“What the hell…?” Highly polished black shoes stopped at the edge of the debris.

Each item stared back at him, miraculously unscathed. Success! His fingers wrapped tightly around the delicate stem as the rest of the plates and silverware plummeted toward the dark oak floorboards.Īs the clatter peaked, then faded away, Ori’s attention flickered from one piece of expensive china to another, from one lead crystal glass to the next. Ori made one last attempt to catch a wine glass. The dishes and glasses spilled leftover food and wine across the floor as they tumbled out of his grasp. Scrabbling at the china, he desperately tried to catch more than a dozen fragile pieces of crockery at the same time. Ori’s grip on his tray of dirty plates faltered as he hunched over them in an effort to stay low and out of range. A plate smashed against the wall to his right-just where his head would have been, if his reactions hadn’t been so quick. Ori dropped to his knees, taking cover behind the waist-high partition that separated the dining area from the adjacent corridor. Your mileage may vary with the second edition on some points.) The pre-order links are – Amazon and All Romance E-books. Then the only question is, is Ori really a duck-and what will his new master think when the truth eventually comes out? Life isn’t easy for Ori until he comes to the attention of a high ranking hawk shifter. When a partial shift allows the elders to announce that they believe Ori to be a rather ugly little duckling, he drops straight to the bottom rung of their hierarchy. Unable to complete a full shift until he reaches his avian maturity, he still can’t be sure of his exact species.īut with species comes rank, and rank is everything to the avians. Raised among humans, Ori Jones only discovered he was an avian shifter six months ago.

So here we go – as I said before, this is the second edition of Duck! It has been tweaked and re-edited, but the plot hasn’t altered.ĭuck! has a new cover for the new edition, and it’s made by Kris Norris. (At the moment only big publishers have the ability to list books for pre-order there.) It will release officially on August 12th – at which time it will also go up on Barnes & Noble. This was going to be a newsletter issued on the 1st of the month and with details on everything due to happen this month etc, but it’s now 1:52am tomorrow morning, so I’m just going to do today’s news and come back and do other days on other days.ĭuck! is now available for pre-order on Amazon and All Romance E-books!

Duck by kim dare