Full Moon Rising
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My heart sunk, and I met my brother’s gaze. “It’s hardly a declaration of intent.”
He grinned. “To have written that much means the man at least feels something more than a sexual attraction, especially since he added ‘if we had met sooner’.”
I glanced down at the note again. “If I do what Jack wants me to do, I can take this”—I raised the note, scrunched it into a ball, and tossed it away—“and do that.”
“Give him time, Riley. You haven’t known each other very long, and he’s had a rough time with wolves.”
“I know.” I forced a smile. “But I am a wolf, and he’s a vampire with some very human hangups. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of common ground between us.”
“But a wolf never gives up once the scent of a chase is on.”
I gave him a wry smile. “Especially when the scent leads to great sex.”
“Precisely. Great sex is something one can never give up on.”
“Is that why you’re still with Davern?”
“Hell, yeah.” He gave me a cheeky grin, then twined his fingers through mine and squeezed them lightly. “Why don’t we go home, get cleaned up, then go out and get blindly, stinkingly, drunk?”
I smiled. “That’s seems like the perfect ending to a perfectly wretched week.”
And it was.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KERI ARTHUR first started writing when she was twelve years old. A favorite author had just killed off a character she loved, so she grabbed a pen and paper and rewrote the whole book—making sure said favorite character lived rather than died.
She’s been writing ever since. To date, she’s finished fifteen novels, and her books have received many nominations and prizes, including: making the final five in the Random House Australia George Turner Prize, been nominated in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards, received a “perfect 10” from Romance Reviews Today, as well as being nominated for Best Shapeshifter in PNR’s PEARL Awards.
She’s a dessert and function cook by trade, and married to a wonderful man who not only supports her writing, but who also does the majority of the housework. They have one daughter, and live in Melbourne, Australia.
FULL MOON RISING
A Bantam Book / February 2006
Published by Bantam Dell
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New York, New York
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 2006 by Keri Arthur
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arthur, Keri.
Full moon rising / Keri Arthur.
p. cm.
eISBN: 0-553-90230-X
1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Melbourne (Vic.)—Fiction. 3. Missing persons—Fiction. 4. Werewolves—Fiction. 5. Vampires—Fiction. ;6. Twins—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9619.4.A78F85 2006
823'.92—dc22
2005050113
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