Chimera's Calling

By Charlie Richards

A crumbling castle was the last place Max expected to find his mate.

Maximus, the Huzza of the Cuchulian gargoyle tribe, walked into a trap. He’d planned to get information from a demon; instead, he was attacked, poisoned, and beaten. A clan-mate, arriving late to the supposed meeting, steps in and gives Max the opportunity to flee. Disoriented and only semi-conscious, he loses his way and collapses in a desolate courtyard of a ruined castle. Upon waking, Max discovers the incident may have been the best thing to ever happen to him, because hiding deep within the collapsing building, away from the prying eyes of society, he finds his mate. Now Max just needs to figure out how to claim a chimera snake shifter who’s lost all hope in others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Feb 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781554878499

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A crumbling castle was the last place Max expected to find his mate.

Maximus, the Huzza of the Cuchulian gargoyle tribe, walked into a trap. He’d planned to get information from a demon, instead, he was attacked, poisoned, and beaten. A clan-mate, arriving late to the supposed meeting, steps in and gives Max the opportunity to flee. Disoriented and only semi-conscious, he loses his way and collapses in a desolate courtyard of a ruined castle. Upon waking, Max discovers the incident may have been the best thing to ever happen to him, because hiding deep within the collapsing building, away from the prying eyes of society, he finds his mate. Now Max just needs to figure out how to claim a chimera snake shifter who’s lost all hope in others.

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Chimera’s Calling

Copyright © 2011 Charlie Richards

ISBN: 978-1-55487-849-9

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Chimera’s Calling

Gargoyles of Cuchulian One

By

Charlie Richards

Dedication

To my husband, for his patience when I turn into a hermit with a laptop and for his never ending support.

Chapter One

His wings were so tired. Max didn’t know how long he’d been flying, but it couldn’t have been that long. If only his pounding head would ease, he could think! Instead, the pain intensified, blurring his vision. Max realized he needed to land or he’d fall out of the sky, finishing the job Barbaros started. Geez, wouldn’t that be typical of how my day is going? First, because of a meeting with a demon to learn the possible whereabouts of descendants from the McDarmund gargoyle tribe, which had been forcibly dispersed almost a century ago, he’d had to turn down a night of hot sex with a she-wolf. Damn, he loved their aggression. Then Max had discovered he’d been given faulty information about where the meeting would be held and walked right into a trap. If he caught up with the gargoyle who’d lied about the meeting place, he’d shred his hide with his bare claws! And now, he was lost in the countryside about to plummet to the ground.

On the dark horizon, he spotted the ruins of a castle, quiet and desolate in the