Slonim Woods 9

Evelyn had been the Luna of the Red Stone Pack for the past two years. An arranged marriage of power to protect her father’s pack, she didn’t for one moment expect to develop feelings for the cold Alpha King. But in the two years ruling by his side, she sees a warmth to Reuben that he keeps hidden. After a night of passion that Reuben makes clear to Evelyn was a mistake, she finds out she is pregnant with the longed future for the ruling pack. However Evelyn’s happiness at the news is short lived when the love of Reuben’s life returns only just surviving the murder of her own pack. Evelyn soon realises that Vicky isn’t as innocent as she makes out and doesn’t take long for her to get her claws into Reuben. After confronting his ex, Evelyn is a victim of a deliberate attempt to harm her child. She must make a decision to protect the pack’s future from Vicky and the baby’s own father. But will the cold ruthless Alpha King refuse to let her go so easily? Will he be responsible for the brutal attack on her family pack, leaving Evelyn’s soul broken? Has Evelyn finally seen Reuben for what he is, beyond salvation…

姉の幼馴染と私は9年間の交際を続け、もうすぐ婚約する予定だった。 その日もいつも通り、彼が飲み会で飲酒した後、迎えに行くため店の前に足を運んだ。 声をかけようとしたその瞬間、不意に耳に入ったのは、彼の友人たちの悪ふざけ混じりの冷やかしだった。 「晃司、お前の初恋が帰ってきたんだろ？で、代用品はどうするんだ？捨てるのか、それとも二股かけるのか？」 藤原晃司の口元には、嘲るような笑みが浮かんでいた。 その場の空気をさらに悪化させるように、別の友人が大声で笑いながら続けた。 「晃司、本当羨ましいよな。初恋がいなくなって寂しかったからって、幼馴染の妹で暇つぶししてたんだろ？9年も付き合って、そろそろ飽きたって言ってたしな。それに、ちょうど初恋が帰国したタイミングだもんな！」 晃司は苛立ちを滲ませた声で応えた。 「だって、万田さゆりが『あんたの人生で愛するのは私だけ』なんてぬかしたんだぞ？だから安物の代用品で、あいつの自信を徹底的に叩き潰してやらなきゃ気が済まないだろ！」

I’m trapped, trapped in a mate bond I hate. Will I ever escape its hold on me? “I, Than Sable, Alpha of the Amber Desert Pack, reject you Kaia Glace as my Luna.” I remember his cruel cutting words as if they were only yesterday. Our mate bond is non-existent. That’s a lie, it exists but Than doesn’t allow himself to get close to me…to be alone in a room with me. It’s as if I disgust him. He has reduced me to nothing. A shadow of a mate and I hate him for it. I can’t keep living like this, waiting… I am Kaia Glace, the rightful Luna of the Amber Desert pack. Yet my mate, Alpha Than, refuses to let me rule by his side. I feel cheated by the mate bond, unwanted by my own mate. Years I’ve spent trying to get him to love me…to see me…but how can I? When he has another…. I can’t stay, it isn’t safe for me anymore or my unborn child. A child created by force. I have to leave…to runaway and find my Father. He is the only lifeline I have. However, he was last seen at the enemy pack, the Dark Phantom pack. A notorious pack with a cold and scheming Alpha, who doesn’t take kindly to outsiders. It is said, those who enter the pack are never seen again. But I have no choice…into the enemy pack I must go to rid myself of my mate bond. Only, I myself find another. Another that dooms me to the same trickery of the mate bond.

Libby is in hiding. Keen to put as much distance between those that have lied to her, she has made a new life for herself tucked away on a working farm. Ashamed by how she ran out on her family in their moment of need, Libby has managed a new start and made friends that also have their own reasons for being in a remote location. Libby finally feels safe but a friend isn’t as they seem, and was sent by her own brother, the Alpha King, to track her down. One thing that Libby refuses to accept is that she is a human-werewolf hybrid and already has a mate. A mate she struggles to recognise due to her own personal struggles with accepting her true identity. Unaware of the death of her own father, her family aren’t the only ones now looking for her and it is now a race against time to find her first. She may be living life as a rogue in a remote farm, but one thing she also keeps secret is she is an heiress to a multimillion human empire..all she needs to do is find the inner strength to claim it back.

Je suis piégée, piégée dans un lien de compagnon que je déteste. Est-ce que je vais un jour m’échapper de son emprise ? « Moi, Théodore Bodin, Alpha de la Meute du Désert d’Ambre, je te rejette, Kaia Leconte, comme ma Luna. » Je me souviens de ses paroles cruelles et tranchantes comme si c’était hier. Notre lien de compagnon est inexistant. C’est un mensonge, il existe mais Théodore ne se permet pas de s’approcher de moi... ou d’être seul dans une pièce avec moi. C’est comme si je le dégoûtais. Il m’a réduit à néant. Seulement une ombre et je le déteste pour ça. Je ne peux pas continuer à vivre comme ça, à attendre... Je suis Kaia Leconte, la Luna légitime de la Meute du Désert d’Ambre. Pourtant, mon compagnon, l’Alpha Théodore, refuse de me laisser régner à ses côtés. Je me sens trompée par le lien de compagnon, que mon propre compagnon ne veut pas. Des années que j’essaie de le faire m’aimer... de me voir... mais comment le pourrais-je ? Quand il en a une autre... Je ne peux pas rester, ce n’est plus sûr pour moi ni pour mon enfant à naître. Un enfant créé par la force. Je dois partir... m’enfuir et retrouver mon père. Il est la seule bouée de sauvetage dont je dispose. Cependant, il a été vu récemment dans la meute ennemie, la Meute du Fantôme Noir. Une meute notoire avec un Alpha froid et intrigant, qui n’apprécie pas les étrangers. On dit que ceux qui entrent dans la meute ne sont jamais revus. Mais je n’ai pas le choix... je dois entrer dans la meute ennemie pour me débarrasser de mon lien de compagnon. Seulement, je me retrouve avec un autre. Un autre qui me condamne à la même tromperie du lien de compagnon.

