We are so happy to have Thea Harrison here today, author of Dragon Bound which comes out tomorrow! Thea, take it away…
What do you get when Wyr fall in love?
Do you ever have a song get stuck in your head? So often it seems like a random thing, when usually it’s not as random as it seems. For example, you might have heard the song playing at a store and you just didn’t register it consciously.
This morning while I got ready for work, I started singing a song. “What do you get when you fall in love?” I dum-de-dummed a bit. I could hear the music in my head along with the singer’s voice, but I couldn’t remember the name of the song or who sang it, and I’d actually forgotten most of the lyrics.
Later Google told me that the song I’ll Never Fall In Love Again has had a long and varied career, and it has been sung by many famous artists. I remember it best sung by Dionne Warwick.
Since I was thinking about work too, of course, it seemed very natural for my two trains of thought to merge. In my new paranormal series that begins with Dragon Bound (release date May 3rd), there are seven Elder Races demesnes in the continental U.S. The main focus of Dragon Bound is on the shape shifter demesne that I have named the Wyr.
What do you get when Wyr fall in love? And not just a little bit in love, but a crazy whole lot in love?
Like humans, Wyr have the capacity to fall in love several times and have affairs, but when it comes to the big L—Love—Wyr mate only once and that’s for life. Deeper than falling in love, the mating period is a dangerous, often violent time filled with volatile emotions and actions, bouts of extreme jealousy, and a heightened sexuality.
Because this is a unique experience for each Wyr, the mating period is not a season, but an individual occurrence that comes from a complex combination of choice, sex, instinct, actions and emotion. Everything has to occur at the right intensity and time. Nobody fully understands when the mating for a Wyr becomes irrevocable. The stakes are even higher when a Wyr mates with a non-Wyr. Those pairings can all too often end in tragedy for the Wyr, if the partner leaves or dies.
Does this sound like it might be challenging enough to face on a normal day?
These are the kind of stakes my hero and heroine, Pia and Dragos, face in Dragon Bound. Not only do neither one of them realize at first what is happening between them, but they also face other challenges that include thievery, multiple kidnappings, inter-demesne discord, and the machinations of Dragos’s arch-enemy, the Dark Fae King. No wonder Pia has a hard time keeping her nail polish from chipping, and Dragos comes close to killing his best friend.
So how might the lyrics of that classic song go if a Wyr had written it? What do you get when you fall in love?
A guy who might actually turn a city to rubble, that’s what you get for all your trouble. And he’ll never fall in love again.
Thanks Thea!!
Today, we have one copy of Dragon Bound to giveaway! To enter, just leave a comment. Contest open through May 4th to US/Canada.
OH this books looks so good! Like Mandi, I read a lot of paranormal so I’m really looking forward to something fun and refreshing. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win!
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I love PNR! Sign me up for a chance to win. :)
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I love PNR! Sign me up for a chance to win!
DRAGON BOUND sounds fantastic (Mandi’s review helped on that front, too). Count me in!
chelsea AT vampirebookclub DOT net
I love shapeshifters in love stories and Paranormal is my favorite. I would love to meet the Wyr and get to know their world!
This book is really high on my TBR list! Great post & it sounds like such a great book & it might even break me from the wretched reading slump I’ve been in!
Thanks for hosting this great giveaway!
Ooohh, dragons…sign me up! Sounds like a fascinating story!
Traci
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Wow, this sounds HOT. Me likey!
Ooh new book! And one with dragons! I’d definitely be interested because this sounds great!
Dragons? FAERIES?! I need to check this out!
I have read two excellent reviews of DRAGON BOUND and I would love to win a copy. Thanks for the giveaway. vsloboda(at)gmail(dot)com
Dragon Bound is such a fabulous read. Definitely one of my favorite romances ever. Yum.
This book sounds very interesting and I’ve got it on the wish lsit. Please enter me to win a copy! Thanks
I have been hearing so many good things about this book! Would love a chance to win! Thanks!
Sounds like an awesome book (and has been on my wishlist for a while now)! I absolutely love dragons and can’t wait to read more!
Count me in!
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Sounds like an awesome book (and has been on my wishlist for a while now)! I absolutely love dragons and can’t wait to read more!
Count me in!
heather.scarboro AT gmail DOT com
This sounds like a great book! I’d love a chance to win it. Thanks!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Sounds like a great book! It’s been added to my wish list.
This sounds like an awesome series for me to read! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
chibipooh(at)gmail(dot)com
Hello Thea!
I have to say that everyone that I follow on Twitter that has read Dragon Bound loved it. Their enthusiastic response really made me want to read it for myself. Congratulations on the kudos for your new release!
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This series sounds awesome! Count me in! Thanks for the giveaway.
bimmergrlmd at gmail dot com
Hey Thea,
Congrats on your release! I have already heard such good things about Dragon Bound and I can’t wait to get my grubbie little hands on a copy, then proceed to gobble it up like a chipmunk on crack! lol!
oldbookwormcb(at)yahoo(dot)com
I have heard such good tings about this book!
