Ashley Frost is a good girl with a good head on her shoulders she was dealt a bad hand in life and is trying to make the best of a bad thing, but the ghost of her grandmothers past come knocking and Ashley finds her self in a world of trouble and the last person she ever expected to come to her r...
Isabelle Monroe - Izzy - knew Jericho Cole years ago. They were best friends for 5 years. Izzy was the only wolf of a Wolf Cougar mating. Her father, the wolf, was distant to her, and her siblings did not take to her. She ran away and she and Jericho found each other. Together they lived as ...
The imprint on the trunk door was strong, but there was no fear or pain, which meant that Butcher had killed his victim before the body was put into the trunk. That evil little prick had enjoyed every minute of it, too. Kane turned the key and the trunk lid popped open. The hinge creaked as it ro...
He gave me a brief lesson about Shifter rules and how things worked, and I wasn’t sure if he was doing it for my benefit (being that I was completely ignorant of their culture), or his own so he wouldn’t have to deal with watching me cry. Men avoid women when the waterworks turn on the way a mous...
My eyes occasionally looked away from the tips of my shoes to the signs we passed. While I had adjusted to my new legs, I still didn’t trust that I wouldn’t go sailing across the dark concrete. Justus tucked his hands in his pockets. For every two steps I made, he only took one. There was a comf...
All I daydreamed about was food—real food. Turkey legs drowning in gravy, buttermilk biscuits filled with strawberry jam, spaghetti with spicy meatballs, fresh coleslaw, and especially chocolate pudding. Hell, I’d kill for a bag of pretzels. “Eat it,” Austin repeated. I shoved the bag of jerky aw...
A short, round woman with a fluffy white dog passed by him. She wobbled back and forth from what looked like a bad hip, pausing briefly to praise Mr. Teasley for sniffing Prince’s Italian leather shoes and showing what a good dog he was. After she went into her apartment, Prince bent down to wipe...
After Reno briefly explained Lola’s situation to the pack, Izzy scooped her up and ran her a bubble bath. Melody was excited to have a friend her age and pulled out all her clothes to find Lola something clean to wear. When I mentioned the living conditions of the apartment we’d found her in and ...
The Grey Veil was a realm that existed between dream and reality. Justus created his own private place because of a gift. When it came to gifts—some magic I would never understand. According to Justus, a Mage could only enter if they shared his light, and he showed them the way. Simon and I parti...
I tossed and turned most of the night thinking about our talk. Could that kiss have saved him? Common sense told me no, but I felt guilty that I couldn’t reciprocate his feelings. What if rejecting him put him over the edge? Maybe it wouldn’t have led to anything, but I was afraid of opening a do...
I coughed a few times and shoved the dream away, thinking I must have fallen asleep away from my dreamcatcher. Voices tumbled into my dream from a distance, and I barely heard them, as if they were lost in the wind. “Did you get her to shift?” “She’s recovering. What’s the word among the packs?” ...
She’d called twice already—probably to scold him for kidnapping her precious Learner, but he didn’t answer the phone to find out. Despite the smashing success of immersing Ella into a social situation, he couldn’t shake the image of her unexpected breakdown. She could be his counterpart with the ...