Now that I’ve sent out the newsletter cover reveal for Storm and Shelter (Ebb and Flow 3), I wanted to share the cover here too. I’m pretty happy with this cover, especially the necklace on “Quinn.” That necklace is actually mine; I took a picture of it and used the GIMP graphics program to clip the picture and fit it around “Quinn’s” neck. Quinn’s necklace plays a role in the story, and when I was looking online, specifically on the Amos Pewter website (Amos Pewter is a Canadian company, and I remember my grandparents taking me to their store in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, when I was a kid), I found a necklace that was exactly what I’d been envisioning for the necklace in the story. Not only did I choose that necklace as the visual representation of the one Quinn has in the book, but I decided I needed one for myself in real life. And thanks to an unexpected Christmas gift from my mother-in-law, I was able to get it.
The blurb for Storm and Shelter is very much still a work in progress (blurbs are HARD!), but here’s what I have so far, along with the cover. The book is available for Kindle preorder, but it won’t be released until October of this year.
A year after being changed and held captive by two abusive werewolves, Quinn Boucher is healing. His employer, the U.S. Anax, ruler of all werewolves in the country, has given Quinn safety, and Quinn’s mate Malachi gives him the support and love he needs. If only they weren’t hundreds of miles apart.
Six months after meeting and refusing to accept a mate over a century younger than himself, Malachi no longer can imagine his life without Quinn. When he’s invited to spend Christmas with Quinn in the States, Malachi immediately takes the offer. And when the Anax permits Quinn to return with Malachi to Nova Scotia, Malachi vows to continue protecting his mate.
Staying in Malachi’s cottage, Quinn and Malachi feel out how it will be to live together. But the isolation and disturbing changes in the Anax’s behavior fuel Quinn’s trauma. As they struggle together to battle Quinn’s demons, Malachi has to wonder: Can he truly be the partner his mate needs? Or will they be better off apart?
This book includes a large age gap between main characters (over 100 years; werewolves live a long time); mention of and flashbacks to sexual trauma in a main character’s past; depictions of PTSD; one main character consensually commanding the other; and mention of the off-page self-unaliving of a minor character.
