{"id":3373,"date":"2021-04-27T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:27:06","slug":"unsafe-exposure-released-and-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Unsafe Exposure released, and excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unsafeExposure-eBook-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unsafeExposure-eBook-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unsafeExposure-eBook.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> It&#8217;s a great feeling to have all the <i><b>Hidden Wolves<\/b><\/i> original series back out, paving the way for the coming new book 6. <i><b>Unsafe Exposure &#8211; Book 5<\/b><\/i> is now available at all vendors (except Apple, which is slow for some reason.)<\/p>\n<p>**Find your copy via the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bMR2za\">Universal link<\/a><\/b>**<\/p>\n<p><i>Nothing wrecks a guy&#8217;s day like finding out he&#8217;s a werewolf.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>From the moment artist Dylan Shore arrives in Chicago, his life gets twisted like a kaleidoscope. Why does a street gang he&#8217;s never met before want him dead? Why is a hot but odd mathematician stalking him? And how can half the things Alex Corwin says possibly be true, no matter how honest he seems?<\/p>\n<p>Alex has a frightening dilemma. Dylan is attractive, appealing, out and proud. He&#8217;s also completely unaware that he&#8217;s a werewolf. It shouldn&#8217;t be Alex&#8217;s job to tell him, and warn him that gay wolves usually end up dead. But someone has to, before he finds out in blood and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s not Alex&#8217;s hometown, but somehow he needs to protect Dylan from the local packs, protect the wolves from being outed by Dylan, and keep his cool around the first man to touch his own deeply-closeted heart.<\/p>\n<p><i>(This is a lightly edited rerelease of the 2016 original.) <\/i> <\/p>\n<p><i>Excerpt:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Alex Corwin cast sidelong glances at the young man in his passenger seat as he drove. He tried not to be obvious about it, but his mind was racing.<br \/>\nDylan was a werewolf. There was no doubt in Alex\u2019s mind about that. Kin knows kin. Body language, gait and speed, the scent of skin and blood, all told the tale clearly to his wolf senses.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d seen four pack youngsters in full cry after another wolf. He\u2019d assumed their quarry was another of their own pack and he\u2019d have driven on by, but Dylan had glanced over with a look of terrified appeal just as Alex drew level. He\u2019d found himself slowing and opening the window.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t regret it. Hell, he defied anyone to intercept that look from those startling deep-blue eyes and not want to help. But he had to wonder what kind of mess he was getting himself into. Because unless this guy was the best liar Alex had ever met, Dylan apparently didn\u2019t<i> know<\/i> he was a werewolf.<\/p>\n<p>Alex had never met anyone, or even heard of anyone, lost to himself that way. It was possible, in theory, but werewolves moved heaven and earth to keep young wolf boys with their fathers, or in case of disaster with some other male relative. Techniques ran as far as blackmail and kidnapping if need be. Boys just did not leave the safety of the pack. But Dylan obviously had, and very young.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he was better at telling lies than Alex could ever hope to be. \u201cI know it\u2019s kind of personal,\u201d he said tentatively, \u201cbut how old are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty-four. Why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex shrugged. \u201cJust curious.\u201d That was about the age he looked, too. Most wolves at twenty-four would look seventeen or eighteen and still have a hard time getting served in bars. Dylan looked good\u2026 mature, adult. And his wolf scent was oddly muted and hard to detect. Maybe Alex was wrong. Except he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow old are you?\u201d Dylan returned.<\/p>\n<p><i>Thirty-eight.<\/i> Which he couldn\u2019t say, because he <i>did<\/i> look much younger. He still got carded. \u201cOlder,\u201d he said. \u201cBut not a lot.\u201d At least not in dog years. He had a hard time lying to another wolf but that was close enough to truth. \u201cSo, you\u2019re here to visit your sister? Surely classes haven\u2019t started for freshmen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. She came early. For her, um, visa stuff.\u201d Something about the way Dylan ducked his head made that seem like a lie, but Alex didn\u2019t want to push.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh.\u201d Canadian. Was there a pack in Montreal? \u201cYou\u2019re from Quebec?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPronounced kay-bek,\u201d Dylan said. \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you speak French?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs my second language.<i> Mais, oui<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take it that means yes,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take it you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot hardly.\u201d Alex smiled. \u201cOnly what I learned from classic rock songs. <i>Michelle, ma belle<\/i>, and<i> Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir<\/i>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow there\u2019s a useful phrase. Something to be said for a classical education.\u201d Dylan\u2019s guarded look turned warm and teasing for a moment. \u201cYou know what it means?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYep. All I need to know for my next trip to Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex felt a flush of warmth and an unfamiliar lift to his heart. Crazy. It totally made no sense to suddenly imagine meeting up with someone like Dylan on the anonymous streets of Montreal and trotting out his one French phrase. Do you want to sleep with me tonight? He\u2019d never actually said that to anyone. He couldn\u2019t imagine he ever would\u2026<\/p>\n<p>~~~<i> find out how Dylan discovers his own nature and Alex discovers love, while running for their lives, in <b>Unsafe Exposure.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a great feeling to have all the Hidden Wolves original series back out, paving the way for the coming new book 6. Unsafe Exposure &#8211; Book 5 is now available at all vendors (except Apple, which is slow for some reason.) **Find your copy via the Universal link** Nothing wrecks a guy&#8217;s day like finding out he&#8217;s a werewolf. 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