The Pack or the
Panther
(Tales of the Harker Pack
Series)
By
Tara
Lain
Blurb:
Cole Harker, son
of an alpha werewolf, is bigger and more powerful than most wolves, tongue-tied
in groups, and gay. For twenty-four years, he’s lived to please his family and
pack—even letting them promise him in marriage to female werewolf Analiese to
secure a pack alliance and help save them from a powerful gangster who wants
their land. Then Cole meets Analiese’s half-brother, panther shifter Paris
Marketo, and for the first time, Cole wants something for himself.
When Analiese
runs off to marry a human, Cole finally has a chance with Paris, but the
solitary cat rejects him, the pack, and everything it represents. Then Cole
discovers the gangster wants Paris too and won’t rest until he has him. What
started as a land dispute turns into World War Wolf! But the bigger fight is the
battle between cats and dogs.
Release
Date:
January 8,
2013
Available for
pre-order now at
EXCERPT
Cole took hold of a
branch a few feet
from Paris. “Do you think the alliance will stand?” He
shrugged. “Hard
to say. I know everyone hopes so, so I hope so too.” Cole
pulled his
eyebrows together. “But you don’t really care.”
Paris looked up
sharply. “Yes, I
care. I care about my parents. They’ve been good to me and I
owe them a lot.
I’m a freak by wolf standards, and my father has never abjured
me. I honestly believe
he kept me separate for my well-being more than his own.
He acknowledges
me as his son even though I remind him of his greatest sorrow.”
“Your
panther mother.”
He nodded. “And
Trixie isn’t a brave female. My existence is difficult for her,
but she’s been
nothing but good to me. She had to stand against the combined
disapproval of a
lot of other females for me. They didn’t know what I was, but
they knew I was
Merced’s first wife’s son. They weren’t kind. She was. I value
her and want the
best.”
Cole nodded. If there was one thing he understood,
it was loyalty.
“And then there’s you.”
Cole glanced up. Look
at that
mischievous face. He’d switched from deeply serious to court jester in
one second flat.
“What about me?” He grinned.
The cat danced around
his tree,
unfastening buttons on his shirt with intricate skill. “You want the
alliance and I
want you. Isn’t that an Aristotelian principle? If A equals B
and B equals C,
then Paris wants Cole to have his alliance so Paris can have
Cole’s big yummy
cock in his ass. An ass, I might add, that’s been throbbing
like a voodoo
drum since I first looked in your silver eyes, wolfman.” He
whipped off the
shirt, leaving his upper body bare.
Wow. Even knowing what
was coming, that
sight was hard to believe. The cat’s skin glowed in the
moonlight like so
much alabaster formed into a work of art. If you liked bulky,
you wouldn’t like
Paris. But if the look of a black leopard stealing along a
branch stilled
your heart, this sight would do it for you down to the ground.
Not really slim.
More like lean, with muscles just where they should be, but as
if they were made
of silk rather than stone. Fluid.
Paris reached and
grabbed a branch,
then pulled himself up one-armed until he leaned over the
wood on his
belly. Flip. He circled and came up to sitting, his upper body
glowing and long
legs dangling. He spread his arms out for a second as if
balancing on a
tightrope. Then he reached in and started to unfasten his belt.
Slowly, he slipped
it from his trousers, then swung it over his head until it
caught on an
upper branch.
He pulled himself to standing and used one
hand to slowly
lower his fly. White showed in the gap. Oh my. Not white
underwear.
White skin. Cole shuddered.
He wasn’t used to
this kind of sexy. Hell, who was? This cat was one of a
kind.
About the Author
Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of
Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes.
Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around
book 23. Her bestselling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best
Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and
Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other
job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does
workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. She lives with her
soulmate husband and her soulmate dog in Laguna Beach, California, a pretty
seaside town where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity,
justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say
“Yes”!
You can find Tara
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