Bitten by a
Hellcat, the sixth book in New York Times
best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is
now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a
FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website and sharing sneak peeks of the book. This
book works as a standalone, so it’s perfect for those new to the series too.
Find out how to enter the Bitten by a Hellcat international
giveaway (ends March 1st) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25
gift certificate at her website, where you can also download a 5 chapter sample
of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/bitten-by-a-hellcat-paranormal-romance-novel.php
Here’s more
about Bitten by a Hellcat, including an excerpt from this paranormal romance book.
Bitten by a Hellcat (Eternal Mates Romance
Series Book 6)
Felicity Heaton
The sole remaining member of the most famous shifter hunter family in history, Owen Nightingale is a mercenary and a man with a secret held in his closely guarded heart, but when a beautiful rare shifter catches his eye and offers him a job, he has the feeling he’ll be the one paying for helping her—with his heart.
Felicity Heaton
The sole remaining member of the most famous shifter hunter family in history, Owen Nightingale is a mercenary and a man with a secret held in his closely guarded heart, but when a beautiful rare shifter catches his eye and offers him a job, he has the feeling he’ll be the one paying for helping her—with his heart.
Cait is in a spot of trouble with a capital
T. A male hellcat has set his sights on claiming her and she’s one kitty who
doesn’t want a collar. When she meets a dark, alluring and mysterious hunter,
she sees a chance to rid herself of the male, but the price Owen sets and the
fierce passion that burns white-hot between them lures her dangerously under
his seductive spell.
Can Owen discover the true intent of the
male hellcat and stop Cait from falling into his hands? And can Cait retain
control as the heat of desire burns between her and Owen, or will a reckless
moment seal both of their fates forever?
Bitten by a
Hellcat is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook,
Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the
links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/bitten-by-a-hellcat-paranormal-romance-novel.php
Bitten by a Hellcat – Excerpt
Would he take her
job?
Owen looked back
towards the person she had surreptitiously pointed out, a huge dark-haired man
loitering in one of the many corners of the crowded club but not completely
swathed in shadows.
His blood began a
slow boil at the thought that the man had ambushed Cait just two hours ago,
making her have to fight to escape and injuring her in the process. The shifter
was exactly the sort of mark he had gone after countless times—a male who
thought that females could be subjugated and were put on this planet for their
pleasure, created to be at their beck and call.
Little more than a
slave.
He narrowed his
eyes on the male as the immense shifter looked at him, holding his steady gaze
and showing him that he might have Cait running, but he wouldn’t get the same
reaction out of him.
Owen had put down
plenty of his kind.
This male would be
just another misogynistic bastard to add to his tally.
He dragged his
gaze back to Cait where she sat opposite him, all of her confidence gone,
leaving behind a woman who looked smaller and vulnerable to him.
In need of his
protection.
He had only just
met her, but he didn’t like seeing her this way, the light disappeared from her
eyes and all of the brightness gone from her face as she waited to hear what he
would say.
“I’ll take it.”
Owen offered his hand and she slipped hers into it, her palm soft against his
and sending a warm thrill chasing up his arm.
He shook her hand
and then released her, leaned down and swiped his black satchel from the floor.
Cait’s blue eyes followed his every move and widened slightly when he removed
his tablet device from his bag and flipped the cover open. He set his bag down
on his lap, and the tablet on top of it, and tapped the icon that would start
up the database he had created.
The basic program
filled the bright screen and he tapped on the search function and selected cat
shifters from the list of species. There were so many cat shifter species that
he had given them their own category separate from other shifters.
While it loaded
all of the shifters he had documented, Owen flagged Sherry down. If he was
going to deal with jumping straight into another job, one that might be beyond
his skill level, he was going to need another drink.
Sherry bounced
along the length of the bar to him, her blonde ponytail swaying with each step.
“Hellfire?” she
said with a smile and he grimaced and shook his head.
“Something a
little less liable to kill me this time. Two vodkas, on ice. Make it the good
stuff.”
Sherry nodded and
left to make his drinks. The screen on his tablet changed, snagging his
attention. He swiped up the screen, scrolling through all the cat shifters he
had documented, pausing only long enough to pay Sherry when she returned. She
set the drinks down, took his money, and disappeared along the bar.
Owen pushed one of
the glasses across to Cait. Her eyes were glued to his tablet, the screen
lighting her face as she leaned across, closer to him, her head at an angle.
“These are all
shifters you’ve met?” She ran her gaze over the pictures he had managed to snap
of the shifters in secret from a safe distance and hooked her long dark hair
behind her ears, pulling it away from her face. “It says two thousand three
hundred and twelve results.”
