Bayou Secrets is coming!!

If any of you have read Blood in the Bayou, then you've read this story. I got my rights back, and had to do a new cover, and decided to change the title since there was a nonfiction with the exact title, and another fiction with one word off. I'll have it noted in the description that this is the same story, but I'm also planning to write another with the children you meet at the end. They'll be college age in the next story.
I've got a few projects to wrap up first, but that's the plan. Oh, and here's a look at the new cover!

Rebels & Readers Author Event

Currently gearing up for my road trip North!! So looking forward to seeing the leaves changing during our drive through the mountains, and then getting to spend the weekend with all the amazing readers coming out.

My first Kindle World story coming Sept. 1st!!

Kiss My Sass is coming soon, and it is my contribution to the amazing Kindle World created by Milly Taiden for her Sassy Mates series.
I'm so excited to be a part of this, and hope you guys enjoy all of these awesome stories being added by some very talented authors.
If you haven't read Milly's books yet, then what the hell are you waiting for?! You won't be disappointed.

Kiss My Sass

There was something about watching your best friend die in front of you that changed a man. However, when that friend also had a child on the way by a woman who knew nothing of his true nature, it presented a whole new set of problems.
Now Luke had to find this woman and explain to her that the father of her child was not only dead, but was also a werewolf. How hard could it be?

Ashe had always considered herself to be a strong woman, so when her baby's father disappears she does the only thing she can…she carries on. 
Now with her parents having passed, she’s back in her childhood home, ready to raise her daughter Lilly there as well. If only her uncle wasn’t such a nuisance things would be perfect.
There’s a new guy in town that grabs her attention. It’s just too bad that he comes bearing the worst news…her baby’s father has died, and her daughter is so much more than she appears.

Luke did his job. He delivered the news of his friend’s death. However, he didn’t count on Ashe being the one sassy, strong-willed woman his wolf would never allow him to walk away from.

Now he needs to figure out how to go about wooing a single mom into taking a chance on a lone wolf, while keeping her and her child safe from an unknown shifter threat.

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ELEMENTAL IS BACK!!

With a new cover and a lower price,  now is the perfect time to meet the Mondragon brothers if you haven't yet had the pleasure. *Sigh* It's so pretty! Loving the blue ;-)

New Cover!!

So, as some of you may know, I have been doing a re-write/edit on my story "Blood in the Bayou". Well, as luck would have it, there is now a non-fiction out under that very title, so I have decided to change mine, so as to avoid confusion amongst readers.

Now my book will be titled "Bayou Secrets", and anyone who follows me on here will have the privilege of seeing the new cover before I debut it on my other social sites!

The amazing CT Cover Creations, have designed this beautiful cover, and I absolutely love it!

Southern Charm is now available!

Liam has finally found his destined mate and he couldn’t be happier. The only problem? She seems to want nothing to do with him. 

Kitty has pushed him away so many times, and he’s allowed her the space she wants, but now Liam is starting to worry the attraction is one-sided. However, when a few strangers come into town, Kitty’s demeanor changes, and not for the better. She’s edgy, distracted and worst of all she’s scared. This has Liam’s lion jumping to attention with his need to protect her—something he’ll do, regardless of her feelings for him. 

Kitty’s past has finally caught up to her, and man, is the timing rotten. She’s finally found her mate, the one man who she can be happy with forever, yet this threat prevents her from going after that happiness and claiming Liam as her own. With danger looming and Liam’s life on the line, she does the only thing she can think of to keep him safe. Kitty goes off the grid. 


Out of his mind at the separation, Liam races to her once her location is disclosed. Now is the time she needs him most, but can Liam reach her before things reach a critical level? When the threats lurking nearby suddenly pounce, will Kitty and Liam survive the battle? Will their love? 

Warning: Contains alpha-male shifters who will have you longing for a shifter of your own.

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Guarding His Heart is Now Available!!

Guarding His Heart


Welcome to Pride, Texas, the home of cowboys, roughnecks, southern charm…and shifters. 

After being charged with Lynn Edwards’ protection, along with that of the future Prima, Jag found himself in a difficult situation. His inner jaguar recognizes Lynn as their mate, but he isn’t entirely sure how to approach her. 

A rogue shifter provides him yet another chance to protect her, but a few overheard words leaves her hurt and unwilling to so much as look at him. How can he possibly mend things if she won’t even allow him near her? 

Lynn is still adjusting to a life amongst shifters and considers herself to be handling things well, especially since she’s fallen for one. Now, she’s landed on the radar of another set of rogues, hell-bent on “cleansing” the shifter nation of any who would sully their lines by mating with humans. 


The question is can she forgive Jag and allow him to guard her as he longs to do? Or will the rogues finally succeed in destroying them both?

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Swallowing His Pride is LIVE!!

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ARe

Barnes & Noble haven't gotten with the program yet *sigh*

Cover for Swallowing His Pride!

It's here and it's soooo pretty!! Oh, and did I mention that the book releases tomorrow?? OH, YEAH!!

Cover Designs

So, I just received four cover design options from the publisher, and they are GORGEOUS!! How the hell am I supposed to pick?

