Afterthought -- Release Date: September 21st 2009

"Afterthought" will be available from Liquid Silver Books on Monday, September 21st!

When you're choosing between right and wrong, sometimes love is just an afterthought.

Telepath Vance Gregory never thought that taking down high-powered underworld Path Marcus Rose would be easy. When his enemy proves to be a far more formidable danger than Vance anticipates, he has no choice but to join forces with Ayan, a beautiful low-level Path with mysterious connections to Marcus.

Captured by Vance's organization during a bungled ambush on Marcus, Ayan had no intention of helping them achieve their ends. But Vance isn't like anyone he's known. Given a glimpse of how life with him might be beyond the uncertain society they inhabit, Ayan agrees to Vance's plans.

Neither of them expect the intense attraction, nor the explosive mental bond it forges. And when Ayan's powers begin to spike out of control, neither of them want to face the unpredictable dangers that could tear them apart.

With Ayan at his side, Vance sets out to remove the threat Marcus poses to the Path community. But Marcus isn't that easy to kill, and when Ayan turns out to be vital to Marcus's continued existence, Vance has to choose between the enemy he hates or the man he loves

Because the pen name is no accident

This past week, we visited a local zoo to see a couple of new additions -- ten week old snow leopard cubs. If the pen name didn't give it away, I'm a total sucker for all things feline, and the opportunity to go visit these two was too tempting to pass up. They'll be leaving for a different zoo elsewhere in the UK come the new year, and believe me when I say that visiting a mountain zoo in Wales in the fall is generally not a good idea, so we braved the crowds (and then some -- that's what you get for visiting the day after they run a piece on the local news...) this week.



Admittedly, I'm not sure how I feel about zoos in general. From a conservation point of view, or when it comes to animals that could never be returned to the wild, I can see the benefits. There were a pair of rescued `dancing bears` at this zoo, and while their behaviour betrayed the psychological toll their abuse took, I found myself wondering what the alternative would be -- if there was one at all. For animals so damaged that survival in the wild would be impossible, I suppose it does provide a safe environment.

Still, it's never a pleasant experience seeing these gorgeous wild animals in cages, even if not for the cages I wouldn't get to see them at all. And it's a sad indictment that most of these animals wouldn't be safe from humans in their natural habitat anyway.

Seeing the big cats did, however, stoke up the desire to go and work on the couple of feline-shifter WIPs that're haunting my hard-drive somewhere. *TWO* werewolf stories (one released, one upcoming), and no feline shifters -- there's something wrong with those numbers! 'Course that means putting aside the pirates, the rock stars, the secret agents, the telepaths... *g* but 'c'mon, if these fluffballs don't inspire you, nothing will!

The cubs --














The parents --