Rescuing
Markas by Megan Slayer
Sanctuary,
Book 1
Resplendence
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Contemporary,
Paranormal
Novella
M/M, Anal
Sex
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The love of
his life will bring out his roar.
John Dallas has lots of money, but no real direction in his life. He cares for lions at a local petting zoo where people can pay to pet the cubs. He’s heard stories and read about shifters—creatures who can shift from an animal form into a human form. Seeing the lions makes him wonder if those lions can shift. When he witnesses an act of cruelty to the lions, he finds his purpose in life—to save the lions.
Markas knows he can shift, but hasn’t yet. He’s fascinated by John and wants to shift in order to get to know the human better. But lions don’t last at the petting zoo past their third birthday. Once he’s at the age of being moved, he’ll lose his chance with John. Will John accept him his his human form? He’s determined to shift and snag the man of his dreams.
What will happen when the shifter and the human are thrown together by fate? White hot sparks.
John Dallas has lots of money, but no real direction in his life. He cares for lions at a local petting zoo where people can pay to pet the cubs. He’s heard stories and read about shifters—creatures who can shift from an animal form into a human form. Seeing the lions makes him wonder if those lions can shift. When he witnesses an act of cruelty to the lions, he finds his purpose in life—to save the lions.
Markas knows he can shift, but hasn’t yet. He’s fascinated by John and wants to shift in order to get to know the human better. But lions don’t last at the petting zoo past their third birthday. Once he’s at the age of being moved, he’ll lose his chance with John. Will John accept him his his human form? He’s determined to shift and snag the man of his dreams.
What will happen when the shifter and the human are thrown together by fate? White hot sparks.
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EXCERPT:
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Slayer, 2015, All Rights Reserved
John’s
breath clogged in his throat. He’d gotten three of the four lions out of the
enclosure and into the adjacent farm, but Markas hadn’t made it past the hole
in the metal fence. Fuck.
“Joe,
I need your help. Now.” He didn’t wait for his brother to answer. “I’m getting
the sheet and tossing him onto it. Not the best way to move a lion, but this
one is a sweet boy, and he’s hurt. I can’t let the hunters have him.” Don’t let the bullet be in his chest or his
head, he thought. Let them have hit
him somewhere that’s not life-threatening.
“You
tell me when to pull and I’ll do it.” Joe appeared at the hole. “I’ll keep
watch.”
John
scrambled around the cat, hefting the animal’s legs onto the sheet and then
moving his upper body to the sheet as well. Gunfire rang out over his head,
making him wince. He’d never been in combat and knew he wasn’t meant for a
soldier’s life, but if he could save the beautiful animal, he’d take a few
gunshots whizzing past his head.
Let’s just hope they don’t connect
with me, too.
“Pull. Joe, pull,” John shouted. With his brother’s help, John managed to get
the cat to the hole in the fence.
“He’s
heavy,” Joe groaned. “I’ve got him, but damn. What are you going to do with
him? He’s been shot?”
“I
know. I’ve got Willow Needs coming over. She’s a trained veterinarian.” John
yanked one last time, getting the lion through the fence. Once they were all
safe, he shoved the planks back into place. “There.” He turned his attention to
Joe. “She’s been lobbying since high school to get this place shut down. She’s
all onboard to help us.”
“Good,”
Joe replied.
John
checked the wound. Whoever had shot the cat had managed to hit the target but
hadn’t buried the bullet deep. Still, the hole was high on the lion’s hip.
They’d need to get him to the barn soon.
“I’ve
got the others on the trailer. They went pretty easily.” Joe stood beside John.
“Ready to put him in the truck?”
When
John glanced up at his brother, Joe’s eyes were wide. “What?” John asked.
Joe
opened and closed his mouth a couple of times before he spoke. “I don’t think
we’ll need the trailer for him.”
John
looked back at the covered-up hole. No one was trying to get through. “What is
your problem?”
“Your
lion is a guy.”
“What?”
John stared at his brother. “Did you get hit on the head? He’s a lion.”
“Look.”
Joe pointed to the big cat, except the cat wasn’t one any longer. Joe was
right. A man lay crumpled against John’s hip.
John
met his brother’s confused gaze. He had plenty of his own questions. Some of
the lions at the petting zoo really were shifters. Dear God, they’d been bred
so many times. It was possible some used for the canned hunts could’ve been
shifters, too.
His
stomach lurched.
“I’ve
never seen one in person, but we’ve got a shifter.”
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