Motor City Fae by Cindy Spencer Pape

First of all, I’d like to thank L. for having me here. This marks the first official stop on my blog tour to promote Motor City Fae coming June 7 from the brand new Carina Press! I am so delighted to be part of the launch of this exciting new publisher, and I can’t wait to share Motor City Fae with the world.

So a little bit about me: I live in southern Michigan, not too far from Detroit, the setting for MCF. I’m celebrating my 25^th wedding anniversary this summer, so I honestly do believe in romantic Happy-Ever-Afters. I have two almost-grown sons, two oversized lap dogs, and a rescue iguana. My academic background is in biology and animal behavior, but right now I’m lucky enough to write full time.

While some readers may be more familiar with my erotic romances for other publishers, MCF is a more mainstream paranormal romance—hot but not kinky.  It’s book one in the new Urban Arcana series from Carina Press, and you can watch for book two, Motor City Witch, coming October 4. This series is something special

to me, one I’ve been saving for just the right publisher, and I can’t tell you how happy I am that it’s found a home with Carina Press.

Here’s some basic info about the book, and a short except (PG rated) Enjoy!

Motor City Fae

Book I of Urban Arcana

By Cindy Spencer Pape

Coming June 2010 from Carina Press

www.carinapress.com

Pre-order at Amazon for your Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Motor-City-Fae-ebook/dp/B003NX7BWG/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1275064602&sr=1-18

Blurb:

Detroit artist Meagan Kelly has had a strong sixth sense all her life, but that doesn’t mean the gorgeous stranger’s crazy story—that she’s a half-elf, half human heiress—is true. But Meagan can’t deny the evidence of her own eyes—he’s Fae. A tall, blond, handsome, pointy-eared elf—and a man she just can’t get enough of.

Ric Thornhill’s assignment just got a lot more complicated. The more time he spends with Meagan, the harder it is to see her as a political tool to prevent an all-out war between humans and Fae.

Now Meagan’s in a race to master her newly released powers in time to prevent the conflict, convince a jealous Queen not to strip Ric of his powers, and find out if she can build a life that straddles two worlds.

Excerpt:

Suburban Detroit was a truly odd place.

Ric Thornhill’s vintage Jaguar convertible roared down Woodward Avenue, a wide car-clogged boulevard lined with all manner of businesses from elegant boutiques to seedy liquor stores. To his right loomed an enormous stone church that could have been in medieval Europe. On the left was a strip mall with a Chinese restaurant, a nail salon and a paycheck advance center.

Find Emery of Rose’s long-lost daughter before the next Seelie Council meeting, or live out a miserable human lifespan as a powerless mortal. That was the geas that his boss, the elven queen, had cast on Ric. In other words, find the girl or die. His death sentence would simply take forty or fifty years to be carried out. The geas was a result of telling Her Majesty off the last time she’d sent him on a fool’s errand. One would think he’d have learned by now to keep his mouth shut. The sad part was that on this job, he’d have done his best anyway. The fate of both realms could hang in the balance if he didn’t.

In over eight centuries of existence, he’d been in plenty of sticky situations, but none as bad as this. He’d started the search in New York, where Emery had died. No luck there. He’d also tried Windsor, Ontario, the hometown of Emery’s human wife. Nothing. Two other agents of the queen had mysteriously disappeared or been killed and now Ric was the only one left. And he was here in Detroit on nothing more than a hunch held by one of Emery’s cousins. Aidan Greene believed his missing relative was somewhere nearby. Now Ric only had five days remaining and he’d gotten nowhere but here, which wasn’t good.

The place was dismal and depressing—hot, gray and muggy on this August afternoon and the five-o’clock Friday traffic royally sucked. Ric had spent the last week checking out every new-age shop, so-called psychic and alternative club in the area—every place he could think of that a half-Fae would be drawn to. If his mediocre scrying skills hadn’t led him to the right place this time, he was probably toast. He was supposed to be at a certain corner in Royal Oak at a certain time. Yeah, he had lots of info to go on.

He accelerated through a yellow light, cranked up the volume on his stereo and settled his black Ray-Ban sunglasses on his nose despite the overcast day. What the hell, might as well go down in style.

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If you enjoyed the excerpt, by all means watch for more. I’ll be visiting blogs all month! Also, I’m running a contest. All you have to do is pop over to my website, go to the “contact Cindy” page, and tell me which blog you saw me on and answer the question of the day. At the end of June, I’ll be giving away a $20.00 gift card to your choice of Borders, B&N, or Amazon. You can enter once for each blog stop.

Today’s question: Name the hero of Motor City Fae.

Now here’s where you can find me on the web. Check out L.’s post on my blog today, and Happy Reading!

Website: http://www.cindyspencerpape.com

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