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Hello everyone! Thanks so much for having me here today!  My erotic romance RIDING DOUBLE was just published and although it’s a hot cowboy story, I also love everything paranormal.  I’d like to talk today about my latest bad guy: an emotionally damaged alpha werewolf named Stephan Donaldson.  Stephan is the right hand guy of the villainous Luna Werewolf Leader. Stephan was taken as a child from his pack and convinced he was going “forest crazy” and the only person who could save him is my heroine Siddalee Walker. But Sidda is in love and mated to another werewolf, super Alpha Jasper Gandillion.

In my Luna series, Siddalee is just finding out that she is a werewolf, but not just any werewolf, she’s an experiment created by villainous Luna Leader Dane Velham in attempt to combine two of the most powerful Luna Packs. Stephan sees her, wants her, and goes after her but is stopped in his tracks by Jasper who won’t let his mate go without a fight.

But what happens when everything Sidda thought she knew about Jasper is turned upside down and the only wolf who knows the truth is Stephan?

Here’s a taste of Sidda, Stephan, and Jasper:

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Sidda ambled to the bar and slid across the deep red vinyl of the stool. Sidda rested her head in her palms hating that her heart still ached, and that the link between her and Jasper singed her with his anger. Soon, very soon she’d be so numb he wouldn’t be able to send her that anger.

“Here you go hon.”

Sidda glanced up. A small blue haired old lady handed her a bottle of whiskey.

“Need a glass? Doesn’t seem like you do but I could be wrong.” She smiled warmly at Sidda.

“No glass. Thanks.” Sidda attempted a smile but by the sympathetic frown on the woman’s face she knew she’d missed the mark.

“Forget him hon. No man is worth that much pain.” The lady patted Sidda’s hand before turning and walking away.

There was no forgetting Jasper, ever. Shit, she wiped the tears from her eyes and with trembling hands unscrewed the cap on the new bottle of whiskey. Alone at the bar she pressed the glass bottle to her lips. The harsh bit of alcohol stole her breath. Her eyes watered and she fought to keep the burning cold liquid down. The fire of the whiskey burned away the cold which had seeped into her body when she’d left Jasper. Taking another sip she sighed. Shit, she hated him for hurting her.

“The key is to not think so much about it.” A scratchy familiar voice had her spine straightening.

She turned just in time to see Stephan slide onto the bar stool beside her. His odd violet eyes shined in the dim light. How oddly beautiful they were.

“Fuck off. I’m in no mood.” Her tone more of a growl than she cared for.

“And I’m supposed to give a shit what kind of mood you’re in?” He grabbed the bottle before she could stop him and turned it up taking a long drink. His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down with the deep swig. His throat had been marred on one side from a bite. She idly wondered who had done that to him.

“Your father, sixteen years ago.” He sat the bottle down in front of her. “Drink.”

She fought the urge to gag at the thought of putting her lips somewhere his had been. But then Jasper called to her, his desperate plea for her to return home rang in her head and she snatched the bottle from the table.

“I hate you. Why are you here?”

“You don’t know me, save your hatred until after you’ve gotten to know me.” Stephan’s voice a mere whisper.

“I don’t want to know you at all.”

“Oh but you will. You are my mate. That piece of trash had no right to touch you much less mark you as his.”

Anger surged forward. He was right, Jasper had no right to her, he’d already chosen someone else. She turned the bottle up again.

“What do you want?” She cocked her head to watch Stephan. He took the bottle from her hands and sipped the amber liquid again.

“You.” He stared into her eyes.

A strange heat flushed her skin. Shame spread through her, shit this wasn’t right. She couldn’t feel any type of heat when it came to him. Not after everything she’d learned he’d done. Plus no matter what Jasper had done she loved him.

“Try again. You’ve murdered wolves and people, you’re Velham’s second and earlier you said you planned to whip me like you whipped my mother. You don’t get me.” Her mind fuzzed as thoughts of Jasper alone with that blonde settled into her head.

