I wanted to share a second excerpt from my upcoming release, Eight Second Magic. This book will release everywhere on March 14, but if you purchase it from Changeling Press directly you’ll receive it on March 7. This is the second “meet cute” (or is it meet LUST) that happens in the book.

“Hey, good ride,” someone said as he sat down beside him.

He opened his mouth to say thanks, and the scent of magical power mixed with a shifter’s energy rolled over him with the smell of rich incense and sandalwood. It’d been a damn long time since he’d met a magic worker with that much power. Curious.

“Thanks,” he managed to garble out just as the buzzer rang and another cowboy put a score on the board. “Hope it holds.” That bull had been rank, and the cowboy better than most. He studied the shifter’s face, from the waves of white-blond hair peeking from beneath his cowboy hat to the hawk-like angle of his nose and those full lips that begged to be kissed. “I don’t think you’re a bull rider, are you? I haven’t seen you around.”

“Rhody Tallwood. Dirk’s my brother. He’s giving me pointers. Tonight was my first big event.”

“I know Dirk.” Even more interesting, because he didn’t remember Dirk being a magic user. His brother certainly had the power. “How’d you do?” Beau kept one eye on the arena, and on Leon.

“Stayed on at least. Wasn’t pretty. Came in seventh.”

“For your first big event, that’s not bad at all.” The rider’s score was posted and beat his by a point. “Aw, damn. Didn’t think I’d keep first place.” He mentally checked the list of cowboys. There were three more to go, so theoretically he couldn’t fall any farther than fifth — still in the money.

Rhody opened his mouth to reply, but just then Leon looked up from the arena.

Across the space, through the panels making up the gates and chutes, their gazes locked. Whatever Beau might have said caught in his throat, and his cock hardened. A sudden need to claim the vampire, to shout to the arena rafters that Leon was HIS roared through him, and he realized, startlingly, that he was picking up on what Rhody was sending out. Any shifters in the building, including his brother, would know what just had happened.

When vampire Beau Hollings falls into rodeo clown Leon Lavoie’s arms as he comes off a bull, he’s more than grateful for the save.

Sparks fly when Beau meets the sexy vampire clown after the event for drinks, and a night of passion makes the night complete. But what should have been a one-night stand turns into something more when Leon reveals that they were matched by Cowboy Magic, a dating service for paranormal rodeo performers.

Wolf shifter Rhody Tallwood, one of the famous Tallwood brothers of bronc riding fame, put in a request with Cowboy Magic, then forgot — until he’s told to watch the bull riding.

Now he’s got to juggle not one, but two vampire mates, as well as his brothers’ displeasure, because the three of them together are magic, and each of them wants their relationship to last a lot longer than eight seconds.

TRIGGER WARNING: Rodeo Clown, may be a trigger for those with clown phobia. Adult language and situations.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Each book in the Cowboy Magic series contains stories of queer cowboy/cowgirl/cowthey love across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

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