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BLITZ with author Annabeth Leong
What’s up everyone? I am excited to be able
to tell you all about this next book. I am not familiar with the author, but
when I read the excerpt, I was intrigued and wanted to find out more. Unfortunately,
that tour was full … but lucky me … joy of all joys … I found another tour featuring
the same book and now I get to share it with you all! Yippee! Totes awesome,
that! So let’s get on with it. I haven’t read the excerpt yet, so I am anxious
to read it as I work on this post. AANNDD … there is a Buy 1 Get 1 Offer that
you just might be able to make use of if you act fast! Make sure to red to the
end for details! *nods* Please allow me to introduce to the blog:
**ANNABETH LEONG**
**BIO**
Annabeth Leong has
written romance and erotica of many flavors -- dark, kinky, vanilla, straight,
lesbian, bi, and menage. Her titles for Breathless Press include Not His Territory, Not the Leader of the Pack, and a contribution to the Ravaged anthology. She enjoys writing
about the tension between passion and control that werewolves embody.
Unfortunately, when Annabeth loses control of herself, she does not gain the
power to change shape. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, blogs and tweets.
She loves talking books on Goodreads, too.
You can
find out more about Ms. Leong in the following places:
**NOT THE LEADER OF THE PACK**
**BLURB**
Rival alphas Juli Gunby and Neil Statham
want to tear each other apart — but will they do it in battle or as mates?
When
Juli Gunby left Missoula, Montana, she didn’t intend to come back. Not to her exacting
alpha werewolf father, and certainly not to Neil Statham, the beta who rejected
Juli’s girlish advances. Her father, as usual, has other ideas, using his dying
breath to pass pack leadership to his daughter. Juli resolves to carry out her
duty to her father and her pack, but the one man she wants on her side has made
himself her enemy.
After
years of loyal service to the pack, Neil expects to take over as alpha when his
mentor dies. As good as it is to see Juli again, he knows he can’t trust her. After
all, she abandoned both him and the pack years ago and never looked back. Neil
determines to fight for his rightful position in the pack, even if that means
going up against a woman who fills him with an overwhelming urge to mate every
time she walks into the room.
Someone
needs to lead, and the more Neil and Juli fight, the more they attract
interference from those who would control the pack and destroy the ties between
them.
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**EXCERPT**
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"Juli.
We're the only pack members who saw your father pass that ring of leadership to
you." He paused to allow the significance to sink in, the bar noise around
them rising to fill his silence. "You have another life in Lewistown. You
have a career. You've made it clear you're not interested in this pack. We can
say whatever we want about what took place in that room. He could have passed
the ring to me as far as anyone else knows. No one would question that."
He would have kept talking, except that Juli
wrenched herself violently out of his grasp at that point. "Not interested
in this pack? We can say whatever we want?" He heard her just fine over
the music despite the new distance between them. In fact, he worried who else
had heard her mention the pack. And who else had seen that furry paw she'd
thrust into his face.
They both froze for a second, staring at
her latest lapse of control.
"Damn it." Juli's curse came out
more as a growl than as words.
"We need to get out of here,"
Neil said. "You just focus on staying cool." She knew better than to
argue with him. He grabbed her hand and pulled her out, leaving their beers
behind. They could finish this conversation in his truck.
They ran for the truck like the rest of the
world was on fire, and slammed the doors behind them once they got there. Juli
writhed in her seat, gasping, her wolf form rippling just on the other side of
her skin. Neil panted in response. He didn't normally have trouble controlling
his shift, but with her beside him, so close, too much of him wanted to meet
her in a place of complete abandon. He wanted to run with her under the moon,
fight her for supremacy until neither cared who wound up on top or on the
bottom. Then, with one last vicious pounce, he wanted to surrender to the
merging of their bodies. He swallowed hard.
Stats. He ran through the winning World
Series teams for the last three decades. He tried to calculate his total career
RBIs. The stream of data calmed Neil down. He started the car. "I'm going
to drive us somewhere a little more private," he told Juli. "Just in
case."
