that he was always facing her.
He smiled now, as if deciding to play along.
“Believe me,” he said, “but I’d know. Have you ever seen a beast up close? Even
by day, when the shifting virus is at its lowest ebb, it’s a twisted, debased
thing. A man taken by the virus becomes less than a man. They can’t hide it,
not when you know what to look for.”
Her heart thumped in her chest. Surely he must
be able to hear it? Was he playing with her, just as she had thought she was
playing with him?
“You sound like you’ve a lot of experience.”
He nodded. Not bragging, just matter-of-fact.
“I told you yesterday, I’ve been in the refugee
camps. I’ve seen people taken by the viruses.”
“You know the signs?”
A simple nod again.
Was he toying with her, or simply over-confident
in his own abilities and over-distracted by her naked body as she circled him?
She stopped, reached out, and trailed a finger
down his sternum to the first ripple of his abdomen.
Her touch elicited a slight twitch in his belly.
So yes, maybe this was as intense for
him as it was for her.
Down, and her hand reached water level and the
hollow of his navel.
Almost immediately, hardness made contact with
her wrist below the water and she moved down to take his solid shaft in her
hand.
He put a hand to her face then, his knuckles
brushing along her jaw. Burying his fingers in her hair, he tipped her head
back. His mouth came down on her neck: hard lips and then the wet heat of his
tongue and the delicious pain of raking teeth, dragging across her skin to that
point where too hard is exactly hard enough.
Ruby Fielding is a British author, currently living in the heart of a New
England forest. She travels widely, and has lived in England, Scotland, the US,
France, India and Australia. Wherever she happens to be living, you're likely
to find her at the nearest wifi hot spot with her laptop and a large mug of
coffee.
She writes mainly paranormal erotica and romance, sometimes in collaboration with her old friend Polly J Adams; their joint stories are published separately and collected together into the single volume, Seduced by Moonlight.
She writes mainly paranormal erotica and romance, sometimes in collaboration with her old friend Polly J Adams; their joint stories are published separately and collected together into the single volume, Seduced by Moonlight.
All the latest news on Ruby's writing and
publishing can be found on her website
and on her Amazon
author page; also, why not join her mailing list, or hook up with her
on Facebook
Hunted: a Shifters' World novella is
currently available from:
- Amazon.com
- Amazon.co.uk
- Barnes and Noble
- Kobo
- Google Play
- ...and it will be available from Smashwords and All Romance eBooks soon!
Many thanks for hosting me, Elodie! :)
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