Soul Song by Mikea Howard (Spotlight, excerpt, review, and GIVEAWAY) GFT ADULT title

Soul Song

by Mikea Howard

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GENRE:   Fantasy/paranormal

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BLURB:

Dottie thought she had it all: a successful singing career, a handsome fiancé, and a starlet’s wardrobe. Sudden betrayal brought it all crashing down around her. Those she trusted most played her as nothing more than a pawn. One misstep while fleeing the scene trapped her in another world alone, save a mysterious visitor.

Guatimozin, an eagle shifter, has spent ages assisting people through the realm between life and death, leading them to join loved ones on either side. No one had ever made him want anything for himself until he discovered this city girl.

Forces plot against them and time is short. Soon, their chance for a happily ever after will be too late.

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EXCERPT

Dottie wiped the tears from her face. Damn him, and damn his floosy too. She’d do what her mother constantly threatened her stepdad with, and remove his cock to wear it proudly on a chain around her neck.

I jus’ gotta find a way out of this kooky forest first.

Making her way back onto her feet, she dusted off her dress in a mindless motion. The fabric passed beneath her strokes smooth and dirt free. She studied the once vibrant red dress she’d worn on stage. The satin now appeared drab and colorless. Her bare feet peeked from beneath its hem, as clean as the moment she’d dabbed them dry from her bath. The blind sprint from her dressing room, across town, and up the hill, should have left them covered in filth.

In exasperation, she threw her arms in the air. “Swell. I mus’ be dead and I’m . . .”

She moved away from the tree to scrutinize her surroundings. As much as Dottie hoped she’d end up in heaven, her mother always insisted that, as a willful child trying to pass as something she wasn’t, her final destination would be a bit further down.

The sensation of electricity passing through the air made every hair stand on end as a matter-of-fact reply came from behind. “No, you aren’t dead, but you’re not exactly alive either. You’re in a realm known as the in-between.”

Spinning around, Dottie came face to face with a stranger. Like the tree, he appeared in color, only he wasn’t pink and purple. Instead, a tall man with reddish tan skin, swirling silver eyes, and waist length striking black hair, stared at her as though regarding a ghost. Thick muscular arms crossed over his chest as his shocked expression ease into a slow smirk, highlighting the defined beak-like nose, high cheekbones, and strong chin framing his mouth.

Nervously licking her lips, she couldn’t help but muse, Di Mi. Well hello, sailor.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Writing under Mikea Howard, we are actually Mindy Howard and Kelly Smith, sisters-in-law who share a love for romance, usually paranormal. We have spent the last several years reading and sharing books as well as authors, often making comments about how we'd love to write our own when we ran out of things to read.

While based on our TBR piles, we have not run out of reading material, yet we decided to write when the muse hit Kelly with a dystopian diesel world and an opening scene with the heroine running out into the woods. Mindy then saw her hero step in, and The Diesel War series was born.

Mindy is an IT professional at a telecom company. She is married to a musician and teacher, who also happens to be Kelly's brother. She has one adult son and is living out west.

Kelly is a Registered Nurse working in maternal-fetal medicine. She has a great husband, who happens to be Mindy's husband's best friend. She has one son in high school, one daughter in middle school, and is living on the east coast.

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My review:

3.5 out of 5 stars

Soul Song by Mikea Howard is an adult dystopic paranormal romance that is part of the ‘Soul Mate Tree’ series. Singer Dorothea (Dottie) flees from her fiance’s betrayal and inexplicably ends up in an odd land sheltered by an unusual tree. Her unexpected connection to Guatimozin, an eagle shifter in service to the horned god who she meets at the tree, gives her hope that her life is going to change for the better, but she has to figure out why she’s being hunted and how to survive long enough to explore a relationship with the sexy shifter.

This story is an unusual mixture of genres as humans and shifters sometimes coexist in various enclaves formed from remnants of the States. I think there is a lot of backstory that is alluded to and I am not sure whether there are other stories connected to this particular tale that go into more detail.

I like the diversity present, both in terms of race and types of shifters, and I was delighted to get a peek into the nature of the tree. The quaint colloquialisms used by the heroine and some of those she interacts with were interesting and I am entertained by the idea of using “applesauce” as a more benign epithet, lol. I didn’t quite grasp the bad guys’ motivations, except for greed, nor understand how society functioned in this universe or even what brought it to this point. Hopefully, there will be a longer version of the story that goes into more detail and will showcase even more creativity from this imaginative writing duo.

A copy of this story was provided to me for review