Dark Stranger--Spirit Wild #7
Berserkers. Chanku, but not. Born as animals, but unlike their more civilized brethren, they have no access to the Tibetan grasses that give Chanku their shapeshifting abilities. They are refugees of the same alien world, aware of their humanity yet living and dying as animals on earth.
Untold numbers of shapeshifters in zoos...in the wild...in cages as victims of predator trafficking rings operating worldwide. Unable to know their true selves, unable to fully mate with the ones they love.
The pack knows they exist. Knows that they are the only ones with the power to save their feral brethren, but the clock is ticking. Chanku are almost immortal, but Berserkers live and die on their animal’s timetable...how many will the pack rescue before it’s too late? Will they ever save enough of their brethren—different yet so much alike under their skin?
The hunt is on.
Berserkers. Chanku, but not. Born as animals, but unlike their more civilized brethren, they have no access to the Tibetan grasses that give Chanku their shapeshifting abilities. They are refugees of the same alien world, aware of their humanity yet living and dying as animals on earth.
Untold numbers of shapeshifters in zoos...in the wild...in cages as victims of predator trafficking rings operating worldwide. Unable to know their true selves, unable to fully mate with the ones they love.
The pack knows they exist. Knows that they are the only ones with the power to save their feral brethren, but the clock is ticking. Chanku are almost immortal, but Berserkers live and die on their animal’s timetable...how many will the pack rescue before it’s too late? Will they ever save enough of their brethren—different yet so much alike under their skin?
The hunt is on.
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Dark Captive--Spirit Wild #6
Stolen from her mother when she was still a tiny cub, snow leopard Asha has one constant in her life-- she has always been a captive. Her leopard, traded among crime lords over the years is a victim of the underground predator trafficking ring, and her human side is trapped in her animal body without access to the magical nutrients that will allow her to experience her full existence. She is a Berserker, a sub-species of Chanku shapeshifters who are born as animals but can shift to human form. When the badly mistreated snow leopard is rescued from a predator trafficking ring, Leo is the only pack member comfortable in his leopard form who is available to help bring the newly discovered Berserker into the pack. The question though, is Leo ready to submit to a female, to let her take the lead as she discovers her other half? |
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Dark Terror--Spirit Wild #5
Before she was rescued from a human trafficking ring by the Chanku, Mary Ryder had lived a tortured life as a sex slave and prostitute. Through the patient strength and genuine devotion of Jack Temple, Mary is slowly learning to open herself to the possibility of uncorrupted love and passion in his arms. But before the two can explore their newfound connection and dream of life as a mated pair, they must face a dark menace threatening all Chanku.
A dark and vicious demon is hell-bent on the destruction of the pack—and of all humankind. With only days to stop him, the entire Chanku pack unites to combine their power against him. As Mary and Jack are thrown together in an epic battle against evil, they will be forced to harness all the magic and sensual power they possess to preserve their way of life and everything they hold dear.
Before she was rescued from a human trafficking ring by the Chanku, Mary Ryder had lived a tortured life as a sex slave and prostitute. Through the patient strength and genuine devotion of Jack Temple, Mary is slowly learning to open herself to the possibility of uncorrupted love and passion in his arms. But before the two can explore their newfound connection and dream of life as a mated pair, they must face a dark menace threatening all Chanku.
A dark and vicious demon is hell-bent on the destruction of the pack—and of all humankind. With only days to stop him, the entire Chanku pack unites to combine their power against him. As Mary and Jack are thrown together in an epic battle against evil, they will be forced to harness all the magic and sensual power they possess to preserve their way of life and everything they hold dear.
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Dark Refuge--Spirit Wild #4
Gabriel Cheval has watched his packmates find love, but will there ever be a woman for him, one who is his perfect match? He doesn’t expect to find her in Emeline Isobelle Cheval. They share a last name, and though they’re not related, Gabe still treated little “EmyIzzy” as a bratty kid sister. Now Emeline is all grown up, and she needs Gabe’s help. But Em’s troubles are even darker and deeper than the human trafficking ring she’s uncovered. There’s a terrible darkness in her soul, and a horror inside that Em can’t fight alone. Gabe offers all he has—but is his light and love enough to bring Em safely home to Gabe’s Dark Refuge? 
Dark Moon--Spirit Wild #3
Igmutaka--spirit guide, shapeshifter, a member of the pack since he first took form to aid those he'd watched over for so long, has waited for many long years for the woman who is fated to be his--first, to grow from infancy to adulthood, and then to realize it's time to stop running from her destiny. Unfortunately, no one thought to copy Star on the "destiny" memo. Sunny Day and Ig have been lovers for years, but they both accept that they are not to be mates. But her mate is out there, and coming closer. Ig senses another, but the details are up to Sunny to discover. Two men and two women, each of them unique, fated to change everything the Chanku have always believed about themselves and their heritage. |
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Dark Spirit--Spirit Wild #2
Romy Sarika has lived a hellish life of pain an perversion, but the one thing that gives her hope is knowledge that a wolf lives inside her. She saw that wolf when her mother shifted, the day her mother was murdered. Finally, many years later, Romy calls on her wolf and escapes, but she's near death. Her only wish is to die a free woman. She's rescued by Jace Wolf and Gabe Cheval. Both are Chanku, and Jace is a healer. He saves Romy's life, but does he want more than this badly damaged woman can ever hope to give? As the three of them travel as wolves across the rugged Northwest, Romy slowly learns to trust in herself and the men at her side, but danger follows. Danger on one hand, the power of the pack on the other, and the potential to do more than die a free woman. For the first time in her life, Romy Sarika chooses to live. 
