Avery Flynn | Get Lucky: Excerpt from Big, Bad Red

I’m so excited to provide this exclusive excerpt of Big, Bad Red (part of the Get Lucky anthology) for Fresh Fiction!

Get Lucky is six brand new Irish-themed contemporary, new adult and paranormal romance novellas that will give "Get Lucky" a whole new meaning and it’s available for 99¢ for a limited time. In Big, Bad Red, my hot werewolf hero, Liam, has less than a month to recover a mystical sword and reverse a family curse or he’ll go from werewolf to just a regular wolf. Red is the biggest and baddest fence for stolen treasures in all fairytaledom and happens to be in possession of the sword Liam needs so he doesn’t turn forever furry. When his efforts to buy the sword fail, he decides to steal it….but Red catches him in the act. Enough talk, let’s get to the story!

xoxo,

Avery

Excerpt from Big, Bad Red

Red hated to see the sword go, but she never held on to things that could be converted into cash. Still, after this incident, it wasn’t going home with Liam no matter how much he offered. “Who sent you to steal it?” Her hand hovered over the polished-steel grip. The air vibrated beneath her palm.

“Trust me.” He stepped closer. “You don’t want to touch the sword.”

An earnest thief. How sweet.

“Honey, the only person I trust is myself. You better start talking or I’m going to take a slice out of you with this blade.” It would take two hands, but she was tall and strong; she could heft it.

Weapons weren’t really her thing anymore. Normally she went for a more discrete approach to getting her way, but no one broke into her treasure room and walked away unscathed. Her reputation was the only thing keeping the king and the other jackals out there from scratching at her door until there was nothing left and she was out on the street again, just another jaded babe in The Woods.

“It’s my sword.” Determination and the barest hint of desperation clung to him.

“Really?” She shrugged. “It’s in my possession.”

“It was stolen from my family generations ago and I mean to reclaim it.” Nothing but cocky self-assurance now.

“I don’t offer reparations,” she said. “I conduct business.”

He closed the distance between them, and for a second she basked in the bad-boy vibe coming off him in waves. It was enough to make even an experienced girl like herself blush. Another night, a different kind of break-in, and she might have gotten more out of this than the gnawing feeling in her gut that shit was about to go sideways.

“You don’t have a second buyer.” One side of his mouth curled up in a smirk that was a serious danger to panties everywhere.

“That’s what you’d like to think.” She dropped her hand an inch until it nearly touched the intricately carved grip. “Tell me how you got in here.”

“I have my ways.” Liam’s gaze went left, zeroing in on her hand over the sword.

“So do I.” And he was about to find out just what a girl who grew up alone in Dublin learned to do in order to stay alive. She lowered her hand. The sword felt warm against her palm, as if someone had just put it down after a long battle.

“No, don’t,” Liam yelled.

It was too late. Red curled her fingers around the grip and lifted it out of the case.

Everything went fuzzy.

It was like being hit by six bolts of lightning at once. The air around her hummed. The room wibbled and wobbled. Liam grabbed her shoulders as the sword dropped from her grip. In the distance she heard it clang against the concrete floor.

But looking up into Liam’s blue eyes—so blue they reminded her of a postcard she’d seen once of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece—she couldn’t care less about dropping a million-dollar sword. All she could focus on was him. His square jaw. And his arms, his arms, they were huge and covered in enough Celtic tattoos to make her brain flatline and her heart go into overdrive.

How did the saying go? A woman like her doesn’t run toward a man, but if he has tats she might power walk? Yeah, that was it. Saints and fairies preserve her, she was power walking toward him without moving a muscle. He was perfect. Fucking perfect. How had she not noticed all of this before?

“God, you’re hot.” All she wanted was to burn with him.

Deep worry lines formed a V in his forehead. “Oh, shit.”

His muttered curse was the last thing Red heard before everything went dark and she passed out in Liam’s strong arms.

About the Get Lucky Anthology

Six brand new Irish-themed contemporary, new adult and paranormal romance novellas that will give Get Lucky a whole new meaning.

From USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh - Walking the Line

Ellie is a decade older than Finn but that doesn’t stop the charming Irishman from wooing her.

Ellie doesn’t believe in the happily-ever-after dream any longer, not since hers imploded a long time ago. But can a smooth-talking Irishman sway a hard-hearted cynic to believe in love again?

From reader favorite Kelsey Browning - Amazed by You

Author’s assistant Olivia McLaughlin must pull off an extravagant St. Patrick’s Day garden party to win a coveted promotion, but her success hinges on landscape designer Cody Kavanaugh, her old high school boyfriend. Now, Olivia must decide which she can’t live without—the job that will make her a success or the man offering her a second chance at love.

From sizzling hot and bestselling Robin Covington - One Little Kiss

Trapped by a snowstorm in the same place at the same time, Leighton and Jonas must decide if their hot night together was the end of their story or if they started forever with just one little kiss…

From RT Book Review Award nominee Avery Flynn - Big, Bad Red

There’s nothing little or naive about this Red Riding Hood. Red runs the biggest fencing operation for fairytale treasures out of the back of Granny’s Pub. But when she comes into possession of the Caladbolg sword things get hairy–as in hot, sexy Liam MacTíre the werewolf hairy.

From paranormal darling Sara Humphreys - Luck of the Irish

Banished to the mirrored realm for hundreds of years, Declan Aherne had nothing but time to plot his revenge and mourn the loss of his beloved wife. But when a beautiful human woman, with a familiar amulet, stares into the mirror....Declan's luck was about to change.

From the sexy sweet Kimberly Kincaid - Something Borrowed

When her successful brother announces his plans for an impromptu wedding in Ireland, unlucky-in-love chef Sasha Arrington is stuck between the Blarney Stone and a hard place. Sasha needs a wingman for her brother’s wedding, and the romantic destination could be just what James Sullivan needs to tempt Sasha out of the friend zone.

About Avery Flynn

Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip.

She fell in love with romance while reading Johanna Lindsey's Mallory books. It wasn't long before Avery had read through all the romance offerings at her local library. Needing a romance fix, she turned to Harlequin's four books a month home delivery service to ease the withdrawal symptoms. That worked for a short time, but it wasn't long before the local book stores' staffs knew her by name.

Avery was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to write about smartass alpha heroes who are as good with a quip as they are with their *ahem* other God-given talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce and fantastic. Brainy and brave, these ladies know how to stand on their own two feet and knock the bad guys off theirs.