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I’m so excited to share the Paris Harem series with you!
In the Paris Harem series, a spin-off to Wolves of Paris, Catherine Malraux discovers that sometimes it takes more than one hot, amazing man to be fully satisfied in love. While navigating her return to Paris, Catherine also must come to terms with her struggling relationship with her father, demons from her past, and her growing feelings for three different men.
Book 1, Saving Their Wolf, is available now to buy.
Book 2, Saving Her Human is available now to pre-order.
Book 3, Saving Her Mates is available now to pre-order.
Get more information on the Paris Harem series page.
In the staff lodge, she dumped her bag on the floor and rushed to the window. Her own home was beautiful, but this view, out over the plains dotted with animals and occasionally including Kilimanjaro when the weather conditions were just right, always made her feel comfortably insignificant in the world.
Her own problems just didn’t matter. This view reminded her that life goes on, nature runs wild, no matter what was happening in her own life. So what if she was having trouble finding the perfect job since finishing university? The savanna, the gnu, the elephants, the Goliath herons, and her beloved giraffes would always be here.
Teaser from Savanna Dance, Hotel Safari Book 2
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Whew, it’s been a wild few weeks. Out in the world, people are rising up to fight for social justice, to protest police brutality. And we’re still in the midst of a global pandemic. Life hasn’t felt normal for months.
One way I get through difficult times is to pour myself into my work. And that is what I have done, while still paying attention to what is going on in our world, and offering my support how I can. For the record, I believe that Black Lives Matter – I’m a BIPOC ally and an LGBTQ+ ally.
Pouring myself into my work has meant some changes to the books you already know, as detailed below. I’m very excited about these changes and the books to come!
The biggest changes have been to the Hotel Safari series.
The 6 novellas have been turned into 3 books – it’s now a trilogy!
Pride of Africa is still free on all retailers, but now it includes Night Spots as well, so you get double the steamy shifters for zero pennies.
Check out the Hotel Safari series page for details and buy links for all 3 books.
And I’m currently working on a new prequel short story for this series. Called Untamed Savanna, it’s the story of how Pippa and Jonathan (Colin’s parents) met. It will also be the launching point for a new series set in the Hotel Safari universe, to be published next year. The story will be available for free on BookFunnel in the next week or so.
In the meantime, don’t miss out! Get your free, expanded copy of Pride of Africa today!
The big news about the Shifter Hunters Ltd. series is that Book 1, Kenya Calling, is now free everywhere! That’s right, you can read all the sexy Lucien hotness for zero pennies. Get your copy now wherever you buy ebooks!
And check out the details, excerpts, and buy links for all 3 books on the Shifter Hunters Ltd. series page.
Next up, I’ll be finishing the Paris Harem trilogy. Poor Saving Their Wolf has been hanging out in the virtual world all alone for long enough. Expect pre-order dates sometime this summer, with planned releases this fall or winter.
Falling for Kigali and its sequel will be pushed off to next year.
Next year will also see the publication of a new series set in the world of Hotel Safari.
I know our world is on fire at the moment. If you’re fighting for justice, keep up the fight! If you’re staying home to keep yourself and your loved ones safe, I send you virtual hugs (and plenty of reading material). If you’re somewhere in between, that’s okay, too. Stay safe, everyone, and stay sane. Spread kindness.
Well, friends, I was wrong about low carb. After Keto didn’t seem to work on my migraines, I couldn’t see past the negatives to appreciate the positives. I lost weight and especially belly fat I’ve been trying to lose for almost a year. I’m no longer lactose-intolerant – which is actually huge because I’ve been lactose-intolerant for 20 years.
I was mainly doing low carb (meaning a lot fewer carbs than the average American’s diet, but more than in Keto so I’d no longer be in ketosis) as a transition out of Keto. Then I thought maybe I’d keep on watching my carbs and see if I could keep off the belly fat. But it somehow seemed harder than Keto.
Good news! I’ve been able to make low carb work. I eat 70 or fewer grams of carbs per day (compared to 20 grams on Keto and 225-325 grams on the average diet) and continue to focus on moderate amounts of protein and high amounts of fat, which I’d gotten used to on Keto. But the extra 50 carbs means I can enjoy more fruits and vegetables, small amounts of starches, and the occasional treat (more on that below). My weight has stabilized at below the weight on my wedding day 19 years ago, and I’ve kept off the belly fat. Also, my brain is functioning better. I’m clearer-headed, able to concentrate on writing again, and have found the motivation I’d been struggling with for the past 2 years.
And I still get to at least taste some of the treats my husband keeps making. And a taste (or 2 or 3) has been satisfying enough. I don’t need an entire slice of banana bread or more than half a brownie.
Mr. K has been baking up a storm, like many people, during the stay-at-home orders. And a neighbor gave us some of the discard from her sourdough starter, so we’ve been feeding it and making use of our discards. Our starter is now named Floyd, after the recently deceased chef, Floyd Cardoz.
During quarantine we’ve enjoyed (the kids more than me, of course) sourdough banana bread, Nutella banana bread, sourdough crepes, sourdough English muffins, sourdough brownies and regular brownies, Swedish cardamom buns, Paratha Aloo, and more. (Caveat: None of these goodies is low carb. He made them for the kids. Mostly.)
Enjoy a few pix!
On the other hand, each kid is helping my husband cook one meal per week. So they’re learning skills and I’m being fed really well, from homemade pizza (on low carb crust for me) to a Korean BBQ feast.
