Samhain Publishing
Paranormal Romance
When love
runs wild, there are no limits.
Salvation
Pack, Book 6
Full-blooded
werewolf Elias Gallagher, sole guardian of his half-breed teenage nephews, is
all too aware that the world is not a safe place for a werewolf on his own.
Doubly so for half-breeds.
He brings his
nephews to North Carolina to check out the Salvation Pack’s openness to
half-breeds. He never expected to find a mate—the fully human mother of
a young boy—while there.
After
enduring one tragedy after another over the past two years, Sue Walsh is
focused solely on earning a living and raising her five-year-old son. With her
ex suddenly demanding custody, the last complication she wants or needs is an
attraction to a ruggedly handsome stranger.
But the
sexual pull between them is too strong to be denied. And when there’s trouble
with the local hunters, Elias will do whatever it takes to protect the people
he loves. Even if it means revealing his biggest secret.
EXCERPT:
Sue put away the last of the
dishes. The barbecue had been a huge success. Billy had eaten his burger and
several marshmallows, and even laughed at the antics of a squirrel that had
chattered endlessly from his perch in a nearby tree.
He’d stayed outside on the
back porch to play while she’d cleared away and washed up. Even though it was
still light out, Billy should have already had his bath. “Relax. It’s summer,”
she reminded herself. He’d have to be on a stricter schedule once school
started. They both would. Better to let them both enjoy these last days of
summer.
She glanced out the window at
the back porch. Her heart skipped a beat and she tossed aside the dishtowel.
Billy had been there only a minute ago. She hurried to the backdoor and pulled
it open. “Billy?” His toy trucks and cars had been abandoned and he was nowhere
in sight.
“Don’t panic. Don’t panic.”
He had to be here somewhere. “Billy, where are you? Billy?” She turned in a
circle, taking in the entire yard. There was no sign of her son.
“The creek.” He liked to play
by the water. She ran toward the path, her heart pounding and chest aching.
“Billy!” He knew he wasn’t supposed to go off on his own. This was the first
time he’d ever done such a thing. “Billy!”
A vision from the past
slammed into her. She could still remember coming out to visit Anny that
fateful Saturday morning and finding her friend’s bloody body. The paramedics
had saved Anny’s life, but nothing had ever been the same again.
Sue kept her gaze on the path
ahead of her and picked up her pace. “Billy!” she yelled. “Answer me.” Her
phone was in the charger on the kitchen counter. She should have grabbed it in
case she needed to call the sheriff’s office.
No, she wouldn’t think like
that. She’d find Billy looking for frogs by the edge of the stream. Thankfully
the water level was low at the end of the hot summer and her son could swim, or
at least dog paddle.
She hurried around the final
bend and her feet skidded to a halt. For one brief second, she was paralyzed,
her limbs refusing to work. Then she broke free and started to move toward her
son at a slow and steady pace.
Billy must have heard her
coming, because he turned to her and smiled. “Doggy.” His joy was evident, but
she couldn’t share it. His doggy was huge and was no dog at all. It was
a wolf.
A wolf had attacked and
almost killed Anny almost two years ago. Was this the same beast? Sue reached
down and grabbed a decent-sized rock. She’d played baseball in high school and
knew she had a decent aim. At this distance, she couldn’t miss. “Get away from
him, Billy. You know better than to touch a strange animal.”
Her son frowned at her. “He
likes me.”
As if he understood her
fears, the animal whined and licked Billy’s cheek.
Obviously, wherever this
animal had come from, he wasn’t vicious. She was lowering her hand when she
realized the dog or wolf or whatever it was, wasn’t alone. A man stepped out
from behind a tree. No, not a man, a teenage boy. He was tall for his age, at
least six feet, maybe more.
He held his hands out in
front of him. “We didn’t mean any harm. Reece and I were just out exploring.”
“Reece?” Her fingers
tightened around the rock.
He grinned and pointed at the
creature sitting next to her son.
“Billy, come here.” She used
her mom voice. The one Billy knew meant business. He sighed and reluctantly
left the animal and came to stand beside her, dragging his feet all the way.
“Where did you come from?”
she asked the teen. He might seem harmless, but she didn’t know him at all, and
she knew everyone who lived within a fifty-mile radius of town, because at one
time or another, everyone came through the diner where she worked.
He pointed off in the
distance. “We’re camping and just decided to go exploring. We didn’t mean any
harm.”
Now she was starting to feel
a little ridiculous. She lowered the rock but didn’t drop it. “You shouldn’t be
out here by yourself.”
The teen grinned. “You sound
like our uncle.”
Sue took a good look at the
teen. He was a handsome young man with his brown hair and blue eyes. There was
something about him she liked, in spite of the fact he was a stranger. “You
should listen to your uncle.”
The wolf growled and Sue took
a step back.
“Knock it off, Reece,” he
told the animal. “I’m Sage Gallagher.”
She wasn’t quite ready to
introduce herself. “Is that a wolf?”
Sage nodded. “Yeah, it is,
but he won’t hurt you. Honest.”
The hair on the back of her
neck rose and a shiver of fear raced down her spine as a man stepped out of the
woods. He was big. At least six-two with short brown hair and dark eyes. He
also wasn’t wearing a shirt. It was impossible not to notice his broad
shoulders, the dusting of dark hair on his chest and the bands of muscles that
rippled on his abdomen.
It was also impossible not to
notice the scowl on his face.
He pinned her with a
ferocious glare. “What the hell is going on?”
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N.J. Walters is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author who has always been a voracious reader, and now she spends her
days writing novels of her own. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, time-travelers,
seductive handymen, and next-door neighbors with smoldering good looks—all vie
for her attention. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to live it.
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