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Dark Wolf--Spirit Wild #1
Sebastian Xenakis is still coming into his power as a wizard. He can shapeshift by magical means and runs as a wolf using the power he draws from the elements. But young women are dying--raped by a human and then slaughtered by a wolf. Suspicion falls on the shapeshifting Chanku, but Sebastian wonders if he might somehow be guilty of the crimes. Then he meets Lily Cheval, the uncrowned princess of the powerful Chanku, and realizes he will do whatever it takes to clear his name and win her love. But evil walks where Sebastian goes, and there are mysteries neither Lily nor her father, the powerful wizard Anton Cheval can unravel.Is Sebastian the perfect mate for Lily, or is he instead, one she should fear? 
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For those readers who aren’t familiar with the Chanku world, I’ve written a lengthy intro to the re-released first book in the Spirit Wild series, Dark Wolf. I’m printing it here in case those of you who might be interested are still a bit intimidated by the involved history of the Chanku.
It’s really very simple--they are shapeshifters who are ruled by a powerful libido, yet governed by a sense of honor and integrity that is every bit a part of their DNA as is their capacity for love.
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In the beginning...
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the man who would one day lead the Chanku Nation discovered he was one of a lost people who possessed a genetic heritage that had lain dormant for eons.
Anton Cheval, a world-renowned magician, walked away from a successful career on stage in order to pursue a deeper understanding of magic. His search led him to Tibet, where he learned secrets far beyond the scope of even his most fertile imagination.
How could he possibly have known he was not entirely human? Instead, he was part of a forgotten species dependent on the nutrients in certain grasses native to Tibet—grasses that enabled a genetic birthright his people had lost over the ages. He was Chanku, a shapeshifter with abilities heretofore unknown in a modern society—abilities that only appeared once he ingested enough of the nutrients in the grasses, enabling a tiny gland near his hypothalamus that contained much of the knowledge of his kind, and opening an entirely new life to him. A life barely dreamed was suddenly his. He discovered that his kind had been lost—though not forgotten—by their negligent goddess. Tasked with watching over them, she had somehow misplaced her Chanku—the entire species scattered about the world even before modern man had evolved and spread across Earth.
Cheval made it his mission to find others like him, people unaware of their Chanku heritage who, once they had those nutrients, could develop the ability to shapeshift, to speak telepathically, and to live lives so long as to be almost immortal.
One by one, he found them, sharing the grasses, helping each new member understand the amazing changes in his or her life as their world expanded and their bodies—and lives—were forever changed. Foremost, a libido that exploded from a gentle simmer to full boil, driving each new Chanku to connect sexually with others of his kind that was as strong as the need for food and air.
A people of intelligence with an inborn sense of integrity and honor, most had been misfits in the human world without realizing they weren’t actually human. Drawn by their unique abilities and powerful sexual need, they came together as pack, learning, as their numbers grew, just who and what they were.
At first they kept their amazing abilities secret, afraid they would be hunted as animals if the world knew of them. Then, a mere decade into the pack’s secretive existence, one of their members saved the lives of children visiting the American White House. Shifting from Secret Service agent to wolf in front of television news cameras from all over the world, he grabbed a backpack loaded with explosives and carried it away from the crowd seconds before it exploded. Badly injured, he survived, and his act of heroism and the president’s praise and support eased the pack’s introduction into the modern world.
Now, over twenty-five years later, the pack has grown, and the Chanku Nation is a powerful economic force around the world, but xenophobia has reared its ugly head. More and more human citizens are speaking out against the long-lived shapeshifters. They are led by the most dangerous man of all—Aldo Xenakis: a dark wizard with a cult-like following, and a plan. He wants what the Chanku have—their immortality.
His only son, Sebastian, wants one thing as well—Lily Cheval, Anton Cheval’s eldest daughter.
Lily is special even among Chanku. The first offspring born of two Chanku shifters, she had absorbed the nutrients in the womb and while nursing at her mother’s breast. Lily is blessed with both beauty and brains—and magical ability that surpasses that of her father. As CEO of Cheval International and the daughter of Anton Cheval—über alpha of the Chanku Nation—Lily Cheval has chosen to live alone in San Francisco, headquarters of the pack’s business interests. Strong and independent, she is resigned to life without a mate. She has yet to meet any Chanku male who is at least her equal in both magic and intelligence.
