“I’ve never been to New Mexico before, have you guys ?” Vonnie stares into the huge town hall building located smack dab next door to the Local Library in Taos. She balances bowls of potato salad and cole slaw between a green jello mold, full of fruits, and all wobbly.
The hostesses gape at the huge tables covered with foods of all kinds. Their own arms all full of foods they each made too.
For breakfast Oliver helped Amber prepare the same breakfast Bliss, the children’s librarian Greyhound-shifter, and her werewolf hybrid boyfriend Harry find waiting for them in Taos - burritos with homemade tortillas, fresh eggs, roasted chilies, goat cheese, plus salsas (mild, hot, hotter, and sizzling) - two varieties - with or without chorizo.
“Yeah,
well we all aren’t endowed with massive book ends to hold our valuables in.
Some of us use pretend big shoes to hide them in.” Lyn flutters her eyelashes,
scrunches her eyes to see better, and barely misses kicking Mac as she swings
her foot up to
demonstrate.
demonstrate.
Mac
rolls her eyes. “Even I know better than that Lyn, I’ve seen those boats with
flip flops remember? Watch out for my jello mold Vonnie” Mac bellows at her.
“Figures,
who else would make a jello mold for a pot luck dinner.” Vonnie shakes her head
and the jello mold slides closer to the edge of the plate.
“Well
I made scones! You Yanks don’t have a clue how to make the real things.” Lyn
raises her nose and moves just in time to avoid Lilly’s bubble butt. “Did you
pad that thing or what?” Lyn asks all innocently.
“No,
I have it stuffed with bookmarks, postcards and even trading cards for Amber
Polo’s new release, Recovered. I
promised to put them on the table for her.” Lilly sticks her tongue out at Lyn.
Vonnie
starts to laugh and snorts so loud that Melissa moves away. Melissa opens her
mouth to speak. But before she gets more than the words, “you could use that
platform as a tab.…” Mac drops her bag of home made rolls to cover Melissa’s
mouth.“...ble
for food.” Melissa finishes.
“Melissa,
you really must think before you speak. You know how sensitive Lilly is about
her rear end.” Mac watches the rolls as they disappear in different directions
and several rescue dogs argue over the rolling rolls.
Mary
points out all the tables covered with local delicacies, as well as a variety of foods from
different regions of the country. Everything from fried chicken, pizza,
homemade salads, stews, slabs of ribs, roast beef, hamburgers, lamb, brisket,
fish, soups, vegetable, potato, and rice dishes, beans of all kinds.
“I’ve never seen so much food in my whole life, and it’s all fresh. Oh my God, look at the desert table!”
“I’ve never seen so much food in my whole life, and it’s all fresh. Oh my God, look at the desert table!”
“Are
you drooling?” Lyn shoves her in the arm. And the disaster begins. Mary falls
straight into Vonnie, the jello slides down Lilly’s back and through her shirts
right down her enhanced bum. She screams and tosses the Baked Beans and deviled
eggs she holds in the air. Time stops as the girls gaze up and watch the
aforementioned foods slowly fall to hit them as well as AJ.
AJ, horrified, has large clumps of brown beans all over her face, covering her prescription sunglasses. She bounces her own bowls of fried okra and clam chowder off of Lilly’s butt which suddenly appears as Lilly tries to pick up her mess in vain. Mary’s lemon meringue pie finds itself plastered in Melissa’s face.
Melissa wipes from her chin the tangy pie. “Mmmmm, not bad.” She savors the flavor as she sticks her lemony fingers in her mouth. Vonnie covered with the macaroni and cheese, AJ previously carried, offers a bit to Melissa for a taste of the ruined lemon pie
AJ, horrified, has large clumps of brown beans all over her face, covering her prescription sunglasses. She bounces her own bowls of fried okra and clam chowder off of Lilly’s butt which suddenly appears as Lilly tries to pick up her mess in vain. Mary’s lemon meringue pie finds itself plastered in Melissa’s face.
Melissa wipes from her chin the tangy pie. “Mmmmm, not bad.” She savors the flavor as she sticks her lemony fingers in her mouth. Vonnie covered with the macaroni and cheese, AJ previously carried, offers a bit to Melissa for a taste of the ruined lemon pie
Mac
drenched in banana pudding and whipped cream she was carrying along with the
rolls, notices Lyn has nothing on her at all!
“That ain’t fair is it girls?” She points to Lyn whose, 'what me?' look is definitely not working. Finds herself covered in the various foods mentioned before.
“Thank
goodness for the food inside.” Mary grins, “Why don’t we change into our spare jeans
and tops and try this one more time.” She points to Amber’s next morning
breakfast sign.
Special Guest- Amber
Polo, Guest Author Roast and Toast :
Notice- Welcome to Our
Pet Friendly Pot Luck Dinner
“I
hope you’re hungry ladies.” Lyn smiles. “We have lots of things to try.” She grabs a
microphone at the entrance to the building. “Let’s welcome Amber Polo to her
roast and quick someone keep an eye on our sidekicks!”
TT, Cuddles, Nibby, Creighton, and Morena, led by a sassy Foster wave as they scramble into the huge room. bringing in an assortment of rescued dogs, and Bastet the bookstore cat, with them. “Put the phone down AJ and help us, this could be big trouble!”
TT, Cuddles, Nibby, Creighton, and Morena, led by a sassy Foster wave as they scramble into the huge room. bringing in an assortment of rescued dogs, and Bastet the bookstore cat, with them. “Put the phone down AJ and help us, this could be big trouble!”
Mary
sighs as she chases after Nibby. “Just another Author Roast and Toast.”
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RECOVERED - The Shapeshifters' Library
Book Three by Amber Polo
Bliss D. Light was just an ordinary children’s librarian until one day she discovered she could grow a tail. Now her life is filled with more magic than any of the fairy tales she tells the children who gather at her feet at the Shipsfeather library. Like many of the other residents of Shipsfeather, Ohio, Bliss is a dogshifter, and her newly discovered ability to change from human form into that of a sleek white greyhound has left her yearning to know more about her true heritage. The answer to all her questions, she is certain, lies with the dogshifters’ long lost Library of the Ancients and, undeterred by the fact that thousands before her have searched, she sets out to find it.
Accompanied by her best friend Harry, a disgraced werewolf/dogshifter mongrel, and hotly pursued by the evil werewolf team of Sybilla and Blaze, Bliss’s quest takes her across the sacred sites and ancient mounds of the American Southwest. Though kidnapped by dogcatchers, sold into racetrack slavery and forced to fight wolf dogs to survive, Harry and Bliss never lose sight of their goal—or each other. Because the only thing more important than finding the ancient lost treasure might just be preserving what they already have found: an unlikely love that could be the first step toward bringing two ancient enemy races together.
Amber Polo has had a lifelong love of libraries. A fascination with ancient libraries and curiosity about why werewolves outnumbered dog-shifters in literature inspired her new urban fantasy series The Shapeshifters' Library filled with librarian dog-shifters.
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