My throat was sandpaper, and when I licked my dry tongue across my lips, I tasted the iron tang of crusted blood.

I tried to say the word, but only managed a puff of air. My brother’s name was a bright light through the fog of pain. I was too weak to shift, and even if I had been strong enough-I blinked out of my non-swollen eye at the silver cuff on my ankle-that right there would prevent me. The floor beneath me was hard, so even breathing was sending bolts of agony up my spine and through my ribs. I didn’t move from where I lay on my back. Then my brain clicked online, synapses firing, and with that came the hot, branding sear of pain. There is a glossary at the end of the book for terms used relating to geography and shifter life.įor one blissful moment, as my body came awake, I felt nothing. To Scott Speedman, who made a damn fine werewolf in Underworld.Īnd to Jon Bernthal, who was the best zombie killer on The Walking Dead. With time ticking by on my sister’s life, I have to make a choice I never thought I’d face-my sister’s life or my mate’s? That’s if I can survive the undead shifters intent on killing me first. And now he’s more to me than my fated mate-my heart is involved. No way is he going to let me go now, and I still have to find a way to rescue my sister.Īs I plot my escape to save her, I find that if I leave, Dare could be killed by power-hungry members of his pack. The last thing I expect is for the Alpha to recognize me as his fated mate. When I’m taken to meet Dare, the alpha of the Silver Tip pack, I’m sure I’m about to lose my throat. I wake up chained to the wall of a dark cell aware of two things: I failed my sister, and I smell my enemy. We all have tragic backstories in today’s world…

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