My Thoughts
This is the first book by Mary that I have read and I really enjoyed it. There is definitely a love story at the heart of it with Emma and Gabriel, but there is also some intrigue as well. They work together at Gabriel's tech store. She's s shifter and he is a wizard who keeps that under wraps. Emma is having some serious trouble with her temp alpha who wants to add her to his harem and Gabriel's issue is that his sister has been imprisoned for being with a shifter which is a no-no. Hence him also keeping his feelings for Emma hidden. Everything comes out when it turns out that they are both part of this prophecy that he resists believing in until things start happening as they try to escape her temp alpha and at the same time get his sister out of jail. I loved that Gabriel told corny jokes and that they are absolutely sizzling together. I can't wait to read more from this author.
I give Mind Mates 4 hearts!
I give Mind Mates 4 hearts!
About the Book
Pretty little shifter, wizard prince—their taboo love could
burn the barriers between worlds.
Shifter Emma Singer has more problems than she can shake her
pretty little wolf tail at. Her heirloom journal is missing, her pack alpha
wants her for his harem, and her family plans to sell her to him. Even her
wicked little crush on her hot boss is doomed—why would six-and-a-half feet of
handsome royal wizard want a boring, good-girl iota shifter like her? Not to
mention her only power is going berserker—that's a real relation-shipwreck!
Gabriel Light is a wizard prince who turned his back on his
exceptional powers after he was accused of causing his parents' death. Now he
pours his intellect into his tech business, and hides his naughty, forbidden
lust for his pretty shifter clerk. But when his sister is imprisoned, and Emma
is kidnapped, it's time for this alpha geek-wizard to decloak with all laser
cannons blazing. Only one problem—how can he be sure Emma won’t get caught in
the crossfire?
Then Gabriel and Emma stumble on hidden magic, a key to
power beyond imagining—if they can stay alive long enough to use it. But if
Emma unleashes her berserker wolf on their enemies, can Gabriel draw her back
from the brink before she destroys everyone in her path?
Warning: Contains a hot wizard prince panting to bring out a
good-girl shifter's naughty side. Accidental voyeurism, deliberate orgasms, a jealous rival wizard,
and fun with prophecy.
Purchase Links
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Excerpt
Owner of the Choice Buy store in Michigan, wizard prince
Gabriel Light sees his employee, wolf shifter Emma Singer, fall off a tall
ladder. He’s just managed to catch her and set her on her feet when her angry
pack alpha shows up.
Bzz-bzzt. A buzz like an angry hornet stung wizard prince
Gabriel Light’s ears the moment the predator slunk into the store.
Cap’n Crunch me. Gabriel had magically alarmed the door for
just such an event, but why now, when he’d finally gotten a semi-innocent
excuse to wrap his arms around this warm bundle of soft, sweet-smelling heaven?
Emma. It felt like he’d been dying to hold her forever. Now,
with her in his arms, was the first time in months he could breathe.
But that buzzing alarm told him the approaching beast was
male, a wolf shifter, and, from that level of sting, Emma’s alpha. The beast
was not going to appreciate seeing her in another man’s arms.
She started trembling, no doubt in response to the alpha’s
rampant fight-club stench, a musk even Gabriel could smell. He tried to ease
her tension with a joke.
“Hey, Emma. How many tickles does it take to make an octopus
laugh?”
She skewered him with a disbelieving stare, icing his flesh.
He’d blundered, she didn’t understand he was trying to comfort her, nobody gets
my skewed sense of humor… Then she gulped and said, “Eight? Like, um, eight
legs?”
Immediately his world brightened. “Nope. Ten tickles. Get
it? Tentacles?”
She managed a tiny laugh, tinkling bells to his ears, and
her body relaxed slightly under his arms. “That was such a dad joke.”
He loved that she, of all the people he knew, actually
laughed at his jokes. He smiled into her eyes like a besotted fool.
Of course, that was when the he-wolf prowled into view.
Gabriel wondered how far he could get with the wolf by
protesting his intentions were honorable. Probably not far. The creature was
only barely in human form.
The wolfman was medium height but had a face like a dented
shovel and a body like a trash compactor, his muscles-on-muscles popping in a
stringy T-shirt that barely qualified past no-shirt-no-shoes-no-service.
Worse, with the hair sprouting everywhere, nose elongating
like a snout, and lengthening canines, this alpha was dangerously pissed.
Hard to reason with a pissed-off wolf. They tended to bite
first then ask questions…never.
Yet instead of releasing Emma, Gabriel’s hand dropped from
her clenched jaw to open protectively on her back.
“The fuck?” the wolfman snarled.
Something inside Gabriel snarled right back.
About the Author
As a girl, Mary Hughes spun romantic, happily-ever-after
stories to get to sleep. A husband, family, two degrees and a blackbelt later,
she's delighted to spin them for readers.
She's lived with love and loss, in bright times and dark,
and learned we can all use a break from reality every now and then.
So join her for action, sparkling wit and red-hot love.
Strong men. Stronger women.
Giveaway
My thanks to Wendy and She Hearts Books for hosting my tour today and the wonderful review!
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