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Interracial Paranormal Romance

I was recently featured on the blog of author Carol Van Natta in a post about interracial paranormal romance books. Carol wrote a wonderful post about why we don’t see more interracial romance books, and especially those with people of color on the covers. I’m honored to be featured along with eight other PNR books. Please go check them out!

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When I wrote Pride of Africa, I wasn’t trying to be groundbreaking or even different. I’d recently come across a lot of PNR books in which the human form of a character didn’t match their animal, and this bothered me. If a shifter is an African lion, it seemed to me that the human should also be African. So I wrote a series in which the human characters matched their animals, starting with a lion.

While my next series doesn’t feature any interracial romance, my new series, Paris Harem, does. I created Martin Diop, the Senegalese elephant shifter, precisely because African elephants are my favorite animal in the world, and I didn’t get to include them in the Hotel Safari series. (Instead, there’s a Thai elephant shifter in Thai Rebound.) I had a lot of fun writing Martin and his romance with Catherine Malraux.

Please share your favorite interracial paranormal romance in the comments!

Release: Savanna Bear

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I’m so pleased to share with you the next and last book in the Hotel Safari series, Savanna Bear, which is available to buy as of today.

This book was so much fun to write because Megan was so much fun. When I first created her for Book 4, Broken Lynx, I loved her so much I knew I had to give her her own story. She just loves life and love and sex soooo much and is able to express and enjoy those parts of herself, which isn’t easy for all women.

Here’s the official blurb:

A grizzly doesn’t belong on the African savanna but can he find a place in a human’s heart?

As the Head of Marketing for a multinational hotel corporation based in London, free-spirited Megan Larch has seen her share of hotel rooms. She’s also seen—and loved—her share of men. Megan has a type, and the extremely large, extremely buff American at Hotel Safari isn’t it. While she’ll never turn up her nose at a good shag, she came to the lodge to visit old friends, not make new ones.

Xander Simpson is a bear shifter on the prowl for a new adventure. He quit his job in Minneapolis to try his hand at wildlife photography on the Kenyan savanna. The sexy British redhead doesn’t fit into his plans, but she stirs emotions in him he never expected from a human woman.

When Megan learns her friends have been hiding an age-old secret, can she overcome her feelings of betrayal and forgive them? Or will her guarded nature keep her from the one man who could finally convince her to settle down?

Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout this journey. So many of you responded positively to the launch of Book 5, Thai Rebound, that I hope you’ll give Megan and Xander a chance, too.

No worries, I’ll be back soon with a new book, the first in a new trilogy, Falling for Kigali. No release date yet, but I’m hard at work and hope to reveal the cover soon.

 

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