Hi everyone. I’m Gem Sivad and I write romance. Nice to meet you. You’ve arrived at a stop on the End of Summer Blog Hop.I love summer. If you follow me much, you know I’m a beach freak and whenever I get a chance to spend some time by the ocean with hubs, I’m there.

But in autumn, when the leaves begin to fall and the weather turns crisp at night,  the woods behind my house resemble this pic from Shutterstock.com. The view from my backyard inspired my paranormal Bitter Creek Holler series.

Call Me Miz and Hexual Healing are available now. The third book, Miz Behavin’,  is a current wip and I hope to get it out soon. Below I’ve shared an excerpt from Hexual Healing, Book II in the Bitter Creek Holler series.  

Click on the Hop Banner above to link to other participating authors. Be sure and leave a comment  and tell me what inspires you in autumn and you’ll go in a drawing for any of my backlist ebook titles. On Tuesday, October 8th, I’ll let random.org select a winner.

This is an excerpt from an adult rated novella. By reading any further, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age.

Blurb Hexual Healing Harvest the magic of Samhain and sex Heal the beast, rebound the hex Burn, witch, burn…   Incantations, scryings and hexes abound when hedge witch Missouri Hess breaks out her rough magic. The Autumn Solstice is days away, Bitter Creek Holler is pulsing with mountain mysticism, Miz is burning up with enough sexual energy to light up Fenway Park and her lover is MIA. She…is…pissed. Nothing in his military, shapeshifting, Special Forces background has prepared Thomas Hunter for the torture of jaguar mating heat or the wrath of a furious witch. Though he’s on a mission in DC, his beast wrests control, returning them to their mate. After Thomas delivers his own brand of sexual healing, it’s back to DC, with Miz. There’s twisted magic at work. Someone has unleashed a snake-eyes death hex. Good thing Miz is all about hexual healing. And Thomas stands ready to take all the heat from her sexual burn.   An Excerpt From: Hexual Healing Copyright © GEM SIVAD, 2012 All Rights Reserved, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Inc. Shit. Shit. Shit.  Miz paced from one side of her living room to the other, stopping every once in a while to peer outside. The damned cat was in the tree again and Mother Nature had sent a storm. Lightning crashed and thunder rolled, making the earth shudder under the force of the ever-nearer strikes.  I will not invite that idiot inside. A picture suddenly flashed in her mind of the wet jaguar crouching on a slippery willow limb. Tough shit! Thomas Hunter was up a tree and he could stay there. Forget him, Miz. You met in midsummer, solved a crime together, boinked like animals—which he is, sort of—you came, he came, he left. End of romance. “Serves you right,” Miz snarled. She didn’t know whether she blamed herself or him. She knew better than counting on anyone. She looked at the storm outside where sheets of water pelted across her yard in a rolling tide. He left, he didn’t call, we’re done. Jerking a blanket around her shoulders, she stomped to the kitchen to see if the coffee was ready. Suddenly, a wash of pleasure shivered through her as she felt the essence of Thomas penetrate her body and melt her core. Oh. My. God. She put passion in the mental punch she landed on his metaphysical, thick skull. Stay out of my head. She was pleased to see that her hand was steady as she poured the usual liberal amount of creamer into the brew and stirred. I’m cool. I can handle this. She sipped her coffee, leaning over the kitchen sink to get a better view. I can’t see the cat at all. I hope he’s… Overhead lightning flashed, splitting the air with a clash and boom as it struck the ground close by. The wind picked up speed and the willow tree trembled under the assault. A yowl of desperate misery shamed her. What can it hurt? I’ll just… Before she finished her thought, a splash of gold leapt from the tree and the next moment as she peered through the window, Thomas stood looking hopefully at her from across the yard. Naked Thomas.

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