Exclusive Excerpt: Gone With the Wolf by Kristin Miller

KMiller-Gone with the WolfI am excited to welcome author Kristin Miller, who is here to share an exclusive excerpt of her novel, Gone with the Wolf, which is currently on sale for $.99 right now.

CEO and alpha werewolf Drake Wilder has given up the search for his one true love. When he discovers that she’s a secretary in his company, Drake’s primal instincts kick into overdrive.

What he wouldn’t give to have her fingers rake over his body instead of the keyboard…
Free-spirited bartender Emelia Hudson wants nothing more than to make her Seattle-based bar succeed. But when profits decline, she slips into a dress suit and secures a nine-to-five. After learning that her bar has become property of Wilder Financial, Emelia is determined to get some answers.

Two can play the ruthless business game. If only her attraction to the boss wasn’t so intense…
When Drake’s twin brother senses that Drake has found his match—and now inherits their father’s billion dollar estate—he hatches a plan to take Emelia out. Drake vows to protect her at all costs, but he might have to pay with his own life.

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Exclusive Excerpt from Gone with the Wolf

“I’d like to take you on our first date,” he said.

“Our first…date?”

“You know, where you get dressed up and I pick you up at your place and we go out to dinner and a movie like normal people?”

She smacked him. He didn’t flinch, damn him and his brute strength. “I know what a date is, Captain Obvious. It’s just that… aren’t we past that? I mean, the dog has already buried the bone. What good would it do to dig it back up and show it to me?”

Deep hoots of laughter erupted out of him. “Yes, Emelia, I’ve already buried the bone, but if you wouldn’t mind, I’d like to show you what it would be like to go out with me under normal circumstances. I’d like to show you what your life could be like if you stayed with me.”

“Tempting offer,” she said, plinking her fingers across her desk. “But I’m not sure.”

“Damn it, woman, are you sure about anything?”

Her gaze drifted over Drake’s shoulder, to the dartboard on the far wall.

“Tell you what. We’ll play a game of darts over it. If you win, I go out with you, wherever and whenever you want. If I win, you have to jump into Lake Washington.”

“What? Why the hell would you want me to do that? The water’s freezing!”

“Exactly the point,” she said, smiling. “Jumping in defies logic.”

He needed a lot more feeling and a lot less thinking in his life. If she had to be the person to show him what a little spontaneity was like, so be it. Besides, she’d jumped into Lake Washington dozens of times. The water wasn’t that cold.

“It’ll take an act of God to get me in there,” he said.

“Or a losing game of darts.”

“Yeah, that’s not happening,” he chuckled. “I’ve had hundreds of years to perfect my shot.”

“Then you have nothing to worry about,” Emelia said.

She held out her hand to seal the deal. Drake took it and shook, enveloping her hand in warmth.

“I tried to warn you, but if you insist on making this easy on me, lead the way.” He swept his arm aside so she could pass through to the bar. “I’m thinking a steak and lobster dinner. Maybe a late-night jaunt to Victoria Island.”

Emelia yanked six darts—three flagged blue, three flagged red—out of the cork board and turned. Drake stood on the throw line, gearing up to throw an invisible dart. Watching him lose was going to be the highlight of the night.

“You know, Drake,” Emelia said, handing him the blue darts. “I just realized that I am sure about one thing.”

“What’s that?” ?Smiling ear to ear, Emelia took her spot on the line and fired the first dart straight into the bull’s-eye. “I’m gonna kick your ass.”
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Meet Kristin Miller!

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kristin Miller has had a passion for language and literature her whole life. Born and raised in Northern California, she often made up stories about faraway places and edge-of-your-seat adventures. After graduating from Humboldt State University, Kristin taught high school and middle school English, married her college sweetheart, and had two beautiful munchkins. In 2008, she took time off from teaching to raise her children, and started writing while they napped.

Her first novel was published in 2011, and since then she has had eleven other novels published with Entangled Covet, Avon/HarperCollins and Harlequin Nocturne. She is the author of the Seattle Wolf Pack series (starting with the national bestselling book Gone with the Wolf), the dark and gritty Vampires of Crimson Bay series and the short-but-steamy Isle of Feralon novellas.

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Want to purchase Kristin’s novels?
Seattle Wolf Pack

  1. Gone with the Wolf
  2. Four Weddings and a Werewolf

Isle of Feralon

  1. Claimed by Desire
  2. Forbidden by Fate
  3. Demand of the Dragon
  4. The Mermaid’s Mate

Vampires of Crimson Bay

  1. Intervamption
  2. Vamped Up
  3. Last Vamp Standing
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