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Guest Post | Devil Meets Necromancer by Alexa Piper

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Alexa Piper is back! This time she’s gonna tell us a little about her Hellbound series. Welcome, Alexa!

Hellbound series

As romance writers, we are taught to give our readers a HEA, a happily ever after. What this means is, we bring our characters together, watch them fall in love, struggle a bit, but then, eventually, take a casual stroll into the sunset together.

As a reader, I never liked that. Sure, when you have two people you like, you want them to end up in awkward situations, bantering at each other, which is to say, in love. But I want more than that. I want to know what fun stuff they get up to when they have each other, which their preferred method of killing zombies is, and how they make their relationship continue to work. In my own books, I can have that.

For that reason, I am four books into a series that follows the same couple. It took one of them a while to get on board with the whole relationship thing, but the Devil and his necromancer are on the same page when book four, The Devil’s Wings, starts. Of course, relationships aren’t always that simple, not even in fiction, and with a necromancer in the story, you need to have corpses in among some relationship drama.

But you know how it goes: you find a handsome devil who will wrap you in his wings, you hold on to that immortal and tell him just how much you love his hair. And then you de-animate all the zombies together, like any couple would.
If you haven’t met either Lucifer or Lionel yet, please pick up The Devil’s Necromancer! You will get to spend a lot of time with those two while their tale continues on where fairy tales would stop.

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The Devil’s Wings (Hellbound 4) 

Just when loving the Devil started to look easy, Lionel will have to learn that true love never is. 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B39MBLFS 

Universal book link: https://books2read.com/u/mKd2jZ 

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-devils-wings-alexa-piper/1141622956 

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-devil-s-wings 

Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6442949919 

Changeling Press: https://www.changelingpress.com/the-devil-s-wings-hellbound-4-b-3373 

The Hellbound Series: 

The Devil’s Necromancer: https://books2read.com/u/3y17Ep 

The Devil’s Boyfriend: https://books2read.com/u/mV8gB5 

The Devil’s Demigod: https://books2read.com/u/m0vwgP 

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About Alexa Piper:

Alexa Piper writes steamy romance that ranges from light to dark, from straight to queer. She’s also a coffee addict. Alexa loves writing stories that make her readers laugh and fall in love with the characters in them.

Follow Alexa on social media: linktr.ee/AlexaPiper

Update | We’ve Got This

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“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”

Benjamin E. Mays

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It’s update time!!! I’m feeling pretty good. For the last two months, I’ve felt like I’ve been rushing to get things in before the deadlines, but now I’m a bit more in control.

Holly’s advent story is with my beta readers, and I’ve just finished the first draft of mine, so yay! We’ve got this 😁 All stories for the third quarter have been submitted, and while it gets a bit weird now since I’m writing the December stories before I’ve written the October and November stories, I’m sure I’ll sort it.

Since the last update post, I’ve written 42.908 words which is pretty good. I believe I wrote some of them back in May, maybe. It says I created the Scrivener file for Dear Diary on May 26th, but according to my notes, I didn’t include the words in the June update post. I think I have the right numbers now.

It leaves me at 190.116 words so far this year, and only 59.884 words left to write to reach my goal of 250.000 words. I feel it’s more about the stories than the words, though. But, in case you didn’t know, I like stats and this is a way to keep track of things.

To reach my goal of writing 250.000 words in 2022, I only need to write 330 words per day for the rest of the year. Should be easy, right? If I keep the same tempo I have so far, I’ll have reached 250.000 words by the 28th of September. Cool, right?

If I keep it up this month, I might have time to go back to the story about the Halfhide pack I abandoned back in May. I want to write that, but I don’t want to feel I have to stress through it. We’ll see how everything plays out.

How are you doing with your goals??

Giveaway | July

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Book Giveaway

It’s giveaway time!!! In July last year, Holly released Bring Him Back, Jack. She wrote it to celebrate Different Eye Colour Day, which has to be linked to some kind of magic power, right? Of course, it has 😆

Ivan is a shadow walker, meaning he can melt into his surroundings. It makes him a really good thief, but while he likes a challenge, being blackmailed into stealing a diamond isn’t his idea of a good time.

I don’t have a matching story. I have several with magic users, but none where the characters can do what Ivan does, and none where vampires are kept as slaves.

I think the best I can do is Soul Eater. Thaddeus is a wizard, and while he’s a cop, he also happens to steal something – a werewolf skull, to be precise. And while he had no idea he could do anything with the dead, he accidentally releases the ghost trapped in the skull.

So two magic-wielding thieves are what we’re having this month 😁

If you want in on the draw, hop on over to Kingsumo and type in your email address. You’re not subscribing to anything, but make sure you use an address you check since it’s the one I’ll contact you on if you’re the winner.

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Once every century, a shadow walker is born. Ivan Charna is that shadow walker, and he and his sister Raina are on the run from wizards who want to sacrifice their blood in some crazy rite. They never stay long in one place, and they do their best not to stand out. When Raina loses a bet, Ivan is forced to work off her debt, and they have to stay put. As long as no wizard figures out what they are, Ivan doesn’t mind all that much since he gets to work with his favorite vampire.

Malik lives in a cell in a basement. He’s never allowed to go anywhere without chains around his wrists and ankles, and there is a stake hovering over his heart at all times. Master can trigger the stake with a push of a button. He doesn’t even have to be in the same room to do it. Malik dreams of a different life, a life with Ivan, but he’s a vampire, and vampires have to do what their masters tell them.

Ivan only has to steal one last diamond, then the debt is paid, and he and Raina can leave town. It should be easy, but when Remington Redwood, the man Raina owes money, insists on having Malik shadow his every step, it complicates things. Malik might dream about making Ivan his, but getting him away from Master alive has to be enough. Ivan knows it’s a stupid risk to take, but if he’s stealing a diamond, what’s to say he can’t steal a giant vampire too?

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Detective Thaddeus Ezax is in over his head. He’s the only wizard in Rockshade’s Paranormal Investigations Department, and it was his name that got him the job. The Ezaxs are known as some of the most powerful wizards in the world, but Thaddeus isn’t your average Ezaxs. Is it any wonder his family shuns him?

When a kidnapping case is dropped into his lap, Thaddeus must act fast. While most five-year-olds can cast a location spell, Thaddeus can’t and is forced to get creative. When he finds himself in possession of a black market werewolf skull with a ghost trapped inside, accidentally releases the spirit, and somehow forms a connection with it, things get even crazier.

Sandulf Hunter doesn’t remember dying, but he remembers the last thing he saw before everything went black — a wizard. All wizards must die! The only problem is, the wizard standing next to him smells too damned good, so good Sandy thinks he might have to keep him.

And since wherever Thaddeus goes, Sandulf finds himself yanked along, he might not have a choice in the matter anyway.

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