Owl
Gabriel made a decision to help a friend, and it cost him. He’s been exiled from his clan, trapped in his owl form, living in a swamp, and slowly losing his humanity. If not for Vincent, Gabriel would have no chance of regaining what he lost.
Vincent is popular and successful, but no one knows the real him, who is gay and would rather become a musician than a lawyer… no one but the owl living in the hollow tree. As Vincent shares his secrets, he not only unburdens his heart, but stirs Gabriel’s. In each other they have a chance to heal… to live.
Unless Gabriel’s grandfather has his way.
M. Raiya
M. Raiya knew she was a writer since second grade when her teacher kept her in for recess to get extra help because “Somebody had better teach you about semicolons!” She started her first fantasy trilogy in fifth grade. She majored in writing in college, got her master’s degree in English, published some literary fiction, and fortunately emerged from all that with her imagination unscathed.
She is a fifth-generation Vermonter and often needs four-wheel drive to reach her winter home on a dirt road in the mountains. In the summer, she lives in camp on top of a thirty-foot cliff overlooking Lake Champlain. Her other passions besides writing are bird-watching, nature photography, kayaking, and swimming. She takes lots of long walks with a camera and a pair of binoculars. Or she might be found in the lake or in a handy swimming pool in the winter, since she has distant mermaid ancestry.
She is married and has two artistic daughters, two cats who demand that they lie between her and her laptop whenever she dares to sit down, and a red Labrador retriever who makes sure she gets lots of exercise. She worked for seventeen years as a paraeducator in the special education department of a nearby high school, helping students in their humanities classes.
M. Raiya’s novel Depth of Return won first place in the 2017 Rainbow Awards in the Gay Paranormal Romance category, and her novel Another Healing was a finalist in the 2015 Rainbow Awards.
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