DIVA IN DENIAL - Lacey Savage
Ellora's Cave www.ellorascave.com
ISBN: 978-1-41991-691-5
June 2008
Erotic Paranormal Romance 

New York - Present Day

Ava Atwood is happy to be free of a dead-end marriage and philandering husband, but might have made a mistake in deciding to drive through a torrential thunderstorm to escape the city that holds such bad memories for her. If there is one thing she takes away with her, besides the cottage her parents left her in their will, it's the look of surprise on her ex-husband's face when the list of her assets were read. Ed thought their pre-nup would leave her high and dry and instead, he found out about Ava's dual life as the successful author of several books and a column. Still, that one moment of satisfaction doesn't quite mollify the pain of returning home to find her husband with another woman.

 

But, it's time to start a new chapter in her life and spending time at her parents old cabin, decrepit and in need of work though it might be, is just the thing to get Ava pointed in a new direction. Arriving at the cabin to find it in good shape and obviously occupied is concerning. However, the large wolf lying on the bed is downright terrifying. Could she have hallucinated it? What about the scrumptiously naked man who has just entered the kitchen Ava ran into to escape the wolf? Has her divorced inspired a mental breakdown?

Devlin walks to the beat of a drum just this side of what is considered normal. When he left his Pack, he didn't want anything to do with dominating females who expect their men to be subservient. But there is something about Diva, Ava's literary alter ego, that calls to the protective and wild sides of him. Something about her that says... home.

Ava is a DIVA IN DENIAL. From the state of her marriage to the existence of the wolf, Ava tries to talk herself out of what she knows is there until it bites her in the ass. But, there is no denying Devlin or the feelings he awakens in her. Ava spent the final years of her marriage writing about the characteristics and actions of a Diva, something she had no experience with first hand...until now. Devlin is an alpha male who strained under the iron fist of the Pack matriarch. He's happy to be away from that environment, but a bit perplexed at his attraction to a human. Then again, if she's what he's been looking for all of these years, he's not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

It's a bit of a stretch for a woman to find a strange, naked man in her home and immediately hop into bed with him. But, Ava's had it hard the last few years and there is something to say about animal attraction. A sizzlingly erotic tale of woman who is a DIVA IN DENIAL no more.

Phillipa Ann