Feather Torn
by Lorie O'Clare

Rock Halk has kept his secret long enough. Owls won’t humiliate themselves by showing emotions, but some feelings are too hard to keep buried. Especially when it’s need—hard, hot and carnal—burning in his veins whether he walks as a man or flies as an owl. His desire for Darla Sheridan has grown so strong he doesn’t care who knows or who might smell her beautiful, enticing scent on him after he makes passionate love to her.

There is one problem. Darla doesn’t view it as so much of a problem, more like a catastrophe. She’s fallen in love with Rock. Her feelings have grown too strong to keep inside. But her family won’t allow it. No matter how much they think of Rock—and they do think highly of him. Rock comes from the most prominent family of owls in Banff. He walks and flies with honor. Darla’s family is good friends with him. But Darla is a leopard and Rock is an owl. Leopards and owls don’t mate.

Lorie O'Clare's Bio

All my life, I've wondered at how people fall into the routines of life. The paths we travel seemed to be well-trodden by society. We go to school, fall in love, find a line of work (and hope and pray it is one we like), have children and do our best to mold them into good people who will travel the same path. This is the path so commonly referred to as the "real world". The characters in my books are destined to stray down a different path other than the one society suggests. Each story leads the reader into a world altered slightly from the one they know. For me, this is what good fiction is about, an opportunity to escape from the daily grind and wander down someone else's path. Lorie O'Clare lives in Kansas with her three sons.

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