Cascade Storms Book 1

Cascade Storms Book 1

Meet Daelan-- the youngest Alpha the oldest wolf-shifter pack on the Pacific coast has ever had.

When he realizes the woman he's been watching is the mate he's been waiting for he ought to be thrilled. Instead, he finds himself fighting the need to claim her and make her his Alpha female.

In a pack with elders that have lived over 10 centuries, not a single wolf can remember a member ever having a human mate. But plenty of the pack's elders do remember being hunted and persecuted by humans.

Daelan knows bringing his mate back to the den is dangerous and his Alpha status is the only thing standing between her and the blood-thirsty traitors that want to see his sweet Haley dead.

Outnumbered and betrayed by his closest friends, Daelan must accept the mutiny of his own Beta while he finds a way to hunt the wolves that are hunting his mate in the stormy winter of the Cascade mountain range.

Available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited now!

ALL NEW SERIES!

Introducing Cascade Storms

Hi everybody! So there I was, working on a light-hearted, cutesy little bear shifter series for the summer when the world slid out from under me and suddenly, cute beach bears didn't appeal to me anymore.

I worked hard for a couple of months staring at my computer monitor, trying to finish the next book in that series. It just wasn't happening. I started to think I might have to give up on writing altogether-- there were still plenty of words in my head, I'd just forgotten how to string them into stories.

I finally had to step away and regroup. In the process, I had to come to grips with the fact that the bears were going to have to wait.

I needed to write something completely different.

So welcome to the Cascade Mountain range-- somewhere in the vicinity of the North Cascades National Park along the international border of the USA and Canada.

Somewhere up there, there's a wolf-shifter pack that's been keeping to themselves for way too long.

They've got a young Alpha who's trying to bring them up to date but it's a slow process for Daelan and his personal team.

Discovering that the curvy lady he's been eyeing as a winter playmate turns out to be his mate throws the pack into turmoil. The elders are not about to allow a human into the pack, even if she is their own Alpha's fated mate.

Haley and Daelan are in for the fight of their lives. Their mating sets in motion a chain of events that catapults the pack into a series of challenges and adventures that will ultimately test the bonds of family, friendship, and the strength of the pack itself.

I'm way behind on updating the blog here, so you'll be thrilled to know that I am just about to publish book 3 of this series already!

I'm getting great feedback so far and you'll also be thrilled to hear that this series is made up of REAL NOVELS! --OK, they're short novels, but they're novels!

Full length, complete stories, complete big fat happily ever afters at the end of each book!

Cascade Storms takes place in the same "world" as the Sierra Moon books. I already have each book in the series planned out including the first book in the next series! I can't decide which wolf I'm more excited to see mated! I love this pack!

Get started with book one!

SKWEEEEEEEE!

Cover reveal time!
I'm so excited to announce my NEW book! In my NEW SERIES!

A FULL LENGTH, stand alone set in the same "world" as the Sierra Moon books! (and hey, how cool is that "USA Today bestselling author" tag, eh?)

New mountains, new pack, new mates!

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When Your Alpha Mate Leaves You

My other half was every bit the classic paranormal romance alpha hero. Stubborn, bossy, sexy as hell. Fiercely dedicated and eyes only for me.

We had a sordid history that spanned 21 years-- just a hair over half his life. Our love story included all the classic romance novel tropes: friends to lovers, second chances, fated mates. He made writing romance easy, because I was living the fairytale.

He passed away suddenly and very unexpectedly in his sleep a few weeks ago. 

As you can imagine, my life has been turned upside-down. We had chosen not to get get legally married-- he'd been married twice. I often told him he was obviously very bad at it and that there was no sense fixing what wasn't broken. 

Unfortunately, he also never bothered to get that life insurance policy that he'd finally agreed to after a decade of nagging (Did I mention he was stubborn?) and we didn't share money (and never fought about it) so naturally, my name is not on any of his property. Like our home.

His family has been wonderful and I have no reason to fear that I (and the pups-- the rest of our pack) will be facing the loss of our lifestyle as well as the loss of our alpha. But supportive friends and family do little to quiet the anxiety. 

The next year will be a stressful one as the dogs and I claw our way out of the grief and work to find a new normal.

I've fallen behind on my release schedule: It's difficult to write happy endings when my own glass slipper just shattered.

Fortunately! I'm a pretty independent lady. I am surrounded by wonderful people who give me strength daily. I'm going to be OK. I'm going to keep writing-- because I love it, because the little extra income helps, because he was proud of me.

I am currently working on a short novella that will be included in the upcoming Halloween bundle: Shifters in the Shadows. By the same group of authors I worked with on Shifters in the Snow and our USA Today Bestselling Shifters in the Spring.

He was the one who came up with the premise of the story. Working on it since his passing has been healing as well as heartbreaking. And ominous. It is, after all, a Halloween story!

