Our second #TeaserTuesday this week is Seer by Bix Barrow. Set in the author's Bent Oak universe, Seer is a paranormal romance with all kinds of supernatural creatures, with accidental marriage, fated mates, found family and all sorts of shenanigans. This sounds like so much fun, and it's out on August 2nd so there's not too long to wait either. Enjoy!
From the blurb:
A psychic computer geek and a mysterious pet resort owner join forces to find out what’s killing paranormal creatures. Oh, and how they accidentally got magic-married...
Maybe things would be different if I weren’t also an introverted, wardrobe-challenged, heavyset computer nerd with sarcasm issues. If I were slim, pretty, and charismatic, I’d probably have my own psychic TV show and online fan club.
So you’ll understand why I’m suspicious when it suddenly starts raining hot men in my life. Hot men who just want to hold my hand. Yeah, no. I didn’t fall for stunts like that in high school, and I’m not falling for them now.
And my visions have changed. People—not completely human people—are dying. I can’t see enough details to save them, but I have to try. My quest leads me to Greg, the one hottie to rule them all. Who definitely does not want to hold my hand. I mean, thank goodness, right? I don’t need to be distracted from what matters—stopping the killer.
Yep, no time to think about how Greg might have a warm and caring heart under his uptight and insufferable façade. Absolutely no time to worry about how we got magic-married without meaning to—and how I wouldn’t mind consummating our union.
Nope, my vision says the killer’s ready to strike again, but Greg and I still don’t know who or what they are, and we don’t know how to fight them.
With a ticking clock and lives on the line—including ours—we better figure it out fast.
Seer is an MM grumpy/grumpier paranormal romance with psychics, supernatural creatures of all kinds, fated mates, found family, Klingon weapons, D&D references, and humor. HEA guaranteed!
Seer is set in the same universe as the contemporary Bent Oak, Texas series, and characters will cross over without warning. However, you do not have to have read the Bent Oak, Texas series to enjoy Seer.
Excerpt:
Saturday was the day Rogues Gallery employees volunteered to clean up trash and cut back overgrown shrubbery along the trails in one of the parks in Bent Oak. It wasn’t a required activity, but we usually had fifteen or twenty people show up if the weather was decent like it was today.
I backed my truck into the parking space closest to the trail map. People would throw the bags they’d filled with trash into the bed of my truck, and I’d take them to the dump outside of town. I didn’t mind getting my truck dirty for such a good cause.
I was just getting out of the truck when Steve trotted up. “Hey! I’ve got the cooler set up in the shade over by the picnic tables.”
“Great. Let me know if we run out of ice, and I can stop on the way back from one of the dump runs.”
I followed Steve over to the picnic area. I’d help gather trash for the first part of the morning, but then I usually ended up being busy ferrying bags to the dump. Steve would order lunch delivered for everyone as a thank you when we were done.
Not many people had shown up yet. Leaving Steve to dole out tasks as the others arrived, I grabbed a couple of trash bags, some gloves, and a trash picker stick, then I headed down the first trail.
The air was cooler under the trees. Birds chirped and there weren’t many mosquitos. I wasn’t finding too much trash—just enough to reinforce my opinion of humankind. I ambled along and let my mind drift, though I nudged it away from anything vision-related.
I’d almost filled my second bag when I heard voices up ahead.
The first voice, a woman’s, was loud and kind of raspy. She said, “I heard that wolf shifter Lloyd connected with someone. An NPC, if you can believe it.”
“No!” gasped another woman. “I never thought he’d settle down. Has he told him or her yet?” Her voice was higher pitched but also harsh, like she’d been yelling recently.
“I don’t think so. Oh, look, Arlene, that guy’s picking up trash. How nice.”
I peered around, but no one was on the path, and I couldn’t see anyone among the trees.
“I think there’s a group doing a cleanup today,” the second voice said.
I heard her so clearly, I instinctively looked right at her.
In the tree.
Sitting on a branch.
There were two of them. Big black birds. Crows, maybe. I wasn’t an expert. But this time the second selves overlaid across their figures were humans. Women.
Holy shit. How many of these shifter-people were there?
“Hi, cutie!” the one on the right said. She’d been the first one I’d heard speaking. “Thanks for cleaning up the park!”
The other bird-woman laughed, but said, “Yes, thank you!”
Steve’s mom had always told me if I didn’t know what to say, I should just be polite.
“You’re welcome, ladies. I hope you’re having a good morning.”
They were silent, staring at me in shock with both their bird and human eyes. Which was a little disconcerting.
The one on the left recovered first. She cocked her head to the side. “You can understand us?”
I nodded. “My name is Cal.”
The one on the right said, “Cal! You’re the Cassandra!”
It was my turn to cock my head. “Uh, the what?”
“The baby Seer! It’s a nickname for people with magic who are born to NPC families.”
The bird-woman on the left leaned over and full-on pecked her friend in the neck. “Shh! The DM should be the one telling him this.”
The one on the right batted her away with a wing. “He’s obviously met shifters before. He’s not an NPC.”
The other one seemed like she was about to respond, but I held up a hand. “Wait a minute. Are you saying ‘NPC’ like non-player character? And who’s the DM?”
They looked at each other and shuffled their feet on the branch nervously. The one on the left said, “Uh, we need to get going. Nice to meet you!” She leaped into the air and flew off, her friend right on her tail.
I stared after them for several minutes. Then I dropped my bags of trash to the ground and leaned against the nearest tree.
Seer will be available as an e-book and paperback and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
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