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Undertow: Book 7 of the SoulShares Series

by Rory Ni Coileain
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Rhoann Callte, Rhoann Half-Royal, is an impossible Fae. Shape-shifter, he carries the blood of Fae water elementals and has a once-in-a-generation healing gift. Which is his blessing, or his curse, depending on how you look at it – his gift is needed among the exiled Fae of the Demesne of Purgatory, and he’s coerced from his beloved solitude and sent on a one-way trip to the human world.

Vietnam veteran Mac McAllan has been through hell in the last few months, and not just because his new C-leg isn’t performing up to spec. He and his partner of 34 years, stocky bald muscle bear Lucien de Winter, were working at Purgatory when what the owner said was a gas explosion collapsed the building – and put Lucien into a coma back in August. Now it’s October, and an impossibly handsome stranger says he can heal Lucien. But there’s always a price…

A Fae who wants only to be left alone, SoulShared with a human who’s already found the love of his life… and the Marfach testing their incomplete bond, seeking the key to its watery prison. What could go wrong?

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The SoulShares series is a four-time finalist in the Rainbow Awards (Gay Erotic Romance and Gay Fantasy Romance) and is nominated again for MANTLED IN MIST and UNDERTOW.

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Sarah Clay
2/28/2018

A great addition to an already super series just gets better cant wait for the next one loved it


Didi Hoards Jumble
2/28/2018

This is the first M/M/M pairing of the SoulShares series featuring Rhoann Callte - a half water Royal bastard - and the Purgatory's human established couple: bartender Mac and bouncer Lucien. I'm usually not keen on relationship that started as 2+1 instead of 1+1+1, but the way Lucien's life left hanging at the end of Mantled In Mist?? There's no way I skip this installment!! Lucien and Mac made quite a few appearances on the series though I genuinely didn't thought they would become part of the Fae community they unwittingly worked for. 65 year old Marine vet Mac and his partner of 35 years (standing applause to this couple), 55 year old Lucien, worked in the night club Tiernan Guaire owned for close to two years. The Marfach last attempt to gain access to living magick resulted in Lucien got viciously hurt and fell into a deep coma doing his job. Mac kept vigil by his bedside for months. On one his break Mac went back to where hell broke loose and captured the attention of the new fae to the human world, Rhoann. Like every other books in SoulShares universe, this was quite a busy story with multiple POVs (bad, good, existing and new characters). And I really recommend new readers to read the book in order as not to loose the thread of events that gathered momentum from Hard As Stone to this one. As part of the series, Undertow: Book 7 of the SoulShares Series served as a great continuation of how the Fae of the Demesne of Purgatory doing after the blast that demolished the night club the Fae named the demesne from. As a single book, with such busy actions going on I didn't get as much account of Lucien, Mac and Rhoann as I like. Yes, I felt for Rhoann with the way he had been brought up, the solitude, the confusion and the struggle. Individually there were also a few flash back moments from Lucien and Max's POVs that get me how strong their ties was. What I hoped for more was the building connection between these three as a threesome. There was hesitation, understanding, and acceptance for the inevitable between Mac and Rhoann (which was understandable considering Mac was practically married to Lucien). It was the flip on the lake-bed that I felt was rather instant; from heartbroken to everything-bright-and-wonderful-in-this-world. There were that soulshare pull at play and the magick's voice - I get that. But I just wish there were more exposure of immobile Lucien to Rhoann than what we had here. That saying, I'm glad the Marfach and Janek didn't appear as prominent in this book. And as much as I grumbled the lack of Lucien/Mac/Rhoann here, I was also glad to get to meet the other Fae and their scair-anam (I guess I'm greedy that way). As for steamy department; worry not, readers got plenty to enjoy here - in and out of water. Overall this rounded up another great force to the motley group (of Purgatory fae) and promise of more interesting things to come. I couldn't wait for Stone Cold to release in a few months!

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Rhoann sank down into the water, shifting to salmon-form. Salmon were supposed to be creatures of great wisdom.

I need wisdom.

He spiraled down, into what passed for the depths of the Pool. Past strange items, discarded by humans, some overgrown with weeds or half buried in silt.

Fae did not love, other than near blood kin. He knew this from his mother’s tales, and from a Fae’s instincts. Yet Fae desired other Fae, or humans — again, a truth known more from the tales than from his own experience, though he had found physical pleasure at his own hand often enough.

So what was this, that he felt for Mac, if not love or a desire he had never known? This emotion so strong, he was determined to spend whatever of his own magick it might cost to heal a stranger, solely because doing so would make Mac’s heart sing?

Or was it only for Mac that he proposed to do this thing? He suspected his own heart might sing as well, were he to see Lucien’s eyes open. To learn their color, let them wake emotion in him.

But the cost of that song? Spending magick, irrevocably, for a stranger, the way his mother had once spent her magick for him.

No. Lucien’s healing would be Rhoann’s gift to Mac. That was all. That was enough strangeness, enough impossibility. More than enough.

A school of tiny fish swam past him; unthinking, he snapped, caught one, swallowed.

I have never felt this way. Never so determined to bring joy to another. Never so eager to feel a touch, to know pleasure in the body of another.

Sunlight gleamed in the water, a liquid touch.

Is this love?

The water was cool, comforting against his scales. It surrounded him, set him apart.

Is this… SoulShare?





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Rory Ni Coileain

Rory Ni Coileain majored in creative writing, back when Respectable Colleges didn’t offer such a major. She had to design it herself, at a university which boasted one professor willing to teach creative writing: a British surrealist who went nuts over students writing dancing bananas in the snow but did not take well to high fantasy.  Graduating Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen, she sent off her first short story to an anthology that was being assembled by an author she idolized.from this she received one of those rejection letters that puts therapists’ kids through college. For the next thirty years or so she found other things to do: such as going to law school, ballet dancing (at more or less the same time), and nightclub singing, until her stories started whispering to her. Now she’s a lawyer and a legal editor; the proud mother of a proud Brony and budding filmmaker; and is busily wedding her love of myth and legend to her passion for m/m romance. She is the winner of the Rainbow Books Award.

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