Recovered (Shapeshifters’ Library #3) by Amber Polo
Publisher: Wordshaping Press (November, 2016)
Category: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Shapeshifters, Dogs, Werewolves, Humor, Pet Rescue
Tour date: Feb 1-Mar 31, 2017
ISBN: 978-1539059813
Available in Print & ebook, 224 pages
From the Award Winning Author:
Bliss D. Light believes she’s an ordinary children’s librarian…until she grows a tail.
Now her life is filled with more magic than any fairy tale she reads the children at the Shipsfeather Library. Bliss’s newly discovered dog-shifting ability allows her to change into a sleek white Greyhound but leaves her yearning to dig up her heritage and track down the dog-shifters’ lost library. Her best friend Harry, disgraced werewolf/dog-shifter mix, smitten with Bliss and eager to redeem himself, insists he accompany her.
Tailed by the devilish werewolf duo of Harry’s supercilious ex-wife Sybilla and bad boy Blaze, their cross-country quest takes them up ancient mounds and into extreme danger.
Chased by federally-funded dogcatchers, sold to a racetrack, and forced to fight wolf-dogs is no walk in the park. Aided by dog rescue advocates and a bookstore cat, Bliss and Harry never lose sight of their goal—or each other.
Series Description Shapeshifters’ Library by Amber Polo
Dog-shifting librarians nose to nose with book-burning werewolves!
Light fantasy series for the dog lover who lusts for books and adores libraries. Comic villains, smart sweet heroines, and brave intelligent heroes share a world where dogs talk and librarians battle werewolves to protect knowledge.
Praise for Shapeshifters’ Library Series
“Author Polo does an excellent job organizing the details of her inviting series for new and returning readers… At its core, the narrative illustrates how… kindness can heal humans and dogs—and maybe even cats… A fanciful read that remains loyal to its noble principles.”- Kirkus Reviews
“…let the author’s imagination take you into her world of shapeshifting dogs who have taken on the responsibility of preserving books for mankind. Change into your dog form, go to Starbarks (sic), order a chai latte, and read Recovered.”- Mike Bove, author of the Bruce DelReno Mysteries
“Take a perfect hero and heroine, a mystery, secrets, evil book-burning werewolves, noble dog shifters, non-stop adventure, and the race against time and you have a fantastic book. Highly recommended for readers who love unique fantasy!”- Kari Thomas, author of Under a Shifter’s Moon
“A novel like RECOVERED elicits a happy sigh from me. This is the type of book you want to curl up to read by the fire with a cup of hot tea on a rainy day. It’s exciting, engrossing and has the sweetest of romances. I’ve really enjoyed all of the Shapeshiters’ Library books, but RECOVERED is my favorite!
RECOVERED has a National Treasure (love that movie!) vibe with mystery and adventure at its core.”- Danielle Smiley, Known To Read
About Amber Polo
Amber Polo’s lifelong love of libraries and dogs led to a fascination with lost ancient libraries and curiosity about why werewolves outnumbered dog-shifters in literature and inspired her urban fantasy series The Shapeshifters Library.
The mystical side of Sedona became the comic paranormal setting for Hearts in the Vortex. One day a plane flew past her office window and she turned her pen to her own airpark backyard and Heads in the Clouds was the result.
Author of award-winning fantasies and Arizona romances, Amber relaxes stressed writers and readers. Relaxing the Writer offers a catalog of suggestions and simple exercises while her calming CDs help (almost) anyone relax and find restful sleep.
After living in seven states, she’s settled in a small Arizona town.
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Excpert:
Bliss & Harry Begin Their Journey
Bliss stood next to her car outside Harry’s apartment building while he got his things. She’d changed into jeans and a pink sweater and after all the emotional goodbyes wanted to be on her way. Happy that Harry had decided to go with her, since her practical side told her a cross country trip looking for a mythical library werewolves didn’t want found might not be a walk in the park. And this whole shifting thing was exciting, but she didn’t have the trick of living in two bodies quite down. Like transforming into her human form when she needed to go back to being Bliss the librarian and not Bliss the Greyhound.
Her not-so-practical side wanted to go off on this quest by herself and return triumphant with the golden fleece, sorcerer’s stone, or whatever lay at the end of her journey. She’d been told countless scholars in the dog-shifter world had searched for the missing library over hundreds of years, yet somehow she felt the pot at the end of the rainbow was waiting for her.
She needed Harry. Shifting was the one area where his confidence never wavered. Born a shifter, changing was as natural to him as breathing. For some mysterious reason, when she wanted to shift back to human form his presence calmed her and when they changed together she didn’t get stuck in dangerous and embarrassing in-between stages.
Bliss knew he was attracted to her, but until he found out who he was, she couldn’t think of him as more than a friend.
She watched Harry come out his door and walk to her car. He looked like a banker prepared for a weekend trip, carrying only a suitcase and matching briefcase. A very happy, healthy, and handsome banker. His face glowed with anticipation and excitement. She had no doubt he wanted to come with her.
Bliss felt Harry was attracted to her as more than a friend. And she knew deep in her heart that she was falling in love with him. When Harry interviewed her for the library job in Shipsfeather, she ignored the bank president’s outward appearances, saw past his stiff façade, and glimpsed the real person. The cute Mr. Dinzelbacher was a fascinating enigma. She’d sensed a gentle, kind, and brave spirit desperately trying to be someone he was not.
During the last months, as she and Harry spent more time together, he’d been her devoted friend as she adjusted to her shifter life. And she had been surprised to learn that the meditation where she saw a wolf as his power animal was not just a symbol but an integral part of his shifter being.
Just last night she’d done a tarot spread that foretold not just a wondrous journey but finding her dreamed-for soulmate. Though she believed the cards, sometimes her interpretation was faulty. What if “The Lovers” card in the immediate challenge position only represented her personal crossroads, not a romantic union? In any case, this trip with Harry was her destiny.
She hurried to her car. Harry opened the back and placed his cases inside, rearranging her stuff.
“It’s fine,” she told him.
“Need to be sure nothing can shift.”
“It’s fine. Let’s get going.”
“What’s the itinerary?” he asked, moving toward the driver’s side door.
“I thought I’d drive west till I got tired.”
“Let me look at the map.” He reached in, found her rumpled map, and spread the Rand-McNally of the eastern U.S. over the hood. “We could take the interstate around Cincinnati, then head out on 74 across Indiana. Figuring it’s almost noon, I could drive till nine tonight which would get us…” He moved his finger across the map. “We’ll stop in Indianapolis for a burger, then push on to St. Louis.” He re-folded the map precisely and held out his hand.
She realized he wanted the keys. He assumed he was going to drive. She stepped back. “This is my journey.”
He shrugged. “Sure it is, but…”
“No buts, it’s my journey. I need to do it my way.”
“Fine. I’ll drive and get you anywhere you want to go. Only faster.”
“You don’t understand. I don’t want to go faster. I want to go my way.”
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Giveaway:
Recovered by Amber Polo Grand Prize Giveaway
This grand prize includes the following:
- Canvas bag for books or whatever you carry
- A collectible Taco Bell Chihuahua
- Relaxing the Writer book & the CD containing the track that put 7,500 people to sleep on Insight Timer app)
- More Books – Released (the original edition), Hearts in the Vortex (paranormal romance), and Christmas on Wherever Island (to put you in the Christmas spirit anytime)
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