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WOLFBANE SERIES BOOK 2 ***It is highly recommended you read book 1, Wolfbane, before starting this one for context and to avoid spoilers.*** *TALIA* You'd think being raised in a brothel would prepare me for anything. You'd be wrong. I never expected to find my mother murdered in cold blood. I never predicted I'd hunt down the killer and take his life in exchange. And I sure didn't imagine the son of my mother's murderer would turn out to be my mate. But I guess this is my life now. Being a werewolf in hiding was no piece of cake, but being a werewolf on the run is even worse… *ALEX* I don't think I made a very good first impression. But to be fair, who meets their mate at their father's murder scene? A murder where she, evidently, is the number one and only suspect. It's disturbing. It's gruesome. But it's fate. And I'll do anything to see the mysterious woman with distinctive blue eyes again… *Content warning: This is a paranormal romance novel with dark themes containing mature adult content, offensive language, and graphic violence, and may not be suitable for young readers.*

Ten years into the future, people of Earth have become advanced in technology. However, tragedy strikes again, killing millions all over the world. With no vaccine or cure, scientists sought other methods. A well-known scientist, Dayo Johnson, creates the Personifid in Nigeria, providing a chance to live forever in an artificial body. Meanwhile, something much darker is at work. A failed experiment of an old project is on the loose, killing people. Perhaps the New World is not as perfect as it seems.

Emily Blackwood was born into a clandestine society of werewolves and found herself engaged to a mate she felt no affection for. Determined to break free from her pack's constraints, she made the bold decision to depart for a span of five years. Now, she has returned, resolute in her commitment to embrace her destined werewolf nature. However, destiny has its own agenda, intertwined with the ascent of a new pack leader, Orion Wolfhart. Possessing wealth, charm, and an unyielding demeanour, Orion demands unwavering obedience from the Trailblazers Pack. As his attention fixates on Emily, she finds herself thrust into a world of intricate politics, seduction, and violence, a realm she is ill-prepared to navigate alone. Emily's life hangs precariously in the balance, with adversaries emerging from every dark corner. Desperate for protection, she is compelled to rely on an enigmatic stranger who has seized control of her pack's throne. Yet, even in this perilous alliance, trust becomes a scarce commodity.

In which a witch who was born without magic and a wolf born with the curse of immortality were both considered abominations of nature. Hiro has a dilemma, Joaquin has an ultimatum.

Bonita has spent years as Luna of the Blackthorn pack, giving her mate, Alpha Drogo, everything he demanded—loyalty, duty, and five daughters. What she could never give him was the one thing he valued above all else: a son to carry his bloodline and rule after him. When the pack mage swears her fifth child will finally be a boy, Drogo allows himself a rare moment of hope. The birth destroys it. Another girl. In front of the entire pack, Drogo rejects Bonita as Luna, strips her of her title, and chooses a new woman to take her place. At the full-moon ceremony he publicly casts Bonita and her five daughters out of the territory with nothing, declaring them a living reminder of failure he will no longer tolerate. Cast into the wilderness with a newborn and four young girls who have never known their father’s love, Bonita must keep them alive while her body is still broken from childbirth. Survival becomes her only goal—until a powerful outsider crosses their path. He offers protection without demand, sees value in her daughters, and slowly shows Bonita a different kind of strength: the kind that does not need to crush others to prove itself. As Bonita and her girls begin to rebuild far from Blackthorn land, old wounds refuse to stay buried. Drogo’s pack weakens without an heir. Rumors of a discarded Luna and her remarkable daughters begin to spread. And the Moon Goddess, silent for so long, starts to move. What begins as a story of rejection and exile becomes one of quiet resilience, fierce maternal love, and the long road toward a reckoning neither Bonita nor Drogo can escape.

The Last Alpha — For 200 years, the village of *Oka'ru* has lived in uneasy peace. Behind the mist and the rain, a werewolf pack guards the forest borders, and the humans pretend not to notice. The balance is kept by one rule: the Alpha leads, the village survives. When *Alpha Doran* is murdered by royal hunters during the worst downpour in memory, that balance shatters. His son, *Kael*, was never supposed to lead. Born a werewolf but raised to hide it, Kael spent his life pretending to be ordinary. Now the bloodline has forced the mantle onto him, and his first shift is tearing him apart — body, mind, and control. But the hunters aren’t done. In 3 days they return with silver, torches, and orders to “cleanse” Oka'ru. Inside the pack, half want to stand and fight. The other half want to abandon the village and run into the wild. To make it worse, something _else_ is hunting in the forest. The killings don’t look like wolf work. The tracks are too big. The howls are wrong. And every night the rain gets heavier. The only person Kael can trust is *Amina*, the healer’s daughter. Human. His childhood friend. She’s been keeping his secret since they were 10, and now she’s the only one who can keep him human when the beast wants out. But loving her could get her killed — by hunters, by the pack, or by him. Kael has to choose: Run and save himself, stay and lead a broken pack, or become the monster the hunters already think he is. Because if he fails, Oka'ru burns. And if he succeeds, he might lose the last piece of himself that’s still human. ---