BLURBS:
Hard as Stone: Tiernan Guaire is a Fae in exile. Forced from the Realm into the human world for the unimaginable crime of a brother’s murder, he lives by a century-old vow, to trust no one, and never to allow himself to love or be loved.
Kevin Almstead has just lost his future, to a vote of the partners at his law firm. Trying to escape for an evening, he ventures into Purgatory, the hottest all-male nightclub in Washington, D.C., where he allows himself to be seduced by a stranger with long blond hair and ice-blue eyes.
Drawn into a Soulshare bond with his intended one-night stand, Tiernan soon learns that the most ancient and evil enemy of the Fae still walks the human world, and it will stop at nothing – certainly not Kevin Almstead – to possess the magick of a Noble Fae.
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Gale Force: Conall Dary is the most powerful mage born to the Fae race since the Realm was parted from the human world, over two thousand years ago. But that very power condemns him to a lifetime of celibacy, because sex calls to power, and he has power enough to drain a world. When he refuses to use his talents for a Noble lady’s petty revenge, he finds himself shanghaied to the human world, his soul torn in half and his magick blocked.
Josh LaFontaine is the beautifully inked owner of Raging Art-On, a Washington, D.C. tattoo and piercing parlor. While taking part in New York City’s Pride march with a former lover’s dance company, his world changes forever when the man of his dreams materializes out of nowhere at his feet. Josh’s sensual and loving touch, the first Conall has ever known, may be enough to give him back the magick he’s lost. But before they can complete their Soulshare, a terrible accident leaves Conall bodiless, lost, and invisible, to everyone except – maybe – the human with whom he shares a soul. But Josh will need to find him before the ancient evil of the Marfach does or everything they have – and more – will be lost.
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Deep Plunge: For the last six hundred years or so, the only things reminding Lochlann Doran he’s a Fae have been his faceted aquamarine eyes and the fact that he can’t die. He’s been a wanderer for so long in the human world – over two thousand years – that he’s lost his magick, including the gift of healing that goes along with being a Fae of the Demesne of Water. Finding his SoulShare might get it back for him. But it might kill him, too.
Garrett Templar has been living on borrowed time, in a sense, since he was eighteen, when one of the johns he entertained to pay the bills while he danced at Purgatory infected him with HIV. It was always supposed to be a “manageable” disease, though, at least until a cure was found. Except he’s just found out that the virus in his system has inexplicably mutated into full-blown AIDS, and no known drug cocktail can even slow it down.
And when Lochlann and Garrett find each other at last, on Purgatory’s dance floor, the only thing as urgent as their need for one another is the hunger of an ancient evil to do whatever is necessary to possess Lochlann’s magick…
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Firestorm: Rian Sheridan is a foundling, a Northern Irish Catholic corner boy whose world was destroyed in fire, and reborn the same way, beside an Orangemen’s bonfire last July the Twelfth. A consuming, dimly-remembered pain in his past calls to him, taunting him, daring him to find it and lose himself to it in the S&M underground of Belfast.
Cuinn an Dearmad is the last surviving Fae Loremaster, and he’s just seen the beginning of the death of the Realm, the haven of the Fae race. The only hope of stopping it starts with him finding the Prince Royal of Fire he stole from the cradle, and lost in the human world, many years ago. He has a few guesses about where that hope ends, and he doesn’t like any of them.
Rian and Cuinn are an impossible pairing, two SoulShared Fae. Any two Fae will strike sparks, but these two Fae are a conflagration. Unable to stand one another, yet drawn into an escalating series of sexual collisions, their passion will either save a world or destroy it.
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TNA: Rory, what is it about the Fae, and your Fae in particular, that you love?
Rory: What I love most about my Fae is the way they can blend in so perfectly with the human race and yet be so completely different from it. My Fae don’t have wings, or pointed ears, or any other obvious physical difference from humans. They do have one unique feature; the irises of their eyes are faceted like gemstones, and are in gemstone colors. This is usually a very subtle thing, and you have to be looking for it in order to notice it; however, once you’ve seen it, you really can’t un-see it. (I say “usually” because there are a few unusual gemstone colors among the Fae — Cuinn an Dearmad’s eyes are pale green jade, almost white, and Lasair Faol’s (he’s the Fae in the upcoming Blowing Smoke) are turquoise.)
And my Fae are very canon in their capriciousness. When the human and Fae worlds were side by side and it was easy for the Fae to go from one to the other, they purely loved messing with humans. They’ve missed it a great deal since the worlds were separated, and the one Fae who’s been able to go back and forth at will all along (Cuinn) takes personal credit for most of the folk tales involving humans led astray into Faerie, subjected to mind-blowing delights, and then returned home.
In their dealings with one another, Fae are by turns vain, extravagant, decadent, vengeful, and passionate. Oh, and snarky, don’t forget snarky. More than one Fae in a room, in the human world, is pretty much a guarantee that sparks ‘n snarks are going to fly. My editor’s favorite quote from the series is one of Tiernan Guaire’s retorts to Cuinn, in Gale Force: “I am sprung from the loins of an entire race of assholes.” Not really, of course, but I love the way my boys strive to live up to that high calling…
Author Bio: Rory Ni Coileain majored in creative writing, back when Respectable Colleges didn’t offer such a major, so she designed it herself – being careful to ensure that she never had to take a class before nine in the morning or take a Hemingway survey course. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen, sent off her first short story to an anthology being assembled by an author she idolized, got shot down in flames, and found other things to do, such as nightclub singing, for the next thirty years or so, until her stories started whispering to her. Now she’s a lawyer, a legal editor, a sopraltenor in her church choir, the mother of a budding video game designer, and amanuensis to a host of fantastic creatures who are all anxious to tell their stories, and sometimes even wait their turns.
Author Links: Facebook | SoulShares Page | Twitter: RoryNi
The Giveaway: A Set of SoulShares Books
Tour Dates:
July 1: Smoocher’s Voice, Jade Crystal
July 8: Hearts on Fire, Nephylim
July 15: Parker Williams, Kimi-Chan
July 22: Book Reviews, Rants, and Raves, Fallen Angel Reviews
July 29: The Novel Approach, MM Good Book Reviews, The Hat Party
August 5: Dawn’s Reading Nook, Love Bytes, Because Two Men Are Better Than One
August 12: Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, My Fiction Nook
August 19: Prism Book Alliance, Book Reviews and More by Kathy
August 26: The Blogger Girls, Amanda C. Stone
The books sound very good. This is a new author to me. I’ll have to add these to my pile of to buy books. Thanks for the chance to win.
This is a new series to me, but it sounds really interesting! Thanks for the post and giveaway. I am going to go add all the books to my TBR list now. :-)
Thanks for bringing this series to our attention! I love modern-day faerie stories and am thrilled to discover a new author.
Oh a new series and a new author.
Sounds like a great new series! :-)
Loved getting to meet you at RainbowCon Rory, love your books!