Snippet Sunday: Magic of the Loch, Chapter 2 #3 #SPeekSunday #8sunday #snippetsunday

Happy Sunday!!

Like many writers, I also have what I call the 'day job', but I took a much needed holiday. We didn't travel anywhere, we just stayed home. Sometimes that is the best vacation. I created a few book covers for Rebecca J. Vickery Publishing and Western Trail Blazer. I blogged and played on Facebook. Fun!

I also worked on Smoke and Mirrors, which is the second book in my Urban Fantasy series. Soul Taker is book one (I still need to come up with a series name.) Any ideas? I don't like choosing titles. lol The series is an urban fantasy where a vampire (Grim Sith), werewolf (Mac Tire), and a Necromancer team up and investigate preternatural crimes. They may have to raise the dead to do it, but they'll get the job done.

What am I'm reading?

I'm still reading The Eagle, but this is for the car (text-to-speech) and I didn't work this week, so I'm still working on this one. For my few chapters before bedtime, I'm reading Riding the Thunder by Deborah MacGillivray. This is the second book in the Sisters of Colford Hall series. The first book is The Invasion of Falgannon Isle. I'm enjoying reading about the hunky dark-haired Mershan Brothers.

What are you reading? Do you have a book to recommend?

Now for Snippet Sunday. This is another snippet from Magic of the Loch. Today's snippet is a couple of paragraphs later from last week. If you missed last weeks snippet, here's the link: Chapter 2 #2 Alan's POV.

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Blurb:

Michaela Grant travels to Scotland for a holiday, knowing this vacation is her last. A medical condition threatens her life and any chance of a future—until she meets Alan MacLachlin, a man forced to exist between two worlds.

Alan is the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Once every fifty years he returns to human form in search of his soul mate, the one woman who can break his curse. He believes he has found forever with Michaela, but to claim it he must figure out how to save her life.

Michaela and Alan vow to take what time has to offer, but another threat looms. A sinister shape shifter with a vendetta against Alan is making Loch Ness his personal hunting ground. Now he’s threatening Michaela. Alan must discover who the shifter is and stop him before it’s too late.

*Note: Snippet has been tweaked to fit the 8 sentence limit.

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Set up for the scene: Michaela agrees to let Alan and Hyatt give her a tour of the loch so she can search for the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Last week we find out Alan's abrupt behavior was due to his intense and sudden attraction to Michaela. He also senses Michaela is not well, making him curious...

Now for the snippet: (Alan's POV)

Would she be thrilled if she actually caught sight of the beast? Probably not. Humans were fascinated with the unknown, but faced with the reality they ran screaming in fear. Why did Michaela Grant travel so far from home? Most humans clung to familiarity when their lives neared its end. They didn’t set out on new adventures. Maybe she didn’t realize how close she danced with eternal sleep.

As if she sensed his thoughts, her eyes shifted and her gaze latched onto him.

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So do you think Michaela knows of her impending doom?

More of Alan's POV next week.

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