A fun and exciting snippet for the latest book from M.L. Bullock!

Have you checked out this latest book by M.L. Bullock? I just read the first chapter and I can’t wait until this book goes live tomorrow! Check this out and get ready for a snarky heroine on the beachy town of Dauphine Island!

Nik

Dusty Souvenir

Dauphin Island had more than its share of weirdness, as illustrated by tomorrow’s Mullet Toss, but it was home to me. It wasn’t as popular as nearby Sand Island or Frenchman Bay, but we islanders clung to our small-town identity like it was a badge of honor. Almost unanimously, islanders refused to succumb to the pressure of beach developers and big-city politicians who occasionally visited our pristine stretches of sand with dollar signs in their eyes. No matter how they sweet-talked the town elders, they left unsatisfied time and time again, with the exception of a lone tower of condominiums that stood awkwardly in the center of the island. As someone said recently at our monthly town meeting, “We don’t need all that hoopla.”

That seemed to be the general sense of things, and although I valued what they were trying to preserve, I didn’t always agree with my fellow business owners and residents. Still, I was just Nike Augustine, a girl with a weird name and a love for French fries. Most notably, I was the granddaughter of the late Jack Augustine, respected one-time mayor of Dauphin Island. What did I know? I was too young to appreciate the importance of protecting our sheltered island, or so I had been told. Island folk such as I made the bulk of our money during Spring Break and the Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo in July. It was enough to make a girl nuts.

But despite this prime example of narrow-mindedness, I fit in here, along with all the oddities like the island clock that never worked properly, the abandoned lighthouse everyone believed was haunted, and the fake purple shark that hung outside my grandfather’s souvenir shop. I reminded myself of that when the overwhelming desire to wander overtook me, as it threatened to do today and had done most days recently. I had even begun to dream of diving into the ocean and swimming as far down as I could. Pretty crazy since I feared the water, or more specifically, what swam hidden in the darkness. Another Nike eccentricity. Only my grandfather understood my reluctance, but he was no longer here to tell me I wasn’t crazy. My fear of water separated me from my friends, who practically lived in or on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico or Mobile Bay most of the year. read more…

With Retribution now live, here’s an exciting snippet from the book!

Shanghai, China

Cui had roared in outrage when he saw his quarry shoot into the sky in a strangely familiar flying craft. He had pursued this Forsaken for weeks and had him in his grasp, only to have him disappear in something that he had not seen in many years.

“What the hell was that, Cui?” Pan asked when they changed to human form several miles north of Shanghai.

“That was something I thought I would never see again,” Cui growled.

The run north had calmed his raging temper enough to answer, barely. “I believe that was one of those strange craft TQB used before they went off in those fucking spaceships.”

“Oh, shit,” Su lamented. “Does this mean they’re back?”

“How the hell should I know?” Cui snapped. “You saw as much as I did.”

“We need to inform Master Kun,” Ren supplied. “He will not be happy that the leech got away.”

“Tell me something I don’t know,” Cui shot back. “This just keeps getting better. If that damn self-appointed Queen is back, he will be more than unhappy.” read more…