A lot of people ask me how they can help...buy books. 

~Claire

  

 

 

 

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Thank you to everyone who helped make the Shifters in the Spring multi-author bundle SO DANG SUCCESSFUL!

We went all the way to number 18 on the USA Today Bestseller list!

There was much rejoicing and screaming from rooftops that day!

We are having so much fun with these bundles that we have decided to make them a regular project.

So if you love giant anthologies filled with lots of steamy stories about sexy shifters-- head on over to our new Facebook page: Shifters Ever After Facebook Page and give us a "Like," sign up for the new dedicated mailing list, and generally hang out. Let us know who you are, tell us what you're reading now, who your favorite paranormal romance authors are, what you'd like to see more of in the genre!

Thank you! From all the Shifters Ever After authors!

USA Today Bestseller-- #18!!

OSO Excited for a NEW SERIES!

I'm excited to be working with Eva Wilder again on a whole new series.


Short, Steamy, and Heavy on the Happily Ever Afters-- the Boys of Beartooth Bay is a 5 book series about a family of bear shifter living in a mostly fictitious town along California's central coast.

It's not all filled with clan wars and drama-- it's just a collection of novellas following each boy on his way to happily ever after with his true mate.

Most importantly-- I get to work with Eva again.

Second most importantly? I found an excuse to use the AWESOME Spanish word for "Bear" (Oso) in adorable bear shifter title puns!

 OSO Stubborn is book 1 in the series. Look for Book 2, OSO Ready coming soon!

Shifters in the SPRING!

Pre-Order your copy of the new multi-author bundle Shifters in the Spring NOW!

This baby contains 16 ALL NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED, NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE stories by 16 of today's super awesome-est paranormal romance authors! (Seriously, CHECK OUT the talent in this bundle! I can't believe I'm keeping such great company these days!)

Spring is in the air and these sexy shifters are on the prowl in this exclusive new collection of 16 BRAND NEW ‪paranormal romances. We have passionate tiger shifters, possessive bears, leopard shifters, wolves, and dragons. Secret pregnancies & babies add to the fun! Make spring the season of the shifter.
 ❥¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ❥¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ❥¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ❥ 
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Make sure you "like" ClaireRyannAuthor on Facebook and follow the #shiftersinthespring hashtag on social media so you don't miss out on the promos and giveaways for this new release!

In LOVE with My New Cover!

Tell me that's not a thing of beauty?

I'm strongly debating having the first books in the series redone to match. I love the bold colors and the new animal placement. It doesn't hurt that the hotty on this particular cover bears a striking resemblance to my IRL mate either! LOL! But I can't put him on ALL my covers-- or can I?

Point being-- here's the latest in the Sierra Moon Shifters series! It's staying at 0.99 cents this month (March 2016) and, as always, available for free in Kindle Unlimited!

New Release! Bearly Sleeping

For those following along with the Sierra Moon Shifters, the next story is now available and only 99 cents till the end of January!

While you get caught up on Chelle the bear's story, I am working hard on the next Sierra Moon Shifters title due around the beginning of Feb!

I have a few more Sierra Moon titles planned and then I'll be taking a break later this spring to expand my contemporary romance catalog!

Enjoy Bearly Sleeping and stay tuned for what's coming up next!

Available for Pre Order NOW

Shifters in the Snow features FIFTEEN ALL NEW STORIES -- most of which are EXCLUSIVE to the bundle!

And I'm IN IT!

OOOOOOH! I am so excited.

Order your copy now!

Shifters in the Snow is a collection of stories from 15 great paranormal romance indie authors.

How the Bear Stole Christmas is my contribution to the anthology and it will NOT be available anywhere else!

For only 99 CENTS-- how can you go wrong?

Hot Texan Billionaire TIGER SHIFTER!

Siberian Soul #3 is NOW AVAILABLE.

This wraps up Kerri and Evan's story in the first of the American Tigers series that Eva and I have been working on between other projects.

We plan on releasing a few more titles in the American Tigers theme, but along the way, I absolutely fell in love (or lust) with the sexy Russian Werewolves that Kerri stumbles upon in Siberian Soul #3-- so I'm excited that Eva and the other authors writing with us have agreed to lighten up on our original agreement for each of her co-authors to stick to one type of shifter.

Yup... sexy Russian Werewolves are now on the to-do list.

I like the sound of that!

Haven't started the Siberian Soul books yet?
Start here: Siberian Soul #1 then Siberian Soul #2

Something Appropriate for Halloween

Mrs. Bigsby's Bed & Breakfast might not have a hot man on the cover, but I assure you there's one in the story.

I'm pretty proud of this little novella and I'm thrilled to see that the reviewers like it too.

This is the first non-shifter story in my catalog, but it still has a paranormal element.

Making Words

eye candy to make up for short, boring post

There are some days when I am so immersed in a story that all I want is to sit at the computer and
WRITE ALL THE WORDS.

