The Wild West

by Eleri Stone

I’ve always had a thing for cowboys ever since I was six and my parents took me to a wild west theme park. During the visit, our stagecoach was held up by outlaws and, being six, I was completely unaware that the cowboys doing the holding-up were all actors with fake guns. I tried to give all of the money in my possession—a dime—to the closest cowboy. He laughed, closed my hand around the dime, and my six year old heart thought he was the greatest thing ever. So it began.

In the paranormal romance genre, the wild west isn’t the most popular of settings, but I love it. While the real west was a gritty and dangerous place, I don’t have to stick exactly to the historical record. For example, in the Reaper series, a plague struck the Americas about two hundred years before Reaper’s Touch begins, wiping out most of the population. The Reaper infection is caused by a parasite that turns men into mindless, bloodthirsty monsters and is spread by bite. Rangers are immune from just about every disease, including Reaper infection, and their job is to protect the poor people on the plains from Reaper attack. While the Rangers are busy fighting for their lives, the rich live safely tucked away in glittering mountain-top cities and use airships to travel between mountain ranges. So in my version of the wild west, I get to have my sexy cowboys, along with lots of room for paranormal adventure and romance.

The newest book in the series is Gun Shy. It’s about a down-on-her-luck seamstress named Jane and Lyle, a Ranger who needs to use Jane’s criminal connections in order to recover the fort’s stolen supply of Reaper cure. It’s a sweet and sexy friends-to-lovers romance…with gunfights, Reaper attacks, and daring airship rescues.

If you want to get a taste of the world, you can find a free short story here.

(FYI on the short story… Molly and Flynn are recurring characters throughout the Reaper series, so while the heist storyline is resolved within the short story, Flynn and Molly don’t get their Happy Ever After until this summer.)

Thanks for having me here today to spread a little cowboy love! ☺

About Gun Shy

Before the cure, Lieutenant Lyle Dalton’s job was simple: kill the Reapers. Now, under orders to inject all captured flesh eaters with the serum that restores their humanity, his Rangers at Fort Dougan face entirely new dangers. Someone wanted the Reaper cure badly enough to spill blood for it, and Lyle needs to steal it back if he hopes to hold the border.

Jane Fisher escaped Scraper crime boss Gideon Moore with only the clothes on her back. What he took from her can never be replaced, but her new home at Fort Dougan is the first safe one she’s known. Or was, until the remaining supply of serum was stolen, flown high into the mountains on Gideon’s command. Serving as Lyle’s guide through Scraper territory means revisiting her own personal hell, but it’s also an opportunity—for closure or revenge, Jane isn’t quite sure.

Beautiful, proud and haunted, Jane is a temptation Lyle’s worked hard to avoid. The mountains are the last place she needs to be. But if Jane can find the courage to face down a man like Gideon for the sake of the fort, no force on earth will keep Lyle from her side.

Available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, All Romance eBooks, Carina Press & Google

About Eleri Stone

Eleri Stone is a RITA-nominated author of fantasy and paranormal romance. Born and raised in New Jersey, she now lives in Iowa with her husband and their three children. All of her stories have some element of speculative fiction, and they all end with a happily-ever-after.

Find out more about Eleri on her Website.

Eleri has graciously offered up an eBook copy of Reaper’s Touch, the first book in the Reaper series, to one lucky winner!! The giveaway starts now and ends November 15, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. To enter, just click the link below!

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Don’t forget to check out Heather C’s review of Reaper’s Touch to see what she thought of it!

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