I am really happy
to host lovely Siobahn Muir here today to reveal the über glamorous cover of
her new book, coming out on the 11th this month. Just look at those
ice sparkles… don’t you feel the magic already?!
Avalanches may bring down more than snow…
Working
for the Search and Rescue team at the Cloudburst Resort in Colorado, Lily
Sinclair figures she’ll do all the rescuing from now on. When hikers are caught
in a spring blizzard, Lily and her partner head into the storm. Cut off from
communication and facing deadly conditions, Lily fears she’ll never see her Ice
Demon lover before death claims them.
Zach
Snow encouraged Lily move to Cloudburst to grow and learn, but missed her every
day of their months apart. His plans of moving to Colorado get pushed up when
he receives her text explaining her situation, and saying goodbye. He must
negotiate with the local Ice Demon clan to work in their territory to rescue
Lily and the hikers before the Spring Fling blizzard kills them. But he’s
running out of time.
Between
the amorous hiker hitting on Zach, Lily’s self-doubts, and an avalanche bearing
down on them, Zach and Lily must rediscover the love they first kindled in a
Christmas ice cave, and create their own Cloudburst ice magic.
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Sleet
laughed, saluted, and was gone in a hissing sprinkle of snowflakes. The desert
air sucked up the moisture before it hit the ground and took Zach’s smile with
it. He shoved the last of the totes into the back of his truck and closed the
tailgate, grateful Sleet didn’t push too hard. He wasn’t ready to tell anyone
of his impulsive choice to mate with Lily.
Speaking of which, why hasn’t she answered my texts? He checked his phone again to be sure, but he found a big ol’
nothing. He shook his head and sprayed a little shower of water around him.
Crap. Nevada had launched into its warmer spring temperatures and he needed to
make himself scarce in the lowlands or get out of Dodge entirely. He locked the
empty cabin and glanced at his phone again, willing it to beep with an incoming
text or email.
A chill
ran up his back from his gut and all his crystalline hair rose to stand on end.
Something’s wrong. He inhaled the
balmy spring air and scanned the softly dripping world around him, but
everything appeared in order. Still, the eerie feeling of dissonance rattled
the crystals of his hair and he gritted his teeth as he strode for the driver’s
side of his truck. What is it?
His
phone rumbled with a red hawk’s scream, the sound he’d chosen for emergency
contact texts. He jerked it out of his pocket and touched the screen.
Snowed in bad. Whiteout conditions w/hikers on the
slopes. Miss you and love you. Lily.
Zach’s
stomach flipped over and dropped to his boots. He punched her number
immediately and listened to it go straight to voicemail. “Dammit, Lily! Where
are you?”
He took
a deep breath and thought back to where she’d said she worked. Cloudburst
Resort in Cloudburst, Colorado. He slid into the driver’s seat and punched the
maps icon on his phone. Cloudburst showed in the mountain range in the
southwestern corner of the state.
Zach nodded.
Too much time between Vegas and Cloudburst if he took his truck, but he needed
his gear with him. Gritting his teeth, Zach started the engine and called a
buddy of his who played in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
“Snow,
my man, what’s up?”
“Cade, I
need a favor.” Zach headed down the hill toward the freeway.
“Anything,
man. What’s going on?” The mellow voice on the other end sharpened.
“Do you
know any Ice Demons in the mountains of southwestern Colorado?”
“Sure.
Got a couple of friends there. Why?”
“Can you
find out if they’ve got any Spring Flings going on right now? I’m on my way,
but I’m still about nine hours out.”
“Whoa,
man. Are you moving this direction?”
“Yep,
but I gotta get there ASAP. Can you find out and call me when you know?”
“Yeah,
sure. Not a problem.” Cade paused. “What’s the big rush, Snow?”
Zach
sighed as he hit the turn-off to the 215. How much would Cade understand? “You
know I’m in Search & Rescue for the humans, right?”
“Yeah,
I’d heard you have a thing for them.” Cade chuckled. “What of it?”
“I got
news that some humans are caught in some heavy weather in southwestern Colorado
and one of them’s a friend of mine. If I could, I’d be out on the slopes right
now. But I can’t enter someone else’s territory without an intro.” Ice Demons tended
to be territorial unless visitors went through the proper introductory
channels. “Do you think you could have someone meet me in Cloudburst, Colorado
as soon as I get there? I gotta get these folks out, Cade. It’s important.”
“I’ll
see what I can do, Snow. Just promise me you’ll tell me the full story when you
get here.”
“Will
do.”
“I’ll
text or call you when I got something.”
“Thanks,
Cade.” Zach floored the accelerator past the Aliante exit.
“Not a
problem. Talk to you soon.” The phone clicked off. Zach dropped it on the seat
and slowed down before the cops got too interested in him. He’d have to send
texts to Sleet and his folks, but he could do that when he reached a rest stop.
Waiting
at the light to get onto I-15, he tapped a quick text to Lily.
Hang in there. I’m coming. Z
He prayed to Freya Lily would
receive it. All he had to do was get to Colorado. He just hoped he’d arrive in
time.
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A few words about the author:
Siobhan Muir lives in Cheyenne,
Wyoming, with her husband, two daughters, and a vegetarian cat she swears is a
shape-shifter, though he's never shifted when she can see him. When not
writing, she can be found looking down a microscope at fossil fox teeth,
pursuing her other love, paleontology. An avid reader of science
fiction/fantasy, her husband gave her a paranormal romance for Christmas one
year, and she was hooked for good.
In previous lives, Siobhan has
been an actor at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, a field geologist in the
Aleutian Islands, and restored inter-planetary imagery at the USGS. She’s hiked
to the top of Mount St. Helens and to the bottom of Meteor Crater.
Siobhan writes kick-ass adventure
with hot sex for men and women to enjoy. She believes in happily ever after,
redemption, and communication, all of which you will find in her paranormal
romance stories.
Siobhan’s latest release, Cloudburst Ice Magic, is a sequel to Christmas ICE Magic in the Happy
Holidays from the Crescent Moon Lodge anthology. She has published A Hell Hound’s Fire (a free read) and The Beltane Witch in the Cloudburst
Colorado series. Siobhan has also published Bronco’s
Rough Ride and The Navy’s Ghost
in the Bad Boys of Beta Squad series, Not
a Dragon’s Standard Virgin and Queen
Bitch of the Callowwood Pack through Siren Publishing, and Her Devoted Vampire through Evernight
Publishing.
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Cloudburst
Ice Magic will be out on
August 11… stay tuned for buy links, interviews and more. ;)
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