RELEASE DATE SET!!

"Swallowing His Pride" Southern Pride Book One is set to release on September 10th with the print option as well!! WOOHOO!

Release Month!!

Okay, so I was informed that "Swallowing His Pride", Book One in the Southern Pride series, will be releasing this September!! Woohoo!
More information will be posted as soon as I have it. Now I'm off to work on "Guarding His Heart" Book Two in the series ;-)

Swallowing His Pride

It's finished!! WOOHOO!!!!
The first installment of the Southern Pride series is now officially in the hands of the publisher and it scheduled for a September release, with the book also going to print in time for me to have copies at the Rebels & Readers Author Event in Huntington, WV in November.

I need opinions! Should I try this? Never written in 1st person before.

Call Me Crazy

 (Subject to Editing)

Copyright held by Serena Pettus 

            Have you ever heard something you couldn’t explain? I’m not talking about something as benign as scratching or perhaps a creaking board in the house at night. No, I’m talking about words, either spoken aloud or whispered through the air.

            You see, at first I thought I might be going insane. It all started after a car accident. The twelve-car pile-up occurred this past winter when the roads iced over, making travel on the highways at high speeds incredibly dangerous. It was just too bad some drivers didn’t seem to understand that.

Being in the center of all of those cars meant that it took time to reach me … time I didn’t necessarily have.

The car next to me was facing the opposite direction, her driver’s side door pressed against my own. With our windows shattered, there was nothing between us, and with both of us being conscious, we were able to keep each other alert.

We both sustained serious injuries in the crash, and tried our damnedest to keep fighting until help arrived, talking about our lives and such. There was no question that we were on borrowed time, as we each had blood flowing freely from our heads.

It was obvious that the lady next to me, Ashley, was in far worse shape. She sat slumped in her seat, her head against the doorframe, one eye completely swollen shut. When she began coughing, which led to a massive nosebleed, I knew it wouldn’t be long.

“I need to confess something. Can you please get the message to my fiancé?”

Not having the heart to tell her that I’d likely never survive to do it, I decided to give her the peace of mind that she obviously needed, and agreed.

“I have no reason to be on this stretch of highway, and he’ll know that. I need him to know that I’m sorry. I want him to be happy.” She paused to catch her breath after another round of shallow coughs before continuing. “His name is Alexander Rushing. I planned to end things between us, because I just don’t return the feelings to the same extent as he does. You see, I’ve been seeing someone else, and I’m in love. Please tell him …” More coughing, this time there’s blood at the corner of her mouth. “Tell him I’m sorry, and to be happy. Find someone who’ll love him the way he deserves.” She finished on a whisper, and I swear I could actually see the life leave her eyes.

After that I was alone with nothing but my thoughts and her final confession running through my head. Man, I hurt. The odd thing was, it was beginning to become bearable. This should not be happening as I had a huge piece of glass protruding from my left side. That was bad enough, so I tried not to dwell on the amount of blood in my lap, or the fact that my body was going cold and numb. And didn’t it just figure that I’d see the paramedics just as my eyes decided to refuse to stay open?

I recall my own death—as if that’s not weird enough—and there was no bright light involved. Admittedly this freaked me out. I mean, I consider myself to be a good person and all, but there was just nothing. No choirs of angels, no hellfire and brimstone, just a shadowy place with no discernable dimensions.

It’s rather alarming to realize that there is no floor, ceiling or walls, just a thick gunmetal gray fog that you’re floating through. Even worse is when you start to feel something pushing you. Phantom hands that seemed to be shoving me away from them, herding me in some unknown direction, perhaps even toward some unseen precipice only to hurdle me over.

I kept hearing disembodied voices almost shouting in my head, urgent words telling me to “Go now”, “Go back”, “Not yet”. All I could think was, go where? It’s not like there was a door I could slip through.

The final shove I received was brutal, centered on my chest and punctuated with a hissed, “Go!”

I feel a physical impact, I guess it’s me returning to my body, but it could be from the behemoth that’s bouncing on my chest.

“I’ve got a pulse!”

Boy that guy is loud.

“Still no breath sounds on the left. I need a chest tube kit!”

Wow, I sure hope whomever they’re talking about makes it.

“Resume bagging.”

Bagging? What in the world is ba—Holy shit! I felt a huge amount of air fill my lungs—lung?—that I did not take in. It finally dawned on me that perhaps they’d been talking about me this whole time.

I tried to move, to show them that I was aware, but my body wouldn’t respond. It felt like I was just tagging along for the ride, only I could feel everything now. I felt when something cold and wet was squirted on my side, followed by the gentle probing of fingers along my ribs, which brought an insane amount of pain with it, but nothing could have prepared me for the sudden, sharp cutting just before something was shoved into my chest.

It was too much, too intense, and I welcomed the calming blackness that enveloped me.

The next time I opened my eyes it was to see an I.V. pole towering above my head to the right, a monitor beeping somewhere nearby, and the odd sensation of something filling my mouth and throat.

When I attempted to reach up and remove it, I found my hands restrained.

What the hell?

