Moonlight Bride (High House Canis Book 3) by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2019-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

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He loped along easily enough, head swinging back and forth, looking for signs of movement, even as his nose tested the air for the scent of other shifters. Anything that would warn of a possible attack.

If they attack, it’s not going to be from here. They’d have to pass through either Chloe’s farm or Winston’s. Either way, moving large enough numbers of men through to do that would attract the attention of the owner. They’d come watch. It would be a nightmare trying to keep our secret.

Blood may have been drawn by the two sides. Friends were enemies. Families had been broken. Many of the rebels had sent their mates far away to safety, hidden them across the country, or even out-of-country, to escape the Tyrant-King’s grip. Men battled on, hoping their families would still be there at the end of it, while mates and children waited without knowing, fearful every time the phone rang that it would be that fateful news.

It was horrible. Linden hated it, hated the war and what it was doing to his brothers. His friends. But he wouldn’t stop. He wouldn’t back down and abandon the fight, because he knew that what Logan, Lucien, himself and all the others were fighting for was worth that sacrifice. After all, they were fighting for the very freedom of their House.

The Tyrant-King had gone mad with power. When his plan to overthrow House Ursa and depose the bear shifters had gone awry, something had snapped inside him. If he couldn’t control Canis’ biggest rivals, then he would tighten control on his own House while he hatched another plot.

Linden had had enough, as had many others. They’d tried to do things peacefully, to have Laurien, the Tyrant-King, step down. As Knight of the House, Logan was the next logical successor to the throne. Let him rule, the rebels had asked. Let him take House Canis into the future. A future where they would have to work with the other shifter races. Not against.

It hadn’t worked. Their attempt had nearly cost them their lives as they fled Moonshadow Manor that very night. Since then, they had been pursued, attacked, and many of them slain, all in the name of fighting for freedom.

Yet despite all that, despite the death and the blood and the hatred brewing between those once close, they had all agreed on one unanimous thing. The humans must never know. This wasn’t the first schism of a House, and great wars had been fought between Houses over the years. Massive battles, where serried ranks of wolves had charged into the waiting maws of vast formations of gigantic bears straight out of history.

Dragons had burned and pillaged, and far enough back in time, the vampires had ruled over all. That was before shifters, but others had been around. The mages, for starters. The elves. The Fae longer than anyone.

Legends had been born among humans, stories told from generation to generation, but never had the secret of their existence been revealed, no matter the hatred and divide between factions.

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