WeWriWa: “Would You Break Your Precious Laws For Me?” CHASED BY MOONLIGHT

I’m double dipping this month because post dates for Paranormal Romantics and Weekend Writing Warriors are just days apart . . . and I have a Big 0 birthday to celebrate.

The reason I enjoyed writing my BY MOONLIGHT books SO much was because there were no easy scenes. Every one of them was strung with tension, thick with desire, quirked by humor or wrapped up in a backdrop of impossible issues that would keep any couple apart. But Max and Charlotte aren’t just any couple. She’s a tough NOPD cop and he’s literally the King of Beasts, at least in shapeshifting communities in New Orleans. When secrets from a past she barely remembers and a legacy he can’t escape pressure them to deny their relationship things heat up in this second book of my BY MOONLIGHT series. Here’s a nibble . . .

IN NANCY GIDEON’S SEDUCTIVE NOVEL, A TOUGH-AS-NAILS NEW ORLEANS COP MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN THE CAREER SHE’S DEDICATED TO AND THE DANGEROUS SHAPE-SHIFTING LOVER SHE CAN’T RESIST.

SHE’S SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY.

Mixing business with pleasure gets more complicated for Detective Charlotte Caissie when her sexy preternatural lover, Max Savoie, is accused of a high-profile murder. To prove him innocent she must distance herself, but her tangled emotions don’t make it easy for her to stay away from him. And neither does Max.

HE’S DESPERATE TO UNCOVER HIS PAST.

Left in charge of a criminal empire and protector of a clan of shadowy shape-shifters, Max walks a precarious line. Can he believe the cunning stranger who claims he can teach Max the things he needs to know to stay alive? A con man who would betray anyone to make a profit, who may be a ruthless killer?

TOGETHER, THEY’RE TEMPTING FATE.

The harder Cee Cee fights to clear Max’s name, the more he pushes her away. He’s protecting a dark truth that could blow the top off her investigation. And that means hiding his motives and lying to a woman who values truth above all. The woman who can save him . . . if he’ll let her.

 The Excerpt 

“Would you break your precious laws for me?” he asked with fierce intensity. “Would you look the other way while I broke them?”

Her mood cooled slightly, as did her tone. “I’ve bent them plenty already.”

“That’s not what I asked.” His voice lowered to a silky rumble. “The truth, Charlotte.”

“It depends on—” 

“Nothing. Don’t hedge your bet. Just answer.”

. . . and a bit more . . .

She scowled at him, furious because she’d been tiptoeing around their contrary careers and now he was shoving it in her face, demanding she make a choice. And he would know if she wasn’t being honest, damn him.

“Yes,” she growled. “For you, if you asked, yes, I would.”

A satisfying amount of surprise registered in his eyes, which irritated her enough to elaborate.

“I would hate it, but I would do it. It would destroy everything I built my life on, would strip me of every ounce of dignity and self-respect, but I would do it without hesitation, without regret, if you asked me to. That’s how much you mean to me. And if you care for me even half that much, you would never ask.”

Now THOSE are some difficult hurdles for even a regular couple to overcome . . . and there’s nothing normal about this pair!

I can’t wait to reissue this series to a whole generation of paranormal readers! Stand by for more . . .

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