Hero of a Highland Wolf (26 page)

I gave my character Colleen the family name of Playfair, as I have done with Roux, the MacNeills, and the Campbells in previous works. I've done so much genealogy work and I've enjoyed including the family in the wolf packs for various reasons. MacNeill and Campbell because they had a love for one another that couldn't be denied in Scotland. Roux, because that means redheaded, and she's a red wolf. And now Playfair, because they were Scots as well.

The Playfairs truly are famous Scots, so that's why I wanted to base this story on their family. John Playfair was a brilliant mathematician and geologist. Craters on the moon and Mars were named after him. James, his brother, was a famous architect. When James died, John raised his young nephew, Andrew, who became even a more famous architect. The brother I'm descended directly from was William, the youngest and a twin, who was the inventor of statistical graphs and an engineer. He studied under a famous Scot—James Watt, engineer and inventor.

Thanks to Loretta Melvin for her invaluable research and keeping me straight on names and such, to Loretta, Donna Fournier, and Dottie Jones for being my beta readers, and to Brooklyn Ann for being my critique partner. Thanks to Deb Werksman for helping to make the books even better, and to Danielle Jackson for all her help with guest blog tours and tons of other promotions. And thanks to the cover artist gods and the models and the photographers who create real wolf works of art.

by Terry Spear

USA Today
Bestselling Author

Life for the Silver pack just got wilder…

Elizabeth Wildwood has been a loner all her life, ostracized because of her “mixed” half-wolf, half-coyote blood. When she ventures into gray wolf territory on a dangerous quest of her own and is thrown together with the sexiest shifter she's ever met, she begins to wish for the first time that she could be part of a family.

When this unusual shifter female comes into his pack's territory, it's Tom Silver's job to protect her—if only she would let him…

“Ms. Spear brings her characters to life, both old and new, and you will find yourself invested in the story.”—
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“Nobody does werewolf romances like Terry Spear. The romance sizzles, the plot boils, the mystery intrigues, and the characters shine.”
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by Terry Spear

USA Today
Bestselling Author

Two deadly predators…

As a feline Enforcer, Tammy Anderson has one objective: locate the missing jaguar and return it to the States. She doesn't have time for distractions, and she definitely doesn't have time for sexy shifters with more muscles than sense.

One hot mission…

Everyone and their brother has warned JAG agent David Patterson that Tammy is Ms. Hands-Off…which only makes him more determined to get very hands-on. But things heat up in the steamy jungles of Belize and their simple mission gets a whole lot more complicated. Now it's going to take everything David's got to protect the gorgeous she-cat who somehow managed to claw her way past his defenses…and into his heart.

Praise for
Jaguar Fever
:

“Readers will enjoy this thrilling tale as love and danger collide.”—
Midwest Book Review

“Spear's writing style, as usual, is very detailed and descriptive. A must-read for lovers of paranormal romance.”
—
Romancing the Book

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Bestselling and award-winning author
Terry
Spear
has written more than fifty paranormal romance novels and four medieval Highland historical romances. Her first werewolf romance,
Heart
of
the
Wolf
, was named a 2008
Publishers
Weekly
's Best Book of the Year, and her subsequent titles have garnered high praise and hit the
USA
Today
bestseller list. A retired officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry lives in Crawford, Texas, where she is working on her next werewolf romance and continuing her new series about shape-shifting jaguars. For more information, please visit
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