He nodded. “That’s
how many cat shifters I’ve come across. Not all of them are alive now.”
She leaned away
from him, a frown marring her brow. “You think he’s in there?”
Owen shrugged. “He
sounds like the type who might have a rep. I might have come across him before.
There’s something familiar about him.”
He swigged his
vodka and altered the parameters of the search to male and height in the
six-foot-three to six-foot-six range.
The results came
back quicker this time, down to only eight hundred and twenty two.
Cait looked
impressed and scanned the page as he scrolled. He was almost at the bottom of
the list when she jammed her finger against an entry.
“That’s him.” Her
touch brought the record up and she snatched her hand back and blinked at the
screen.
Owen had the
impression that she didn’t get out of Hell much. “Never seen a tablet before?”
“I have,” she
said, a hint of indignation in her tone. “I just haven’t touched one. I wasn’t
expecting it to do that.”
He smiled as she
peered closer to the device, her gaze flitting around the screen.
“You’re certain
this Marius fellow is him?” Owen waited for her to nod before going back to
work.
“Marius,” she
murmured, still staring at the photograph on the screen. “I think I remember
someone shouting that at him once.”
He double-tapped
the part of the entry where it had the male down as a panther shifter and
corrected it. The notes on the sources of information mentioned that eyewitnesses
in a Nepal village high in the mountains in snow leopard territory had
described him as a black cat. Owen had presumed he was a black panther. He
probably hadn’t even considered the male could be a hellcat.
“I don’t have much
on him.” But what he did have was enough to ring some warning bells in his
head.
The male followed
similar patterns to other fae he had tracked, travelling from one prime
location for rare species to another. Nepal. Brazil. Northern India. Siberia.
All places with rare cat shifters.
Owen studied Cait
as she stared at the tablet.
He had a feeling
she might be in serious danger but he didn’t want to spook her by telling her
that the male after her probably dealt in the black market. They were both
hellcats. There was an equal chance that Cait was right and Marius wanted her
as a mate.
Until he had
investigated the male further and had more information on him, Owen would keep
his suspicions to himself.
He closed the
cover of his tablet device and put it back in his bag.
“I don’t go into
things blind. I need more information. I think we should go somewhere quieter
to discuss the job and so you can fill me in on everything you know… maybe away
from your admirer.” Owen took his drink and smiled at her, raising the glass at
the same time, hoping the male was still watching them.
If luck was with
him, Marius wouldn’t know who he was and would think he was just another mortal
in the bar flirting with Cait. A harmless male looking for a good time.
He instantly
hardened in his black jeans, his body issuing a painful reminder that it wasn’t
wholly a lie. He was looking for a good time with Cait. Her flirting had revved
him up, filling his head with thoughts of finding a dark corner and making out
with her.
Okay, making out
was a little too innocent sounding for what he had in mind, but it had been a
while since he had been as attracted to someone as he was to her. Heck, he
wasn’t sure he had ever been this attracted to anyone. He had always kept his
dalliances short and sweet, a periodic scratching of a biological itch, but
something about Cait had him firing on all cylinders and thinking in terms
longer than a single hot and heavy moment.
He was thinking in
terms longer than multiple hot and heavy moments. Nights were involved. Many of
them. As many as she would give him.
More than they
might have together when working on her job.
He emptied his
glass to kill that thought with the alcohol and set it back down on the bar.
“Where do you want
to go?” She sipped her drink, a genuine smile playing on her lips and the fire
back in her eyes. It sent a bolt of hot lust through him again and he grimaced
and shifted on his seat, trying to get more comfortable as his jeans pinched
his groin.
“My place.” It
came out a little harder and more demanding, and definitely more hungry than he
had intended.
Bitten by a
Hellcat is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook,
Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback.
Find all the
links, a fantastic 4 chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to
enter the giveaway and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift
certificate at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/bitten-by-a-hellcat-paranormal-romance-novel.php
Books in the Eternal Mates paranormal romance series:
About Felicity
Heaton:
Felicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today
international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books.
In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action,
intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from
dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful
angels and hot demons! If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara
Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then
you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and
wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong,
powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her
stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that
are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic
Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded
alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and
angels, then take a look at the new Eternal Mates series.
If you want to know more about Felicity,
or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:
Website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk
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Awesome excerpt. I can't wait to catch up in this series.I look forward to reading more about Owen & Cait. Thanks for posting.
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