Title: Chosen for Blood
Author: Tamela Maloney
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: Dec 20 2013
Blurb/Synopsis:
Summary
Being a beautiful competitive standout in a
male dominant territory would be any feminists dream until it gets you noticed
by the wrong man. Robyn Woods survives hair raising predicaments when she turns
away from a handsome alpha that has chosen her. She discovers how complicated
life can get when the werewolf and her would be mother-in-law take a bite out
of all her plans.
Synopsis
Twenty-two year old college star athlete,
Robyn Woods, is approached at the campus gym late one night by an obvious admirer
but she can’t help but notice he’s not looking at the usual curves most men pay
attention to. His eyes are scrolling over her biceps, six pack abs and even the
muscles on her legs seem to please him. As if this moment couldn’t get any more
awkward than it already has, he then asks her if she is an alpha, beta or
omega. “Whatever happened to guys asking
you for your number?”
She doesn’t have much time to process the
question as she senses the energy in the air beginning to stir. She feels the
hair on the back of her neck flare up and she pans around the room. The
intentions of her new admirer no longer concern her due to her father’s
unexpected visit. The uncomfortable feeling of being on edge is replaced by a
very bad feeling in her bones, “What’s happened?”
she wonders.
After getting the mother of all bombs
dropped on her, she throws herself into her workouts as a way to deal with her
mother’s death and the fact that her father and sister have already moved to a
new town without her. A monthly membership to a gym is much cheaper than
therapy these days.
As the semester comes to an end and the
summer begins, she joins them. Robyn realizes that in the two months’ time
they’ve lived there, her father not only knows everyone but everyone seems to
know him, too well, and the weirdness begins.
His reason for moving them there was for
safety concerns, after all her mother’s murderer was never caught. But as Robyn
gets to know the area and the people in it she learns her father has moved them
to a town where girls are disappearing left and right.
Robyn has always thought her father’s life
was routine, boring and mediocre but now she knows not everything is how it
seems. And what’s up with her senses? Not only are they on high alert 24/7 but
they are empowering her in ways that even she knows is not normal.
The aggressiveness in Robyn finds a
competitor to square off with. Her sister’s new boyfriend is not only good
looking but he is well preserved with a set of fangs! Robyn feels sucker punched
when she finds out that not only does her sister know her boyfriend shouldn’t
exist but she’s digging it too!
Aggravated with the secrets that have been
kept from her, Robyn is ready to pull up stakes and head back to her hometown
for good but another pair of fangs takes a bite out of her plans.
A very powerful alpha werewolf who has put
off choosing a mate up until now has taken an interest in her. Robyn’s
mentality is put to the real test when she helps unravel the mystery of the
girls’ disappearing and comes to the realization that she is no match for the
werewolf or her soon to be mother-in-law.
Encouraged by his mother, the alpha male
has forced Robyn to be a part of his life, pack life. When her father finds out she has been bitten
by him he does the only thing he can think of to save her and that’s to
challenge the alpha for the rights to his own daughter. Eric Elder, a vampire
whose power is equal to that in status of the werewolf that has bitten Robyn,
shocks everyone with his sudden interest in helping his loyal guardian’s
daughter. Robyn questions Eric’s intentions and denies him the trust that is
needed to see his plan through. Her father’s brave attempt and Eric’s
generosity changes the fate of all their lives and leaves everyone including
the vampires and werewolves of the community wondering one thing, “Will she or
will she not turn?”
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Excerpt:
“Your father has kept you girls away from
pack life. You’ve only been here a couple of days but Raylyn has been here
several months now.” She said it with a serious tone and look to her and I knew
I wasn’t going to like the last part at all.
“They’ve seen Raylyn and want her,” she
confessed.
“Raylyn!”
“Your father is a very strong alpha and if
they are choosing their mates based on pack ranking and bloodlines then of
course they will want her and you, once they learn of your existence,” she
said. She had a look to her and I watched her glance down both tunnels as she
walked over to them. She stood in front of them blocking me. The worried
expression on her face turned into a serious one.
“What is it?” I asked peeking around her to
see.
“I’m worried which tunnel you will choose,”
she said. I could tell she was very concerned.
“Why, what’s down there?” I knew this was
the actual part I wasn’t going to like.
“If Raylyn was taken and thrown into a pit
to fight what would happen to her?” she asked me.
“You sound like dad, don’t say that. I
don’t want to think about it,” I said with tears wanting to form in my eyes
now. Raylyn being attacked and bitten was unconceivable.
“Libby said they wanted her.”
“Then we will have to protect her.” To me
it was the only solution to this problem. Someone would have to stay with
Raylyn 24/7. “I’ll stay with her.”
“You can’t always fight her battles Robyn.
If you try then the same thing that happened to your mother will happen to
her,” she said and for a second I thought I heard a high pitch scream that only
lasted a second. I looked down the tunnel it came from and that made me wonder
why Linda was worried about what tunnel I would chose.
“What’s at the end of this tunnel?” I asked
pointing down it.
“A much needed reality check,” she said and
then stood in my way blocking my view of it. “At the end of this tunnel is an
arena that has been used for many things and training our wolves to fight is
one good purpose it’s served.”
“Alright, who was screaming just now?” I
asked.
“It’s not just the werewolves she’ll have
to be prepared to fight. There are vampires and humans helping these wolves,”
she said trying to keep my attention on her.
“Linda, where’s Raylyn?” I was getting firm
with her.
“She’s learning how to survive.”
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Author Information:
Tamela Maloney wasn’t what you would call
an army brat growing up but she sure moved around a lot like one. Although she made friends wherever her family
lived she would still get bored. To keep
herself company until the next move she would daydream about imaginary
playmates in other worlds filled with plenty of monsters. Today she’s forty-something and has plenty of
friends, “all real!” she’s happy to report.
However, she daydreams more now than ever before. “There are some people who live in a dream
world and there are some who face reality.
I decided to turn one into the other and they mesh well for me!” She didn’t always have time for writing, she
use to sit down at a desk in a small office for a while until she had an
epiphany. At the end of the day she
didn’t feel good enough about herself.
“Anybody could do what I did, it wasn’t enough for me.” So with wanting to make a difference, she
found a job that allowed her to do just that.
She now works with children with special needs. Although it’s not as financially rewarding as
her desk job was it is emotionally rewarding.
“It feels good to know that I help make a child’s day easier and more
enjoyable.” So along with being a hobby
writer and a Good Samaritan she is also a wife and a mother of two or four if
you count the dogs. She has a long list
of loves and likes, but an even longer list of hates. She admits she’s a creature of habit and
doesn’t like her routine fudged with.
Here’s a few that round off the top of all three. For one, she’s an internet nut but yet
electronically challenged. She hates
technology; it’s a flaw of hers that drives her husband batty. Second, she likes popcorn and peanut butter—not
together though. Last but not least, she
loves life, her family, things that make her go “hmm..,” lemon in her water and
dachshunds. “My wiener, Moose, is a werewolf at heart. He’s my biggest supporter. My other wiener Libby doesn’t get it. She doesn’t understand why Moose wants to sit
next to me while I bang away on the square black thing with the long cord she
can’t chew on.” You can find her
book, Chosen for Blood, on Amazon. Book
two, not yet titled, is in the works.
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