Claiming Ana
Brynna Curry
A Triple Star Ranch Novel
“I’ll take you, turn you, until I’m the
sun that warms you, the moon that calls to you at night.” – Howl Raven
ISBN:
9781616502874
Release
date: Feb. 3, 2014
Series:
Triple Star Ranch, #1
Blurb: Where
there's smoke, there's fire…and passion that won't be denied.
The child of
a gypsy and fey, small-town veterinarian Dr. Anastasia Brannon has always
hidden her magic for fear of ridicule. A red-hot encounter with the new PI in
town makes their attraction impossible to deny. Throwing caution to the wind,
she indulges her desires but keeps her secrets close.
A man with a
shady past and secrets of his own, Howl Raven uses his feral talents and
tracking skills to make a living, doing his best to lay low and hide the curse
that haunts him every month. So far, so good…until an uncontrollable shift
outside the full moon leaves him the victim of a werewolf hunter.
When she
finds the enigmatic investigator wounded in the woods near her cabin during a
storm, Ana provides medical care on instinct. She may be the only one who can
banish the wolf from Howl’s blood, but at what cost?
Full-length
Excerpt (Steamy)
Stop
thinking about sex, Ana. Control yourself.
Howl swallowed the pills with the hot
coffee burning a path down his raw throat and hoped it hid his grin.
Arrgh. He
probably heard that too.
“Every word. We’ll get to that, hopefully
sooner rather than later.”
“You’re evading the question. So, how did
you come to be bleeding in my woods not twenty feet from my doorstep?”
“My woods. I’m renting the Parker place,
remember? Technically, that makes Parker’s woods, my woods,” he corrected.
She turned her back on him to retrieve
something from the cabinet. Had it only been yesterday they had shared lunch in
this room? She had been molten in his arms, melting into his kiss. If not for
the phone call from Jace, they would have ended up in bed. Maybe on the couch.
Against the wall. Now who couldn’t control their thoughts? Where had this
distance come from?
“That’s not what I meant and you know it.”
“I know.” He slipped in behind her at the
counter. He had questions. She had answers. Howl intended to have them and her.
“Why didn’t you call for help?” Howl laughed when he felt her jump mentally.
Mind reading was such a trip. He effectively caged her between the counter and
his arms. He wanted to kiss her, just there where her neck curved into her
shoulder. He nuzzled the spot and traced the tip of his tongue along the
exposed skin of her throat.
She tilted her head to give him better
access. “The storm knocked down lines everywhere. We’re running off generator
power, no phone, and no cell.”
He felt her shiver as her situation started
to dawn on her. They were completely alone. Nothing to stop them from acting on
this all-consuming lust. No calls from Jace. No neighborly driveby visits from
Cade. No work. Just walls, rooms, and plenty of doors with locks.
“I would have driven you to the hospital
once the storm let up and you were stable, but you asked me not to. That, and
my Jeep was totaled by a tree. Then I found this.” Ana held up the small jar
containing the bullet she had removed. “And I knew I couldn’t go to Cade. He
wouldn’t understand.”
Howl took the jar. Even through the glass,
the metal burned his skin. He tossed it aside. It rolled across the floor into
the corner smacking into the baseboard but didn’t break.
“Thank you for that, for protecting me. You
know what I am, then.” This time he did kiss her just behind her right ear.
“Yes.”
“And are you afraid of me?” Need beat a
rhythm through his blood. Please say no. The hard planes of his body
pressed against the silk of her back.
“Should I be?”
“I won’t hurt you.”
“How do you do this to me?”
Howl felt her frustration as she instinctively
arched into him.
“What do I do to you?” He flipped open the
buttons of her blouse.
“Make me ache for you.”
A feral urge consumed him with her
whispered words, something animal, something that couldn’t be controlled. He
kissed the nape of her neck, and felt her skin vibrate beneath his lips. He
heard her shudder inwardly and beg her body to behave. “Oh, no you don’t. I
want you out of control. You should have told me about your magic.” He breathed
the word in her ear. She melted underneath his massaging fingers.
“And you could have mentioned you howl at
the moon, before I had to use that magic to save your life.”
Claiming Ana
releases February 3, 2014.
For
information regarding this and other books by Brynna Curry, please visit
www.brynnacurry.com
Author Bio
Brynna Curry was born south of the Mason-Dixon Line with a
full moon overhead on a hot summer night. After moving all over the southern
states, she finally landed in North Alabama where she lives with her husband
and their three children. Growing up, books fueled her dreams and imagination,
ultimately becoming her sanctuary during the hardest times in her life.
Writing is her passion, but
she enjoys the fun of sharing those stories with others by reviewing books and
working in publicity. When she isn’t writing or promoting, she’s often found
haunting the library for new books to read, at the park with her children (when
she can wrangle them into it) or just spending an quiet evening at home with
Jackie watching old westerns on TV. Although her wizards, shifters and vampires
are as real to her as anyone, she insists love is the truest magic and with it every
day is another wonderful adventure.
