Nine Lives of an Urban Panther Giveaway

Nine Lives of an Urban Panther (Diaries of an Urban Panther #3)
by Amanda Arista

August 21st 2012 by Avon Impulse
Amazon

Violet Jordan's Rule #3 of being a superhero: Family first, fur second.

Dear Diary,

With new supernatural creatures popping up at every turn (Ghouls? Really?), the city divided, and my long-lost cousin blazing into town, I've got a lot on my mind. Oh, not to mention I'm supposed to be planning a wedding. Chaz has got to be the best, most patient (and probably clinically insane) fiancÉ around.

But defeating my sworn enemy in a battle for the souls of Dallas is going to require more than just my full attention. It means learning to depend on everyone—especially Chaz—if any of us are going to make it out of this alive. Because if Plan A doesn't work, I'm going to need them for Plan B. And Plan C . . .

-Something about you of interest (this one is always so hard)

Outside of what happens in my head, I’m really not an exciting person. I’m not a butt-kicking necromancer who eats danger for breakfast. I’m a writer and I don’t usually even have breakfast. I’m an education coordinator, a wife, and a rock awesome aunt (I’m the one that gives your kids all the sugar they want and then send them home). But there is something about me that filters in through all my books. I’m adopted. And time after time I’m writing books about a young girl who figures out where she belongs.

Mine is a simple story. Two married people couldn’t have children. A young, brave woman chose them to family her daughter. I know who my mother is. I know who I am, but the story is still embedded within me. I guess that because my original story is different from others, that my view of family is different from how other might define family.

The main character of the Diaries series, Violet Jordan, had an interesting way of finding her own family and it started in the back alley of her town home as she protected her trash from a rogue golden retriever. Lets call that her call to adventure. And after finding out that she was going to turn fuzzy once a month and that she was prophesied to resurrect a demon, Violet had a choice: to hide away or protect those who she found in her inner circle.

Now, how many of us have friends that we would do something stupid for? Personally, I have a friend I threw a cake at her ex-boyfriends car after a pretty heinous break up. I’ve never done anything that stupid for my brother. That friend is who I call my family because I know that when it hits the fan, she’d be there with the umbrella.

Violet feels the same way about her friends and the other shifters she finds along the way. She puts her neck out on the line for them because they gave her what she needed more than anything: a family.

I’m not going to lie to you and say that being adopted has changed the way I look at life; it has. But it is an interesting fact that shapes my life and makes my heroines a little more open to who they open their heart to.

Have you ever done something stupid for your friends? Leave a comment and along with a daily giveaway, enter to win a Diaries of an Urban Panther gift set at the conclusion of the Nine Lives blog tour, running August 20th to September 3rd. See my website for details.

Amanda Arista

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