Author Override: Terry Spear

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A Day with a Jaguar Shifter 
by Terry Spear

Who wants a run of a mill guy? Someone who works his 9-5 job, who comes home, makes a meal or waits for you to make it, and then goes off to play a video game, or watch a movie—with or without you—because all that matters is that HE enjoy his free time after work, or reads a paper or a book. Or goes off to a bar to join the guys. Or to a card game. Or a ball game.

Let’s say you’ve decided to take a trip to the Amazon to see the wild and colorful orchids, or see monkeys swinging from the trees, to splash in a waterfall or go canoeing on the Amazon River. Or swim with the pink dolphins.

Something fun and different. Something that will take you away from your humdrum everyday life.

Let’s say you get horribly lost because your guide has abandoned you, saying he’s going to keep the bad guys from coming after you. You know something of survival, but in the Amazon?

Let’s say you come across Connor who is spending his days enjoying the wilder side of his nature, as a jaguar, and he’s off catching a meal for him and his twin sister, Maya, and he comes across YOU.

First impressions?

He’s a jaguar. What do you think of that? Cat got your tongue? Surprise? Terror? Where’s the closest tree to climb?

But the big cats can climb trees too.

What if you both end up in the tree?

So there you go. First meeting, you go tree climbing. But you’ve injured yourself and a jaguar can’t take you to his secret hideaway deep in the jungle. He leaves his sister to watch over you AND make sure you don’t have any idea of running away where he’d have to go hunt you down. Maya is a jaguar too, so you’re not about to argue with the other big cat and so you stay put.

Connor returns as his human self. He looks a lot safer. And being the kind of heroic guy he is, he’s going to carry you all the way through the jungle to his home away from home because you’re injured. He intends to let you sleep in his bed, while he sleeps on the enclosed deck because that’s the way of heroes. But his sister has other plans. She wants the two of you to get to know one another. Intimately. Not happy about it, Connor takes his sister’s bed, knowing she’s up to no good. How can a jaguar shifter get involved with a human? He can’t.

But already, he’s proven to you that he can help you out in a pinch, and provide you with shelter. Next, food is on the agenda. He hunts for it—ancient catfish, caiman, you name it, he can get it. And he can cook too! Every good hero should be able to cook.

Oh, I know, some women are stuck with husbands who can’t cook anything (but believe me, it’s a ploy). All the men in my life cooked, and my son does, too. So men like to cook and women love them for it. Not that we don’t like to cook also, but when we need a break, they’re there for us.

So where were we? Shelter, food comes with water, and protection.

Every story should be populated with bad stuff. So here come the bad guys. Now, if you had a guy who was a couch potato, would he suit up and get ready to fight off the bad guys? In the jungle? Maybe or maybe not.

Connor’s ready. Kathleen’s not a fraidy cat though. She’s a former Army officer. She might not have big teeth or claws she can draw on, but she knows how to shoot a weapon.

What else. Ah, yes, my favorite, and so I’ve heard from some reviewers, the waterfall scene. Cleanliness is next to…well, the best thing since air conditioning in a hot climate like I live in—Texas.

But the waterfall wouldn’t be half the fun if you didn’t have one hot jaguar shifter helping you to shower. I mean, just think, you standing in said waterfall getting wet. Sure, you’d feel invigorated, loving to get clean, etc. But then envision yourself with Connor as he’s stripping off all your clothes…hmm…I have to go back and reread the scene…

Who would want to go back to the old humdrum life after that???

Forget getting under the covers in a bed surrounded by netting. Although that’s great too. But the waterfall is one really special place to be with one hot sexy jaguar shifter.

Now, I ask you, are you ready to toss caution aside and spend a day with a jaguar as hot as Connor?

HE’S getting ready for you!

SAVAGE HUNGER BY TERRY SPEAR – IN STORES OCTOBER 2012

USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear has captured hearts worldwide by wrapping the realities of nature into the glorious romance of the wild. Now, she turns her award—winning imagination from the sexy werewolf hunt to the intense sizzle of jaguar shape-shifters.

As a jaguar he is graceful and gorgeous...

Speedy and stealthy...

Fierce, independent, and wild..

As a man he is passionate and powerful...

Willful and wonderful...

And he'll stop at nothing to protect what's his...

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About the Author

Bestselling and award-winning author Terry Spear has written a couple of dozen paranormal romance novels and two medieval Highland historical romances. Her first werewolf romance, Heart of the Wolf, was named a 2008 Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year, and her subsequent titles have garnered high praise and hit the USA Today bestseller list. A retired officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry lives in Crawford, Texas, where she is working on her next werewolf romance and continuing her new series about shapeshifting jaguars.
For more information, please visit www.terryspear.com, or follow her on Twitter, @TerrySpear. She is also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/terry.spear . To purchase Savage Hunger, please visit Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all other major booksellers.

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ARC Review: Savage Hunger by Terry Spear

Savage Hunger

by Terry Spear

(Heart of the Jaguar # 1)

 

Savage Hunger is the first installment of the Heart of the Jaguar series. This is my first Terry Spear book and my first Jaguar Shifter story. I have to admit I am intrigued. This book is suspenseful, fast pace and has a captivating romance with a good plot.

