THOMAS: Le Beau Brothers - New Orleans Billionaire Wolf Shifters with plus sized BBW for mates (Le Beau Series Book 4)
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Julia’s eyes grew wide as she read over the grocery list Krystal had written; it was large enough to fill a legal pad. “It’s amazing how much stuff people normally have in their pantry and refrigerator that they take for granted. When you have to start from scratch, it’s a bit mind-boggling.”
“And that list is only what I need for the main house. Tomorrow we will start a list of items we need for the guest cabins. We don’t even have beds or dressers in them.”
Julia gaped open-mouthed at her sister. “It’s a dang good thing we came along to help.”
“You have no idea,” Krystal laughed.
They each grabbed a shopping cart from the cart room as they entered the local grocery. If they worked the store row by row and kept moving, they would make it home in time to have cocktails with the guys and barbecue the steaks.
Krystal was studying the yogurt options when two women parked a cart close to her and started discussing cottage cheese choices.
She glanced at them, ready to introduce herself when she noticed the aura of the taller of the two. How interesting, the colors and pattern were identical to Lucas’s aura. As she examined the fluctuating colors more closely, the woman’s spirit guide stepped forward.
“Kensie is your cousin, Lucas’s, soul mate. Please help her.”
Krystal gave the spirit guide a slight nod; careful no one saw her talking to an invisible entity. Few people knew her secret, not only could she see and read auras, but she could see everyone’s spirit guides and speak to them.
Her breath caught in her throat. She could hardly believe it! Lucas’s mate was standing not three feet from her.
Shaking off the shock, she cleared her throat. “Hello, my name is Krystal. I just moved to town. Do you live around here?”
The younger woman, the one with dark brown hair and large blue eyes, smiled brightly. “Hi! Yes, I do, and it’s nice to meet you. I’m Jolene, but my friends call me Jojo, and this is my big sister, Kensie. I’m fairly new, too. I only moved here myself about six months ago. You’re going to love it here. Everyone I’ve met is very friendly.”
“It’s wonderful to meet you both. So, you said you moved here, Jojo. Do you live somewhere else, Kensie?”
“Yes, I’m only visiting for a week, then I need to head back to Minnesota.”
“Oh, that’s too bad. I was going to invite you both to dinner once we get unpacked.”
“Thank you, but I only came to make sure Jojo was doing okay. I have patients waiting for me back home so I can’t stay.”
“Yeah, Kensie is a famous doctor at the Mayo Clinic and has a waiting list about a mile long. I practically had to kidnap her to get her to take a few days off and come see me.”
“If you would like to come to dinner, Jojo, I would love to have you over.”
Jojo practically squealed. “I’d love to. Here’s my number. Just call me when you’re finished unpacking.”
Krystal took her information and said goodbye before she moved to the next aisle. Her excitement at meeting Lucas’s mate practically crackled in the air. She would have to come up with a plan to get Kensie to visit again so she could introduce her to Lucas.
Kensie was gorgeous, with her long red hair and large hazel eyes. Lucas had a thing for redheads, and she was going to knock him on his ass when he met her. Now, she just needed to figure out a way to get them together. How the heck was she going to accomplish that if the woman never took time off from her busy schedule?
Krystal tapped her pen on her chin as she puzzled it out. A call to Aunt Emma might be in order. She was the sneakiest person she knew, and might have an idea how she could get Kensie to come to visit again. Texas was going to be much more interesting than she expected.
The End
About the Author
V.A. Dold is the author of the Le Beau Brothers series, New Orleans wolf shifter novels. A graduate of Saint Cloud University, she majored in marketing with a minor in reading romance paperbacks.
Prior to becoming a full time writer, she was Publicist to the authors, owning ARC Author & Reader Conventions. Still is.
Her idea of absolute heaven is a day in the French Quarter with her computer, coffee mug and the brothers, of course.
A Minnesota native with her heart lost to Louisiana, she has a penchant for titillating tales featuring sexy men and strong women. When she's not writing, she's probably taking in a movie, reading, or traveling.
Her earliest reading memories are from grade school. She had a major fixation with horses, and the Black Stallion was a favorite. Then junior high came along and teenage hormones kicked in. It became all about the Harlequin Romances. She has been hooked on romances ever since.
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Read on for an excerpt from
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Next book:
RICHIE
Book 5
of the Le Beau Brothers
Prologue: The Plan
Emma Le Beau did a little happy dance. It was a rare moment in the home of the shifter King and Queen; the house was quiet. Before anyone could knock on her door, she snatched the perfect opportunity for her daily meditation.
With great care, she placed a purple, satin cloth on the altar she had consecrated to the Goddess Luperica centuries ago. The Goddess created the wolf shifters long ago when she blessed a village of humans with wolf souls. They became the first shifters. Since then she has only blessed a handful of humans that were not destined mates for a born shifter.
