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    Hawke's Nest
    Hawke's Nest
    Hawke's Nest
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    Hawke's Nest

    By Dahlia Rose

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    Hawke lived a solitary life, humans were bothersome, petty and he hated how they treated each other. He took amazing wildlife photos for magazines and sold them through his agent. Very rarely seen in public, he was known as an eccentric man who liked to live alone. That’s how he liked it because from his amazing home in the trees, he could take flight and soar in the skies. Until Tiana Swan wandered into the path of danger and he had to save her. In the peaks of the trees where you could almost touch the clouds, Tiana caused a stirring in his soul. He pushed the feeling of loneliness aside for too long and as much he hated the fact, it all came flooding in. He fought the urges to claim her but the first kiss was seared him to his core. The second he touched her, Hawke knew he’d found his mate. But Tiana held a secret that could destroy the trust he very rarely extended to anyone and rive him further away from civilization.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDahlia Rose
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9781311038357
    Hawke's Nest
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    Dahlia Rose

    Dahlia Rose is the best-selling author of contemporary, military and paranormal romance with a hint of Caribbean spice. She was born and raised on a Caribbean island and now currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her five kids, who she affectionately nicknamed “The Children of the Corn,” and her biggest supporter and longtime love. She has a love of erotica, dark fantasy, sci-fi, and the things that go bump in the night. With over six dozen books published Dahlia has become a reader favorite. Not only because of her writing but her vivacious attitude in talking to her fans online and at various events. Books and writing are her biggest passions, and she hopes to open your imagination to the unknown between the pages of her books. http://hearttoheartwithdahliarose.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/author.dahliarose www.twitter.com/dahliarose1029

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      Hawke's Nest - Dahlia Rose

      Chapter One

      Low clouds hung over the tall peaks of the pine trees in the Appalachian Mountains. They stretched for miles and miles until they seemed to reach the horizon. The sun was slowly coming up, chasing away the darkness of the night and sending the moon to its daytime slumber. The air this high up was fresher, clean and one deep breath could wipe away the pollution from breathing in city air for too long. Hawke took several deep breaths as he looked out to the sunrise. He’d just returned from Los Angeles and a new gallery opening of his work. He hated it with a passion and wished his agent would just leave him out of that end of the business. They need to see the man behind the art at some point, Hawke, Robert had said too many times to count. It didn’t mean he had to like it, but before he sent Robert into cardiac arrest he gave in. He would let the public see him four times each year at these events, then he came home to his peace and quiet.

      His fans called him elusive, wondered how he got those amazing aerial photos and wondered about every facet of his life. They’d follow him from the airport, wondering where he lived, but fortunately he always managed to lose them. It wasn’t an act. Hawke frowned for a moment thinking about one article that said he took his persona to a new level of crazy. He just didn’t like people and that was the honest truth. He found them shady and motivated by greed or their own agenda. They wanted to know his secrets even though he wasn’t willing to share. He’d been burned one too many times and being reclusive was a lifestyle he enjoyed. Even so, he had to make money to survive which meant work, which then meant putting on a damn suit and standing around while nosy people talked to him.

      But right now, with only the sounds of the mountains as his friend and the vast skies that was laid out before him, Hawke was happy. He was nude and the air had a chill this high up, but it didn’t bother him in the least. Being perched on one of the tallest trees in the mountains was nothing new to him either. He could balance on the branches as a human or his second nature. That was another reason why he liked being alone—he was free to shift into his second form and soar across the skies. He took the name of his second skin as his human name long ago.

      Hawke—nothing more nothing less, simple and to the point just like him. He’d flown for a few hundred miles to stretch his wings after a week in LA. The gnawing in his gut to shift had become almost unbearable and as soon as he came home he’d taken to the skies. He’d flown the night skies and as the sun came up, landed in this tree to watch the sun rise. Hawke looked around in his flight estimating he was closer to Tennessee than home. His house was smack dab in the middle of the wildlife preserve in North Carolina. With hundreds of acres of land, he would be hard to find and that’s how he liked it. A generous yearly donation to the state conservation society kept them both happy. He was hungry as hell so he decided to head back home to eat and sleep. His career allowed him the money to build his perfect home. A tree house in the mountain peaks—an actual functional home away from everyone. The people who built it never saw his face and his close friend—the only one he ever trusted with his secret—conducted the business and kept an eye on the workers that were limited to five. They never saw him and when it was done they were paid. They also signed a non-disclosure agreement stating they would never reveal where the project was located or built. He was that serious about his privacy.

      Hawk closed his eyes and let his second nature take over. He could tell when the shift began because skin shrank and sprouted feather and he could feel each bone in his body change to turn him into a hawk. In his second form, he was three and a half to four feet tall, which meant he was bigger than most birds that he shared a species with, but that was to be expected. You could only contort a man of six foot three so much, and he still was as sleek and agile as smaller hawks. When his change was complete, he took flight from the branch he was perched on and headed towards home.

      He never got lost in the sky or on land; his sense of direction was always on point. So were his other senses which were always heightened. He heard her way before he saw her by the cursing and then pinpointed her and noticed the way she was moving through the woods like a bear. Silence wasn’t her friend that was for sure. He slowed and clung to a branch and watched her from the trees as she looked at her compass and then looked up at the sky. If she was lost and expected clarity by looking up to the sky through the trees, it would in fact make things worse. She made a sound of frustration and threw her compass down and then proceeded to stomp it to bits. If he could laugh out loud he would have; her fit of anger meant she would now be well and truly lost.

      Hawke assessed her from where he was perched. A definite beauty with warm chocolate eyes and skin a few shades darker than amber. Her lips were full and soft pink, but now she was frowning down at her compass in the dirt. He saw when it finally dawned on her that she just broke the one thing that was to help her find her way.

      She leaned back against a tree and sat down against the rough bark and put her head on her knees. He heard a small sob and flew away from the trees. He could leave her there, call in to the authorities and direct them to exactly where she was. But what if she started walking again and got even more lost? The nights in the mountains were cold even in the warm months. She could suffer from dehydration or disorientation and end

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