Magic Born
Rayanne Haines
(The Guardian Series, #2)
Publication date: June 6th 2018
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Maria Del Voscova is a powerful witch with a past. When she’s asked to become a member of the elite Guardians she knows she can’t risk sharing the truth about her messed-up family. But we don’t always get what we want. Sometimes, we don’t always know what we want.Though Mar absolutely knows she doesn’t want Neeren, King of the Parthen. She alone sees the darkness in him and it reminds her too much of the past. She knows better than to fall for his stoic, tortured soul façade.She’s training to be a Guardian, a shadow; tasked with keeping the balance between good and evil in the world. It’s what she wants—to be better than her family was.But the past has a way of catching up to Mar and the future has a morbid sense of humor. On her first mission, she’s kidnapped by the enemy she’s been running from her entire life. Thankfully the guardians look after their own. As it turns out, so does Neeren.As Mar finds herself caught between the past and the future; between blood and bond; between the light and the dark, she realizes her only chance at surviving may be in trusting a man who is the most dangerous of them all.
A scratching noise at the door re-directed Mar’s attention. Whatever else she’d planned on saying lodged in her throat as a wrinkled, slobbering face peaked around the door. When the animal saw Neeren it waddled in, practically throwing itself at him. Neeren reach down, picked up the wriggling beast, and started crooning.
Mar choked on invisible ice-cream. “You have a bulldog?”
“Yes,” he replied while petting the dog’s wrinkled head.
“Is this a trick?”
“No. This is Daisy.”
“You have a bulldog named Daisy? You're a cat!”
“Don't stereotype. I adopted her a week and a half ago. She's a rescue.”
“Aha.” Mar searched the freezer for hidden cameras. “What are you trying to pull over on me? This isn't going to make me think you're less dark.”
He sighed while scratching behind the dog's ears. “I admit I will do whatever is necessary to protect my people, including kill. This doesn't make me dark.”
“It's the way you kill.”
“Yes, I suppose so,” he said with no remorse. “Would you like to pet her?”
“What? No.”
“Afraid you'll like her, and me a little, if you do?”
“Not gonna happen, big boy.”
He scratched the dog’s forehead before putting her down. Daisy snorted around Mar's feet and she almost laughed. “You own a bulldog.”
Neeren stepped closer. Without warning, he leaned down and licked her lower lip. Her knees buckled. Fire ignited in her belly. Hard. Fast. Before she could react, he placed her fingers in his mouth. Sucked errant drops of chocolate off them. Growled low in his throat.
“Maria, I need you to promise me you'll keep those beautiful lips sealed.”
Her head spun. He held her fingers tight. Locked his eyes on hers. Waited. Like stone. Her body raged with want. She pulled her hand back. Refused to look down at her tingling fingers. “Or what?”
A slow smile turned up his lips. “Or I'll have to convince you further.”
Author Bio:
Rayanne Haines grew up on a small horse ranch in Alberta. She spent most of her youth re-enacting scenes from Anne of Green Gables to attentive audiences that included pygmy goats and roan stallions. The horses were thrilled. Her father could never figure out why it took her three hours to clean the barn.Her mother is an avid reader and instilled a love of literature in her at a young age. She has always been fascinated with learning people’s stories.She has a fondness for mountains and rivers and all the creatures that live within them.She believes in magic and the search for great love. She loves to write about strong women who will accept nothing less.
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