Book Name: Midnight Rodeo: Belonging
Series: Midnight Rodeo
Book: Two
Release
Date: January 29, 2016
Blurb:
What happens when rodeos
start to get too tough for humans to compete in? Midnight Rodeo, of course,
where supernatural creatures like shifters and vampires work for the prize
money, and for the awe of their audience.
Light a Rocket by Julia
Talbot
Rocket is probably the worst rider in Darque and
Knight rodeo troupe. This cheetah shifter is fast as the wind, but he only has
so many lives in his cat body, and he spends more time injured than not. Raven
Walkingman is the number one cowboy in the Midnight Rodeo, at the top of his
game. The two seem an unlikely match, but Raven enjoys doing things no one
expects him to, including Rocket.
Raven likes his relationships casual, though,
and when Rocket starts talking mates as shifters are wont to do, Raven pulls up
the stakes. He has his animal spirit guides, his good friends, and his fancy
trailer. He doesn't need a ragtag cheetah falling in love with him. His spirit
guides know better. They adore Rocket and are more than happy to support him,
and abandon Raven, until the stubborn fool does the right thing.
Tails and Whiskers by BA
Tortuga
Tiger shifter Dmitri loves the rodeo. Darque and
Knight has become his home, and he adores all of his new friends. Still, his
past as a circus animal causes him to hate injustice, so when he meets a trick
rider and fox shifter, Dmitri is appalled to find that the hot little kit isn't
allowed inside the rodeo ground except when he works. In fact, none of the
entertainers are allowed in, all being contractors and thus bound to a different
boss, who happens to be a greedy goblin.
As Dmitri and Isaac learn to love one another,
they find growing dissatisfaction with the status quo, and they go to their
friends for support in forcing a policy change. Too bad there's a certain
goblin who doesn't want to give up control of his workers. Can Dmitri and Isaac
find a way to be together, and to make a change for the better of everyone at
D&K?
Freaked Out by Kiernan
Kelly
Gargoyle-shifter Killian has spent his life
living and working with all different sorts of supernatural folk, but because
he had three forms instead of two like most other shapeshifters, he’s always
felt like a freak. His habit of keeping to himself and minding his own business
has been his shield against being hurt, and to aid in that endeavor, he’s
adopted a stony personality.
When a troupe of sideshow performers are hired
by Darque and Knight to augment the rodeo, he’s forced to redefine his ideas of
what constitutes beauty and what defines a freak. Meanwhile, the hard, protective
shell he’s erected around his heart threatens to crack wide open under the
tender touch of Micah, the sideshow’s hideous Snake Man.
Pages or Words: 60,000 words
Categories: M/M Romance, Paranormal,
Western/Cowboy
Excerpt:
Excerpt from Tails and Whiskers by BA Tortuga
Someone was singing about
having a tiger by the tail. Loudly.
Honestly, Dmitri loved to
sing. He loved other people’s enthusiastic music. This morning, though, he was
not so pleased. His head felt very large.
He blamed Brax. The head
of the kitty cavalcade loved to get everyone full of green smoke.
Dmitri lifted his
throbbing head that was, at least, five sizes bigger than it had been, and
peered out of the window. Oh. His dear friend Denver was calling for him.
With fried sweet things.
For that he would crawl
out of his happy bed, which still smelled like Denver since he’d bought his
friend’s old trailer, and put on—shorts? Something.
“Open up, pussycat. I
brought doughnuts.” Denver was a good friend, especially for a wolf. Blaine
must have thrown him out this morning for being too perky. Denver’s little wolf
partner was not a morning person.
Dmitri opened the door to
his trailer. “Welcome, friend Denver.”
“Good morning, fuzzy.”
Denver walked up and rubbed cheeks with him, sharing scent. The bullfighter
knew the rules, knew how to be pride as well as pack. That made him more
valuable than gold.
“What did you bring for
breakfast?” Dmitri asked.
“Apple fritters. Fresh
from the fryer.”
“I love apples!” His head
began to clear pretty quickly. “Tell me what is the news.”
“We got a big crowd
tonight. Seems tell people are revved. Bulls are spitting fire. That weird
little group of trick riders are pulling the first break, to give Kurt a
breather. He’s burning up.”
Yes, it was warm in Texas
for a panda. Dmitri understood. His inner Siberian tiger longed for Colorado.
Maybe Canada.
