{"id":25745,"date":"2020-10-09T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=25745"},"modified":"2020-10-04T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:44:31","slug":"wotr21-anthology-newrelease-bad-dad-and-dangerous-by-bru-baker-rhyse-ford-jenn-moffatt-ta-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=25745","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR21 #Anthology #NewRelease – Bad, Dad, and Dangerous by Bru Baker, Rhyse Ford, Jenn Moffatt, TA Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bru Baker is the attending author.<\/p>\n

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\"Bad,<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> Bad, Dad, and Dangerous Anthology<\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Dreamspinner Press<\/p>\n

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When the kids are away, the monsters will play.<\/p>\n

School\u2019s out for summer, and these dads are ready to ship their kids off to camp. Not just because their kids are monsters\u2014whose aren\u2019t?\u2014but because they\u2019re ready for some alone time to let their hair down and their fangs out. You see, not only are the kids monsters\u2014their dads are too.<\/p>\n

Even the most dangerous of creatures has a soft spot. These bad, dangerous dads love their kids to death, but they need romance.<\/p>\n

Every year, for a few short weeks, these hot men with a little extra in their blood get to be who they truly are. And this year, life has a surprise for them. Whether they be mage, shifter, vampire, or changeling, these heartbreakingly handsome dads might be looking to tear up the town\u2026 but they\u2019ll end up falling in love. All it takes is the right man to bring them to their knees.<\/p>\n

KISMET & CADAVERS<\/b> BY JENN MOFFATT<\/p>\n

Thomas Anders is prepared for two weeks of alone time, or as alone as he can be living with his daughter\u2019s sentient undead cat, running the family occult shop, and keeping San Diego safe from the strange and supernatural. What he doesn\u2019t expect is for KJ Beshter to arrive in his shop bearing a gift card Thomas\u2019s daughter cast a spell on. Thomas has met her handsome magic-sensitive teacher before, but now that Star is moving up a grade, he can cross that line. It would be perfect timing if something wicked didn\u2019t want to sink its claws into KJ too\u2026.<\/p>\n

MONSTER HALL PASS<\/b> BY BRU BAKER<\/p>\n

White-collar dad Hugh Whitby dotes on his adopted daughter, but she\u2019s away at camp. Now it’s time let the vampiric urges he so tightly controls run wild and take advantage of his monster hall pass to feed on criminals. But when fae prince Rykoff of Harlow interrupts Hugh feeding, he catches Hugh\u2019s daughter\u2019s scent and vows to avenge the fae youngling he believes Hugh has captured.<\/p>\n

Hugh had no idea his daughter wasn\u2019t human, and it rocks the foundation of his world. He must convince Rykoff that the fae youngling in question is safe with her vampire dad and can prosper in the mortal realm\u2014or risk losing her forever.<\/p>\n

WOLF AT FIRST SIGHT<\/b> BY RHYS FORD<\/p>\n

SFPD Lieutenant Joseph Zanetti has spent years protecting his city, and from the looks of St. Connal\u2019s Pub and its bad-boy owner, Levi Keller, the place is a hotspot for trouble and violence. Joe\u2019s problem? Levi is delectably hot, with secrets Joe can\u2019t wait to dig into.<\/p>\n

As a Peacekeeper for paranormals, wolf shifter Levi doesn\u2019t need the complication of a hot cop sniffing around his pub when he\u2019s just sent his teen son off to summer camp. He\u2019s busy brokering a peace agreement between two warring factions. When Joe stumbles into Levi\u2019s world, both plunge into a situation neither one of them was ready for\u2014falling in love.<\/p>\n

ELF SHOT<\/b> BY TA MOORE<\/p>\n

All Conri wanted was to drop his kid off at Changeling camp, find the nearest halfway nice hotel, and enjoy a week of uncomplicated debauchery. It should be simple. It doesn\u2019t work out that way.<\/p>\n

