Kiss
of the Virgin Queen
Kiss
of the Jinni Hunter Series
Book
Two
Sharon
Buchbinder
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Date of Publication: October 14, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5092-0392-5 Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-5092-0393-2 Digital
ASIN: B015ATFQTA
Number of pages: 300
Word Count: 75K
Cover Artist: Rae Monet
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Description:
Homeland Security Special Agent Eliana Solomon is on
a mission to prevent terrorist attacks. Hard enough to do when the threats are
human, almost impossible when it's an evil, shape shifting jinni. Eliana needs
help so she calls the sexy and beguiling psychiatrist, Arta Shahani. However,
no matter how good he is at his job, the man is on her blacklist. On their last
case together, the guy left her for dead.
Arta is stunned when he receives Eliana’s call.
Forced to abandon the woman he loves, he now fears she won’t accept his
shape-shifting skills as a Persian Lion. Eliana, in the meantime discovers she
is a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba with special
powers of her own. But will her skill and Arta's be enough to defeat the jinni,
or will they lose the love history decreed for them as well as their lives in
this battle of good versus evil?
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intro: This full length novel is the second in the
enthralling new Jinni Hunter series from award-winning author, Sharon
Buchbinder. Edgy and suspenseful, this paranormal romance series explores
diverse cultures and an array of supernatural beings. Join the Special Agents
of the Anomaly Defense Division as they race to save humanity—and the people
they love.
Tagline:
No matter how far we are in the future, everything connects us to our past.
Two
sentence blurb: Forced to work with sexy and secretive
Dr. Arta Shahani, Homeland Security Special Agent Eliana Solomon isn’t sure she
can trust him—or her heart. Will Eliana’s skill and Arta’s be enough to defeat
the evil jinni—or will they lose the love history decreed for them as well as
their lives?
Excerpt:
Chapter One
Summertown, West Virginia, U.S.A., Present Day
A picturesque flight over the Appalachian Mountains
to Summertown, West Virginia gave Special Agent Eliana Solomon of the Homeland
Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Anomaly Defense Division time to
process the urgent report she’d received by email. Up until this week, the
existence of werewolf packs had been concealed from the general population. Now
reports of the secretive shape shifters exploded in her inbox. Where had this information
been all this time? Had the government monitored them all along? If so, why had
her boss, Bert Blackfeather, insisted on her obtaining proof of their
existence, along with the jinnis? She’d pry an answer out of that closed mouth
man—someday. Right now, she had a more pressing matter at hand.
Five days ago, three nine-year-old werewolf boys and
their three eighteen-year-old sisters went on a birthday expedition in the
heavily wooded state wildlife area and disappeared. By day, local human
authorities, volunteers, and bloodhounds brought in from surrounding
jurisdictions combed the forest, the hills, and caves. By night, pack members
ran through the forest using their extraordinary senses—olfactory, visual, and
auditory—to hunt for their missing kin. Divers also explored the waterways, all
to no avail. No clues to the kids’ whereabouts had been found, not even a
backpack—until two this morning.
A night security guard discovered the boys in the
middle of the Adalwolf Winery parking lot. Slightly bruised and scratched up,
but otherwise alive and well, in their human forms, the youngsters had no recollection of anything between arriving at
the park and waking up in the parking lot with their back packs under their
heads—their five-day-old lunches untouched.
Rushed to the ER and examined thoroughly, the boys
displayed no evidence of physical abuse. The blank space in their minds where
the memories should have been was inaccessible to parents and psychologists. If
it weren’t for the fact that the three older girls were still missing, the
local authorities wouldn’t continue to press the boys for information. Over
time, their memories could return, but without ransom notes, calls or clues,
the clock was running down for a successful search and rescue. The local
police, state troopers, sheriff’s office, and the West Virginia Bureau of
Investigation feared the operation would soon become a search and recovery.
The plane touched down, bounced along the runway,
and Eliana’s cell began to vibrate.
“Solomon.”
The gruff voice of her boss boomed in her ear. “New
development in the case.” Blackfeather paused. “A hiker found one of the
missing girls in a culvert near an abandoned mine. Bites, claw marks. Throat
ripped open. Damn thing nearly tore her head off.”
She shuddered. “Black bear?”
“Based on the paw prints around the body, the first
responders are saying these weren’t bear bites. More like a dog—or wolf.”
“Boss, aside from zoos and wild animal preserves,
there are no wolves in the eastern U.S.”
He sighed. “I stand corrected. Werewolf.”
Her stomach lurched, and she gripped the armrest so
hard her knuckles turned white. Shit. Shit. Shit. A werewolf attacking one of
its own? Why? What the hell was going on?
“West Virginia Division of Homeland Security has a
car waiting for you, fully loaded with everything you’ll need for the
investigation. Get to that scene.” Her boss clicked off.
Bossy desk jockey.
A flush of shame rushed over her. He’d taken on the
orphan Anomaly Defense Division of the Science and Technology Directorate that
no one else wanted, along with a mission no one else supported or believed in.
As abrupt and abrasive as he could be, the Gulf War veteran deserved credit for
giving her the opportunity to pursue what everyone else thought was something
out of the tales of The Arabian Nights: jinnis. With the needed proof of
werewolves and jinnis from Project Aladdin, support surged into the division. A
stable funding source made her jinni hunting work possible So far, it seemed
wherever there were werewolves, there was jinni activity.
This case was no different. According to the report,
relationships between the local humans and werewolves were more than cordial.
They were so intermarried, almost everyone was family. A large non-denominational
wedding facility placed Summertown on an international list of destination
weddings, like Hawaii and Las Vegas, but specifically for werewolves. A
thriving bed and breakfast trade supported the wedding industry, along with
other leisure activities, such as biking, hiking, white-water rafting, and
winery and sightseeing tours. Murder of a werewolf girl wasn’t just bad for the
family, it was bad for the town.
About
the Author:
Sharon Buchbinder has been writing fiction since
middle school and has the rejection slips to prove it. An RN, she provided
health care delivery, became a researcher, association executive, and obtained
a PhD in Public Health. When not teaching or writing, she can be found fishing,
walking her dogs, or breaking bread and laughing with family and friends in
Baltimore, MD and Punta Gorda, FL.
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