“There’s a lake close by.
We should go, the bunch of us,” Denver suggested.
“Oh.” Swimming. His tiger
surged, close the surface, wanting out of his human body. “Yes. Apple things
first.”
“You bet. Come sit with
me.”
Dmitri followed Denver out
into the sun and sat at a picnic table. The heat pressed at him, but he did
love the light.
Denver had an entire box
of the pastries and they ate eagerly, wolfing the doughnuts at first, then
ending with lazy nibbles. Oh. Better. So much better.
Sugar left his tiger cold,
but his human side loved it, and the crispy-fried part? Perfect.
He bounced, rocking the
table. “Swim now?”
“Let me grab the others.
You’ll invite the pride?”
“I will.” He grabbed a
trash can lid and a piece of wood and began banging. “Wake up, kitties! We are
going to the lake!”
He got half cheers, half
people throwing things at him. Blaine walked over with an apple fritter in
hand, the other bullfighters Caul and Carter followed along with Potts. That
only left one bullfighter and Terrance was notoriously slow.
Brax appeared, his naked,
tanned form lean and pretty. “What are you caterwauling about?”
“Swimming! Friend Denver
says there is a lake.”
Brax wrinkled his nose,
stretched slowly, all golden skin and muscle. Yum. “I’ll pass.”
“Coward,” Denver teased.
“You can come tan. Show off all that pretty skin. Maybe you’ll get laid.”
Dmitri wished he would
have that, not Brax. No one wanted to be broken, Brax told him, afraid of
Dmitri’s size and… enthusiasm.
“Yeah?” Brax came over,
scented Denver and Blaine, then nodded. “Okay, sure. Let me grab some oil.”
“And some shorts,” Potts
called. “A shame to damage yer pecker, eh?”
“Mine is so big I can cast
my own shade.” Brax winked and headed off.
Potts growled, but the
sound was more happy than ugly. Dmitri looked between them, then raised a brow
at Denny.
Denver just shrugged, eyes
twinkling. “What will be, will be, huh?”
“It will.” He was happy if
his friends were happy.
“Lake. Water. Swimming.”
“Dog paddling,” Dmitri
teased.
“You know it. Terry is a
champion paddler.” Denver clapped Terrance on the back when he went by.
They clomped the half mile
to the lake, the water glinting under the sun, the grass on the way green and
thick. Dmitri whooped as soon as he saw the water, breaking into a run.
Blaine followed with him,
the little wolf losing shirt and flip-flops with a happy howl.
He laughed, splashing in
and leaving his clothes on the bank. He popped water at Blaine, roaring with
delight.
Blaine tackled him,
totally unafraid and eager to play.
Dmitri chortled, and soon
he was surrounded, five puppies and kittens flying in all directions when he
shrugged hard. Denver was floating on his back, watching with deceptively
hooded eyes. Denny saw all.
Oh, Dmitri loved his life.
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About the authors:
BA Tortuga:
Texan to the bone and an
unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds,
getting tattooed, texting her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she's not
doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting and
surfing porn sites in the name of research. BA's personal saviors include her
wife (still amazing to say that), Julia Talbot, her best friend, Sean Michael,
and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.
Having written everything
from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her
damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast
Texas, but has gone to the high desert mountains and fallen in love. With books
ranging from hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional
of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her
head.
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Julia Talbot:
Julia Talbot lives in the
great Southwest, where there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and
everything from meat and potatoes to the best Tex-Mex. A full time author,
Julia has been published by Torquere Press, Dreamspinner and Changeling Press.
She believes that everyone deserves a happy ending, so she writes about love
without limits, where boys love boys, girls love girls, and boys and girls get
together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal characters are
involved. Find Julia at @juliatalbot on Twitter, or at www.juliatalbot.com.
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Kiernan Kelly:
Kiernan Kelly lives in the
wilds of the alligator-infested U.S. Southeast, slathered in SPF 45, drinking
colorful tropical, hi-octane concoctions served by thong-clad cabana boys.
All right, the truth is
that she spends her time locked in the dark recesses of her office, writing gay
erotic romance while chained to a temperamental Macintosh, drinking coffee, and
dreaming of thong-clad cabana boys.
Sigh.
To date, Kiernan has seven
novels in print, a plethora of short stories in e-format...and still no cabana
boy of her own, although her husband may beg to differ.
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