Sometimes a book is too important to avoid. Which is how I ended up writing a book about a nonbinary, asexual hacker and the wounded shifter who is their fated mate. I’ve written a fair few fated mate pairings that fought their fates. Ghost and Brennan Tierney are not one of them. These guys’ relationship has built over a couple of books, so when Tierney reveals that Ghost is his fated mate, they’re thrilled, and they lived happily ever after. Okay, that would be a very short book. So no, they’ve got a possibly homicidal, but definitely unhinged banker to the underworld mother to deal with, and Tierney has some work to do to believe he’s worthy of Ghost, for that matter, so does Ghost. In short, the characters may not sound like you, but the feelings and the drama will.
This book stretched me as a writer in ways I didn’t expect, but am supremely grateful for. Both in my writing and in the realization that the Rapid Release/KU nightmare isn’t working for me. I have a day job. If I’m pushing, I can get out 4, maybe 5 books a year. That doesn’t feed KU’s algorithm (which wants more like 12), so my books flounder. I can’t advertise my way out of that situation. So after Uncommon Mate leaves KU on 3/31, books will release first in my own book shop, then release wide to ALL retailers. I know it is going to tank my sales in the beginning, but I’m hopeful that, after some adjustment period, it will change.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the excerpt. If you can tell me where Ghost first shows up and post it in the comments, I’ll give the first one a coupon for a free book of their choice from my catalog.