All Souls Near & Nigh by Hailey Turner
Series: Soulbound 2
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date (Print & Ebook): March 19, 2019
Length (Print & Ebook): 104,100
Subgenre: LGBTQ Urban
Fantasy
Reader Warning: This book
contains on page sexual assault.
All buy links or pre-order links: https://haileyturner.com/all-souls-near-nigh-02/
Book synopsis:
You can’t bargain with death if you’ve already sold your soul.
Special Agent Patrick Collins has
been reassigned by the Supernatural Operations Agency to New York City.
Learning to navigate his new relationship with Jonothon de Vere, the werewolf
he’s now soulbound to, is nothing compared to dealing with territorial disputes
between the vampires and werecreatures who call the five boroughs home. But the
delicate treaties that have kept the preternatural world in check are fraying
at the edges, and the fallout is spilling into the mundane world.
Manhattan’s club scene is overrun
with the vampire drug known as shine and the subways have become a dumping
ground for bodies. When the dead are revealed as missing werecreatures, Patrick
and Jono find themselves entangled in pack politics twisted by vampire
machinations.
Learning to trust each other comes
with problems for both of them, and the gods with a stake in Patrick’s soul
debt aren’t finished with him yet. Bound by promises they can’t break, Patrick
and Jono must find a way to survive a threat that takes no prisoners and is
stalking them relentlessly through the city streets.
Old and new betrayals are coming
home to roost but the truth—buried in blood—is more poisonous than the lies
being spun. Trying to outrun death is a nightmare—one Patrick may never wake up
from.
All
Souls Near & Nigh is a 104k word m/m urban fantasy with a gay romantic
subplot and a HFN ending. It is a direct sequel to A Ferry of Bones & Gold, and reading the first book in the
series would be helpful in enjoying this one. Please see the disclaimer in the
Look Inside for content some readers may find triggering.
The action, mystery, and heat are
kicked-up another gear in this second installment of Turner's addictive,
original and immersive Soulbound series.
— Layla Reyne, author of the
Agents Irish and Whiskey and Trouble Brewing series
Nobody writes like Hailey Turner.
Her world building is extraordinary, as are her edgy action scenes. However,
she never loses sight of her central relationship, or her razor sharp and witty
characters.
This series is amazing.
— Bestselling author, Lily Morton
Q&A with Hailey
Turner:
What comes first, the plot or characters?
This is like the
chicken or the egg question. For me, it’s a mixture of both. I feel my
characters play off the plot, but I need the outline of the book and series to
really create a character and their motives. Characters and plot are pretty
intertwined when I create a book, so I can’t say one comes first above the
other.
Describe a typical writing day.
I usually write in
the morning and evenings around work on weekdays, and for a block of hours on
the weekend around errands and time spent with friends and family. On weekdays,
I get up early in the morning (I’m talking 5:00am here) to get some writing in
before work. I try to make time to write every day otherwise it would be
difficult to finish a book if I didn’t.
How do you come up with the titles to your
books?
I
like to have themes with my titles and they tend to have the same sort of word
structure for the entire series. For my Metahuman Files series, the titles
spoke to the missions in each book. For Soulbound, every title has a hint of
the mythology I’ve incorporated into that particular book. It varies with every
series but I honestly can’t start a book without a title.
Exclusive Excerpt
Youssef
ended the call, and Jono pulled his mobile away from his ear with a scowl. “The
god pack alphas want to see me.”
“About
what?” Patrick asked.
“Andre.
Seems they called the morgue and got told their services were no longer
needed.”
Patrick
frowned, eyes narrowing thoughtfully. “If they think they can threaten you
about the case, I should be there to tell them to mind their own fucking
business.”
“Doubt
they’d agree to let you through the door.”
“I
have a badge for a reason. Let’s go.”
While
it was like pulling teeth to get Patrick to acknowledge they were a pack in a
crisis and not go off on his own, he apparently had no problem remembering in
order to piss off the god pack. Jono would be annoyed about that later, after
they’d dealt with the current problem. At the moment, he was glad for the
solidarity.
Back
out the flat they went, returning to the car, the damage from unknown claw
marks hidden from sight by Patrick’s magic. Jono got behind the wheel since he
knew where the god pack lived and Patrick didn’t. The drive there was filled
with leftover tension from their argument. Jono didn’t know how to break it
before they got within hearing range of the god pack’s territory in the Upper
Manhattan neighborhood of Hamilton Heights.
Jono
hadn’t been back this way since after the mess in Central Park, when the god
pack had demanded answers from him while Patrick was in DC, packing up his life
there. Jono hadn’t been forthcoming at all at the time; neither Estelle nor
Youssef had appreciated his silence.
“Looks
almost like suburbia,” Patrick said as Jono drove down a street filled on
either side with spacious apartment buildings or brownstones. “Do they enjoy
their perfect credit scores out here?”
Jono
snorted. “God packs have shit credit. Why do you think they live off tithes?”
“So
no white picket fence, is what you’re saying?”
“No.”
About Hailey Turner:
Hailey
Turner is big city girl who spoils her cats rotten and has a demanding day job
that she loves, but not as much as she loves writing. She’s been writing since
she was a young child and enjoys reading almost as much as creating a new
story. Hailey loves stories with lots of action, gritty relationships, and an
eventual HEA that satisfies the heart.
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