She carefully smoothed every crease and wrinkle until the altar cloth was perfect. Next she pulled two white candles from her prayer satchel and lit them.
Which crystals should I use today?
Gently, she touched each of her sacred stones until she decided on Amethyst, Citrine, and Clear Quartz. With the greatest reverence, Emma placed them in a triangle on her sacred purple cloth.
She closed her eyes, centered her mind, and quieted her thoughts. Opening herself to her spirit guides, and to the Goddess.
“Blessed be, my daughter,” the Goddess greeted her in her soft, soothing voice.
“Blessed be, Mother. How may I be of service?”
“Two of my sons are on the verge of meeting their mates: Richie Majors, and your son, Lucas.”
Emma gasped, and then whispered wide-eyed, “Both Richie and Lucas? Is there anything you would have me do to assist you with these matings?”
“My daughter Krystal, Lucas's cousin, will be instrumental. She must be allowed to move with him to Texas. But that we will discuss at a later date. I have already set into motion the situation that will bring Richie and his mate together. His human friends who attend college here in Louisiana will make sure they meet. He will be invited to attend a wedding. He must attend.”
“If it pleases you, I could have Isaac talk with Richie’s place of employment to guarantee he is given the days off he will need to attend.”
“It does indeed please me," the Goddess said with a loving smile. “Also, if Richie hesitates in any way in regards to attending the wedding, he must be strongly encouraged to attend.”
“Is there anything more I can do to be of service?” Emma asked.
“I am very pleased with everything you do. I am most pleased by the assistance you have provided; assuring these new humans are introduced to their destined mate and brought into the fold.”
“It is always my pleasure to be of service to my mother Goddess,” Emma said as she lowered her head in supplication.
“Take care, my most precious daughter. Blessed be.”
“Take care, Mother. Blessed be.”
Bursting with excitement, Emma wrung her hands. “Why does everyone have to be either slee
ping or away when I get news like this?”
*****
By the time Isaac returned, Emma was on the verge of bursting. “Isaac! I have another name. Well, actually two names. Richie is going to meet his mate through friends. The Goddess requested that we ensure he gets the time off work to attend the wedding where he will meet her, and to also encourage him to go to that wedding if he gets wishy-washy.
“Who is the other?” Isaac asked, grinning at his mate’s excitement.
“I was waiting for you to ask. Lucas! Can you believe it? And Krystal will be instrumental in bringing them together. Our job is to make sure she moves to Texas with him.
“We both know the only person who will try to stop her is her mother. I'll handle Lucinda. Now, whose wedding is Richie supposed to attend?”
“One of the girls he hangs out with from the college.”
“Oh, I know that group of ladies. Richie talks about them all the time. He has even suggested that they be invited to a gathering, but without a shifter in their family, I can’t take that chance.”
“I agree, inviting them would be too risky.”
“I’ll stop by the Crescent City Brewhouse and chat with him about the wedding, you know, get a few details to work with.”
Emma giggled like a schoolgirl. “I do love matchmaking our men.”
“So do I,” Isaac laughed, “As long as we don’t get caught.”
Isaac chuckled again and poured himself a Scotch. “This is very exciting! Lucas and Richie,” Isaac shook his head. “That’s just wonderful.”
Humming happily to himself, he lounged with Emma in their great room as he sipped his scotch reminiscing. Isaac and his mate, Emma, had been successfully arranging for their sons to ‘accidentally’ meet their mates for over a year. So far, Cade, Simon, Stefan, and Thomas were all mated. In addition, they had received a bonus when Thomas’s mate had turned out to be Julia, his brother Charles’s daughter. And the frosting on this mating game cake was they now had a grandchild due any day. Life was pretty dang good.
He was very proud of the way he had gotten Emma, his exotically beautiful combination of Romanian gypsy and voodoo priestess, to petition the wolf-Goddess, Luperca to disclose the names of their sons’ mates. Since the Goddess had revealed Anna as Cade’s mate and where she would be on a specific day at a specific time, the names of additional mates had been steadily revealed.
All of their sons were following in his footsteps and mating beautiful, curvaceous women. After two centuries, his Emma’s exotic, sparkling dark eyes and compact, soft, killer curves still left him breathless. As a matter of fact, he was trying to talk her into giving him another child; maybe they would finally have a daughter?
Yes, I’m definitely going to have to work on that.
Enjoy the entire Le Beau Series
Book 1 CADE
Book 2 SIMON
Book 3 STEFAN
Book 4 THOMAS
Book 5 RICHIE (coming soon)
And don’t miss their follow up HEA’s
CADE & ANNA (coming soon)
SIMON & ROSE (coming soon)
STEFAN & EL (coming soon)
CADE
Anna James is single again, finally. In her opinion, men are self-centered and will never love her for who she is, a beautiful, plus-sized woman. All except the fantasy man that she meets in her dreams every night for last five years.