"Back to the hospital."
"You're in no shape—"
"Back to the hospital." She
showed fangs. Neil didn't need that so soon after he'd regained his own
control. He stopped arguing and pressed the gas. They'd go somewhere. He just
needed to be driving so he had something to concentrate on besides the idea of
Juli giving herself up to the beast. He needed a really good reason to remain
in human form.
The truck's cab filled with her labored
breathing. Neil turned on the radio to distract himself from the sexual images
the sound called up for him. He'd always avoided being alone with her, afraid
to give even the appearance of impropriety. Right then, Neil wasn't sure if he
was grateful for the trouble he'd saved himself or sorry as hell for what he'd
missed. The instinctual attraction he felt for her was off the charts.
He got so caught in his reverie that only
Juli tugging at his sleeve alerted him that her struggles had become sobs.
"Neil, can you pull over?" Her voice sounded deflated. "I'm
sorry I insisted about the hospital. I'm not ready to go back there yet."
Her obvious misery immediately pierced his
sexual fog. Neil pulled the truck into a convenience store parking lot and
looked at her. "Do you want a minute? I can go get some water."
"No, it's okay." She hesitated,
chewing on her top lip. "I'm obviously way out of control."
He watched her face carefully. "About
what I said in the bar... I didn't mean to offend you."
"You just think I don't care about any
of this."
"Well, do you?"
Her head snapped up and a bit of the wolf
flickered behind her eyes again. "How can you ask me that?"
Neil blew out a long breath. She wanted him
to make his case? He could do that. "You know being pack alpha doesn't
pay. What about your fancy job in Lewistown? The one that was so important you
couldn't come back here to visit your dad?"
She rubbed her eyes. "Can you try to
keep the venom out of this, Neil? Jeez, you're so bitter, you'd think I failed
to visit you." Bingo. But Juli continued speaking, oblivious.
"Gabriel's not going to like it if I resign. He talked a lot about
developing new talent when he hired me. But it's not like the Council can't run
without me. This was my father's last request. Besides, the pack probably needs
me more."
He swallowed, unable to believe she had the
nerve to say these things. "Maybe I'm underestimating how good you are at
walking away from things. Foolish of me, since I have personal
experience." Neil shook his head, uncertain if the anger surging through
him was directed at himself or at Juli. "The pack needs someone really
committed, Juli. Not someone who will leave again the next time it's
convenient."
She snapped her gaze to his, her eyes
widening with understanding. A wave of fear rushed through him. He'd revealed
too much of his personal feelings. They needed to decide about the pack first.
"You were the one who rejected me, Neil," Juli said, her voice so
soft he almost couldn't hear her. "All I did was move on."
**SPECIAL**
**Buy One Get One Offer ~ LIMITED**
Not
the Leader of the Pack stands alone, but Annabeth has written in its
world before. She’d love to share the previous title, Not His Territory, with current readers. If you’d like to
participate, e-mail proof of purchase of Not
the Leader of the Pack, such as an Amazon receipt, to annabeth dot leong at
gmail dot com and let her know your e-book format of choice. Annabeth will buy
a copy of Not His Territory for the
first 25 people who respond.
Well, if the blurb didn’t do it for you,
the excerpt should have. This one is definitely going on my TBR list. I only
wish I knew more about Ms. Leong. But maybe some of you can help me out with
that. Tell me what you thought about the post and if you are likely to read
this book. Have you read Ms. Leong before? What can you tell me? I always welcome
your feedback and look forward to your responses.
I would like to thank all of you for being
here with me today. I hope you enjoyed getting to know a bit about Ms. Leong
and her book. Remember that the best way to support authors is to buy their
books so if you liked what you read here today, take a moment to buy a copy for
yourself. And don’t forget to check out that Buy 1 Get 1 Offer! I hope everyone has a terrific day and
until next time …
HAPPY READING!!!
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