Staring Into the Eyes of Chance

Staring into the Eyes of Chance

A LIIA (Lycan International Investigation Agency) Book

A Novel by Kay Dee Royal

Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance

Tags: Series, paranormal, Lycan, werewolves, erotica, thriller, suspense, animal-sensitive, psychic-abilities,

Editor: Nancy Bell

Line editor: Greta Gunselman

Cover Designer: Suzannah Safi

Words:55302

Pages: 157

ISBN: 978-1-927361-99-3

Price: $5.50

Rating: Adult Content: Sizzling Hot

Back Cover:

Olivia endures a thirty-four year passionless marriage, discovering her dead husband’s philandering history at his funeral. She devotes her energy and life-long sensitivity with animals to her wildlife refuge and preserve.

Chance, a Lycan alpha and leader of the Lycan International Investigation Agency (LIIA) throws himself into his investigations. He chooses to neglect his duty of finding a primal-mate after watching his father become an empty shell over the loss of his.

A murderous rogue pack draws Chance onto Olivia’s wildlife preserve, sending Olivia’s animal sensitivities into overdrive. Chance and Olivia discover a sizzling force driving them together.

Will they succumb to its enticing tether, or fight to resume their loveless lives apart?

Excerpt:

Olivia closed her eyes, calling up her animal sensitivity ability, while shoving down her own panic. After years of psychically working with animals, she knew they sensed panic and fear. Her breathing needed regulating.

Olivia relaxed as best she could and opened her mind. She sensed the wolf; masculine. He came across with an urgent need to protect, more like helping her feel safe. Another howl, with a deep and sinister timbre, shattered her concentration. A stab of electricity zipped through her, pumping adrenaline and tightening every muscle. This howl came from farther inside the forest than the first one. She sensed aggression in the wolves within the forest, ready for battle. Her heart drummed against her ribs in anticipation of an answering call, and she couldn’t stop the tremors running rampant in her belly.

Instead she saw the lights go out through her closed eyelids. She opened her eyes and saw nothing but blackness.

Nine o’clock on a September evening, what did she expect? Damn power company! Hopefully Lacey sat in the Jacuzzi and wouldn’t come running out.

She lay listening for any sound. Her own breath, the loudest panting she’d ever heard, came in at a close second to her heart banging against the walls of her chest. Slowly, she sat up. The back of her head throbbed, her spine hurt, and the front of her body ached, especially her breasts. She bent her legs to stand and in that same moment a jet of hot mist coated her face.

Wolf breath.

Olivia froze, tamping down the run-for-your-life urge. Her mind reached toward the beast beside her, searching his energy markers, his emotions, urges. She read him as curious, stimulated. Maybe a misread of…sexually stimulated? She sat back on her haunches, figuring if she stretched at least four feet of her five-foot ten frame, maybe she’d appear larger. His breath assailed her from above, she remained squatted.

Damn, this thing is huge!

He sniffed the top of her head, down by her ear, licked the length of her neck and up the side of her face. Another howl close by, echoing near the tree-line, got the wolf’s attention. He raised his head from her and shoved her body back with his own. She went down on her butt, folding her legs sideways. Fur from his backside pressed into the front of her, including her face. Olivia turned her head away and took a breath. A shiver began in her belly and inched through her arms, legs, and up her neck. She sensed his urgency, he must move and his need…again, to keep her safe and again something else, another misread?

He moved back, his head next to hers. A growl vibrated, harsh and deep, beside her ear. Olivia jumped when he yipped instead of howled. He circled her, stopping behind her. A sudden scratch of claws and pebbles from rain washout near the barn pelted her. Air swirled around her as the wolf leaped over her head in the direction of the woods.

Olivia’s breath whooshed out like a balloon being released. Tears welled and trickled down her face. The wolf’s size was about as abnormal as it got. She’d never heard of any wolf being that large. She’d done plenty of research on the species, brushing up for the wolf pup she rehabilitated and released back into the wild years ago when Ray and she first opened the refuge, before they owned the preserve property.

Olivia pushed herself up onto wobbly legs, her stomach lurched, and before she could blink, vomit spewed. She retched hard, falling onto her hands and knees, weak and crying, something she hadn’t done since Ray’s funeral. As if on cue, all the lights popped on, illuminating her shadow against the barn wall.

Oh, that’s lovely. Damn power company.

A howl, and then another and another, echoed from different locations in the forest. Her forest, her wildlife preserve, not a place for a beast like her visitor, and most definitely not a place for the aggressive lot in the forest. She swiped her face with the bottom of her shirt and looked toward the woods.

