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Maya Sorino loves her life in Deadman, Wyoming. She has two great kids, a successful bed & breakfast, and enough room to freely roam as her dino self. Everything is perfect. Until a rich developer comes to town, trying to undermine her business and seize the town's open land. Not on her watch.
Persia Walker has been guarding the fossil rich lands since she almost became one, but she won't let a billionaire destroy sacred paleo sites for vanity. She organizes a group to take on the developer at the public meeting in hopes of preserving her territory. Then she sees Maya.
Finding another dinosaur shifter in Deadman is a dream for both Maya and Persia, but the developer has something up his sleeve. What's a better first date than going Mesozoic on a bunch of drunk vandals-for-hire? It's a match made in Prehistory!
This story was previously published in the Cretaceous Crushes LGBTQ+ Romance Charity Anthology. It has been expanded and given a new cover.
Siobhan Muir
Siobhan Muir lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with her husband, two daughters, two cats, and a dog who just wants to be walked. When not writing, she can be found looking down a microscope at fossil fox teeth, pursuing her other love, paleontology. An avid reader of science fiction/fantasy, her husband gave her a paranormal romance for Christmas one year, and she was hooked for good. In previous lives, Siobhan has been an actor at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, a field geologist in the Aleutian Islands, and restored inter-planetary imagery at the USGS. She’s hiked to the top of Mount St. Helens and to the bottom of Meteor Crater. Siobhan writes kick-ass adventure with hot sex for men and women to enjoy. She believes in happily ever after, redemption, and communication, all of which you will find in her paranormal romance stories.
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Fossil Beds Bed & Breakfast - Siobhan Muir
Chapter One
Maya took a deep breath as she settled on the front deck of the Fossil Beds B&B with a fresh cup of peppermint tea. The summer weather in Deadman, Wyoming was just the most perfect it had been in this century—and she knew weather. She loved when the world turned green and lush from the afternoon and evening thunderstorms, and the mornings dawned fresh with dew on all the surfaces.
Absolute perfection.
She kicked her feet up on the railing and listened to the birds chirping with their territorial songs. She still spoke their languages, a modified version of the same sounds she remembered from her teenage years when she’d migrated with her family across much of what was now northern Montana. Of course, back then, the language had been spoken by what humans named velociraptors, Compsognathus, and other small predators. Sue the Tyrannosaur had used that language, too, but she’d been a mean, crotchety old bitch, and Maya hadn’t been sad to hear of her passing.
Over the millennia, the evolutionary tract the birds had taken kept some of the language alive and Maya enjoyed listening to them gossip and squabble in the mornings with her tea. When she was in her true dinosaur form, she sometimes answered them, or scared them witless and quiet.
She chuckled. More often the latter than the former.
Maya had evolved, too. It had been strange to wake up in a smaller body, one with delicate skin that burned in the sun. She’d panicked at first, desperate to find her original form. It had taken her days to calm down enough to access the part of herself that would always be a large and in charge Maiasaur with olive green, leathery skin striped in cream.
Thank the ManyGods for that.
She’d been in her human guise for roughly five hundred years and she’d seen a lot of shit come her way. Which was why she’d settled in Deadman when she’d had the chance and staked her claim on her land.
And the town came by its name honestly.
The first white man who’d shown up on her land had tried to use her for his sexual needs without her consent and ended up crushed, broken in more places than he had bones, and draped over a boulder as a warning to others.
She snorted. They named the town after him and for at least a century, he’d served as a warning that men had better take heed and be on their best behavior when visiting. Maya honestly hadn’t meant to kill him, but she’d shifted when her emotions got the better of her and slammed him into a rock wall before she stepped on him. It had been an accident, but she didn’t regret his passing.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Hey, Mom, did you see the news this morning? They’re having a public meeting in town on Thursday.
Quinn, her adopted human daughter, strode out to the front deck and plopped down on the nearest chair. Maya marveled at how light humans were. She’d built all her furniture to withstand the density of her own heavier frame, and she had to be careful how she sat so things wouldn’t break. But Quinn and Bailey, her adopted human son, could throw themselves onto anything.
Maya focused on Quinn’s face, her mammalian features full of irritation. A public meeting about what?
Quinn frowned, her cute, freckled nose wrinkling. It’s to see if the residents of Deadman want that tool Clifford Krassobaki to come in here and buy up all the land to make a gawd-awful resort for his ultra-wealthy, tax-evading buddies.
Maya blinked. Wait…I know I haven’t been up on politics and local issues as much as you, but when did this come about?
She set her tea down on the arm of the chair and sat up as Quinn handed her the newspaper, a relict that Quinn still read even though she had an online subscription.
It’s a relatively recent development that started at last month’s city council meeting.
Quinn rolled her eyes. That douche Mayor Blatherton, who’s friends with Krassobaki, proposed the expansion on Krassobaki’s already palatial ranch. They scheduled a public meeting on Thursday to see what the public has to say.
Oh, I have a lot to say. That would put The Fossil Beds B&B out of business. And where are they gonna get all the people to work this monstrosity? The town holds maybe five hundred humans. Oh hell no.
Maya rolled to her feet as her daughter beamed.
I love it when you get a fire lit under your butt.
Quinn grinned as she followed Maya into the kitchen of their B&B. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s awesome.
You just say that because you’re the firebrand in this family.
Maya shook her head, but a smile curled her lips. And it’s a damn good thing. Too many people got comfortable and let shit like this slide. But not me, not now. Where’s your brother?
Quinn shrugged. He’s down at the Deadman Community Center teaching a class on internet scams and red flags.
Damn. How did I get such awesome kids? One’s a political activist and the other is a community servant.
You got awesome kids because we learned it from you.
Quinn wrapped herself around Maya from behind. Have I told you that I love you, Mom?
Not yet.
Maya squeezed Quinn’s arms gently.
Well, I do, and without you, I wouldn’t be as awesome as I am. So, it’s all your fault.
Quinn pulled away and grabbed the paper before heading for the scheduling book. I’m gonna write down the meeting so you don’t forget to go.
"As if I could. You’ll be coming