A swing set in the back yard, cookies baking in the oven, the whole family laughing and joking: the dream family and life. Kayla has never had any of that. Her whole life she has had too few joys and too many fears. Kayla Anima is cold, rude, and doesn't care about anyone or anything..... Or is she? Due to a promise to someone close, she has survived seventeen years, but behind a "mask" for the majority of them. Part of her protection, Kayla has shut people out. None ever getting too close to know the truth of her life story. Will she ever be free to drop the cold outer layer she disguises herself with, or will cower behind the brave expression forever? Is it too late to be saved? Ten years is a long time for that part of her to be hidden away, you know. Could her true-self have been forgotten by even Kayla? *** Mature Content- Language and sexual references and events (none extremely detailed) (New version)

2012 All Rights Reserved The Taming [Book 1] "I've been more than fair with you, Cassandra. I've given you time and more than enough space..." he paused, releasing a large breath, his heat radiating over my lust filled body. My body was ready and willing to do anything for him, even if my mind wasn't. I couldn't wrap my finger around why I felt this way. I've tried to so hard to hate him. A vicious growl knocked me out of my thoughts. "You want something to hate, darling?" His words slithered out of his very much inviting lips like venom. "I'll give you something." I couldn't put together what he meant until I was being yanked forward, forcefully, and thrown to the ground in a heap. When I looked up at my mate, one side of his mouth quirked up, and he was unbuckling his belt. Cassandra Erikson watched helpless as both of her sisters were lost to her by the Gathering. One sister ran away from it, the other is currently suffering from its outcome. Cassandra is now of age to participate in the Gathering, the annual event in which ten villages come together, having all of the he-wolves and she-wolves who are of age to be sent off into the woods, in hopes of claiming a mate. Cassandra has already found her mate, Gabriel, and she loves him. But wolves can't mate until they are of age, so Cassandra and the love of her life devise a plan to meet up in a secret part of the woods where Gabriel will claim her. She thinks they have it all figured out, for Cassandra refuses to face the fate her sisters had to bear. But, what happens when another male wolf scents Cassandra out in the woods during The Gathering? What happens when he claims her instead of Gabriel? *

Oakley has no one. No family and most definitely no friends. She doesn't fit in anywhere and she gets that. There isn't any point in trying to after all those years of being bullied by her peers. It's not only school that she doesn't fit in at, but also at home. Sharing a house with fifteen little kids that she isn't related to can get pretty difficult sometimes. That's what you get living in a Orphanage. Oakley's always being pushed around, and forced to work all the time. Although she is used to it, it would still be nice to have someone to talk to about it. Scott enters Oakley's life with big hopes and dreams to make her happy. Although maybe wolf boy Scott is the complete opposite of what Oakley needs. Tune in and read to find out what happens on the whirl wide ride between Oakley and Scott. Claire Fastuca - copyright 2012