Sam has been hopelessly in love with Rick for as long as he can remember. Nine years older, guarded, and impossibly out of reach, Rick has always seen Sam as nothing more than a shy boy from the pack. But Sam has never been able to look away from him, even when loving Rick meant wanting someone who would never want him back. Rick knows a thing or two about hopeless love. Closeted all his life and still nursing the wounds of loving his straight best friend, Rick has buried every forbidden desire beneath discipline, duty, and his obsession with leading the pack team to victory. Love has only ever taught him restraint. Want has only ever brought him pain. Then a series of last-minute changes forces Rick to recruit Sam, now twenty, bold, flamboyant, and nothing like the quiet boy Rick remembers. Sam tests his patience. Tempts his control. Makes him feel things he thought he had buried for good. With the tournament only months away and their hearts caught in a game neither of them knows how to win, Rick must decide whether to keep playing safe-or risk everything for the one love he never saw coming.

"I will make sure he never lays a hand on you again." I look up and Hunter is heaving. "Why do you want me to stay? I forgave you, it's not like you could hang out with me at school, and you only care about me now. But what happens when the pack doesn't like me or when something does happen to someone? What then." "You wont understand right now." "I highly doubt that. Why are you so bent on me staying here?" Before I know it Hunter brings my face to his and his lips are crashing on mine. ----------------------- Hunter Rodes: 18, popular Quarter back of the football team and Weston high, next in line for alpha in a few years, and of course, is a werewolf. Triston Walker: 18, shy, on soccer team and side liner for everything else at Weston high. When Triston comes to school, it's the same Routine, go to the lockers, get punched down, go cover it with make up so no one asks questions, get to class, get to practice, go home, eat food and get beat by the drunk father. Get homework done, go to bed hoping he'll make it one more day. But when the bullied is Hunters mate, it's a whole new world for Triston.

Summer, sunshine, and a lovely beach...Lilly couldn't have asked for a better way to relax during her pregnancy together with her hot billionaire husband. Except maybe for the little problem of them being shipwrecked. No water. No supplies. No hope of rescue. Now it is Mr and Mrs Ambrose against the jungle. All that is missing is a sinister plot and some bloodthirsty pirates... The 8th volume of Robert Thier's "Storm and Silence" series.