Emily Carrington

When Rose has to find a place to volunteer to satisfy an academy requirement, she never dreams she’d find a fellow werewolf running a soup kitchen that also features live music. Rose is a violinist and drummer trained in the Irish tradition and she longs to use her skills. It doesn’t hurt that the first picture she sees of Ama makes her go weak at the knees.<br><br>Ama, the werewolf who runs the soup kitchen, is suppressed and ruled by her parents. Due to several childhood struggles, she is seen by her family as weak. She tries to overcome this by running her own charity and helping people she considers less fortunate.<br><br>Their attraction is strong and instantaneous but is complicated when the two discover vampires are feeding from their customers. Rose wants to see vampires as a discriminated species; Ama views them as parasites. Neither assumption is quite accurate. Can Rose and Ama look past their differences and work together? Can they band together to protect not only the people they care about, but one another?

Love and the Living Tree

But then she closed her mouth as the realization that she needed proof the women were being mistreated hit her. And, hard on the heels of that came the knowledge that she couldn’t seek the vampire herself. Her nose simply wasn’t good enough.


“Yes, all right,” she murmured. “They’re all part of a homeless women’s’ shelter in the area. We can visit. Maybe even talk to the vampire and see if he or she lies.” She couldn’t help adding, “But you will follow my lead. If I tell you to run, you run. Got it?” And she glared at Rose.


“Right to the authorities if it seems necessary.”


A little soothed, Ama moved away from the wall. “We should…” When she saw the intent look on Rose’s face, she stopped. “What?”


“I just wanted to make sure you knew that the authorities would be called to save you as well as anyone else involved. I’ve laid a small claim on you, and I won’t let that go easily.”


Chapter 9