Connor Anderson and his Sister Maya are Jaguar Shifters who visits the Amazon yearly to enjoy the forest and let their jaguar half enjoy its native environment. One summer, Connor comes across an incident between military and the drug cartels. He is forced to intervene, save the life of a woman in danger. A woman that later will change his life of solitude.

Retired Army Captain, Kathleen McKnight is back in the Amazon in search of the one man who rescued her from an unexpected ambush a year before. Now out of the army and experiencing PTSD, she thinks finding her savior will help her overcome this problem. What she finds in the Amazon forest is more than what she had expected in a million years.

Connor and Kathleen created steamy scenes in the depths of the Amazon forest. I loved their chemistry together and the sexual tension between them was strong. Although there was an Insta-love between them it easy to accept and over look because, well, Connor was just so entranced with Kat that claiming her was just inevitable.

I especially loved Kathleen. She’s was in the military and that just puts her in the “kick ass heroine” category in my book. I like to see heroines who can handle her own in a fight. My only complain about her is her acceptance of her situation that Maya had created. She did not have a sense of anger or even a twinge of “WTF” moment from what Maya had done. Though it was with good intentions, the little sister needed some butt spanking.

I’m not sure what Ms. Spear has installed for this series, but I’m hoping Maya will have her HEA. I think she deserves it after being stuck and living with her brother all this time.Overall, Savage Hunger was an enjoyable read. It was fast paced and well written. I can’t wait to know more of these Jaguar Shifters.

 

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Author Override: Terry Spear

 

Author Override is the place where authors take the reins and take you on a journey into their world. Some may allow you into their private writing dens. Others may take you along with them on research trips or interviews. Whatever the case may be, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride because here you’ll get an in-depth look into an author’s musings.

Terry Spear

Sex and the SEAL
By Terry Spear

It seems appropriate to discuss “undercover operations” when appearing on the Under the Covers Book Blog! So here goes!

I just returned from the Futuristic, Fantasy & Paranormal Conference in New Orleans where I had a delightful time visiting with other writers, editors, agents and fans. But the real highlight was the vampire/ghost tour.

Now all the murders, ghost stories, and vampire tales, and the surrounding pie-eyed either tourists or locals making scary wooooo sounds—as in ghostly noises while they passed us by, really added to the fun! With drink in hand, one guy asked if we’d seen any ghosts yet. I said, “Not yet, but we’re hopeful.”

He laughed and said, “Keep on looking then!”

But the tale we shared the most after returning to the conference site after the tour was about the bouncing truck. No, it wasn’t haunted, nor was it part of the tour. But it was parked right in front of the haunted building where three tour groups had converged.

Two hookers and their “date” decided to have “show time” in a truck with lights shining, music blaring, a big bare butt on display, faked climax screaming, and bouncing the truck as if it was on rough seas.

What is the difference between sex and the SEAL and sex in the city? (Namely in the bouncing truck?)

Romance! Mutual respect! Trust! Caring! Love! Forever! Happily Ever After!

No drugs or alcohol needed. No audience needed.

The “performers” left the truck afterward so we could see just what they looked like and believe me they were not romance material.

In a romance, the sex should be more than just the physical act. It’s about a couple who learn to love one another, to cherish them no matter their faults, to compromise on the small stuff, to share and trust and are there for each other no matter the circumstances and for the long haul.

It’s the cuddling under the covers, the sharing of secrets, the tenderness that says, “I love you.”

I was reading about sex therapy cases for research for my stories and for many of the couples after long years of marriage, busy jobs, and raising kids, they lose the intimacy in their relationship that they had when they were newlyweds.

The psychologist asked if there was anything they could think of that would help them to rekindle the flame.

One couple had lost their electricity, it was freezing out and inside the home, they had no Internet service to continue their work, no lights to read by. They just had each other. They made a tent out of their covers and actually talked to one another for the first time in eons.

And that led to the intimacy and making love.

Now, when they need to rekindle those feelings, they make a tent out of the covers and share that experience of shutting out the whole wide world and just being there for each other. No need to have the electricity go out! Just making the time to close themselves off from everything but each other.

You see the difference? In the case of the bouncing truck, the hookers and their john were doing it for some kind of kinky kick.

But in a real relationship, the sex should be only one aspect of the romance carried on between two people.

When a SEAL wolf gets frisky, he knows if he goes too far, it’s for forever. Sex and the SEAL means mating for life if the woman he’s interested in is a wolf also. That’s why it’s so important for the relationship to be based on so much more.

Here’s an excerpt from A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing when Finn and Meara end up under the covers for the first time:

Tension filling every muscle, Finn held his cell phone in hand, waiting for another text from Anna while he was squished against a bunch of lace trimmed, silk pillows on the guest mattress, a wall between him and Meara. Before he’d shut down his laptop and attempted to come to bed, Meara had had other plans.

The phone jingled indicating he had another text message, and he looked at it.

