At the Beach Under a Harvest Moon by Lisa Kessler

Lisa KesslerAs one of the #CMCon16 featured bloggers, I get to have a little fun with a few of the fabulous authors who will be hitting the beach for Coastal Magic 2016 by showcasing their many stories. Last year I interviewed four of the the CMC15 authors, but this year I’m changing it up. I came up with this really fun idea to have the authors introduce us to their worlds by sending their characters to the beach.

Quite a few of the authors took me up on it and today Lisa Kessler is taking us to the beach with Jason & Kilani, the next wolf pairing in her fourth Moon series novel, Harvest Moon, which just released this week!

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LKessler-Harvest MoonI’m so excited to be back on Literary Escapism!!!

In my new release, Harvest Moon, our heroine is Polynesian, and Kilani ends up going back to Maui to keep Nero away from her grandmother. For our hero, Jason, it’s his first trip to the islands, and for Kilani, it’s her first trip home since she left as a young girl.

The night they arrive, they go to see the water…and Jason learns to dance.

Excerpt – This is in our heroine, Kilani’s point of view….

At the Beach with Jason & Kilani

We walked down to the water. The cool water rushed around our ankles and a giggle bubbled up from my throat. “Oh, it’s colder than I remember.”

“You probably splashed around during the day.”

I nodded. “I used to collect sand dollars with my mom. She’d tell me stories about how mermaids used them for money.”

“This must have been a great place to grow up.”

“Yeah. For a while it was…” The moonlight sparkled on the water, and for the first time, I realized thinking about my mom hadn’t made me angry.

Another wave came in hard, splashing up our pant legs. Jason jumped back, laughing. “Shit. That one surprised me.”

Behind us, the band broke into a cover of “Hungry Like the Wolf.” I smiled up at mine. He was sexy even in soaking-wet blue jeans. “Dance with me.”

He chuckled, glancing down the beach. “I’m not much of a dancer.”

“You can’t listen to this song and not move to the beat.” I let my hips sway to the pulsing drumbeat as I took his hand. “There’s no one out here to see. Just feel it.”

He rolled his eyes but gradually started to move with me. The waves crashed and raced toward us, but I barely noticed. I couldn’t take my eyes off of Jason. Once he got over being self-conscious, he could move. I danced around him slowly, enjoying the hunger in his gaze.

As the band finished and started a new song, Jason pulled me close, my breasts pressed tight to his chest. “This wolf is very hungry.”

I ran my hands up his chest. “Dancing can tell you a lot about a person.”

He raised a brow. “I’m afraid of what I just told you.”

I laughed as another wave drenched us. “You like to be in control, but the second you allowed your body to respond to the beat, your instincts took over and you danced. You surrendered.”

Kissing his chest, I whispered, “You have an artist’s passion trapped inside your analytical mind.”

Jason lifted me up, and I wrapped my legs around his waist. His forehead rested against mine. “I’ve never liked dancing.” He started to sway with the music and the tide, turning us slowly. “But maybe I just never had the right partner.”

His lips claimed mine as the waves broke around us. My pulse raced, my body warmed, and gradually he broke the kiss. “You make me feel invincible.”

But he wasn’t invincible. None of us were, and my vision of him bleeding from a gunshot wound was never far from my consciousness.
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Meet Lisa Kessler!

Lisa Kessler is an award winning author of dark paranormal fiction. Her debut novel, Night Walker, won a San Diego Book Award for Best Published Fantasy-Sci-fi-Horror as well as the Romance Through the Ages Award for Best Paranormal and Best First Book. Her short stories have been published in print anthologies and magazines, and her vampire story, Immortal Beloved, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker award. When she’s not writing, Lisa is a professional vocalist, performing with the San Diego Opera as well as other musical theater companies in San Diego.

Contact Info: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ | Tsu | GoodReads | Amazon

LKessler-Ice MoonWant to purchase Lisa’s novels?
Moon

  1. Moonlight
  2. Hunter’s Moon
  3. Blood Moon
  4. Harvest Moon
  5. Ice Moon (Nov 16, 2015)

Night

  1. Night Thief
  2. Night Walker
  3. Night Demon
  4. Night Angel
  5. Night Child

Beg Me To Slay
Tall, Dark, and Deadly: Seven Bad Boys of Paranormal Romance

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I am a 30-something SAHM with two adorable boys and a supportive husband who is very tolerant of my reading addiction. I love to read and easily go through about a dozen books a month – well I did before I had kids. Now, not so much. After my first son was born, I began to take my hobby of reviewing a little more serious and started Literary Escapism to help with my sanity. I love to discuss the fabulous novels I’ve read and meeting all the wonderful people in the book blogging community has been amazing.

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