Long and Short Reviews welcomes Julia Talbot who is celebrating the recent release of Fox and Wolf.
Hey y’all!
I’m Julia Talbot, and I’m here to share an excerpt my new novella Fox and Wolf, which is book one in the Apex Investigations series.
“Then I should park right in front.” Dylan sighed, a world-weary sound, before putting the vehicle back in gear. “We don’t need to be running a mile if someone comes after us. I’ll make it clear I’m armed. With any luck they’ll think I’m a cop and leave us be.”
“You read as penal officer. No worries.”
“Gee, thanks.” Turning at a cul-de-sac, Dylan steered them back to his apartment. “Do I smell like prison sweat?”
“No. You smell like—” He inhaled, nose twitching. “—moonlight and water.”
Dylan laughed, the sound delighted. “Wow. That’s way better than cop car and doughnut crumbs.”
“Mmm. Doughnuts.” Rey had to grin. He loved sweets. With raisins. And frosting.
“Do you like them? I know a killer shop that does pastry and good coffee. Even this late in the day, they’ll have good stuff!” Dylan actually bounced. How utterly cute.
“Can we? After? I’d love that.” He’d need something good after all this bother.
“I would too. We’ll do it.” They slid to a stop, and Dylan put a hand on his arm when he would have hopped out of the SUV. “Give it just a moment.”
“Fine.” He wasn’t eager to go back there. Not at all.
Dylan watched everything, the rearview mirrors, the door to his apartment. He wasn’t sure what signs Dylan might be looking for, but Rey watched too.
That was his job, after all. Looking at everything. He didn’t see anything more than what he’d already noticed, but then he hadn’t the other day either.
Dylan shook his head. “I don’t like this. You know that, right?”
“Yes. You just want my clothes from the day of the pickup, correct?”
“That’s it. In and out.” Alan snapped his fingers.
“Indeed. In and out. Quick as a bunny.”
“Or a fox through a doggie door.” Dylan winked broadly, then pulled out his phone. “In case we need pictures, so I won’t have to fumble for it.”
Rey grabbed his key and nodded. “Let’s go.” He hopped out of the car and started toward the apartment, his entire body twitching from the vibrations he was sensing in the air and along the ground. Someone was watching. Hopefully it wasn’t someone with a gun.
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“Hurry up, Mercier.”
“Yes. Yes, hurry up.” He couldn’t run. That triggered the prey drive in anything that might lay in wait for them.
Dylan already had the door open.
The smell made Rey gag and step back. Rotten. Rotten fish.
“Jesus. What is that?” Dylan turned his head, those pretty eyes watering.
“I don’t know. Nasty.” They couldn’t stay out here, but they couldn’t go into that.
“Come on.” Dylan rushed inside, barking, “Get your stuff.” He started snapping pictures of the main room, then the kitchenette.
Rey headed to the bedroom, trying not to breathe as he went to the en suite to dig through his laundry. The bathtub was filled with fetid water, and he shook his head. That was… so disturbingly wrong. Rey gathered all his stuff, including his lucky socks, but his eyes kept going to the tub.
The tub with bubbles rising from it.
“Dylan….”
Dylan came to the doorway, frowning. “What the ever-loving—”
He pointed to the horrifying green water. He was fairly certain there were eyeballs.
“Get back. Out.” Dylan yanked him out of the bathroom, spinning him toward the front door.
He didn’t question; he ran, screeching to a halt at the sight of a huge beast in the outside doorway.
XXOO
Julia
Werewolf PI Dylan Weems is a hired to solve the murder of a client’s customer. As an ex-cop, Dylan is the perfect man for the job, but he doesn’t expect the complication of alluring fox shifter Rey.
Ever since finding the dead body of one of his clients, Rey Mercier’s life is a mess, and he needs help desperately. He has no idea why he’s the target of some ruthless people or what he did to anger them. Hopefully Dylan and his motley crew of shifters at Apex Investigations can help him find out, but first Dylan and Rey have to deal with literal corporate tigers and dire crocodiles shifters… all while deciding what to do about the mate bond that’s becoming undeniable. And is that even possible between fox and wolf?
About the Author: Stories that leave a mark. Julia Talbot loves romance across all the genders and genres, and loves to write about people working to see past the skin they’re in to love what lies beneath. Julia Talbot lives in the great mountain and high desert 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 Dreamspinner, All Romance Ebooks, 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. She also writes BDSM and erotic romance as Minerva Howe.
Buy the book at Dreamspinner Press.
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