Craved by an
Alpha, the fifth 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.
Find out how to enter the Craved by an Alpha international
giveaway (ends February 8th) 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/craved-by-an-alpha-paranormal-romance-novel.php
Here’s more
about Craved by an Alpha, including an excerpt from this paranormal romance
novel.
Felicity Heaton
Having turned his
back on his snow leopard pride, Cavanaugh has been counting the days until he’s
free of a role he never wanted—one that separated him from his fated female and
stands between him and the future he craves with her.
Just days from the
night he will finally be free to be with the low-ranking beauty who stole his
heart, she walks back into his life and threatens to destroy everything he’s
worked towards in the five long years they’ve been apart.
Eloise has travelled
across continents searching for the male who was once her best friend and so
much more to her, but was now her pride’s true alpha. Desperate to fulfil a
promise to her kin to save them from the tyrant he left in charge, she
convinces Cavanaugh to return to his pride, but as they journey to Bhutan,
doubts bloom and old feelings resurface, tearing her between duty and her
deepest desires and impossible dreams.
Will Eloise be able to
resist the burning need that Cavanaugh reignites in her and remember her place
in the pride? And can Cavanaugh find a way to save his kin and claim the future
he craves with the woman he loves?
Craved by an
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Craved by an Alpha – Excerpt
“I travelled two years to find you… to
bring you back to the pride.”
Cavanaugh wished she had stopped at the
first part, where she had only travelled two years to find him.
The pain in her eyes increased, her fear a
palpable thing now that hung in the air between them, and it forced him to
listen. What had happened at the pride? Concern for his village grew in his
heart but concern for Eloise overshadowed it, pulling the focus of his thoughts
back to her.
She must have searched for him across
Bhutan, India and Europe, no doubt flashing his photograph to any fae or demon she
came across. What terrible thing had happened to drive her to such a desperate
and dangerous act?
Had she gained her scars during her search
for him? Had some of the fae or demons captured her and held her for some
nefarious reason?
He growled again, unable to contain it as
he pictured her bound and afraid. His claws grew, emerging as he thought about
hunting down whoever had hurt her and tearing into them. He wanted their blood
on his hands. The scent of Eloise’s fear grew stronger and he pulled down a
deep breath to steady himself, not wanting to frighten her with his anger.
Cavanaugh looked her over again,
self-reproach burning through him as her voice ran around his head, taunting
him.
Two years.
Her journey would have been a difficult
one, and not only because she had never left their homeland and had no
experience of the world. Her position in the pride meant she had very little
money, only a small allowance that he knew she had been saving her entire life.
It wouldn’t have been enough to cover luxuries like flights and hotels or even
restaurants.
Her tattered clothing, her fatigue and how
much weight she had lost since the last time he had seen her all confirmed his
worst fears. She had spent two years living rough, sleeping on the streets or
in hostels and travelling by foot, by hitchhiking or by jumping trains.
The thought of his little female living in
such a fashion, day-to-day, probably stealing food and fearing for her safety,
cut him right down to his soul and had his heart burning with a need to gather
her into his arms and somehow take away every terrible experience she must have
had.
It was his fault.
He had ventured far from the mountains and
the pride village. If he hadn’t left Bhutan, she could have easily found him.
She wouldn’t have been forced to spend years travelling and tracking him down.
If he had gone back for her—no, he couldn’t
think like that. He had warred with himself at the time about it and it had
played on his mind ever since.
It had been too dangerous.
He had fought Stellan countless times and
had always driven the male back into submission.
Except the last time.
That time he had allowed the male to defeat
him.
It had only taken a passing thought during
their fight, a split-second in which Cavanaugh had realised that he could be
free of his position as alpha and could change the course of his life for the
better, towards how he wanted it to be, by using the five year rule if he lost
the fight but survived.
In that moment, Stellan had dealt what
would have been a killing blow if the male hadn’t slipped on the icy ground.
The pain had been so intense that it had blinded Cavanaugh, forcing him to
shift back from his snow leopard form. When he had seen all the blood on him
and the deep wounds on his chest, he had feared he wouldn’t survive to claim
Eloise and the future he wanted with her.
His snow leopard side had still been
partially in control, muddled in with his human mind because of the pain, and
it had responded to that deep need. It had seized control and forced him to
flee the village and venture high into the mountains to lick his wounds.
Days had passed before his deeper animal
instincts had receded and he had realised with dismay what he had done.
He hadn’t intended to lose the fight. He
hadn’t intended to leave Eloise behind. But both of those things had happened
and there had been nothing he could do to change them.
Stellan had locked down the village and
would have killed him if he had tried to return for Eloise.
Cavanaugh had waited almost a week to see
whether she might leave, straying far enough from the village boundaries for
him to reach her. She hadn’t and he had been growing weaker, the cold slowing
his healing and stealing his strength. He had been forced to head down the
mountain.
