There’s a Lipizzan in her backyard, a mountain looming outside her office window, a pack of agility dogs romping in the house and a laptop sitting on her desk-and that’s just the way she likes it. When she’s not writing, Doranna builds web pages, wanders around outside with a camera and works with horses and dogs. Most recently she’s leaped gleefully into the world of paranormal romance. When she emerged, it was as a writer who found herself irrevocably tied to the natural world and its creatures-and with a new touchstone to the rugged spirit that helped settle the area and which she instils in her characters.ĭoranna’s first fantasy novel received the 1995 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award for best first book in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres she now has fifteen novels of eclectic genres on the shelves. After obtaining a degree in wildlife illustration and environmental education, she spent a number of years deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

All wolf.Īvailable in May 2010 from Mills & Boon® Intrigueĭoranna Durgin spent her childhood filling notebooks, first with stories and art and then with novels. Nick looked out at that land and he looked at the woman flinging wild in his face and, without even realising it, he grinned again, dark and just as feral as she.

“Run with me,” she said again, looking out over the remaining fields of the fairgrounds to the thick tangle of irrigated wooded borders between the tended green land and the natural desert grit. In those eyes-in the lift of her head and the lines of strong, straight shoulders, in rangy legs promising long, ground-eating strides-he suddenly remembered something of what he was. “Run with me,” she said, turning her head to a sudden gust of wind, glossy black hair buffeted, eyes flashing gold in the sun.

Wolf Hunt by Doranna Durgin