The moon goddess hates Aida, or, so Aida believes. She is punishing her for still being alive. Aida admittedly is lost! Life hasn’t had any meaning since the tragedy of her beloved mother’s death when she was only twelve years of age. With her teenage years becoming rebellious, they resulted in her remaining family and pack, all but a few, rejecting her. After regrettably attacking her Luna, she is punished to enlist in the formidable and intensive training programme at the Royal Lycan Santos pack. Here, she soon realises that family doesn’t mean blood and she carves out a name for herself as a fast acting and determined fighter. But they don’t know her secret. She’s doesn’t care if she lives or dies. To her one thing is very clear, complete the training and then abandon her pack! Adjusting to Lycan life, she soon makes friends that become her world. Including Lance, a head trainer, who challenges yet protects Aida at every hurdle. But Lance has a secret of his own. Having spent so long losing her inner strength, finally Aida has something worth fighting for!

Evelyn a été la Luna de la meute Roche Rouge pendant les deux dernières années. Un mariage arrangé par le pouvoir pour protéger la meute de son père, elle ne s'attendait pas un instant à développer des sentiments pour le froid Roi Alpha. Mais au cours des deux années passées à régner à ses côtés, elle a découvert une chaleur cachée en Reuben. Après une nuit de passion que Reuben faisait clairement comprendre à Evelyn comme étant une erreur, elle a découvert qu'elle était tombée enceinte de l’avenir tant désiré de la meute dirigeante. Cependant, le bonheur d'Evelyn face à cette nouvelle était de courte durée lorsque l'amour de la vie de Reuben revenait à peine survivante après le meurtre de sa propre meute. Evelyn s’est vite rendue compte que Vicky n’était pas aussi innocente qu’elle le prétendait et n'a pas tardé à s’accrocher à Reuben. Après avoir confronté son ex, Evelyn a été victime d'une tentative délibérée ciblant son enfant. Elle devait prendre une décision pour protéger l’avenir de la meute face à Vicky et au père de son bébé. Mais le froid et impitoyable Roi Alpha refuserait-t-il de la laisser partir si facilement ? Serait-t-il responsable de l'attaque brutale contre la meute de sa famille, laissant l’âme d’Evelyn brisée ? Evelyn a-t-elle enfin vu Reuben pour ce qu'il était, au-delà de tout espoir de rédemption…

Aida Sagar has known her fair share of challenges. At twelve year’s old she lost her mother in a car crash, that she was also fatally injured in. What she couldn’t understand is how she returned from the potential peaceful realm of the moon goddess and subsequently her family’s and pack’s treatment of her since that life changing moment. Having attacked her brother’s mate, the pack Luna, Aida was sentenced to a punishment worse than prison…training with the notorious Royal Lycan warriors. Starting a new life, she becomes a popular addition to the team but not all appreciate a Pack Princess’s Alpha blood status. After being shot at by silver bullets and undercovering a rebel plot to poison trainees to control lycans through witch craft, Aida makes some very powerful friends but also powerful enemies. The Lycan Prince Lance claims to be her fated mate, but Aida knows for a fact that having died, any mate bond would have been severed in that moment. But perhaps the moon goddess doesn’t hate Aida after all. Perhaps Aida will learn that nature has a balance and a price must be paid to maintain that balance.

"If you refuse to apologize, stay here and reflect on your actions! Feel the pain Agnes went through!" Kenneth was the Alpha. His childhood friend was accidentally locked in a storage unit for three days. To punish me, he locked me in a faulty walk-in freezer. He left me with nothing but a piece of bread the size of my palm before locking the door and leaving. Unbeknownst to him, this walk-in freezer wasn't actually faulty. Not long after he left, the cooling system was suddenly activated. I screamed for help and desperately sought ways to survive. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I clawed at the door, nobody came to my rescue. A week later, he finally showed up outside the freezer. He was expecting an apology from me. But when he opened the freezer's door, all he found was my frozen corpse.

Willow is a pack Princess loved and well protected by her family and friends. When Willow was born, a Celtic prophecy was read by witches that puts her at the heart of the power struggle between the shifter and craft community. A power hungry Alpha and Warlock look to control her. Will her fated mate be able to keep her safe? Perhaps Willow is the one born to protect others. Can she tell the difference between friend or foe..love and hatred…destiny and choice.