Eat Me

By Mia Watts

Fynn has waited four hundred years to be free of his curse, but a ghost from his past stands in the way and Eddie, his only ally, doesn't believe him.

Fynn Aren interrupted the inappropriate marriage of his younger sister to a much older man, resulting in a curse that transformed him into a Persian Lynx at the start of the Salem witch trials.

Unable to assume human form except twice a year during the Equinox week, Fynn has lived almost four hundred years, passed from generation to generation of the family who cursed him, waiting for the line to die out and his imprisonment to finally end.

Eddie Salem is the last in his line. Having inherited an exotic lynx with a distinct personality, he's baffled when he wakes up to a naked man sharing his bed. It doesn't help that his sexy bed partner claims to be his lynx, Fynn.

Fynn seduces Eddie, hoping to convince him to unleash the curse only to have it backfire in a big way. Add to that the manifestation of the first Salem who want to possess Eddie in order to live again, and Fynn has some choices to make. Free himself or risk everything to save Eddie?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pride Publishing
• Release date: Oct 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9780857153173

Mia Watts

Mia makes her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she divides her time between a job and spying on people. Mia enjoys long walks in Como Park, daisies, dancing in the snow.

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Feral

EAT ME

Mia Watts

Dedication

To new beginnings.

Prologue

Six months ago…

Fynn Aren ducked his head as he followed Eddie Salem around the corner. Fynn’s hoodie covered his head, and he relied on the years of stalking prey to remain unheard, unseen. He kept his hands firmly fisted around the condoms in his pocket.

Dusk curled across the horizon between increasingly urban surroundings. Eddie stopped at one more light post and taped up a Missing poster. Like all the others, this one had a picture of a Persian lynx in profile. As the day had gone on, Fynn had grown more and more bemused.

A Salem, looking for me. It both pleased him and baffled him. Aside from Melba Salem, not one of the long line of the family that had owned him through the generations had been worth remembering. Eddie, seemed promising of goodness.

Fynn wasn’t one to take chances though. The Vernal Equinox had just begun, transforming Fynn from his lynx form to his human form for the week. He hadn’t expected Eddie to worry when he’d gone missing. But he had, and that had been enough to catch Fynn’s attention. The missing pet signs now up all over town were sweetly endearing, too.

How quaint.

Eddie slipped into a bar. Fynn followed a few minutes later. He sat a seat away from Eddie, wondering if the man would notice him. Fynn risked it to get closer to the man he’d only seen from the eyes of a lynx. Looking at him as a man sees, Fynn found him extremely attractive. Eddie’s quiet sensitivity had beckoned Fynn from the beginning, less than a week ago.

You’ve been following me, Eddie said quietly, lifting his beer to take a sip.

Fynn raised his eyes, looking back from the mirror behind the bar. Instinctively, he was glad that Eddie was aware of him.

Have you seen my lynx? he asked.

Fynn thought about his answer. He could say he had, but it would have been because he’d seen his own reflection moments before the equinox. Or he could say no, and risk ending the conversation too soon. He didn’t want that. He needed to get to know this new Salem. He was the last of the Salem line. The last to hold the power of the curse over him. The only one who could remove that curse and free him from an eternity as a cat.

He had to make sure Eddie would do it. Melba had promised to. But Melba had died suddenly without finding the reversal spell. From the little he’d seen of Eddie, Eddie didn’t practice magic. Which left Fynn to wonder, if Eddie didn’t free him, would Fynn suffer this curse for eternity? Would it end with the Salem line?

He had between now and the Autumnal equinox to secure Eddie’s affection. Both as a cat and as a man. It was now or never because the next time Eddie saw him in human form, it would be six months from now. And more than anything, Fynn wanted Eddie to

Reviews for Eat Me

[serenayates · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is a short, fun read about a man who has been cursed to spend his life as a lynx. It is written from both the lynx’s and the man’s perspective, and contains lots of humorous observations that made me laugh.

Fynn is a very likeable character. His desperation to finally break the curse after 400 years of (mostly) being mistreated by successive owners of the same family line is real and made me feel for him. His growing admiration for his current master Eddie, the last of that family line, makes it difficult for him to hate the man.

Eddie is clueless as to his powers as a witch, but is very attached to his ‘pet’, the lynx. It takes him a while to understand what was going on, and his hesitancy to accept the truth was quite realistic. I loved that he managed to overcome his issues just in time to fight the villain when he finally makes an appearance.

I liked the growing respect and love between the two main characters. I thought it was an interesting idea to have the growing friendship and respect happen while Fynn was in animal form. The sexual attraction was limited to when he was human, yet, in the end, they both merged and enabled both men to stand together and defeat the villain. A very nice read, with quite a few laughs for good measure.



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