I love discovering new to me authors. And after that fabulous review, I would love to read Dragon Bound.
caity_mack at yahoo dot com
I am always looking for a PNR series to fall in love with and follow from start to finish. Mandi, awesome review. Your review has alot of to do with wanting to read this book.
The book just sounds sooooo good :)
HI Thea. Congrats on your new release. Dragon Bound sounds good. I love dragons.
Hi everybody, thank you so much for your interest! I’m very excited to share this week with you– I hope you have a great time enjoying the story!
All the best,
Thea Harrison
Thanks for the opportunity! I’ve been wanting this one for a while…
This sounds like a book that I would love to read. Thanks for the chance to win.
sstrode@scrtc.com
Dragons rock! Sign me up!
Interesting post! I thought relationships were difficult – glad I’m not a Wyr!! Sounds like a fun read though.
I love dragon shifter stories!
I’ve read great previews of this book that I can’t wait for it to come out. I’m really excited to read this one. . .
I definitely want to read this book. I keep hearing such great things about it and it looks very interesting.
Whoa! I’ve got to get my hands on this one. Thanks for the chance to win it. =)
akbabcock at gmail dot com
Congratulations on your new release! I have just recently heard about this new series and I am dying to try it out. Thanks for giving me the chance to win it.
The colors on the cover are beautiful. I haven’t read many stories about dragons and would love to read this!
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I’m really wanting to read your book, Thea. Fun post using that song (I liked the Dionne Warwick version best).
Dragon PNR… me want! :)
I really want to read this book after reading all of your tweets about it last week!
dragons?! Count me in :)
Sounds awesome.
Thanks for the chance-sounds really really good!
ssalvc126@rogers.com
Count me in. Thanks for the giveaway.
Can’t wait to read this book, love the author and so glad she is writing again!!
I have been wanting to get my hands on this book! :)
I’ve been reading great things about this book.It sounds really good.
Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
Dragon shifters are my favorite! Can’t wait to read this book!
Reminds me of the Guild Hunter series which I love.
Can’t wait to read this!
WOW!!! This book sounds amazing! If you are comparing it to The Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh then I know it will be a winner! Thanks for the chance to win a copy! I will be keeping my fingers crossed. :-)
I read the previews of this book and LOVED IT!!!!!!
A penny for gods sake! Always heard that dragons covet their treasure. This book just sounds so fresh!
Peace To All,
BTS1957@hotmail.com
The more I hear about Dragon Bound, the more interested I am in getting my hands on it. It sounds like a fantastic story. :D
Barbed1951 at aol dot com
O! I’ve been dying to get my hands on this!! Thank you for the great post Thea and the awesome giveaway!!
blacklagoon.wenj(at)gmail(dot)com
Sounds like a great story to me. Thanks for the new wish list item!
I can’t wait to read this book. I love dragon shifters anyone and everyone who has read it is raving about it.
Sounds really good. Thanks for sharing!!
I have been seeing this book everywhere, and have to admit that based on what I have read I am adding it to my tbr pile.
I have heard so much posiitve buzz about this book and I LOVE Dragons, going back to my sci fi/fantasy novel days so I’d love to win this! Thanks for the contest!
This series sounds fabulous. Looking forward to getting started with Dragos and Pia’s story. Thanks for this chance to win the book!
My TBR stack is getting crazy! This sounds like another great read.
I have been hearing wonderful things about this book. Have always felt a weakness for dragons and expect to be swept away by Dragon Bound.
Dragon Bound sounds like a fun read! Definitely on my growing TBR list.
Love those dragon shifters! Can’t wait to read the new book.
I think shifter stories are so fun to read too! Writing a shifter story seemed the next logical step to take!
Thea
What makes your dragon shifter series different from others on the market? I’ve read glowing reviews of Dragon Bound, but I really want to know why I should choose to read it instead of another series.
Hi Scooper!
I keep forgetting to click notify me for followup comments, so I’m glad I checked back for this question.
You know, in some ways I’m not good at talking about my own stuff. I’m too close to it. If you’d like to look on my website at: http://www.theaharrison.com, on the Dragon Bound page there’s a collection of recommendation by great authors such as J. R. Ward, and Ann Aguirre, Nalini Singh, and more. If you see an author you like on that list, then the chances are good you will enjoy Dragon Bound. I hope so, at any rate! I also have posted plenty of excerpts for you to try before you buy. :) Hopefully that will help you decide if there’s something different enough about my writing to give it a whirl.
Happy reading!
Thea
Gosh, I just read my question and it sounded rude. I didn’t mean for it to sound that way. I just wanted you to pimp it to me a little. To be honest it’s already on my wishlist. I was looking for reasons to bump it to the top of the list. Thanks for the info.
Hey Scooper!
I think your question was awesome, and it seems to me that many readers are probably asking the same questions! That was me trying on a pimp hat for size –> go to my website + get sucked into the story with the awesome excerpts = lots of links to bookstores to buy! But you might not have gotten to the links yet, so you could not be aware of my sneaky master plan.
Smiles
Thea