“A lie. I wondered how quick tempered you’d be but you didn’t take my bait earlier.” He grabbed the bottle from her again.

“Stop doing that. I figure I need this entire bottle. Get your own and leave. I have no desire to be drinking and sharing details of my life with you. Go away.” Her head swam.

“I don’t want to leave and you need someone to talk to.” He smiled showing a set of full perfect white teeth. If the man wasn’t a cold blooded murderer she’d have found him pretty damn hot, not Jasper but not bad. She groaned, shit she had to stop thinking about Jasper.

“You see I need someone to talk to also. I found out today that the she-wolf I’d been promised as a child had not died as my Alpha told me. Instead she’s very alive and everything I’ve ever dreamt of. She’s the one who can calm my wolf, make me a better man but she’s mated with another. Well at least she thought she was.”

Sidda’s heart raced. He was talking about her. “Dane told you your mate had died?”

“As a child. When I went to live with him the elders of my pack said I’d have to be killed because my wolf would turn forest crazy before I reached twenty. That I’d destroy my pack and everyone else around. Dane took me in. For my promise of servitude he promised me a female who would calm me, calm my wolf and give me life. But then that wolf was taken.”

“Taken?” Sidda blinked, her vision blurry.

“Yes, taken by the devil to keep me on my path to insanity. But now she’s back and she can save me. Sidda you are mine, you are my savoir.” The sincerity in Stephan’s words startled Sidda. Shit she wasn’t his, she’d given herself to Jasper too many years ago to be anyone but his.

“I’m not, I can’t be. I’ve already mated with Jasper.”

Stephan shook his head. “Not truly. He may have marked you but the bond couldn’t be complete. Not when he’d marked your sister as a child. The first Marking is the bonded one. They are bonded not you and him. You are mine Sidda.”

“I can’t be yours. Now please go away. I just want to be alone.” Tears poured from her eyes. Stephan’s fingers brushed them away before his hand traced her jaw.

“You’re so strong, you can stop me Sidda. I need you more than Gandillion ever will.” His broken whisper made her tears fall harder. Jasper didn’t need her he had her sister.

“Come to me of free will and I will give you everything.”

“I can’t. You’re a monster. I’ve seen and heard about the things you’ve done.” She stared into the abyss of his violet eyes. A storm of emotions raged in them.

“But you can stop me. Don’t you see that? Don’t you know you were made for me? Come to me and stop me Sidda before I destroy everything you love.” He grabbed the bottle turned it up then left.

Sidda sat motionless on the bar stool. Her head still swimming, her eyes blurry and her heart breaking. She slid from the seat, sat down some money on the bar before heading to the car.

Shit what was she going to do? She sat in the car and rested her head on the steering wheel. What the hell was Stephan talking about? She couldn’t be his, she hadn’t been made for him right? She slammed her fist down on the steering wheel beside her head.

“You really want me to add breaking my steering wheel to the list of things I’m going to whip your pretty little ass over?” Jasper growled outside the window.

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Alpha’s.  Gotta love them. As a reader I love reading about a bad guy turning good with the help of the heroine. Stephan was originally supposed to be super bad and super dead by the end of the first Luna book, but as I wrote the scene above I knew I couldn’t kill him off. I began to really like him. He’s so damaged but he believes in Sidda, more than anyone else ever has or ever will. He’s a good, good bad guy that just wants Sidda to save him. Can she? Will she? I’ll keep you all updated on Sidda, Jasper, and Stephan but for now tell me how you feel about bad guys? Do you like them redeemed or do you like em’ bad and unredeemable?

And for one lucky commenter today I’ll be giving away my first ever published book, RIDING DOUBLE an ebook from The Wild Rose Press. It’s not paranormal but it does have two alpha cowboys heating things up. Thanks for having me today. And I look forward to more Deadly Days of Summer!!

Sayde Grace
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