Dashenka

Dashenka [Dah-shin-ka] A species of wolves gifted with the ability to shift into human form at will. Through they look like humans, and possess human attributes, Dashenka believe themselves to be animals first. They are an insular group, not dictated by human laws. They live, act and govern their species according to their own set of law.

Calla Syden spent the last thirteen years avoiding the oppressive, totalitarian dictatorship that was the Dashenka commune, only to end up in the arms of a man who was no better than the males of her species. Now battered and broken, the commune is the last place she ever thought she would find peace, but it's exactly where her wolf needed to be to mend her wounds. Her peace is short lived however when the commune learns of her return and it causes an uproar. In her culture, to her people, Calla was considered Ha'das. Traitor. She'd broken their most fundamental law and now they wanted retribution. Rennik Di'lor was the male charged with meting out that justice.

Rennik Di'Lor had been her accomplice in everything. It was with him Calla experienced the best and worst part of life on the commune. Calla knew him better than she knew herself. Or at least she thought she did. The intimidatingly massive male, with hardened features and cold gray eyes was not the Rennik of her past. This male was Dashenka through and through. Uncivilized, domineering and cruel. Everything Calla feared and hated.