And then there are days when I stare at the blank page on the screen in front of me and I can't think of how to make the words, even though they already exist in my head.

NEW RELEASE! Lion in Wait: Sierra Moon Book Four

So what's the story with that mountain lion, anyway?

Well, the cougar from the first Sierra Moon books is finally telling his own story in this new release.

Lion in Wait is a complete story with NO cliff hanger ending! It can be read by itself but, of course, it'll make so much more sense if you're up to date with the first three books in the series.

GET IT ON AMAZON! 


And, like all the titles in the Sierra Moon Shifters series, Lion in Wait can be read for free by Kindle Unlimited subscribers! 


Book Description:

The injustice of the whole miserable circumstance hit him. The last thing he would ever want for Becka would be to pass this curse on to her.

Travis was looking forward to meeting that special someone. Settling down, raising a family, and living happily ever after. Some day.

A short fling before starting out on a late season hike leaves him with a nasty bite scar and some pretty vivid dreams. By the time he comes to terms with the fact that he's not dreaming, he's already made enemies of the only other shifters he knows about-- a pack of wolves secretly living in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

When he meets a friendly bear shifter who fills in some of the blanks on what's happening to him, Travis resigns himself to a life alone: Mountain Lions are notorious for their one night stand behavior and he's determined not to pass along his shifter curse.

Naturally this would be when he finds the one woman he sees himself spending his life with, a forest ranger exiled to a tiny cabin for a winter job of recording snow pack for the season.

He can't stay with her, can't give in to the new instincts within him that scream to Turn her and take her as his mate. Can't risk doing that to her knowing that the cougar roaring within him is bound by a nature that will only force him to move on once he's spread his seed. Leaving her to deal with this burden alone...

Like he'd been left to do.

Keeping in Touch

I love my mailing list! But have you "liked" me on Facebook yet? (hint-- it's over there in the sidebar.)

I cannot believe how many people have signed up to be included on my regular mailing list and ARC list! It's so exciting to hear from the actual people who are reading my books and get such great feedback on my work-- very encouraging.


I don't currently have the option of sending automated responses each time someone subscribes to the list. So I try to manually send out responses every other day or so.

Looks like upgrading my service will be getting moved up on my priorities list! My mailing list is growing daily and I'm starting to lose track. 

Which is great, really. I'm very excited about the success of the list.

Meanwhile-- I am terrible with Twitter. So if you follow me there, don't be surprised if I never re-Tweet, forget all my hashtags, and ignore direct messages. The place is a mystery to me.

Facebook, however, works just fine-- most of the time. I now have an official author page that needs likes. I don't check FB every day, but it's on my regular route that I make through the Internet when I'm procrastinating writing. Check it out.

Oh...and I have an author page on Goodreads too! Which I need to add to that list of places to waste time when I'm not writing.

Missing my Deadline

Travis's story is taking longer to tell than I'd expected.

I was looking forward to publishing Sierra Moon Book Four: Lion in Wait by the end of this week so I could get to finishing Siberian Soul...so I could work on SM#5... so I could work on....

The good news is that SM4 is the longest book I've written so far. The bad news is that it's only half way done.

I was on a schedule, dangit! And now I'm wasting time with a short blog update instead of making sure my heroine doesn't freeze to death!

Chelle will be making a cameo appearance in Sierra Moon Book 4

Info Leak...

Remember the mountain lion?

Kitty's name is Travis.

Sierra Moon Book Three: Mated for Life

 Book Three is OUT!

Yes... this is the one that pretty much wraps up Lane and Tara's story-- at least, the beginning of their story.

The entire series got a cover update with this release... although it takes Amazon a few days to switch them out so, as of writing this, the covers don't match yet.

Give it time. They look so much better now. I think?

Also... book four is under way.

I wish I could write faster, I've been dying to get to this story!

Working Hard on More Sierra Moon

Got a message that Amazon can't show tweets anymore-- at least for the time being. So thought I'd use the blog posts for updates.

I get more than 144 spaces this way too.

Sierra Moon Book Three (Mated for Life) is coming along nicely. Cross your fingers for a release date before the end of the month!

Join the mailing list for first notice when it goes live!

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New Release! American Tigers

Siberian Soul Part 2

If you're following Evan and Kerri's story in the Siberian Soul serial from Claire Ryann(that's me) and Eva Wilder, here's the juicy new second book!

I'm pretty tickled with how this story is turning out. Part 2 has some action and some suspense and some drama.

I can't wait to finish it up in part 3-- but you know I'm on an every other book schedule between my solo series Sierra Moon and my collaborative projects with Eva.

Siberian Soul is currently planned on being the only serialized story in the American Tigers series. So you can look forward to future titles without those pesky cliffhangers...

Unless it just works better that way. (evil grin)