Hey y’all! It’s day #12 of the
Countdown to Trouble. For each day I’m going to post about it. It may just be a
pic that helped me along while writing it, or it may be more. You’ll have to keep
checking, lol. *HINT HINT* And there *will* be giveaways that folks who comment will be entered in. Just sayin' lol. Y'all just never know when the comment fairy will strike!!!
The forecast predicted snow, thus the mad trip to the store and resulting battle for milk and toilet paper. Why those two items were required to survive a snowstorm was beyond me. I hurried outside, my head down against the ripping cold, my pitiful bag of groceries clutched to my chest. I jumped in the truck and hurried home.
After an ungodly slow drive home, thanks to the snow, I was juggling groceries while opening the back door. Damn snow was coming down harder since I’d left the store. By morning, it was going to be a winter wonderland of nut-grinding insanity. The forecast said we were due to get a foot, at least. Just what we needed. Folks in the South couldn’t drive on sunny days. Throw snow in the mix, and you had accidents just looking for a place to happen. I was very glad I’d decided not to work tomorrow.
“Okay, so, groceries bought. Check. Next on the list—adding wood to the fire.”
I’d banked the fire, now I needed to add more wood. Which entailed getting said wood from outside. Where the snow was. Shit. Taking a deep breath, I braved the outdoors again. Seeing the evil whiteness sticking to everything, I decided to carry several loads inside. After the second trip, I just left the door open. And hey, the floodlight out back decided to work suddenly. What luck. Now I could actually see what I picked up.
After the fourth trip, I had enough wood to last the night. I stomped the snow off my boots, intending to head inside, when a streak of black raced past me, making a beeline to the open back door.“What the hell?” I glanced in the kitchen.
“Meow!” On the table sat one of the biggest black cats I’d ever seen, giving me the eye.
Blurb: A snowstorm in the
South—on New Year’s Eve—is a perfect recipe for a catastrophe. After two
soul-crushing bad breaks, Kirk’s waiting for disaster number three to strike
when, naturally, two stray cats arrive on his doorstep during the storm and
decide to make themselves at home. Tenderhearted Kirk lets them stay even though
there’s something decidedly odd about his overly friendly felines.
Out of the punishing weather and full of tuna, Dolf and Tal are happy to
be snug in Kirk’s house. But then their human goes outside for firewood and
suffers a nasty fall that leaves him unconscious. Now the two cats have no
choice but to reveal themselves.
Kirk wakes up to find the two kitties are actually Dolf and Tal. They’re
cat shifters—and his destined mates. Being part of a feline threesome is enough
for Kirk to grapple with, but soon he learns they come from a clowder that
doesn’t believe humans and shifters should mix. Kirk knew those two cats would
be trouble. Little does he know the real trouble lies ahead.
