Hello and Happy St. Patrick day. Are you wearing green? I am. *grins* I have some news for Ashwood Falls fans. Book 5 is now available for pre-order!!
A Leopard’s Path
Ashwood Falls #5
Stolen from her family as an infant, Ana Darwin-Andrews has to
piece together her past and present. Her whole life is a lie. There’s only one
man she feels she can trust, but even he has secrets.
Kieran Michaels keeps a tight lid on his past, but the Onyx Alpha
knows his darkest secrets. Kieran will stop at nothing to destroy the rogue
before the past is reveled. Ana can never discover his hands are as
bloodstained as their enemy’s, because life without her is not an option.
Exclusive excerpt:
Her whole life was a lie.
Well, not her life exactly. Her biological father wasn’t the
one she’d grown up knowing. Keegan Andrews wasn’t anything like the man who
raised her. The monster, Felix, who’d stolen her from her true family and taught
her to believe the Ashwood Falls Pack—the one she should have grown up in—was
the enemy. The only thing Felix didn’t lie about was the fact that her mother
was dead. He’d just left out the part where he was the one who killed her and
stole Ana from her womb.
Ana clenched her teeth and gripped her coffee mug a little
tighter. Life since coming to Ashwood and meeting her real family had been…nice.
And challenging. Some of the younger Pack members still stared at her like they
were waiting for her to turn on everyone. She couldn’t blame them really.
Releasing a sigh, Ana fingered the rose-shaped locket she’d
worn for as long as she could remember. When she’d met Keegan in the summer,
he’d told her it had belonged to her mother, Cate. It was she who’d picked the
name Zorana. While Ana loved the name, she had always felt it a bit too exotic
for her.
You can’t dwell on the
past forever.
Ana forced her muscles to relax and leaned against the
doorframe of the MoonRiver house she was temporarily staying in with Blaine—her
brother and leopard Alpha of Ashwood Falls—and his two mates. She sipped her coffee
as snow flurries drifted from the sky. The crisp early winter air soothed her
cat, even while it tantalized the woman. She loved winter, loved the cold and
snow. However, the sight in front of her was far from the magickal image she’d
expect from the first snowfall.
MoonRiver used to be the wolves’ den before they merged
their Pack with Ashwood. Now, Ana saw the full impact of the war that had pushed
Luna to merge her wolves with the leopards over thirty years ago. Few homes
still stood, and those that did were not unscathed. Others were either
completely destroyed or just plain uninhabitable. The sight made the attack on
Ashwood a few months ago appear like a training exercise in comparison.
Shame, pain, and outright rage whirled inside Ana like a
cyclone. She had once called the monster responsible for all this Father. Not
anymore. The dark veil had been lifted, and now she saw the truth.
Felix Darwin would pay for every life he’d destroyed.
And she was going to help make it happen.
