Ellen Cross

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

#HDH A beginning, to stop the end. Fractured with @ellen__cross

Welcome to another week of Hump Day Hook!

Where authors from all over the world share a little teaser of a piece of their work, whether published, or a WIP.

This week I will continue on from where we last left off, with the prologue of my WIP, Fractured. In this scene, Krogan sets in motion, a beginning, that will hopefully see a stop to the end. This work is unedited.

 
"We can all see the path that has been set. It is the end, a price each life will pay if we do not act. While we do not have the power to divert the disaster before us, we can deliver those who will.
"Join with me. Let our own blood repair that which is broken, before all life falls to pieces." A round of nods and determined expressions met his request.
Drawing on his shifter spirit, he focused on his life energy, pulling a single hair-fine filament from within his soul and into his awaiting hands. Tiona did the same, holding the golden spark of her thread in her small cupped palms. He guided her to slide her breathtakingly beautiful essence into his palm, to join with his own.
The threads swirled, Krogan's silver essence entwining itself against Tiona's gold. They writhed, rolled, until they blended into one. A bright flare of pure light, that heralded the starting spark of new life, blinded Krogan for an instant. The tiny new life felt warm against his palm, pulsing with a gentle energy, so fragile, yet bursting with promise, with hope.

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Saturday, October 5, 2013

My Sexy Saturday #19 brings more of upcoming Halloween release, Delta Blues. @ellen__cross

Welcome to week 19 of My Sexy Saturday - The weekly blog hop that shares 7 words, sentences, or paragraphs of participating authors work.


This week, I share more of my upcoming October 15th release, Delta Blues. This work is unedited.

Marcus on the other side of him just frowned as he quietly looked on. What was his problem, anyway? The dancer was seductive as hell as he ran his fingers over the polished, steel pole, caressing it as he would a lover. Fuck if that wasn't the hottest thing Grey had seen in a long while.
It was Marcus's idea they come here of all places to let off some steam, anyway. Deep within the backstreets of Praeter, The Howling was just another dime-a-dozen strip joint, one of a whole string that lined the worst of the worst streets in the exclusively Were-populated town. The only difference Grey could see to this club seemed to be that it appealed to a wider variety of clientele—if the previous act of a pair of female lynx shifters licking cream off each other's naked bodies was anything to go by.





This artistic representation in no way reflects the actual cover of this book. It is only a teaser, to set the mood of the piece.



















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Sunday, September 29, 2013

#MSS 18 Delta Blues upcoming release, with @ellen__cross

 

Welcome to week 18 of My Sexy Saturday!

The blog hop that shares seven words, sentences, or paragraphs of an authors work, with the world!

 

This week I am sharing the first seven sentences of my new upcoming  Halloween release, Delta Blues.

Grey watched the movements of the little shifter, dancing on stage. The way his narrow hips swirled, his pale yet smoothly skinned buttocks clenching slightly as he swung around the slender silver pole he clung to, held Grey entranced. Even the dainty little toes the wolf pointed as he wrapped a leg around the pole and leant—arching his back at a near impossible angle—made his mouth water. The cheap and nasty decorations draped around the place, for the upcoming Halloween celebrations, didn't detract from the shifter one little bit. In fact, the gaudy fake cobwebs, spiders, and skeletons hanging from the edges of the stage, only highlighted his beauty. Like a precious gem nestled against a background of tacky trinkets...he shone.
The team members by his side whooped and hollered encouragement as they watched on, enjoying the show the small man gave. Lawson dug his elbow into Grey's ribs as he whistled, while Boson­­—Bo to his friends—fist pumped the air and bounced on his seat.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Back in the swing with HDH, and WIP, Fractured Prologue. ellen__cross

 
After the changeover of my isp dragging on for a couple of weeks, I am now back online, and back in the swing with Hump Day Hook!

Each Wednesday, participating authors share a snippet of either a published, or WIP.

This week, I share more from the prologue of my WIP, Fractured, with you all.


He straightened and rolled his shoulders, a new resolve firm in his mind as he met the eye of each of his brothers, sisters, and their mates. While his siblings were each unique in their spirits and abilities, they were born of the same father—a god who apparently loved variety, yet cared little for the responsibilities left to him by his choices in bed partners. It didn't matter. They didn't see shifter, vampire, warlock, and more, as they looked toward each other...they saw family, an unbreakable bond that tied them to each other for eternity. And as it was their father's careless ways that had sowed the blackened seed that would create the root of destruction that unfolded in the reflection, it was an unspoken vow that they would deal with it.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

#HDH deeper into Fractured prologue. @ellen__cross

Welcome to another Hump Day Hook!

 

This week I am showing a little more of the prologue of my WIP, Fractured. In this scene, Krogan is deciding what to do about the vision in the Well of all Tears.


Obeying the edict of the gods and simply letting this future come to pass...just the thought of doing so was unfathomable to both his mind and heart.  The only prevention was action. As he looked around the hall he knew, that as the offspring of a god, they all had to step forth and join in his efforts. While they might not be able to physically move in and interfere, there were ways they could give humanity a chance, indirectly.

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Saturday, August 31, 2013

#MySexySaturday sneakpeaks upcoming Sept 1st new release, Wolf Sanctuary

 
Welcome to another My Sexy Saturday!

This week we sneak peak seven sentences from my upcoming  September 1st, new release, Wolf Sanctuary.

 
 
Not once in the nine years since their bonding, had Sean ever tired of seeing his lover’s firm, bronzed, near-naked body glistening with ceremonial oils, begging for the undivided attention of his tongue and hands. The sleek lines of defined muscle rippled as he moved with a sinuous grace while performing The Wolf Dance— celebrating the birth of their people as they welcomed the new birth into the pack—kept his cock aching to sink into that tight ass. It didn’t help that Reece wore the traditional Tonkawa loincloth of their people for the ritual. Reece had his wolf sitting up at attention and willing to roll over and submit with a mere look, yet his vampiric half demanded dominance over his mate to feed, and damn if he wasn’t thirsty as fuck right now.

With all that had happened over the last day, he still hadn’t had a chance to feed. Sure his hybrid blending of vampire and wolf genes allowed him to keep to a normal sleeping pattern—sleeping at nights, awake during the day—it did mean that he had to feed regularly, though, or his vampiric half would cause him to shut down during the day. Just another thing he had to thank the blond-headed asshole of a vampire who had raped his mother, before disappearing into the night, for good.
 

Available Sept 1st as EXtasy Books: http://www.extasybooks.com/wolf-sanctuary/

 
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

#HDH - What does Krogan see in the Well of All Tears? - @ellen__cross

It's Hump Day Hook time, and for this week, we continue into a glimpse of the prologue of Fractured, my WIP, MM paranormal romance.


In this scene, we find out what Krogan and his gathered family see reflected in the waters of the Well of all Tears. It is a little longer than normal, but I felt it best to show the description in one go. 

Men, women, children, and preter...life held little meaning, as brother turned on brother, friend on friend, and lover on lover...while their enemies united in strength. Gathered like rats from a fire, the remains of mankind huddled within the vision, scavenging through the leftovers of war, while famine and pestilence extended their reach and claimed what little remained of a once flourishing land.

The dregs of society, skin traders and peddlers of misery, ruled those unfortunate enough to be caught and enslaved—their lives little more than added currency for those who could pay for the enjoyment of their pain, their blood. With a fraction of the population left and a complete loss of humanity running rampant, Krogan knew what he was seeing was indeed the end of days, come to life in all its sickening glory.



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