Tempest (33 page)

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Cari Z was a bookworm as a child and remains one to this day. In an effort to combat her antisocial reading behavior, she did all sorts of crazy things, from competitive gymnastics to alligator wresting (who even knew that was legal!) to finally joining the Peace Corps, which promptly sent her and her husband to the wilds of West Africa, stuck them in a hut, and said, “See ya!” She also started writing then, because what else are you going to do for entertainment with no electricity? She writes award-winning LGBTQ fiction featuring aliens, supervillains, soothsayers and even normal people sometimes.

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Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn's dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he's merely exhausted, strung out on too much caffeine and too little sleep.

Sleep means descent into Somnus—an alternate reality constructed of the combined dreaming consciousness of ordinary humans. A place he'd rather avoid. Trouble is, his powers don't include the ability to go without sleep indefinitely. At some point his eyes close…and his nightmare begins.

As a teen, the treatment that cured Laszlo Grimm's sleep disorder stole his dreams—and his ability to feel emotion. Petrified of needing more “treatment”, he clings to familiar rituals and habits. But lately his nightly terror has returned, and when he meets Bryn in the real world, the man seems hauntingly familiar. Not only that, Bryn awakens feelings in Laszlo for the first time in years…

Slowly Bryn and Laszlo realize they are both unknowing pawns in a plan of unspeakable evil. And that their powerful attraction could release the destinies locked within them—or be the instrument of their doom.

Warning: Contains the stuff of your lustiest dreams—and most frightening nightmares. You may want to read with a candle at the ready…just in case the lights go out.

It takes a con to expose a con. But this con could strip their secrets bare.

Framed for his twin sister's murder, Sebastian Swift has been kept drugged in a mental institution since age thirteen, aware of only one horrible fact—every night in his dreams, he drowns.

After a freak storm frees him, Sebastian learns the truth. His guardian, Emrys, has been siphoning off his inherited magical power over the waters of Cantre'r Gwaelod—one gruesome vial at a time. And the man's bastard son, Macsen, has been raised in his place. Determined to find his twin's killer, Sebastian assumes her identity.

Macsen Finch isn't about to give up his guise as the young earl—and not just because of the fortune. His cousin's return from the dead threatens Macsen's own efforts to undermine his father's evil plan. Yet he can't deny his inexplicable attraction to the imposter.

Acting on their mutual desire puts them both at the mercy of a madman's wrath. To stop Emrys from stealing his power, Sebastian will have to learn how to use it—and whom he can trust.

Warning: May contain copious exchange of fluids, men in corsets, and dirty dancing. Apply liberally before bedtime.

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Tempest

Copyright © 2016 by Cari Z

ISBN: 978-1-61923-338-6

Edited by Linda Ingmanson

Cover by Kanaxa

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