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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Book Blast for HUNGRY AS A WOLF by ELIZABETH EINSPANIER
Today's stop is the cover reveal of HUNGRY AS A WOLF by Elizabeth Einspanier, a horror/western available October 31, 2015.
BLURB
Wolf Cowrie is back in his second adventure! In the
Black Hills of the Dakota Territory in 1865, tensions run high between
white settlers looking for gold and the Sioux people who consider this region their holy ground. When Wolf is hired
to find out what happened to the workers of a mining outpost in the
area, the general theory in Goldwater is that they were slaughtered
by the Sioux. Wolf discovers something far more sinister lurking in
the Black Hills, an ancient evil whose unending hunger drives sane men
to ghoulish extremes.
EXCERPT
It was a young woman of perhaps nineteen years of age, with auburn
hair and brown eyes. She was well-dressed in a white blouse with leg-of-mutton
sleeves and a narrow column of ruffles down the front. A dark blue skirt
respectably covered her ankles and black boots, and her hair was pulled
back in a style he could not readily see from this angle, with wisps
curling delicately around her face. She was a pretty little thing as
well, and Wolf wished he could have made her acquaintance under better
circumstances—like, say, fully-clothed, rather than stark naked with
only his hat to conceal his shame.
The two of them stared at each other for maybe half a minute—him
in a state of poker-faced, heart-pounding embarrassment, her in open-mouthed
shock. Wolf’s heart and his stomach had lurched in opposite directions
when he saw her—his heart upwards to lodge in his throat, his stomach
downwards to gurgle in low panic somewhere around his knees. He swallowed
hard to try to clear the lump of nerves behind his larynx. Somehow,
Wolf was the first to find his voice.
“Ordinarily, miss, I’d be the first to tip my hat to a lovely
young lady like yourself,” he said as politely as he could manage,
with a glance down at the hat in question. “But I don’t think either
of us wants that right now.”
She blushed bright scarlet and whirled out of the bathroom without
a word, revealing the bun that secured her hair and slamming the door
behind her. Wolf put his free hand over his face.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Elizabeth Einspanier is the self-published author of the Weird Western
novella Sheep’s Clothing and the upcoming sci-fi romance novel Heart
of Steel. Her short stories have been published in Down in the Dirt and
Dark Fire Fiction. She is a member of the St. Louis Writer’s Guild
and an associate member of the Horror Writers of America. She lives
in St. Louis, but frequently spends extended periods in worlds of her
own creation.
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