Character Interview of Bert Blackfeather from EYE OF THE EAGLE by Sharon Buchbinder
Series: Hotel LaBelle Series Book 3
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Publication Date: November 12, 2018
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Publication Date: November 12, 2018
One soars like an eagle. One strikes like a thunderbird. But for both hearts, revenge can be deadly when it's nourished.
Anomaly Defense Director and shapeshifter Bert Blackfeather doesn't need a boss with no experience. So what if she's beautiful or gives him a jolt when she shakes his hand? He never plans to get seriously involved with another woman—not in this lifetime.
Phoebe Wagner, an empath with psychometric abilities and an advocate for the deaf, gets more than she bargained for with Bert. One touch and she relives his IED injuries. So what if he's handsome and hot? She doesn't need to add his secrets to her own. Phoebe's are bad enough.
When his niece goes missing from Hotel LaBelle, Bert goes to Montana to help—and Phoebe insists on going with him. Can these two hard-headed people share their darkest secrets in order to work together? It may be the only way to save an endangered child—and their own hearts when Bert's past rears its ugly head.
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Character Interview
Q: Please tell us something unique about yourself.I was born and raised on the Crow Reservation in Montana, an hour away from Billings, Montana. My father died in Viet Nam when I was a toddler and my mother died from cancer when I was in high school. My sister, Emma, and I were lucky because our grandmother took us in. Without our grandmother, we probably would have been separated and placed in foster homes. Emma and I have an extraordinary connection—she knew when I lost my legs in Iraq and I knew when she was in danger when a killer drone shot at her.
Q: You're an Anomaly Defense Director. What does the job entail?
TOP SECRET--FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Remote viewers, empaths, telepathy, precognition, jinni hunters, name the psychic or paranormal talent, and my division has someone with it. Many, but not all, come from previous roles in law enforcement. Psychic spies and soldiers used to be under the CIA and DOD. After 9-11, based on the top-secret recommendations of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Committee on Homeland Security, those units were consolidated and moved into my division. I manage these talented agents and deploy them on missions to protect our country from acts of terror, both foreign and domestic.
Q: What’s the strangest thing you’ve come across in your line of work?
Three years ago, Special Agent Eliana Solomon was investigating a string of murders of young werewolf women in a tiny Kentucky town. She was convinced it was the work of a vengeful jinni—and I gave her a tight deadline to prove it. It was a large investment of Homeland Resources for what appeared to be a local law enforcement matter. She set up motion activated infrared cameras where the jinni energy signature was the strongest—and broadcast the scene of a silver werewolf fighting a lizard-man jinni shapeshifter to my desktop. After that, I believed in jinnis!
Q: What do you shapeshift into? How does it feel to be a shapeshifter? Advantages and disadvantages?
Like my grandmother and many (but not all) ancestors before her, I shapeshift into an eagle. With my wings, I’m completely free of earthbound constraints. It’s exhilarating to fly among the clouds, swoop down and catch a fat trout, see in five vivid colors (people see three), including ultraviolet light. The advantages are all of the above. The disadvantage is that it’s a deep family secret, one I entrust with few people. Not a lot of women respond well to, “Hey, I’m an eagle shapeshifter. What can you do?” Only a special woman would understand.
Q: Why don't you like your boss, Phoebe Wagner? Part of it is your attraction to her, I know. What do you plan to do about it?
Look, she’s very capable in her own way. She attended Gallaudet University and Georgetown Law School. She even won a Fulbright to work for deaf children in Mexico. None of which has anything to do with Homeland Security. Her mother, Senator Wagner, got her the job. She’s beautiful, smart, sassy—and has no right being Under Secretary for Homeland. She won’t last long. My plan? Lay low, avoid her like the plague, and wait for her to quit. After that, she won’t be my boss and I’ll ask her out for a good-bye drink. See where that goes.
Q: Who's the niece that went missing from Hotel LaBelle? How old is she, and what's your relationship like with her?
Miriam Stewart is the daughter of Lucius Stewart and Tallulah Thompson Stewart. She’s close to eighteen months old and just the cutest little redheaded girl you’ve ever seen. When she was born, our family had a huge party and a naming ceremony. I became what you would call her godfather. When she has questions about her Native American family, I’m her go to Uncle Bert. When I visit Hotel LaBelle, we spend hours together playing games, watching cartoons, and racing around with her on my lap in my wheelchair. She thinks that’s the best ride and never wants to stop.
Q: If there's one thing you could do over, what would it be?
I’d tell the guard to send that bastard to a black site and leave him there--forever.
Thanks for joining us, Sharon!
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About Sharon Buchbinder
Sharon Buchbinder has been writing fiction since middle school and has the rejection slips to prove it. An RN, she provided health care delivery, became a researcher, association executive, and obtained a PhD in Public Health. She is the author of the Hotel LaBelle Series, the Jinni Hunter Series, and the Obsession Series. When not teaching or writing, she can be found fishing, walking her dogs, or breaking bread and laughing with family and friends in Baltimore, MD and Punta Gorda, FL.
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