Once there, he had come to the hard
decision to leave Bhutan and wait for the five years to pass so he could give
Eloise the life that she deserved.
To give her that life, he needed to be free
of his position.
So he had convinced himself that she was better
off at the pride, safe there until the five years were up and he could return
to her and try to win her heart.
But the pain in her haunted eyes said that
he had been wrong. He had left her at the pride and she had paid for it in ways
she didn’t want to speak about, ones that had broken her spirit. His instincts
as her fated male and his heart pressed him to make her tell him what had
happened to her. He needed to know.
“Eloise…” He wasn’t sure what he could say
to make everything better. There was nothing he could say. She had braved the
world, and every danger imaginable, in order to find him. Whatever had happened
at the pride, it had been bad to drive her to leave and seek him out. He looked
at her wrists again and couldn’t stop himself from pressing her, because he
suddenly felt sure those scars hadn’t happened during her journey and it left
him sick to his stomach. “What happened?”
“It doesn’t matter. Please. You must return
to the pride.”
It damn well did matter. He could order her
to tell him, but he didn’t want things to be that way between them. She wasn’t
beneath him. She was above him, deserved to be worshipped by him as her fated
male.
“Please come back. The pride needs you.”
He didn’t like the restrained way she
argued with him. There was a time when she would have playfully hit him and
given him a piece of her mind. Maybe she would in eight days.
In eight days, things could begin to return
to how he had liked them and he could forget the last five years, and the five
that had come before them.
Could he convince her to wait? Could he
delay her long enough for those days to pass? Gods, he wished that he could,
even when the steely edge to her gaze said that he couldn’t.
She had a reason for hunting him down and
asking him to come back, and the piece of his heart that still cared about his
pride said to listen to it, even when the rest warned it would end in misery
for him. He would be throwing away the five years he had spent living with his
regrets, looking forward to the day he could finally correct all his mistakes
and make something good come out of them.
What if he told her that she was his fated
female?
As soon as he thought that, he shoved it
away. He couldn’t. Not yet. At this point, it would only hurt her, just as it
would have hurt her if he had told her after he had assumed the role of alpha
all those years ago. They couldn’t be together as mates yet and that meant he
had to wait. Once he was free of his position, he would break the news to her
somehow.
But for that to happen, he needed to stay
away from the village until the five years were up.
“Stay a while and we’ll talk about
everything. You need to rest and eat. You’re worn out and I can see it,” he
said and he swore her eyes had flashed fire at him.
She was on to him. She knew he was out to
stall her.
Her eyes darkened.
“We don’t have time. The pride doesn’t have
time. I have to take you back to the village now,” she said, her voice gaining
confidence and fire at last. “I have to go back.”
It seemed she had been counting the days
since he had left just as he had.
“Why?” He frowned at the resolve that
burned in her words. This was important to her, perhaps more so than he had
thought, and he began to get the sinking feeling that something had gone
terribly wrong back at the pride, something he wouldn’t be able to ignore, not
even for eight days. “Eloise… if you really want me to go back, you need to
tell me why you left.”
“I did it because I knew I could find you…
because I had hoped that I could convince you to do the right thing,” she
snapped and glared at him, anger lacing her scent, frustration and
disappointment that he could feel in her. “Your kin are living in a
dictatorship… Stellan is a tyrant… many of us have been killed and the rest of
us…”
Her voice faded and she wrapped her arms
around herself, lowered her head and clutched the sleeves of her grey coat,
bunching the material into her trembling fists.
“I am sorry. I shouldn’t have spoken to you
like that,” she whispered.
He wasn’t sorry. She had given him hope
that the woman he had known a decade ago still existed inside her and that he
could have that woman back in his life. Everything could return to how it had
been.
But it couldn’t at the same time.
The thought of his pride being mistreated,
abused, and murdered sat like a block of ice in his chest. He couldn’t ignore
what had happened. He had to do something about it. Before becoming their
alpha, he had been their strongest male. Eloise knew that and she had risked
her life to travel across the world in search of him, to bring him back to the
pride and restore peace at the village.
She wanted him to free them from the
tyranny of the male he had left as their leader. He could see how important it
was to her and that made it even more important to him.
He would do something about it, but he was
damned if he was going to set foot in the village until the eight days were up.
Once he was free of his status, Stellan would be the alpha and he would be just
a challenger for that title. He could take down Stellan and pass on the
position, remaining free of the pride rules.
He needed to find a way to stall her.
Eight days were all that stood between him
and claiming the mate he craved with all of his heart.
Those eight days suddenly felt like
forever.
He had the dreadful feeling that the woman
he loved was about to be snatched from his grasp again.
Craved by an
Alpha 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 5 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/craved-by-an-alpha-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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Loving all these different excerpts and can't wait for the next book!
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