BOUND
The Silverton
Chronicles, #2
by Carmen Fox
Date of
Publication: April 30TH 2016
Publisher:
Smart Heart Publishing
Cover
Designer: Ana Grigoriu
Genre:
Urban Fantasy Romance
Bound by blood. Bound by
loyalty. Bound by love.
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Bound (The Silverton Chronicles, #2) . . .
Family/Pack. Love/Bound.
There are circumstance that exist that one must understand. To be bound is for life. Eternity. Forever. In a pack it makes them stronger and creates their family. Sometimes bound are tested by the blood of your family, the loyalties created, and then by the love you find.
Florian will be tested in more ways than one with this task he has been handed. He was the pack's negotiator. He was bound to the pack. He was destined for her. He was determined to end his sire.
Action rich. Drama found. Romance blossoming. Fangs bared. Love tested. Bounds strained.
This was very much Florian's story. He tests, struggles, determination, and restoration.
Okay, Keely was in there also, but for me it was all about Florian. Carmen Fox knows how to weave an excellent paranormal romance with action, drama, and a little mystery and suspense.
There are circumstance that exist that one must understand. To be bound is for life. Eternity. Forever. In a pack it makes them stronger and creates their family. Sometimes bound are tested by the blood of your family, the loyalties created, and then by the love you find.
Florian will be tested in more ways than one with this task he has been handed. He was the pack's negotiator. He was bound to the pack. He was destined for her. He was determined to end his sire. Action rich. Drama found. Romance blossoming. Fangs bared. Love tested. Bounds strained.
This was very much Florian's story. He tests, struggles, determination, and restoration.
Okay, Keely was in there also, but for me it was all about Florian. Carmen Fox knows how to weave an excellent paranormal romance with action, drama, and a little mystery and suspense.
**This ARC was provided
via Bewitching Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.**
The Sivlerton Chronicles series:
Guardian - The Silverton Chronicles, #1
Bound - The Silverton Chronicles, #2
Florian has it all: excellent fashion
sense, a kickass job with his best friend, and a hard-won place among
Silverton’s werewolves. When a pack of females pads into their territory, Flo’s
alpha dispatches him to handle a merger. Total cakewalk. Except Keely, their
alpha, has no intention of submitting her wolves to Flo's larger pack. Worse, a
single glance from her baby blues sends his eloquence on vacation and his
heartbeat into overdrive. His flirtations seem welcome too, but there's a snag.
She doesn’t know he’s a vampire.
While Flo struggles with his
conflicts—obey his alpha, or win over Keely—his estranged sire blasts into town
with a catalog of radical ideas. And hanging out with unsophisticated
werewolves didn't make the list.
With violence in the air and all sides
testing his loyalties, Florian must bite back, even if showing his fangs costs
him the girl.
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With the ceiling spinning above me, I spat out his taste. Even
that took effort. My body was a mess of floppy appendages without the muscles
to shift. But I’d done it. I’d pushed my sire out of my mind. Did that mean I
was free of him now?
Gino shot to his feet. “Get up.”
He turned his back to me and stared through a gap in the curtains.
I tightened my jaw, scrambled up, and had to lean on the armchair.
No strength. Lack of blood. Total head rush.
“You are not to see your friends again, is that understood?” The
sharpness of his voice didn't ease the thudding in my head.
I hitched my shoulders to restart my suffering circulation.
“Ali?” I called with my
mind.
He would give me strength.
“Ali?”
Nothing. My knees trembled. The hollow Ali had carved out and
filled with his bothersome emotions lay empty.
Memories of when we first met streamed into the void. We’d
laughed, and we’d argued, and gotten piss-drunk at the local bar more than
twice, but we’d always, always been like brothers inside that hollow.
I touched my pockets, felt my jacket for…for what? This was crazy.
He could be busy, or he simply hadn’t heard me.
“Ali? Where are you?”
“Florian.” Gino’s pitch tightened. “I need you to listen.”
I’d ejected Gino from my
mind too late. Ali was gone. My sire’s remaking of me had
snapped our link like a brittle twig.
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Author Info
Carmen lives in the south of England
with her beloved tea maker and a stuffed sheep called Fergus. An avid reader
since childhood, she caught the writing bug when her Nana asked her to write a
story. She also has a law degree, studied physics for a few years, dabbled in
marketing and human resources, and speaks native-level German and fluent Geek.
Her preferred niches of geekdom are tabletop games, comics, sci-fi and fantasy.
She writes about smart women with
sassitude, about pretty cool guys too, and will chase that plot twist, no
matter how elusive.
Guarded (The Silverton Chronicles –
Bk. 1) became a no. 1 bestseller in the vampire and werewolf mystery
categories.
For details on this or Carmen's other
work, visit her website at
Why I Write from Carmen Fox
I’m a writer who never
intended to put her work out there. But what I publish, I believe in. I’m not
saying I push the envelope, but I try new things. This is what gets me excited.
I know my way around
urban fantasy, so I feel confident that Divide and Conquer was
original in several respects. Two female protagonists. One main character dies.
A danger that isn’t touchable or fightable. A prophecy that fails.
Divide and Conquer is perhaps not
“ground-breaking,” but the story is unusual enough to stand out.
Guarded was my homage to
urban fantasy, and the first book I ever completed. It features any paranormal
species you can think of: vampires and werewolves, fae, demons and djinn. What
tickled me about this book, in particular? My vampire isn’t a sullen Twilight
character, but a charming, funny guy who’s more metrosexual than typical “alpha
male.” The werewolf alpha is grumpy all right, as befitting the genre, but both
the main character and her sidekick make fun of him for that. The vampire is
NOT intended to be a love interest. The djinn don’t fulfill anyone’s wishes. And the main
character isn’t a doe-eyed human, but a sexually charged (half) satyr, who must
embrace who and what she is. And then I heaped so much mystery onto it, it
takes an alert reader to keep up.
Bound is another
departure for me personally, as I’m venturing into romance territory. It’s
still an urban fantasy, light in tone and written only from a male POV (which
was a new challenge for me) and delves deep into the funny, charming vampire from Guarded.
Rather than being a proud specimen of his kind, he’s rather embarrassed about
being a vampire and does his best to act and think like a werewolf. Then he
falls in love with a werewolf (who hates vampires), and he’s forced to deal
with his identity. This is highlighted by the return of the sire who made him.
His sire, in turn, can’t stand werewolves. Oops.
I didn’t want another
vampire versus werewolf story. I wanted a vampire as
a werewolf story.
My next book is intended
to offer a different reading experience to people who have read Guarded and Bound than
to people who haven’t. Also, I’m introducing a new type of magic and will focus
more on the djinn angle.
My point is this. I love
it when readers get involved and feed me ideas. If I can accommodate them, I
will. No problem. But I need books to offer me this “never done by me before”
feel. That means that no two books of mine will be the same. Writing makes me
feel like Christopher Columbus. Except I’m not just exploring new worlds but
also new ideas, mixing genres in a way that no one’s thought of.
Come join me on my
adventure.
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