The incessant beeping increased it’s speed and a moment later a stout woman in scrubs burst into the room, looked me over, and smiled wide before exclaiming, “You’re awake!”

Well, no shit, I thought, arching a brow her way.

“Let me page the doctor and I’ll be right back.” And she was off.

Great, there’s no telling when she’ll actually come back in.

To my eternal surprise, she returned in mere minutes, fussing around, taking my vital signs, shining a damn light in my eyes, wanting me to follow her finger … Hello! You just blinded me with that stupid light thing, and now you think I can see your finger?

“You’re doing great, hon. Maybe we can get that tube out now that you’re awake. It looks like you’re breathing over the ventilator now.”

Yes! Take this thing out so I can talk! I manage a few jerky nods to show my agreement, and this seems to do the trick.

The nurse leaves the room and within the hour, there’s a doctor coming in to do his assessment and remove my tube. Which was gross. Now my throat hurts, I’ve got phlegm like nobodies business, and I really want my own bed and a pint of ice chocolate ice cream.

Alone in my room, I finally managed to take stock of my situation. I’d been out of it for three days according to the nurse, and they had left the tube down my throat as a precaution, since I was unconscious and sporting a chest tube from a collapsed lung. On top of that I had a few busted ribs, fractured wrist, and a concussion.  Yeah, I was a hot mess and totally wishing I could have just waited to wake up until all of this was healed.

A few nights later, I awoke to a voice in my room. It took a while before I could make out what the woman was saying, but I soon realized she was simply repeating herself.

“Please be okay. You have to tell him. Please be okay. You have to tell him,” she chanted, shifting from one foot to the other as she stood in the corner.

She looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn’t place her, so I did what most people do and continued to stare at her until it came to me.

And there was my mistake.

She suddenly stopped moving and speaking, looking back at me as if I’d somehow surprised her.

“What?” I asked, looking down to make sure that all the important parts were still covered by the flimsy hospital gown and sheet.

“You can see me?” Was she serious?

            “Of course I can see you. I hear you too. I was sleeping until you showed up.”

            She crept closer to the bed, almost like she was scared. Of me? I was banged all to hell, just what did she expect me to do?

            It wasn’t until she came to the bedside that I noticed something that had me choking back a scream. I could see straight through her!

            “It’s me, Ashley. Do you remember? You promised to tell my fiancé. You have to let Alexander know how sorry I am,” she wailed.

Ashley? As in the girl from the wreck, the girl I watched die right next to me? But how?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how my life went from ordinary to are-you-freaking-kidding-me in an instant.

My name is Kara, welcome to my new life.

The Cub Club is here!!!

Come join the Wolfe brothers as two of their own experience the “joys” of childbirth through their unique bond with the women they love.


Eva is all set to bring Adam’s daughter into the world and all of the women come together for support. After all, with the labor being felt through the bond, Adam is left a bit … out of sorts.


Sarah is sporting a ginormous belly with her twins, and Erik is a bit worried about her impending delivery since they all know that she cannot have any kind of pain medicine. But what’s more is that a werewolf’s labor is vastly different from a human birth.


With the sudden onset of labor combined with sleet and snow, will Stephanie be able to get to their home in time to help with the delivery? And when an unforeseen complication arises, will they be strong enough to weather the storm?

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Audio Book Update

Okay, so while I was in Atlanta for the Novel Experience Event, I went to dinner with the publisher for the Wolfe Brothers series, and she informed me that the books are in the audition phase for Audiobook!! Not sure when this will be going live, but my guess is it will still be a few months away.

Stay tuned for updates though!!

The Novel Experience Event Pics!!

Here's some pictures from TNEE 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia! It was a blast, and I can't wait for the event in Vegas next year.

"The Cub Club" Wolfe Brothers 4.5

It's officially done and sent to the publisher!! Now I'm just waiting to see what they say, and I'm hoping to have this series in print before the end of the year :-)

UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS!!

Hello everyone!

I have been battling pneumonia for the last week, and haven't gotten any writing accomplished, as my creative processes are currently drowning in snot!

Anyway, I figured now was as good a time as any to announce the two Author Events that I will be attending this year.

March 27-30th, 2014 will be TNEE better known as The Novel Experience Event. This will be held in Atlanta, Ga at the Hyatt Regency Hotel's Ballroom. Check out the link for the event's Facebook page!

THE NOVEL EXPERIENCE EVENT


November 8th, 2014 will be the Rebels & Readers Author Event. This will be taking place in Huntington, WV at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. Here is the link for the event's Facebook page!

REBELS & READERS AUTHOR EVENT

Be sure to go to these pages and check out the impressive lists of authors attending each!!

WIP's

Hiya everyone!! I'm checking in to let you all know that I am hard at work on three, yes THREE manuscripts right now. WHEW!

I have the first in the new shifter series, "Souther Pride", my first contemporary which happens to be a BBW M/F/M titled, "Driven by Love", and yes, another Wolfe Brothers story!!

I'm working to get the Wolfe Brothers story out first, since it is a fairly short one, and then will focus on the other two.

I'll keep you all updated so keep your eye out for more to come!!