A Note From Shaw: Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to have some guest hosts here on my blog. I wanted to show you guys more about the other authors involved in the Legends series and show you more about their books because I’m just so excited for this project to finally get here. Click here to see all blog posts about the Legends Series.
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Hi! I’m Morgan Brice, author of Glow in the Legends series.
Morgan Brice is my romance pen name (I also write as Gail Z. Martin.) As Morgan I write urban fantasy MM paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. As Gail, I write epic and urban fantasy, with less romance, more explosions.
You might have read books in my other Morgan Brice series: Badlands, Witchbane, Treasure Trail, Sharps & Springfield, Fox Hollow, or Kings of the Mountain.
I have always loved spooky stuff. My favorite TV shows as a kid were Dark Shadows and ScoobyDoo. I think paranormal elements make any story even better, and my worlds are full of ghosts, psychics, shifters, creatures, vampires, monster hunters, and magic. I am also a huge fan of the TV show Supernatural. So when Becca invited me to be part of the Legends series, it just seemed like a perfect fit (and a lot of fun)!
My cryptid, Wally, is the Dover Demon. I had never heard of the Dover Demon until Becca gave us the list of monsters to pick from for the series. Turns out, there have only ever been three sightings over two days, but that’s enough to make it a big deal up in Massachusetts! I loved that, because it meant readers wouldn’t have pre-conceived ideas about my cryptid and I could be free to shape his myth for the story without a lot of lore to work around.
It was also fun to make my Legends story part of my Fox Hollow setting, a town with shifters and residents who have paranormal abilities. For me as a reader, I like it when stories fit into a larger world, so I try to do that as an author as well.
I hope you’ll try all the Legends books and fall in love with the monsters and their humans. And if you like Glow, I hope you’ll check out my other books/series as well!
Find more about me and my books here on my website.
I’d love to have you join us in my reader group here.
I’m also on Twitter, Instagram, Bookbub, Goodreads and more.
I post daily book events and giveaways, so be sure to check out my profiles!
Teaser from Glow:
Dan stayed on alert as he took an indirect route back to his house, wanting to make sure he wasn’t followed. Having anyone connect his daemon to his human self would be dangerous, even though he and his ancestors had protected the forest around Dover, Massachusetts, for generations.
That was a lot easier before cell phones and video recorders, he thought as he let himself inside and poured himself a cup of coffee. Dan let out a long breath and tried to quiet his thudding heart.
Too close. If that keeps up, I’m going to have to move. It’s too dangerous.
Some people who styled themselves as monster hunters just wanted material for their blogs and online video channels, getting sensational pictures and sharing overblown accounts of their run-ins with supernatural creatures. That was bad enough, because once identified, Dan would never be able to shift in peace again.
Even worse were the ones who considered anything supernatural to be automatically evil and necessary to destroy. It wouldn’t matter to them that generations of Dan’s family had helped find lost children, guided stray hunters out of danger, saved missing pets, and chased off truly dangerous wild animals and criminals. To those monster hunters, “different” was worthy of death.
Dan’s grandfather Steve had been the most recent daemon, before passing on the responsibility and magic when he died. One daemon shifter existed at a time, although since Steven had outlived his son, Dan’s father Burt, the mantle passed to Dan less than a year ago.
The world was different for Grandpa Steve, Dan thought. Decades past, thick woods had surrounded Dover, providing safe cover. New housing developments and roads reduced the forests. Electronic recording and tracking devices made it more difficult to stay hidden. The internet loved monster stories and the pursuit of online fame drove an insatiable thirst for fresh content.
He couldn’t help a glance in the mirror as he passed. His daemon form had elongated arms, legs and fingers, a thin body, covered with gray skin, and a large, bulbous head with huge glowing eyes. As a human, Dan was a bit shorter than six feet tall, slender but toned, with dark hair and amber eyes. Perfectly average, except for his secret.
I think we’re rather handsome, Wally, his daemon side, spoke up in Dan’s mind.
We have nice eyes, Dan agreed. The gangly body wasn’t as imposing as some of the more famous cryptids who were better known in folklore or the muscle-bound movie monsters. And we’re elegant.
He knew how sensitive his other side could be.
I wish people could just accept that we’re…different, Wally said.
I agree. It was hard enough to have to hide, and difficult to remember on bad days that needing to stay hidden was because of other people’s fears, not something wrong or bad about Wally.
Enter the Legends world, where National Parks hold secrets—and monsters steal hearts.
Let your light shine.
When Dan, the Dover Demon, is pursued by bounty hunters, he seeks sanctuary in Fox Hollow in the Adirondack Forest. An attractive park ranger becomes his protector, and sparks fly between them.
But the bounty hunter hasn't given up, and an even more dangerous threat has emerged from the deepest caverns, one that will take all the magic and courage they can muster.