She just never expected her fantasy to be a real live alpha shifter...
Cade Le Beau isn't what he seems. He’s a billionaire wolf. A Shifter. He laments his missed chance six months ago to meet his fantasy woman in the flesh. Just as his second chance presents itself, his fantasy woman, his mate, is threatened by the local mob boss and her ex-husband. Now, he has forty-eight hours to deal with this threat once and for all or chance losing her again.
Is it Anna who’s in danger, or the humans who unwittingly threaten her?
The heat is on the moment they lay eyes on each other. Neither age, children, horrid ex-husbands nor mob bosses will stop this love affair.
SIMON
Four years of honorably serving his country has left Simon, Cade’s younger brother, damaged and trapped in wolf form. Little did he know the only person with the ability to heal him completely would be found at home. Literally. Now that he’s found her, he is desperate to claim her.
Rose is a beautiful, voluptuous woman with limited experience with men. Although she's confident, she still has reservations. Never having a family of her own, her fear of abandonment has her fleeing romantic relationships and doubting herself.
Travis is insane. A deadly loose cannon that a secret organization hired to destroy the Le Beau family by denying them their mates. Permanently.
Simon’s dream will be lost forever unless he is able to maintain human form.
Rose needs unconditional love and a mate to create the family she’s always wanted.
Travis’s all-consuming drive is to take Rose for himself.
Will Simon ever be whole again, able to claim his mate, giving Rose the love and family she so desperately craves? Or will Travis destroy them both?
STEFAN
El is a beautiful, successful, plus-sized woman suffering a debilitating humiliation that has left her hating all handsome, wealthy men exactly like Stefan Le Beau. Unfortunately for Le Beau, she’s known him since she was sixteen and was totally snubbed by him. To her, he’s a hound dog and a man-whore.
Stefan is a playboy to the extreme with one hard and fast rule: date a woman only once, take her to bed and be gone before morning. Until El.
Stefan’s dream of finding his mate comes true when he bids two hundred thousand dollars to win a date with El at Simon’s charity ball. Money well spent in his opinion.
Now, if she would only talk to him. Or look at him. Or touch him, or…like him.
Can Stefan convince El he's a reformed man?
Can El learn to trust a man who is the epitome of what she avoids and could shatter her heart?
It will require drastic, strategic measures from the entire family to make this mating happen.
THOMAS
Julia is happy with her place in the shifter community as the owner of the famous shifter bar, The Backwater. But the life she's created for herself isn't enough to satisfy her crazy-ass mother, Lucinda, who shops her and her sister, Krystal, around to the pure blood shifters like pieces of meat. Only a born shifter mate is good enough for her girls.
Thomas James has his hands full as the shifter king's head of security. He certainly wasn’t looking for a girlfriend during the first annual shifter gathering. He had the king and queen to protect, not skirts to chase.
A childhood of emotional and physical abuse by his birth father has left Thomas emotionally unavailable and uninterested in romantic relationships. His father Tim’s cruelty to his mother and brother molded him into an extremely protective person. No one messes with his loved ones without answering to him.
Even though Julia and Thomas are destined to be mates, the obstacles standing between them and their happily-ever-after seem insurmountable.
Lucinda insists Julia stay away from the filthy human.
Tim is trying to kill every one Thomas loves.
The mysterious Benevolent Sovereign, who is trying to overthrow the throne, has sent swampers to attack Thomas and destroy Julia’s livelihood.
With family like theirs, who needs enemies?
Will Julia and Thomas’s happiness be snuffed out before it has a chance to begin or will they forge through - obstacles be damned.
What is next in the Le Beau series?
V.A. Dold’s
Next book:
Richie
Book 5 of the Le Beau Series
Also watch for the follow-up
Le Beau Series HEA
(Happy Ever After)
Cade & Anna
Simon & Rose
Stefan & El
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There Are No Coincidences….
Given a fairy tale life by the clan of dragon shifters that rescued her as a little girl, Emma Sinclair long ago accepted she might never solve the mystery of her heritage. Of course, that was before she could feel the traitor’s pain, before she knew he was slipping away. And before the unthinkable happened… he called to her in the language of his kin.
The Universe Does Not Make Mistakes…
Captured by his brothers. Imprisoned in a cave. Bound in silver chains. Andrew knew his days were numbered. He accepted his fate. Knew he was getting what he deserved. Hallucinations of his long dead parents were his only solace in the debris of a wasted life. Then the scent of salt, sun and fresh air entered his prison. The fragrance stirred visions of expressive brown eyes, a smile that rivaled the sun and a voice that was a balm to his tattered soul. He clung to the memory of her. She became his lifeline…his only hope of survival…