Remember The Mechanic's Mate? It looks a little different.

Our first book is all ours now so we had the opportunity to make some changes. This is the most erotic book in the Diesel War series with a heavy focus on the D/s relationships of the werewolf packs. We got a lot of great reviews and a few not so great ones. So we pondered rewriting some parts because if we were to write this book today, it might be different.

The introduction to this alternate history world that started with a dream is this story. Its meant to set the gritty post diesel war world they live in. It introduces the use of diesel slang, the pack hierarchies, the rogues, and the reorganization of the US into sectors. There is a lot going on in this first installment. We had to step back and recognize that not all books are for all people. Its a hard thing to accept when you see something negative (the Mindy half won’t even read reviews anymore), but its not personal.

I know people have recommended their favorite book or movie, and I hated it. Or that I’ve been annoyed that a story wasn’t what I wanted it to be or the characters didn’t do what I wanted them to do. With all this in mind, we chose to keep Sadie and Domek’s book as it was originally published. Mechanic’s Mate is a dieselpunk, paranormal, erotic romance. Its not a funny steampunk adventure and there is a lot of sex. Plus, no one likes a remake.

We’re proud to have taken risks in this story and forever grateful that our editor Cheryl Yeko and SMP took a chance on us and helped us get it out into the world.

Even though the guts are the same, we have a new cover! While we loved the original and the model is beautiful, we always wished it fit the dieselpunk aesthetic of the book (some of those bad reviews were because of misconceptions based on the cover). We kept the feel the same but switched up to a better representation of our heroine.

And the back blurb:

Abused and on the run, Sadie flees through the woods. For the first time in her life, she craves the blissful silence of nature. Her sire and mate is a monster who hid his inner evil all too well. Her skills as a mechanic now useless, intolerant to the noise and pollution of the city’s diesel engines thanks to her new werewolf status, Sadie’s only hope is the ex-pack of the monster she escaped. But will they accept the dieselhead mate of a rogue?

Domek, the Blue Wolf alpha, has caught the scent of the rogue he’s sworn to hunt down. But he’s shocked to find it attached to a frail, damaged city girl, the most beautiful creature he has ever seen. The desire to take care of her is fierce . . . unexplainable.

How can he protect a woman who has tied the fate of her mortality to the life of a rogue he must destroy?

The ebook will be available October 13 and the paperback will be up within a day or two of that.