When a local girl disappears, the neighborhood quickly lays blame at the well-guarded gates of the camp. With his son incriminated, a mystery to solve, and a malevolent pocket of the Otherworld to navigate, Conri will need all the help he can get\u2014even if it does come from a distractingly pretty, tightly wound Iron Door agent who doesn\u2019t trust Conri to be on the right side.<\/p>\n

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Head: Bonus scene: Trying not to vamp out at a PTA meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for joining me on today\u2019s tour stop for the Bad, Dad, and Dangerous<\/em> anthology. I teamed up with Rhys Ford, Jenn Moffatt, and TA Moore to imagine a world where dads who spend most of the year doting on their kids–baking cupcakes for the PTA and restraining their baser urges–can let their hair down for a few weeks while their kids are at summer camp and embrace their inner monsters.<\/p>\n

I introduced my character Hugh from Monster Hall Pass <\/em>at my last tour stop, and gave readers a taste of his interactions with his daughter, Ruby. Today I\u2019m going to share a bonus scene that gives you a seat at the PTA meeting he references in the excerpt in my last post. Because it\u2019s got to be hard to be an energy vampire on a good day–and any day you\u2019re at a PTA meeting is most certainly not <\/em>a good day.<\/p>\n

Bonus prequel scene to Monster Hall Pass:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care if you\u2019re going to be recovering from surgery, Lila, you\u2019re the chair of the games committee. You have to be at International Games Night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hugh\u2019s mouth watered as he breathed in the spicy scent of Lila\u2019s anger. It was surprisingly nuanced, considering who it was coming from. He\u2019d been on several PTA committees with Lila over the years, and the woman had never been anything but kind and accommodating. Too accommodating, in his opinion. Which is why the PTA president seemed to have no problem insisting she come run the school\u2019s games night fundraiser a week after she scheduled to have major surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t even be able to stand unassisted at that point, Beverly. I\u2019m happy to help organize everything I can before the fundraiser, but I can\u2019t be there in person to help that night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hugh fought the urge to take a deep breath and savor the anger and irritation that was building in the room. PTA meetings were always an exercise in self control for an energy vampire like him. He fed off negative emotions, and any gathering that involved Beverly was guaranteed to have the auras of half the parents in the room lit up like Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to oversee the games the night of the festival,\u201d Hugh chimed in, cursing himself for volunteering as soon as the words crossed his lips.<\/p>\n

He was already in charge of organizing food trucks for the event, and he\u2019d gotten his own tongue lashing from Beverly earlier in the meeting because he hadn\u2019t managed to book the kinds of food she thought they should have. Beverly had ridiculously out-of-touch ideas considering this was a games night fundraiser at an elementary school. He doubted there\u2019d be much demand for tapas or the weird raclette truck that he could smell from a mile away, but he\u2019d majorly scored and the Kona Ice truck was going to kick back a percentage of sales to the PTA.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Lila wants to keep her position as fundraising chair on the board she\u2019ll attend herself,\u201d Beverly snapped.<\/p>\n

Hugh shot Lila an apologetic glance, nearly swallowing his tongue at the way her aura glowed. He\u2019d heard of being incandescent with rage, but she actually was. <\/em>Her normally peaceful aura was shot through with reds and blacks that he normally associated with rapists and murderers. That <\/em>was interesting.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t doing good things for his hunger. He needed to feed, and not <\/em>at the PTA meeting. As much as he\u2019d love to literally suck the meanspirited wind out of Beverly\u2019s sails, he couldn\u2019t risk exposing his vampiric nature or putting his daughter at risk.<\/p>\n

So he settled for sneaking his phone out under the table and shooting off a quick text to the babysitter who was with Ruby right now.<\/p>\n

Something came up. Any chance you can keep Ruby overnight? I\u2019ll pay you double your rate.<\/em><\/p>\n

He tried his best not to feed around home, but if he didn\u2019t deal with this hunger spike soon he could seriously slip up. And as much as he could ill afford to pay a fool\u2019s ransom to the babysitter to keep Ruby, he also couldn\u2019t afford to lay waste to the PTA.<\/p>\n

No matter how much that bitch Beverly deserved it.<\/p>\n

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Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n

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