Then, a series of murders near both the pack compound in Montana and their offices in the San Francisco Bay Area leave her wary and worried for her fellow Chanku. The bodies of human women are turning up—women raped by men, but killed by wolves.
Aldo Xenakis, a charismatic cult leader, is blaming the Chanku, inciting fear among citizens throughout the west. When Lily meets Aldo’s son, Sebastian, their connection is intense and immediate, yet tempered by the darkness she senses in him—he is a powerful wizard who uses magic to shift into wolf form, but is he also the killer?
Driven by passion, Sebastian and Lily come together during a night of sensual ecstasy, a joining that leaves Lily shaken but utterly alive. She wants Sebastian, but the question is one that must be answered: Could Sebastian be the man she’s been waiting for?
Or is he her worst—and most dangerous—enemy?
It’s really very simple--they are shapeshifters who are ruled by a powerful libido, yet governed by a sense of honor and integrity that is every bit a part of their DNA as is their capacity for love.
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In the beginning...
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the man who would one day lead the Chanku Nation discovered he was one of a lost people who possessed a genetic heritage that had lain dormant for eons.
Anton Cheval, a world-renowned magician, walked away from a successful career on stage in order to pursue a deeper understanding of magic. His search led him to Tibet, where he learned secrets far beyond the scope of even his most fertile imagination.
How could he possibly have known he was not entirely human? Instead, he was part of a forgotten species dependent on the nutrients in certain grasses native to Tibet—grasses that enabled a genetic birthright his people had lost over the ages. He was Chanku, a shapeshifter with abilities heretofore unknown in a modern society—abilities that only appeared once he ingested enough of the nutrients in the grasses, enabling a tiny gland near his hypothalamus that contained much of the knowledge of his kind, and opening an entirely new life to him. A life barely dreamed was suddenly his. He discovered that his kind had been lost—though not forgotten—by their negligent goddess. Tasked with watching over them, she had somehow misplaced her Chanku—the entire species scattered about the world even before modern man had evolved and spread across Earth.
Cheval made it his mission to find others like him, people unaware of their Chanku heritage who, once they had those nutrients, could develop the ability to shapeshift, to speak telepathically, and to live lives so long as to be almost immortal.
One by one, he found them, sharing the grasses, helping each new member understand the amazing changes in his or her life as their world expanded and their bodies—and lives—were forever changed. Foremost, a libido that exploded from a gentle simmer to full boil, driving each new Chanku to connect sexually with others of his kind that was as strong as the need for food and air.
A people of intelligence with an inborn sense of integrity and honor, most had been misfits in the human world without realizing they weren’t actually human. Drawn by their unique abilities and powerful sexual need, they came together as pack, learning, as their numbers grew, just who and what they were.
At first they kept their amazing abilities secret, afraid they would be hunted as animals if the world knew of them. Then, a mere decade into the pack’s secretive existence, one of their members saved the lives of children visiting the American White House. Shifting from Secret Service agent to wolf in front of television news cameras from all over the world, he grabbed a backpack loaded with explosives and carried it away from the crowd seconds before it exploded. Badly injured, he survived, and his act of heroism and the president’s praise and support eased the pack’s introduction into the modern world.
Now, over twenty-five years later, the pack has grown, and the Chanku Nation is a powerful economic force around the world, but xenophobia has reared its ugly head. More and more human citizens are speaking out against the long-lived shapeshifters. They are led by the most dangerous man of all—Aldo Xenakis: a dark wizard with a cult-like following, and a plan. He wants what the Chanku have—their immortality.
His only son, Sebastian, wants one thing as well—Lily Cheval, Anton Cheval’s eldest daughter.
Lily is special even among Chanku. The first offspring born of two Chanku shifters, she had absorbed the nutrients in the womb and while nursing at her mother’s breast. Lily is blessed with both beauty and brains—and magical ability that surpasses that of her father. As CEO of Cheval International and the daughter of Anton Cheval—über alpha of the Chanku Nation—Lily Cheval has chosen to live alone in San Francisco, headquarters of the pack’s business interests. Strong and independent, she is resigned to life without a mate. She has yet to meet any Chanku male who is at least her equal in both magic and intelligence.
Then, a series of murders near both the pack compound in Montana and their offices in the San Francisco Bay Area leave her wary and worried for her fellow Chanku. The bodies of human women are turning up—women raped by men, but killed by wolves.
Aldo Xenakis, a charismatic cult leader, is blaming the Chanku, inciting fear among citizens throughout the west. When Lily meets Aldo’s son, Sebastian, their connection is intense and immediate, yet tempered by the darkness she senses in him—he is a powerful wizard who uses magic to shift into wolf form, but is he also the killer?
Driven by passion, Sebastian and Lily come together during a night of sensual ecstasy, a joining that leaves Lily shaken but utterly alive. She wants Sebastian, but the question is one that must be answered: Could Sebastian be the man she’s been waiting for?
Or is he her worst—and most dangerous—enemy?
