Jungle Heat
(Amazon Chronicles, Book 1)
Sarah Mäkelä
Sarah Mäkelä
Genre: Shifter Romance
Publisher: Kissa Press LLC
Date of Publication: September 17, 2014
Book
Description:
An Amazon
Princess and a weretiger must find love enough to heal their peoples’ painful
history.
The Amazon Rainforest still contains a few
secrets. One of these secrets is a hidden village of women whose history is
filled with the horror of conquering men.
Adara Rukan, princess of the Amazons, ventures
away from her village to find something waiting for her. Andrei "Rei"
Makarov is a weretiger and a biologist on assignment. Can Rei and Adara find
love enough to bridge their two separate worlds?
Excerpt:
Adara
raced over the dense forest floor, trying to escape the shadow closing on her
heels. Fear pumped adrenaline through her body as she ran toward her village
through the darkness. Panic tangled with the sheer need to survive. If only I'd
listened. What was I thinking, coming out alone?
She shot
a glance over her shoulder. Her foot smacked against a tree root in the moment
of distraction, pitching her body forward. The fall came in slow motion.
Cursing
under her breath, she rolled onto her back. Dry leaves clung to her blonde
hair. The subtle, musty scent of slow rot rose from the rich soil, mixed with
something coming from behind her. The dark shadow loomed. Her gaze rose to take
in her pursuer, wondering if the beast would be her doom.
The
tall, broad-shouldered creature towered over her. Watching. It wasn't human or
animal. The village wise woman had warned her of beings like this, but they'd
seemed like fables. How could something so fantastical be real?
Even as
she trembled with fear, this creature captivated her. The black and orange
stripes covering his shoulders and arms evoked a distant memory, yet the design
was uncommon in the Amazon.
His hair
hung in straight, black strands like a human's, but his face had the nose,
mouth, and eyes of a feline. His muscular, naked body reflected a splendid
combination of both species. Sweat-shiny skin glistened through the inch-long
fur that covered him. His white chest intrigued her, all the way to the patch
of fur barely covering his groin. Leaves and branches framed his face with a
lush green background. He crouched over her. His piercing golden eyes focused
solely on her. His stare reminded her of a cat from her village staring at a
small rodent before pouncing.
As he
leaned down, she grabbed her kris from the garter on her thigh and pushed it
against his stomach. She didn't want today to be the day she died. Her people
needed her. She wouldn't let this beast deny them their princess.
About the
Author:
NYT & USA Today bestselling author Sarah
Mäkelä loves her fiction dark, magical, and passionate. She is a paranormal
romance author, but she’s written all over the romance spectrum with cyberpunk,
sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy...even a sweet contemporary romance!
A life-long paranormal fan, she still sleeps with
a night-light. In her spare time, she reads sexy books, watches scary movies
(and Ghost Adventures), and plays computer games with her husband. When she
gets the chance, she loves traveling the world too.
Guest Post
Inspiration
for Jungle Heat and the Amazon
Chronicles series
Hi everyone!
I’m happy to be here.
The inspiration
for the Amazon Chronicles series came several years ago, way back when I was in
high school. I had to write a paper on the Amazon Rainforest after learning
about it in Ecology. It was mostly supposed to be about plants, trees and
things like that. But the more I dug into the subject, the more engrossed I was
about other aspects including the accounts of Spanish conquistador Francisco de
Orellana. At the time, I was amazed to learn that he had a skirmish with
warrior women, which actually made it into the backstory of the series.
With
everything that I was learning, I knew I couldn’t just let the wealth of
information go, so I decided to write the series. Besides, I was curious about
how the remaining women would have endured and not been found throughout the many
years since, but then, the Jungle Heat begins
with that happening. The Amazons encounter a new threat; weretiger and werepuma
men who find their way into the Amazons’ lives. Again, the women have to face
change to survive.
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