Hungry Like the Spring Wolf

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March is my month, and my favorite month for many reasons. The best one, I’m a Spring baby and, yes, this is my birthday month.
Wow, is there an abundance of Spring Quotes and Poetry out there in webbie-landia. Here’s a few by some of my fave authors, poets and an unknown.

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

"In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head." ~Emma Racine deFleur

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens

"Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain." -- Unknown

Of course, there’s always that famous line lurking in the back of my mind... when a young man’s fancy turns to love... yes, hormones, male and female, human and animals, rise during the Springtime... so lust and love do happily abound, mate, and do make merry!

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Okay, Spring is not official until the 20th, or the Vernal Equinox... still its springing ever closer... those deep piles of snow will disappear as the sun shines more each day... and, yes, the current story I’m working on, THE BLACK WOLF’S PROPHETESS, is springing ever closer, and hungry like the Spring wolf for completion *I’m taking poetic license here* ...being of that writerly nature.
And, I’m using a bit of trivia I learned recently... that the full moon of January is known as the Wolf Moon because the wolves are hungry and howling in the midst of winter.

Or! I’m expressing how Duke, my wolf shifter hero, feels about the heroine, Sondra, the very moment he can use all his senses on her fully ~ hungry like the Spring wolf. This takes awhile after she rescues him because Duke has just been through a brutal chase in his wolf form, escaping from two men who are determined to shoot him as a trophy-kill.

Here’s a unedited snippet from that scene ~

Behind him, the bullet ripped apart the night air. Duke lunged for the great trunk of the tree, still several feet away. Smelling the rich astringent bark, he dropped on his belly and crawled toward the scent.

Desperate to survive, now blind from exhaustion, he pulled himself along with his front paws. Staying on his belly, he shoved himself forward with the remaining strength of his back legs. His head broke through the underbrush at the forest’s edge. With his body begging him to stop, he pushed with his hind legs until he felt the back side of great tree’s trunk.

Knowing he was still an endangered species, Duke crawled deeper. The hellish agony of his wounds, and the pain from his body’s total depletion, felt like the devil’s pitchfork plunging inside him, over and over again.

Despite the fiery sting of his muscles, he inched along through the thick underbrush. Only when he heard his two pursuers pivot their horses away, did he stop.
Duke panted as quietly as he could, listening to them string raw curses together. The force of their violent emotions whirled around him as savagely as a tornado.
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This is definitely a coming Wolf Spring. My friend and American Title IV buddy, Pat Cunningham has a new release tomorrow, March 2nd.

A LONDON WEREWOLF IN AMERICA
by Pat Cunningham

Blurb ~

British werewolf Roderick Chase has been sent to Philadelphia to get married. Instead he finds himself the target of werecoyote assassins. His only hope: Darinda Lowell, a witch with a low tolerance level for arrogant alpha males. She agrees to act as his bodyguard and use her magic to find out who’s trying to kill him.

There’s no way the pushy wolf and the vegetarian witch can get along, or so Darinda tells herself. However, love tends to work a spell even a witch can’t ignore. Can she claim the wolf who’s won her heart, or will she lose him to a murderer?

"I like comedies. I like murder mysteries. I like paranormals. I like an evenly-matched hero and heroine engaged in snappy dialogue. And I just love me an English accent spoken in a deep sexy voice. I had a blast writing this book. Hope you have as much fun reading it." ~Pat

A BookStrand Mainstream Romance

AVAILABLE: Tuesday, March 2nd

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If you haven’t already, take a look at COYOTE MOON by Pat Cunningham ~ Can a half-werewolf woman, unaware of her wolf nature, come to love the WereCoyote determined to free her wild side and make her his mate? ~ http://bookstrand.com/product-coyotemoon-14959-330.html ~

ALSO available: BEST OF BREED by Pat Cunningham ~ “Confidence breeds beauty, no airbrushing required” ~ http://bookstrand.com/authors/patcunningham ~
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HAPPY SPRING and ST. PATRICK’S DAY!

~ MAY YOUR BRIGHTEST, MOST ROMANTIC DREAMS COME TRUE ~

Savanna Kougar

~ Run on the Wild Side of Romance ~

Author of ~

All Shades of Blue Paradise
Red Lioness Tamed
When a Good Angel Falls ~ In Print
Tangerine Carnal Dreams
Murder by Hair Spray in Gardenia, New Atlantis ~ In Print
Black Cat Beauty
Her Insatiable Dark Heroes ~ In Print
Stallion of Ash and Flame ~
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