Hello and Happy April Fools Day! In the midst of a project and decided to add a fun new feature to my website.
To bring a smile to readers and visitors.
Author Favorites
As part of this new feature I will be sharing some of my favorite scenes from various books.
Adding color commentary.
For the inaugural post I’m sharing a scene from Shadow of the Gods.
Note: For this scene I put myself in the mind of Mica – the line she’s walking – being in love with a shape shifter – having to hide this from her family.
How many of us have had to hide the one they were with from those who might not understand?
– and the funny and sometimes maddening situations she’s put in because of it.
It’s not like she can say “Hey, mom, dad…guess who’s coming to dinner …?”
Without further ado…
She is Mica
She chatted with the West Coast raven shifter for a few more minutes before hanging up and resuming her pacing. Too much going through her mind. Too much loose energy and damn if academics no longer served as a conduit for discharging it.
“Mica?”
She whirled. It was no mystery she hadn’t heard him but she couldn’t help wondering how long he’d been there watching her. “Hello, Cayden.” She stepped over to the window and into his embrace. He’d just opened his mouth to her when the door to her bedroom was thrown open.
Mica spun around. “Joe.”
For several moments her brother stared. “Tell me you weren’t just kissing a bird.”
It was all she could do not to laugh.
“It was like that Stevie Nicks album cover, right? But you weren’t kissing it.”
“What do you need, Joe?”
Elizabeth Maxim 
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