About thirty yards away in the mowed meadow, her wolf circled with another, close-in-size, milky-eyed wolf with a deformed face, both spot-lighted in the yard light. They flashed razor sharp teeth and glowing eyes, with the exception of the one’s coated eye. Their vicious growls and snapping jaws filled the air. Olivia found her tranq gun on the ground and grabbed it. By the time she turned for a shot, she saw the tail end of both wolves leaping into the woods, her wolf chasing the other.

Olivia leaned against the barn, adjusting her position in accordance with her pain. She thought of the curious readings she sensed from her wolf, not sure of their meaning. She never questioned first impressions from readings anymore. Years of experiences proved first intuitive readings rang as authentic truth in almost every case.

She closed her eyes and pictured her wolf looking at her for the first time, the way his head snapped in her direction and how their gazes met and connected. She touched her neck, sliding fingertips up her cheek where his tongue touched her skin.

Her breath caught, heart raced, and her eyes opened wide. She laughed out loud, maybe in relief, maybe in a small fit of hysteria, or maybe because she consider that wolf as “her” wolf. Her “stimulation” readings from him threw her off, knowing it wasn’t a possibility.

About the Author:

Kay Dee Royal writes paranormal and fantasy romance—maybe because it's also her favorite genre to read! She pens tales with wild, rugged heroes and strong, intelligent heroines. She'll give them both a few shadowy secrets, making her stories intriguing and fun. She resides in Southern Michigan with her family (or her dog, her cat, her caged husband... you get the idea) You can reach her at her blog

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Customer Reviews:

Sometimes it's really difficult for me to give a review once I've read a book that is so powerfully written I'm left with no breath to inflate my lungs and because of that, a sorry state of oxygen deprivation settles into my inadequate little brain cells. THAT is the state I find myself in right now.rnrnStaring Into The Eyes of Chance, by Kay Dee Royal does the impossible...it shows why it is so dangerous to splice together the DNA from two species and pour them into one body.rnrnKay Dee's story brings to vivid and often painful life the two sides of the Lycan dimension. Chance is Lycan and even though he looks young, vital, and sexy as hell, he's a bit long in the tooth, compared to humans...over three hundred, and has yet to find his mate.rnrnDuring his many decades, he's become a member of the Lycan legal system and that's what brings him across the Big Pond to America...he's tracking an evil Lycan.rnrnThere are stories and authors so good at writing the bone jarring epochs they create because they have the ability to make you cringe and still want more while describing vile acts you hope never to experience yourself. Or if you have experienced them, you hope to never experience them again outside the safety of the WORDS written before your hungry eyes.rnrnThere's no reference to a sequel, but I KNOW Ms. Royal won't be able to stay away from Chance's Lycan world for long...just as I want to return and despite the bone jarring violence, find out what becomes of Smoke, the villain in this piece

Staring Into the Eyes of ChancernLIIA~A Lycan International Investigation Agency (Book 1)rnrnOlivia Bentley’s life is simple, and just the way she prefers it after healing from a failed marriage to an unfaithful husband years ago. Managing a wildlife refuge takes up most of her days until one night a strange wolf appears on her property. Olivia has more than a sixth sense, almost psychic connection with animals, and the reading she gets from this particular wolf is perplexing to say the least. Add to that her well meaning sister who wants to set her up on a date with a man she thinks is just ‘Olivia’s type’, and things are set in fast paced motion toward an intriguing series of events that will change Olivia’s life forever.rnrnI love the way Kay Dee Royal uses word-craft to draw the reader into the settings and world she has created. The animal refuge, the woodland setting and Olivia’s isolated home, are all well rendered. Lovely and peaceful. The chemistry between Chance and Olivia is well written and heartfelt, tender at first, then of course things heat up considerably!rnrnAll too soon, however, the marauding villain, Smoke, ups the ante in a big way, and things turn very dark. This is where I must warn the reader that many scenes midway through the story are not for the faint of heart. Ms. Royal’s Lycan world is primal, most definitely sexual, and brutal. Some scenes are downright disturbing. Of course when placed in a context, where a wolf’s mate means everything to them, then it is a little easier to understand the why and how things unfold within the story. rnrnI look forward to the next in the LIIA~ Lycan International Investigation Agency series, as there are some unanswered questions, and unresolved relationships. And I want to know what happens! Kudos Ms. Royal for giving us a fresh take on Lycans, and this new world you have created!

Kay Dee Royal does it again. In this wonderfully creative paranormal world, the suspense heats u and so do the characters! A must read..

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