Touched
by the Moon
Touching the Moon, #2
by Lisa M. Airey
Date of
Publication: December 2015
Publisher:
Aakenbaaken & Kent, New York
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Artist: www.Reese-Winslow.com
Genre:
Paranormal Fiction
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Touched
by the Moon (Touching the Moon, #2) . . .
The depth of intrigue. The riveting locations. The descriptives used to express each and every scene was pleasing to the senses. I felt sucked into the story and binded to the pages as each one turned and I gained more information. There was a fresh flux of characters and the intricacies of the involvement of each on in the other lives.
From South Dakota to Denmark. From lost to confused. From burning pain to burning hate, to burning need. All the characters work together in different ways to make the story come together and make you feel as you are experiencing the journey for them all.
I felt like I was cheated from a delicious work of art. With missing out on the first book of this series. There was much that I wanted and was still wanting more when I reached the end. I have to get the first book and then read this one again to make sure I can make all the connections. There were a few characters that I would like to see more.
With more work and a better editing job this could be a read that would be returned to repeatedly. Unexpected events, riveting actions, protective bonds, growing friendships, and the Moon to follow. Where will we go next?
From South Dakota to Denmark. From lost to confused. From burning pain to burning hate, to burning need. All the characters work together in different ways to make the story come together and make you feel as you are experiencing the journey for them all.
I felt like I was cheated from a delicious work of art. With missing out on the first book of this series. There was much that I wanted and was still wanting more when I reached the end. I have to get the first book and then read this one again to make sure I can make all the connections. There were a few characters that I would like to see more.
With more work and a better editing job this could be a read that would be returned to repeatedly. Unexpected events, riveting actions, protective bonds, growing friendships, and the Moon to follow. Where will we go next?
Touching the Moon series:
Touching the Moon - Touching the Moon, #1
Touched by the Moon - Touching the Moon, #2
BLURB
Taken
The timber wolves of Fallston, South
Dakota fall prey to an international ring of fur trappers. Unfortunately,
timber wolves are not all they capture. Taken by a savage group of criminals
and transported half a world away to Denmark, two young boys must set aside
their sibling rivalry to survive the violence that surrounds them.
Haunted
Julie Walker is haunted by the loss of
her sons and haunted by the reappearance of the one man she never wanted to see
again in her lifetime, Hayden Kolding. He has an agenda, and a surprising ally,
forcing Julie to confront a side of herself that she has fought long and hard
to deny.
Hunted
But life is seldom simply a matter of
black and white. As victim becomes victor and hunter becomes hunted, there is a
world of gray. And Gray Walker is out for blood.
Elliott Rand had been
close to the end of his search grid when he was called back in to home base.
The reckless boys had been found and now it was time for a couple of fingers of
Gentleman Jack and some good home cookin’. Julie’s cooking. He was ready. More
than ready.
He heard a wolf off
in the distance. But it wasn’t a howl. It was a cry of pain. Abject pain.
Elliott shifted
direction and cursed his fate. He was betting dollars to doughnuts that a
timber wolf had been caught in an illegal wolf trap. It would be next to
impossible to save a feral wounded without a tranquilizer gun. The best he
could do was put the beast out of its misery. He clenched his jaws.
He moved as quickly
as he was able, but the air was biting cold. It hurt to breathe. His eyes
scanned the landscape for a safe path to follow and he moved forward with caution.
The snowfall had been heavy, but it was powder dry and had slid down the
mountain slope leaving a thinner blanket on the steeper portions. It was there
he found the gray timber wolf gnawing at a left hind leg that was viciously
pinned between two jaws of steel.
“God,” murmured
Elliott.
He took a step
forward and felt his left leg buckle beneath him. The ice cut into his face as
he took a nose dive into the snow. When he could take a breath and move past
the searing, blinding pain, he looked back. His left leg was trapped within a
shark’s maw of metal.
He pushed himself
upright and tried to survey the damage, but all he could do was whimper like a
child. The shame of his weakness galvanized him with attitude. He bit his glove
and tried to corral his focus.
Breathe. Breathe.
With trembling hands
he tried to pry the trap loose, but his arms were like rubber. He looked up at
the wolf. It was thirty feet away, its lip curled up in a menacing snarl.
Elliott tried to pry the trap loose again. And failed.
It was getting
darker, he noticed. Odd that. It was mid-afternoon. He scrabbled at the metal
vice pinning his leg.
Broken, the leg was
definitely broken.
He looked back to the
wolf. The animal was trying to chew through its own leg to get free. The white
snow surrounding him was screaming red. Or was he the one screaming? All he
could hear was ringing in his ears.
Elliott pulled his
gun free of its holster and set it within reach, then he fumbled for his radio,
dropping it four times. He took off his gloves to get better purchase, but the
freezing wind stiffened his hands like wet wash hung outside in the winter
cold.
Good news was, the
pain had stopped. His leg was numb. Totally numb. And the wolf wasn’t growling.
No. No more growling at all.
He stilled as little
white pinpricks of light danced around the edges of his vision, then the pain
washed back over him like a riptide trying to carry him off to someplace deep
and dark. A small bone-carved pendant weaved before his face--a leather-bound
pendant wrapped around a thick neck of fur. He reached out for that lifeline.
There was a sudden
warmth. And then he let go and drifted into oblivion.
Author
Info
Lisa lives in Monkton, Maryland. When
not writing, she spends her free time in the vegetable garden or in the kitchen
cooking what she grows. She writes wine textbooks by day and novels by night.
In January of 2016, she was knighted by the French government for her
contribution to French Agriculture, namely wine! This is her second novel.
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