As sanction for your atrocities
I grant you this, a curse and prophecy
The form of lupus, you shall take
Tears of anguish lie in wake
To break the endless agony
Requires a simple act, not of gallantry
The night of lunar bloodied zenith,
Be prepared, you ghastly behemoth
To spill the blood of a virgin maiden
Who's heart is pure and tough and brazen
When the pooling red taints the lands
The curse shalt be lifted from your hands
And the sylvan woodlands that you roam
Shall be rendered empty, cold, alone
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It's no secret that the village Cassandra Anne resides in has a long standing animosity towards wolves. The neighboring packs were driven out of their homelands to the brink of extinction. For all of her life, Cassandra was taught to be indifferent towards the beasts, but that all changes when Cassandra stumbles upon a wolf in the forest. She's drawn to the creature, to its beauty, its elegance. And the wolf is drawn to her as well.
Lune's village had brutality massacred a whole pack of wolves, enraging a powerful witch. She cursed all who lived in the village to become the beasts they had slain, leaving a prophecy, a way to break the spell, as a parting gift. Now, decades later, Lune encounters a girl in the shallows of the woods. She's special, Lune realizes, for it seems that the girl's blood might just be the cure to their curse.
A spin-off from the Rootbridge series.
Callie's wolf is out of control and therapy isn't helping her understand the fragments of memories she has about her mother's murder. So, unable to stay at Rootbridge any longer, she decides to take matters into her own hands and sets out to discover the truth about what really happened to her parents and what really happened to her. But, she gets more than she bargained for when she encounters the beast of Shadow Valley - a creature said to be deadly, half-rabid, untameable.
Vikas Gordstrum, first born son to the alphas of the Shadow Valley pack, killed his moon mate on her 21st birthday. Haunted by her death and abandoned by his pack, he has lived on his own for years until one night his half-rabid wolf catches a new scent - one that intrigues him, one that grounds him like no other ever has, one that he doesn't want to let get away.
With new revelations turning Callie's world upside down and a betrayer amongst those that she trusts, it will not be easy for her to discover who killed her mother and abandoned her in the forest as a child - nor will it be easy for her to let Vikas walk away after all is said and done.
He is not her fated mate. And she is not his.
But there is a connection between them that neither could have predicted - but one that they both should have seen coming.
Book one in the Midnight Wolves series.
Check out the original series:
The Rootbridge Pack
1. An Alpha's Alpha
2. An Alpha's Claim
3. An Alpha's Revenge
Thank you to the wonderful @VHThompson for the beautiful cover and for inspiring me to continue with Callie's story!