Cover Reveal: Awaiting Fate (Fated Immortals #1) by J.L. Sheppard

Awaiting Fate, Fated Immortals I

By: J.L. Sheppard

Paranormal Romance

Page Count: 306
Word Count: 73525

Will Cain find Olivia before it's too late or will their differences tear them apart?

Cain Thaler’s lived more than four hundred years fighting rogue immortals, avenging the family he’d lost. It’s all he’s needed, all he’s wanted. That changes the fateful day he lays eyes on his fated mate.

Olivia Waden, a werewolf princess, is nothing like him. Unwilling to give her up, he sets a plan into motion: ignoring his need to claim her, he befriends her. Despite Cain's best efforts at friendship, Olivia has fallen hard for him. It is him she dreams of, him she wants as her fated mate. But she is sure he doesn't feel the same way. In way over her head, she has no option but to run away from the only man she's ever loved.

Excerpt from Awaiting Fate

“What?” She managed the strength to mumble.

He drew closer, pressing his chest against hers. The heat of his body caressing hers, she grew warm with craving. Helplessly, her gaze drifted to his thick full lips. Her mind wandered. What she’d give for a kiss, a single mind-blowing kiss?

Cheeks flushing, her gaze darted toward his again. “Why are you…” Her body’s desires overwhelming her, she gasped for breath.

“Why didn’t you tell me you were leaving?”

He wasn’t just angry. He was livid, and he was livid with her because she’d left.

She didn’t know what to say, had no excuse, not one she could tell him anyway.

Shutting his eyes firmly, his anger intensified, coiling rapidly against her until she not only felt it but tasted it. Still, she wasn’t afraid. With each passing moment, all she felt was heat, his and hers, and how badly she wanted him.

“Answer me,” he demanded harshly. “Tell me why you left without telling me!”

His tone startling her, she jolted against him, her body rubbing his. A desire so powerful rippled through
her and spiraled inside her, pooling liquid between her legs. It clouded her every thought and every action, so
as she stared straight into his eyes, she couldn’t remember what he’d said.

Clenching his jaw, he ground his teeth in anger, so close to losing it. “Olivia, tell me!”

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Cover Reveal: Heaven Desire (Elemental Sisters III) by J.L. Sheppard

Title: Heavenly Desire, Elemental Sisters III

Author: J.L. Sheppard

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Length/Pages: 324

Release Date: September 10, 2014

Will he sacrifice his wings for a woman he loves but can never keep?

Clyde, an angel, battles the one thing he believes will lead to his fall from heaven—his new found emotions, forbidden among his kind. Nonetheless, the Angel Lords promise to promote him to warrior when he completes his last assignment—to find Jade. When he does, emotions he never knew possible arise. For the first time in two thousand years, he cursed his existence. Knowing she can never be his, will he sacrifice his wings for a woman he loves but can't keep?

Excerpt:

He bent toward her, wrapped one arm around her waist, the other around her back, then buried his face in the crook of her neck and inhaled.

Relishing the feel of her body melded against his, he forgot the worries consuming him. She soothed his ache with a mere touch, with a mere embrace.

Exactly what he’d wanted, exactly what he needed.

She then pressed her full lips against his cheek, kissing him lightly.

An innocent kiss. There was no passion behind it, but an unconscious consuming need, one he’d never felt, swelled inside him—desire. It was exciting, overwhelming and terrifying, blocking logic and reason.

All he wanted now was a single kiss. All he could think about was how her soft lips would feel pressed against his.

Marvelous, he concluded.

It was absurd to want what he did and feel what he felt, for he was an angel. Carnal desires even as insignificant as kisses were for others, for all others except his breed, and yet he felt it so deeply it seared him.

The desire that gripped him didn’t release him even after she unhooked her arms from around his neck, and the warmth of her body melted away.

There he stood, immobile, battling the desire she’d sparked. He didn’t want to leave yet knew he had to before he’d acted out his longing.

He willed his body to move. Finally, he placed one foot behind the other, stepped back and strode away praying the yearning he had no right to feel for a woman who would never be his would soon subside.

Author Bio:

J.L. Sheppard was born and raised in Miami, Florida where she still lives with her husband.

As a child, her greatest aspiration was to become a writer. She read often, kept a journal and wrote countless poems. She attended Florida International University and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelors in Communications. During her senior year, she interned at NBC Miami, WTVJ. Following the internship, she was hired and worked in the News Department for three years.

It wasn’t until 2011 that she set her heart and mind into writing her first completed novel, Demon King’s Desire, which was published in January of 2013.

Besides reading and writing, she enjoys traveling and spending quality time with family and friends.

Previous Releases:

Demon King’s Desire, Elemental Sisters I: January 2013

Burdened by Desire, Elemental Sisters II: January 2014

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Cover Reveal: Burdened by Desire by J.L. Sheppard

Title: Burdened by Desire
Author: J.L. Sheppard
Release Date: September 25, 2013

Another gorgeous cover that I'd love to have blown up and hung on my wall.  I love the colors and how the elements are are circled around the world in the center.

Jocelyn, an Elemental, is stuck between mortal and immortal worlds, yet not quite a part of either.  Her power over the elements of the Earth won't evolve until she meets her mate.  Before then she's an easy prey and a coveted possession for the Malums Immortalis who wish to conquer the world.

Alpha werewolf, Landon, has been living with the knowlege his fated female, the one woman created for him, is just beyond his reach.  For months he's forsaken her, refusing to accept his mate because she can never grant him a much-needed heir for his nearly extinct pack.

Despite his decision Landon finds himself drawn to Jocelyn and when an attempt is made on her life, he realizes his destiny lies with her.  Can they overcome the long-held prejudices of his kind and defeat their enemies in time to find what the future holds?

Excerpt from Burdened by Desire:
His heart-wrenching confession took Jocelyn by surprise.  As his eyes continued to bore into hers, her heart skipped several beats.  Was he being truthful?  She wanted to believe he was.  Maybe it was the way he stared at her, consuming her like nothing else mattered, like she was the center of his universe.  She wanted to believe he was sorry and that she excited him.  It would comfort her knowing he was as drawn to her as she was to him.  But were the words he spoke true?

He pulled her a touch closer, his body rubbing close to her own, and she felt every muscle on his chest and his heat, the warmth from his body soothing her.  Her eyes settled on his lips and she imagined what would happen if he kissed her again?  What would she do?  She was supposed to be angry with him but the reason was beyond her grasp.

"Baby?"

The endearment caught her off guard, and her eyes drifted to his again.  She fought to catch her breath as his gaze enveloped her.  If she waited any longer, his scent would once again devour her.  Was he waiting for, a response?  What was she supposed to say?  Did he ask a question?  She couldn't remember.  All she wanted now was a kiss.  Just one mind blowing, gut wrenching, searing kiss.

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