Her Wolf
On an Island off Maine. 30 years ago Kendrick Kane came to know a man
named Claudius Brouseaux. Claudius convinced Kencaid Kane, or maybe he
convinced Claudius, that there was money to be made off shifters.
Wolves are human and animal. They think and reason like humans and
possess the loyalty and instincts of wolves. Both live within them and
it is a constant battle for control, but a glorious one. Until wolves
are thirty they age as a human does, and then they stop, and do not age
again until they mate. The Alpha has lots of magical abilities.
Thirty
years ago, everyone went crazy. It seemed strange. The only non-wolves
on the island were mates of shifters. Claudius wanted to take the
essence of the wolves in the wolves and find a way to inject it into
regular humans. He thought he could create an army of super-strong,
aggressive, animal-like humans who would serve him. Kendrick wanted his
pack to let him experiment on them. In the middle of the night, the
Alpha’s wife, Mary Jo, Kendrick Kanes mate told the wolves that her
mate had lost his mind. He’d brought in a witch…He was going to kill
all the unmated females, including babies and children, and then use the
witch to cast a spell that would get the men to kill their mates if
they didn’t consent to the testing. She grabbed all of the unmated
women and sent them off all over the world. When the men awoke, the
wolves did not know what had happened to them. Mary Jo was an
extraordinary mystic in her own right. She masked them with her magic
so the wolves could not find them. However, the mated women refused to
leave.
The male wolves were completely changed by the spell; they
could not control themselves or stop the need to kill their mates. All
but two, that is. The Alphas brothers, did not harm their women. They
took their own lives instead. The aunts remain alive to this day in
agony, but as the only women still present in the pack—and only women
can be healers—they must remain with the pack until some women return
who can take over the mystical positions. Every day for the last thirty
years has been a struggle for the aunts…
every minute that they are
alive, they are wishing for death, to rejoin their mates. The other
men, when they realized what happened, what they had done to the most
precious thing in the world to them, their mates, they killed themselves
immediately. They commit what is called ritual suicide. Unless there
is a child to
raise, in which case the parent waits to die until the child is old
enough. Then, they too, are overwhelmed with the need to leave. Wolves
simply cannot live without the other. And those who try to resist the
urge are doomed to living forever in agony…most do not try to resist.
It was gruesome and awful.
Thirty men live on that island
waiting the return of our missing girls—or at least the ability to find
them, to know if they still live. But the curse is still upon them
Book 1
Ashlee
had Neurotic daydreams among other mental issues or so the Psychologist
said. She is back living at home with her parents. Her father set her
up to volunteer at the local zoo. She is drawn to the wolves well
actually one wolf. The lone wolf as she calls him. She swears she can
hear him in her head. One night she has a dream that bad men are
coming for him, she races out the door in her p.j.'s, to save him. She
finds out that she is his mate and she must go with him to an Island off
Maine. Ashlee finds that she holds magic and must learn more if she
is to save her mate from the 30 year old curse where he kills her then
himself.
Tristan Kane is a wolf shifter, what makes that bad is
betrayal, at the
highest level has left him in his wolf form. He is a Prince of the
Westervelt Wolves Pack. And boy is he pissed, he is in a cage with real
wolves, for 6 months now. One of the volunteers saves him, she is his mate.
They must return to Westervelt Pack, to warn others of this betrayal.
What he does not count on is that once mated to Ashlee the curse is now
on him. He will do all that is in his power to save his mate. He will
fight as to live and save his mate.
I loved loved this
book. The out of the box story is so wonderful. I am so glad to see a
new twist to wolfs. Ashlee is very like able and so believable in all
that she goes through to save her self and her mate. Tristan is a Alpha
who is true to form of a True Alpha, takes charge and refuses to put
others at risk. Especially his mate, curse or no curse. I enjoyed
these 2 strong characters come into their own and as a couple. The love
can be felt to the reader. I love it when an author can touch me like
this. I really enjoyed watching Tristan and Ashlee deal with realities
of
betrayal and seeing that mated love can defeat traitors. Lots of magic
and telepathy and hot male wolf shifters!
A lot of different
characters and most like able and needing their own stories! I look
forward to reading many more books by Rebecca Royce!
Patches
4 Stars
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