To
Kiss a Werewolf
Molly
Snow
Genre:
YA Paranormal Romantic Comedy
Book
Description:
As
president of Paranormal Addicts Anonymous, Stella’s got no time for
popular guys. Especially the surfers who hang at Shoreline’s
beach—they think flashing a sand-sprinkled, tanned chest is enough
to get any girl. But when surfer-hunk Damien Capernalli crashes
Stella’s PAA fieldtrip to a haunted bed and breakfast, it may be
time to rethink her priorities.
...And
what’s with that wolfish gleam in Damien's eye?
Excerpt:
Her mind played a trick on her. A tall
man-slash-beast with perfect white teeth stared back at her. Darn
Gordon, she thought she saw Bigfoot of all things. “Hi, I didn’t
mean to scare you,” he said.
The thing stepped closer, out of the
darkness. His appearance was forming more clearly. No, no beast. Far
from it. A tall guy, with dark hair and eyes. His perfectly straight
teeth still glistened white. Her heart rapped against her chest.
“What are you doing here?” She realized who it was. Damien’s
muscles were just as beautiful as before, pronounced under another
tight T-shirt. It wasn’t fair. Her traitorous thoughts needed to
keep to themselves.
“I wanted to… come check it out…”
He leaned over and picked something up. “Is this yours?” He
pulled his find closer to his face to study it with quirked eyebrows.
Stella could feel the heat of her
embarrassment flushing her pale cheeks. “None of your business.”
She grabbed the book from him instantly. Her hands shook as she
opened the car door and shoved the thing into the glove compartment.
She turned around to face him again, her
hands still quivering. She balled them into fists at her side. “I
hate being snuck up on. Why are you here?”
“Like I said. I wanted to check out
the meeting.”
“How did you know there was a
meeting?”
He scratched the back of his neck. “I
may or may not have found it in the heap of what used to be a
dressing room last night.”
“You know,” she stood there, still
tense as all get-out, “you are definitely making a habit of seeing
me in my most embarrassing moments.”
He smiled at her. It was the first time
she saw him smile since the night he leaned over the counter at
Dough-licious, taking her order. But this smile was different.
Mockery maybe? “Is it really my fault?” he asked.
Good question. “Well, tonight is. This
is my domain. You aren’t supposed to be here. You weren’t
supposed to see that–that book, which is totally not mine.”
“Yeah, whose is it?” He smirked.
“Caleb’s.” She said the first name
that came to mind.
His lips parted into another smile, and
he let out a laugh. “Am I supposed to believe that?”
“Sure.” She nodded unconvincingly.
“No, I guess you weren’t. Just tell me what you’re doing here.”
Damien paused. There was something
different about his brown eyes. They were intense, like he was
holding back a major secret. Rather than revealing anything
remarkable, he said, “I told you. I just wanted to check out the
meeting.”
“You are a paranormal addict?”
Stella questioned. It was hard spitting out those words, since they
screamed contradiction to being a surfer-slash-all-around-jock.
“I have a confession to make.” He
said his words slowly and thoughtfully.
“Okay?”
“I read New
Moon within three hours of
picking it up.”
“New Moon?”
Reading? Finished in just three hours? It took Stella five days to
finish that book. Three hours? “You’re kidding, right?”
“I wish I were,” he said seriously.
“Damien Cappernalli, paranormal
addict,” she said aloud. “Does not make sense whatsoever.”
“Why not? You know my name, but you
don’t know me.”
She laughed at that. Oh, she knows
popular guys. They’re all basic carbon-copies of each other. His
eyebrows went up as if waiting for her to continue with her analysis.
“I don’t need to explain,” she
said. With that, she turned back toward the grange and sped up her
steps to make it inside before him. Had she entered a parallel
universe? Just what was he up to? All she knew was no matter what the
true explanation would be, she wouldn’t like it. Damien was
supposed to stay in his separate world from hers.
Maggie, on the other hand, was pleased
with the new addition to the group, sitting right beside the
beefcake. “Please, introduce yourself to everyone else, Damien.”
They were back to their circle
formation. He stood up and confidently put his hands in his jeans’
pockets. “Okay. Hello, everyone.”
Kit looked at Stella out of the corner
of her eye for the seemingly hundredth time. Stella ignored Kit, just
as she had done the ninety-nine times before.
“My name is Damien, and I am a
paranormal addict.”
“Hello, Damien,” all said but
Stella. Maggie added, “It is important to know we aren’t like
other addicts anonymous meetings. We won’t try to cure you of your
obsession. We will support you in it.”
“Okay,” he said. “Well, my monster
of choice is the werewolf, and I would like to learn as much about
them as possible. So this sounds… perfect.”
Stella felt his eyes on her as she
looked down to the concrete floor. Of all the books she had to choose
from tonight, she just had to grab the werewolf one. Or was he just
saying he liked werewolves to tease her? Maybe he came tonight to get
revenge for the big dare gone horribly wrong. Stella suddenly looked
up, compelled to say, “I like zombies.” And so she did.
Everyone turned to her, some surprised
more than others over her interruption.
“Dead things,” she said. “Er,
Undead things. With decrepit flesh.” Shut
up, she told herself. “I
can’t get enough of them.” That just came out sounding like she
had a creepy attraction to them.
“Good idea,” Maggie said happily in
her accent. “How about everyone goes around the circle and
re-announces what their particular addiction is, so that our newest
member can get to know us better. I have been a ghost hunter ever
since staying as a child with my great grandmother in her haunted
cottage in England. So, as the Ghostbusters would say, ‘I ain’t
afraid of no ghosts.’”
Stella’s most comfortable place to be
in all the world was quickly taken down, down, down to the innermost
depths of discomfort.
About
the Author:
Molly
Snow is a Top 10 Idaho Fiction Author, awarded by The Idaho Book
Extravaganza. Her works include quirky teen romances BeSwitched and
Fallen Angel. Also a speaker on writing, her school assemblies have
been featured in The Contra Costa Times and The Brentwood Press. Snow
is married to her high school crush, has a set of silly twin boys and
a bobtail cat named Meow-Meow. Molly Snow also co-writes mysteries
under her pseudonym Claire Kane.
Twitter:
molly_snow
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