Four years ago, Jada lost her three best friends to rogue shifters on Earth. They were bloody, violent deaths that left her mind fractured. Jada fights to accept that she is also a wolf shifter, and the man who saved her from those rogues four years ago is her fated mate. She can’t stop him from taking her to his world, but she can deny him the relationship he craves. That is until two vampires show up at her door, claiming Bryce has been mortally wounded. If she wants any hope of saving him, Jada must travel into the icy fae realm, where she will face dangers at every turn.
Bryce gives his fated mate time to learn to accept who and what she is, but after four years he is ready to give up. He believes she will never learn to accept him, so when he is mortally wounded during a battle with the fae queen, Bryce plans to let go and set her free.
Where it all began for Jada and Bryce. “DARK WARRIOR” Originally written
for the award-winning anthology “LOVE POTION #9”
Jada is an avid bow hunter out on vacation during elk season with three of her friends when they are viciously attacked by strangers. One of her friends is killed outright and two others are taken captive. She wants to be with them, fight beside them, but another stranger arrives and pulls her aside, blocking her path back to camp as she listens to her three friends scream.
Bryce is a tracker of rogues for the Laizahlian Council. He has worked for the Hunter Vaughn for almost three hundred years, having long given up hope of ever finding his destined mate. To his horror, when he finally finds her, it’s to learn Jada is a human female from Earth. He barely arrives in time to save her from the two rogues he and his partner have been hunting these past three days. There is nothing he can do to save her three friends and he knows Jada will hate him for it.
With his partner seriously wounded, Bryce must convince Jada her only hope for survival is to stay with him. Not an easy task when he admits to being a werewolf from another world. But Bryce knows that rogue werewolves are not the only danger his new mate must face. The greatest threat will come from Vaughn himself, a powerful vampire. It is forbidden by the Council for their kind to take a human mate. If Bryce can’t convince Vaughn that Jada is a born shapeshifter, his partner will likely try to kill her. He can’t allow this, even if it means he must go rogue himself in order to protect her.
