Genre: Reverse Harem Paranormal
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SABINA
They're... not.
I'm afraid.
They're not.
We're mated. We're whole.
And together? We're going to change the Pack.
Forever.
Violence thrust me into this world.
My past defined me.
I was on the run. Constantly evading an adolescence loaded with heartbreak and fear, and then the end came.
But with it?
I found a new beginning.
Three mates.
Three Alphas.
All mine.
To have.
To hold.
Their protection gives me a future.
Their love gives me wings...
But the best intentions can still lead us to hell, and for the first time in my life, I have a future worth fighting for. Only, that doesn't take away my living demons.
When they come for me, which they will, I'm no longer alone.
But can I survive if fate has given me an expiration date I avoided a decade ago?
Find out in WOLF CHILD!
Excerpt
I tilted my head to the side as I looked at Austin, wondering if he’d heard it too.
If a man’s ears could be cocked like that of a wolf’s, then his were alert. Just as I knew mine would be.
We stared at one another, squinting and narrow-eyed, as we tried to place where the sound was located.
Unfortunately for us, we were standing beside a hotdog stand. The scent of beef and pork sausages, as well as relish, mustard, and other condiments scorched our olfactory senses while also messing with our others, because there was a long line and we had been waiting in it for a while.
Beside us, there were three kinds of rides, most of them with kids squawking at something, and on the opposite side, there was one of those old-fashioned shooting ranges with water pistols that you had to aim at moving targets. The water rushed in our ears as though we were swimming through it, making that whimper and the scream that followed all the harder to hear.
As shifters, we were always hungry. That was pretty much par for the course. We burned through eight thousand calories a day, and that had to be made up somehow. Though we often thanked the Mother for providing us with the miracle that was protein and whey shakes, nothing beat meat. Especially not for a wolf.
Ignoring our grumbling bellies, we both stalked off, letting our place in line be eaten up by the people behind us. I mourned it only for a second, because my hunger wasn’t more important than the girl who’d just cried out.
Grass crunched underfoot as we crossed the carnival. There was trash everywhere, messing with our senses even further. Tracking anything in this mess would be impossible, even if we were looking for the worst kinds of scent—blood.
As we rounded a large area that was set aside for bumper cars, I heard it again, a whimper, and this time, the scent of blood hit me. It wasn’t just a tiny cut, wasn’t even something that could be healed with stitches.
This was a gushing, gaping wound that bled from the heart.
I didn’t wait to see if Austin was there at my side, didn’t wait to see if he had my back. I ran off, letting my nose lead as that thickly metallic scent overtook everything, making me see red as the blood poured from the poor woman’s body.
When I approached a stall selling candy, I found her at the back. She was small in stature, but there was a hint of maturity about her face that told me she wasn’t a child. Her bones were definitely fragile, and the outfit she wore—a kind of gauzy piece that made me think of fortune tellers—was saturated with blood. I saw her scarf covering her throat, and I realized that was where the wound lay.
Austin skidded to a halt at my side, and when he did, he dropped to his knees and deftly tugged the fabric out of the way. With the barrier gone, we both saw for ourselves exactly what we were up against.
This was no ordinary attack.
This wasn’t a woman who’d been assaulted and stabbed in exchange for her purse.
She’d been bitten.
My mouth dried at what that meant, and even though I didn’t have to, even though I could feel the moon’s sluggish crawl through the night sky, I looked up, tipping my head back so I could see the full moon.
“We need to get her out of here,” I rasped, when I heard the odd gasps escaping her mouth.
I’d never changed a human into one of my kind. We weren’t supposed to. It was forbidden. Only pack alphas were given that opportunity, and even then it wasn’t something they did frequently. Usually only mates were allowed to be changed, but that was after being part of the pack for a few years.
Extending someone this gift wasn’t something we did often, but the woman’s choice had been torn from her.
As had her carotid.
I gnawed my bottom lip as I peered around the back of the tent. We were in the area that was for the workers. People wandered around from stall to stall, buying fast food here, playing a game there, but it was all happening at the front, not the back.
Even as I wondered why the carnival worker hadn’t come out from her stall to see what was going on, because there must have been a helluva racket, I heard noises coming from within—a hushing sound, a soft giggle, some moans.
Whoever was in there was making out with someone.
My brow furrowed at that, but who was I to question someone’s inability to hear another person having their throat ripped out while they were doing the nasty?
Even though the candy stall worker was evidently busy, I could hear movement coming from the stand behind us.
I reached down, grabbed my brother’s shoulder, and muttered, “Someone’s coming out.”
“I hear them,” he replied, his tone as loaded with urgency as mine was.
Though this wasn’t our mess, it was our pack’s, and we were duty bound to help the female. Of course, that went beyond just our duty to the pack. It was basic human decency.
If this was any other night, if this was any other time of the month, she’d have just perished and there wouldn’t have been a thing we could do to save her.
But it wasn’t just any other night.
It was a full moon. The second full moon in the month, which meant it was a blue moon, which… yeah. That was the only time you could turn a human into a shifter with a were’s bite…
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Born in England, Serena Akeroyd is a true romance bookaholic. As a reader she will not touch a book unless she knows it has a happy ending, which makes her write the endings that your heart craves! This addiction, made her want to craft stories to suit her voracious need for steamy, sexy romance. She loves to write stories with plots twists, alpha sexy men, dark humor, and hot AF love scenes. Some are darker than others as she has a taste for the weird and the unexpected.
She writes MF, Menage and Reverse Harem (also known as Why Choose romance) in both contemporary and paranormal. But she has recently decided to concentrate more on contemporary MF stories. With the Satan Sinners MC Series and The Filthy Feckers Series. That being said, she never stays away from her roots. And that is why she is bringing you The Year of the Wolf
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