Shifters of Shadow Falls Collection (Books 1-3) (29 page)

I hope you’ve enjoyed the pack’s love stories thus far. 

Glimpses of Veronica, Lizie, and Ari’s

ever-evolving relationships will occur as the series,

Shifters of Shadow Falls, continues. 

Coming Spring 2016

Mated to the Werewolves

Jude

I blend in fucking perfectly.  The mud is masking my scent and they have no fucking clue I’ve been here for hours, watching them, getting a good look at how fucking weak Shadow’s pack is.  They’re mostly drug addicts, lazily sparring in between taking swigs of whiskey.  Shadow’s arrogant ass finally surfaced a few minutes ago with a young mate.  She’s cocky as shit and just as fucked up as he is.  She keeps kicking the two pups who look starved and are trying desperately to get at the bones the males are tossing to the side.  Selfish bitch.  They’re obviously not hers.  The other females don’t seem to give a fuck about the pups either.  Most of them are strung out and aren’t even bothering with the food.  Their skinny asses fucking need it though.  I’m surprised their bones aren’t poking through the thin flesh covering their frail bodies.

A strangled sob to a hut on the left of the clearing captures my attention.  It also catches Shadow’s mate’s attention and she rises instantly.  Shadow doesn’t bother looking up from his dinner, “Leave her alone.”

“Why is that bitch even allowed to breathe the same air as me?”

His cold eyes finally meet hers as he sneers, “because she’s pregnant with my pup.”

Her nose scrunches in disgust, “that’s your fault for taking a mate that wasn’t yours.”  I suppress a growl growing in my chest.  A mate is for life, yet he’s taken two.  One of which wasn’t his true mate. 

Shadow rises from his seat on the log around the fire and stalks to his mate.  She cowers slightly before seeming to resign herself to her fate.  His hand whips through the air landing on her cheek and busting her lip open.  She lands hard on her side in the dirt. 

“Don’t you fucking question me.”  The rest of the pack continues to eat while they watch with little interest.  It must be a common occurrence.  I feel bile rise up my throat, but I stay still and will down my disgust. 

“And when you finally get the pup you wanted?”  She looks up at him with daggers, but stays still on the ground.  A moan of pain echoes through the camp from the hut, but no one bothers to turn their attention away from their fucked-up alpha. 

“Then you can do what you want with her.”  He says the words casually as he retakes his seat.  A cruel smile forms on his mate’s thin lips as she rises and takes a seat next to him, once again kicking the pups before she sits.   A sickness rises inside of me as I gather the bitch’s intent for Shadow’s pregnant mate.  Pure evil washes off her body in waves. 

I watch them eat in relative silence until the pained cry interrupts them with annoyance.

“Someone drag that bitch out here and shove some food down her throat.”  Two wolves rise at the command, but with a quick glance at each other, one sits back down and continues ripping meat off the bone to gorge himself.  I watch the other take long strides to the dirty hut and disappear inside for less than a minute before dragging out a woman by her hair whose feet barely touch the ground.  My heart stops and all the air leaves my lungs.  Her brunette hair is matted, her dull skin is covered with dirt and her belly is swollen with Shadow’s child.  She whimpers as the wolf roughly shoves her down on her knees in front of the fire.  A fury of rage boils inside of me.

I clench my fists and resist the urge to barrel down the hill and start ripping this pathetic pack apart. A snarl fumes in my chest, but I leave it there to flame the rage burning inside me. I watch as she stumbles in his grasp and whimpers from the pain he's causing her. My wolf fights against my firmly planted feet. I can't break the firm hold I have on my body. If I move an inch, fuck, even I breathe too deeply, I'll let my beast out and devour as many of the useless wolves below me that I can. But I'll fail. Although they're weak, there are far too many of them for me to defeat them all. I'd make a dent in their numbers, but I will fall. I clench my fists tighter and feel the blood rush in my ears.

I need to get a hold of Devin, but I can't leave her. My heart is frantically beating in my chest. It feels as though a thousand spikes are tearing through it, splintering my very being as I watch her suffer, while I stay hidden in the shadows. 

My body shakes with anger and a sense of failure and weakness. I struggle with the need to go to her, to my mate, to save her from the fucking nightmare she's living. My wolf claws at me to be free, but I push him back, refusing to let him have the vengeance he so desperately wants.  

Soon. I refuse to look away from her as I make a promise to my wolf. Soon we will go to her. We will destroy this pack and make sure they suffer. Soon our mate will bear the mark of my claim to her. My eyes focus on the silver scar on her neck. How dare he claim what's mine! I'm determined to kill Shadow and I
will
claim my mate.

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Jude’s story will be released in Spring 2016

If you have not read Jude’s brothers’ story, The Alphas’ Captive, it is
available now
.

She tracked them down, now they're keeping her.

Emma, an unappreciated journalist, won't rest until she discovers the secrets of the werewolf world. There's so much to learn about shifters and she'd do anything to get an inside scoop. When she finds werewolf tracks, she's hopeful she'll get the break she's been longing for and finally meet a werewolf. But those tracks belong to the twin Alphas of Dark Valley and the only thing she'll be learning is who she belongs to.

The sexy, dark and intense Alpha, Luke is shocked his mate is a human; fate has screwed him over. She's beautiful and brave, but simply being human means she's weak. How could she possibly handle him? His twin, Owen, who's opposite in every way, may be blindsided by the connection to their shared mate, but Luke isn't sure the little human that has him so intrigued will be able to handle him claiming her - let alone both of them.

When the Alphas' lust turns to obsession, neither can fight the pull to her and neither is willing to share.

Also coming from Crystal L. Shaw, Spring 2016

The prequel to the Shadow Falls series and the beginning of this world I’ve created set it in the Dark Valley:

The Beast and His Beauty
,

a fairytale fantasy and adult retelling of The Beauty and the Beast.

No one in the village goes to the wall. Ever since Elle was a little girl, everyone has warned her not go or even to look at it, and if she happens to find herself close to the wall, she's been told to run as fast and as far away as she can. The dark magic from the Beast creeps beyond the wall, but not by much. Still, it's a risk no one is willing to take. And those that do, don't come back to tell their tales.
She's been warned to stay away. The thing is though, she's not a very good listener. Not only that, but she dreams of the Beast. It's not a dream she'd admit to out loud, but it's a dream she'd like to see come true.

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