“Hmm, Finn,” Meara sleepily muttered, her tone annoyed, “if you’re going to have your phone jingling all night, find another bed to sleep in. You shouldn’t be in here with me anyway. Or you should have left me on the couch in the first place.”

Finn ignored her, his back to her where she’d stuck the bunch of decorator pillows between them—as soon as he’d woken her while checking his emails--clearly stating: your side, my side. And if he hadn’t gotten the point, she’d also told him so, verbally, pointedly.

As much room as the damn pillows took up on the queen-size mattress, he was getting ready to toss them.

He read the message from Paul, not liking the situation Anna was in once he’d received her cryptic text message, but he wasn’t about to jeopardize Meara’s safety either by leaving her alone so that he could help Anna out. She usually knew what she was doing. Meara wasn’t trained to protect herself the way Anna was. Plus this Joe didn’t know where he and Meara were and if Finn went to Anna, this guy would know Anna was with him. And it would make it easier for him to locate Meara again.

Finn had texted Paul with the news about Anna, asked how close in he was in the event he could give her a hand, and Paul’s quick response stated he was coming to the rescue, but he was three hours out. Hell.

Paul texted: I worry about her doing something stupid.

I know. We just have to trust her. I’ll keep in touch.

Finn set his phone aside, his body protesting that he was attempting to sleep on the edge of the mattress, and he felt he was close to falling off at any moment. To hell with that. Meara was just going to have to put up with not having a barrier between them. He grabbed two armfuls of silky decorator pillows and tossed them over the edge of the bed. Two more handfuls to go and no more barriers.

He smiled at Meara as she gave him a grumpy look over her shoulder. The way her dark hair fell over her bare shoulders, the tiny strap of the silky tank top dangling precariously down her arm, her tantalizing lips parted in surprise, she looked like an open invitation to sex.

That’s when he knew he should concede and leave the bed, the room, and the sweet temptation behind.

But he had a job to do, and he was staying put.

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See? It’s not about sex, but about protection! A SEAL wolf’s kind of protection!

Thanks so much for dropping by and saying hi and to Francesca for having me here today!

If you were in Finn’s place, would you have left the bed, or left the pillows, or stayed right where you were??? If you were Meara, what would you have done???

Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Terry Spear has written over a thirty paranormal romance novels and two medieval Highland historical romances. An award-winning author, Terry’s Heart of the Wolf was named a Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year in 2008. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry Spear is a librarian by day and spends every spare moment writing paranormal romance as well as historical and true life stories for both teen and adult audiences. Spear lives in Crawford, Texas, where she is working on new paranormal romances! For more information, please visit http://www.terryspear.com/.

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With the ultimate alpha male hero--werewolf Finn Emerson, Navy SEAL--bestselling author Spear ("Heart of the Wolf") ratchets up the heat in the new installment in her hugely popular paranormal romance series.

Meara Greymere is in charge of the cabin rentals on the rugged Oregon coastline, so her brother and his mate could take a delayed honeymoon. But while Hunter is away, the she-wolf intends to play—she just has to convince the right alpha male to rent one of the cabins, and she’ll take it from there. But when Finn Emerson arrives with every intention of pretending to be her lover, she's not going to take this lying down. She knows he'll tell her brother what she's up to and put an end to her game.

Finn Emerson is a Navy SEAL, formerly one of Hunter Greymere’s team members, and now he's trying to track down a gray wolf, who's already made an attempt on one of their team member's lives. Finn believes Hunter will be targeted next, only to discover Hunter is off with his mate on a honeymoon, and he fears Hunter’s sister is in grave danger. But the SEAL soon learns protecting the unpredictable sexy she-wolf is a mission and a half and protecting her isn’t all he wants to do.

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ARC Review: A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing by Terry Spear

A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing

by Terry Spear

(Heart of the Wolf # 9)

I have a confession to make. This is the first book I read in this series, or by this author actually. I don't like to read out of order but, well, I did.

I really can't resist a sexy shifter, and if that sexy shifter just happens to be a SEAL as well (and I mean that in the military sense, not that he likes to go swimming).

I wasn't completely lost since the author does a good job of explaining just enough of the background so that you can follow along with what's going on. Obviously there was an operation gone wrong, and now a threat hangs over Meara's head. She's got plans to find herself a mate. With her brother gone in his honeymoon she has the run of their resort to rent out only to available and eligible shifters. She's gone through the paces and has them all lined up.

But then Finn gets in the way. He's part of her brothers' team and he's there to protect her when her life could be in danger. From the first time he came on the pages dripping wet from a shower and making mine and Meara's heart aflutter.

This book had some intrigue, some humor and plenty of sexual chemistry. A strong but not stupid heroine and sexy and very capable hero. The supporting cast was also interesting and I really want to read back to see how Rourke got changed and then what will happen to him in the future.

I thought it was also really cute that the heroine reads paranormal romance novels and she fell asleep once while reading a previous book in this series. HA! Cute!

I'm glad I picked this up and I will go back and read the rest of the series for sure!  

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