How are you beating stress these days? Share your baking prowess or other newfound talents in the comments!
*Kermit flail*
It took a couple of years, but you can now buy the entire Shifter Hunters Ltd. trilogy as one book. I’m so excited for this digital boxed set to release to the world! Buy it, read it, enjoy it!
Stay safe, everyone!
Now available! Buy the entire trilogy in a boxed set for a reduced price!
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(And, there’s a bonus short story at the end about Dany and Guy from Wolves of Paris, “A Wolf Hunted”.)
Want to get to know me better? Here are some quirky tidbits – my quarantine TV choices. Feel free to share your own in the comments!
These aren’t recommendations – just the shows I’m watching to pass the time while stuck at home. Some I watch on my own and some with Mr. K. But my TV tastes are about as eclectic as everything else about me.
Big Little Lies: Drama based on a novel by Liane Moriarty
Bosch: Cop series set in Los Angeles based on novels by Michael Connelly
The Break: Belgian cop series (in French)
DCI Banks: British cop series set in Yorkshire
Love is Blind: Reality dating show
Motherland: Fort Salem: How to explain this one? It’s about recruits in a witch army in a world where women are witches and warriors.
Paradox: Sci-fi meets British cop series (and I LOVE British cop series)
Prime Suspect: British cop series with Helen Mirren
Too Hot to Handle: Sigh. What can I say? Another reality dating show. Sort of.
Top Chef
Valhalla: An Icelandic series about a serial killer. Very dark and atmospheric. (In Icelandic)
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist: Music and heart. And Skylar Astin!
Well, it’s been almost 3 months since I began the strict low-carb/high-fat diet called Keto. I tried such a drastic measure (drastic to me, a self-professed potato chip addict and proud of it!) in the hopes that it would reduce my migraines. Keto has worked for some migraine warriors and has been touted by some headache specialists, so I tried it having done research and having given it a lot of thought – months of thought, actually.
Bottom line: Keto didn’t work for me.
For the past year, my pattern has been to have about 4 migraine days per month for 3 months and then 10-12 in the 4th month. That means that last April, August, and December were hell. This new pattern is after years of acupuncture got me down from an average of 11 migraine days per month, every month. The new pattern was an improvement, but those bad months were really bad.
I had 4 migraines in January, 5 migraines in February (I started Keto on February 1st), 4 migraines in March, and 7 migraines so far in April. When you consider that in April I should’ve had 12 migraines, sure, Keto made a difference. (Then again, April isn’t over yet.) And you can argue that having my normal amount in February and March was because I was still adjusting to Keto and wasn’t fat-adapted yet.
However, I’m okay with 4 a month. I’m not okay with 12 a month. So, still having more migraines in April than 4 (or even 5 or 6), isn’t worth how restrictive (and expensive) the diet is. Maybe I would’ve had a better result over time. That’s something I’ll have to live with.
My plan now is to try to stay low carb, just not as low carb as Keto. I’ve been easing my way back into carbs, increasing the number of carbs slowly and introducing one new food every few days. I like the idea of reducing my sugar intake and staying away from the starchy side dishes. I didn’t miss them, which was a surprise.
But I have to say, low carb is harder than Keto to maintain. On Keto, I knew all the things I couldn’t eat so I just didn’t eat them. Now, I can have some, but I’m supposed to watch the amount, and sometimes a whole serving of something is too much. And how do you eat just 9 potato chips?! I also don’t feel as good as I did during Keto, but it’s subtle and totally anecdotal and requires me to rely on my not-so-sharp memory. Did I really have fewer gas pains on Keto? *shrug* Did I really have better motivation on Keto or is quarantine just getting to me more this week? *shrug*
So, I’m definitely questioning whether I made the right decision to stop Keto. But it can be expensive to buy special ingredients to make Keto-friendly foods. Almond flour and coconut flour are much more expensive than wheat flour. Shirataki noodles are much more expensive than pasta and rice. And cost is more of a consideration right now than it was when I started Keto in February. Our world hadn’t yet turned upside down back then.
When we’re allowed to go about our lives outside the home again, I plan to go to a neurologist. In the meantime, I’ll do the best I can, as I always have. If Keto worked for you, I’m so happy for you and would love to hear from you. If something else has worked for you, I’d love to hear about it. Otherwise, let’s just fill the comments with love and support. We all need more of that right now.
<3 <3 <3
He lifted his head. Stared into her eyes.
She bit her lip, then pulled him back down. “More.”
Smiling, he obliged.
He started by undoing her pants but she grew impatient. She pushed his hands away. “I’ll do it. Take off yours.”
“Yes, sir.”
Once naked, they stood in front of each other and Ryenne drank in the sight of his magnificent, sculpted body. It was as she remembered from the night in the woods. Smooth, hard, muscled. Perfection.
But now the memory of the woods was in her mind. He had just shifted back to human…from his wolf form.
She took a step back. What was she doing?
But Lucien’s eyes were closed and his mouth beckoned. His arms wrapped around her and his lips found hers, and she melted into the embrace.
The reservations flew out of her mind and she gave herself to the sensations. Of the taste of wine on his lips, the scratchiness of the calluses on his hands, his silken skin, his hard body, his erection against her hip.
Sexy snippet from Shifter Hunters Ltd.: The Complete Trilogy (available now to pre-order, releasing on May 12th) and Kenya Calling, Shifter Hunters Ltd., Book 1 (available now).
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