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

One of the trackers shouted at her to stop; she paid him no mind but charged into the house


At once, her sensitive ears picked up the sound of fighting. Breaking furniture and growls.


She plunged down the hall at a dead run.


When she reached the open door at the end of the hallway, she saw the vampire, Cameron, and a werewolf fighting. The wolf was beautiful, dark gray like a storm cloud, except for delicate white paws. But the wolf was also bloody.


The vampire shot a look at Ama and all the strength went out of her. She sat where she’d stopped. His look was only that and not an invasion into her head; she had her shields fully up. But his command was obvious. Don’t fight me,he seemed to say without words.


So. She couldn’t fight him. But then Rose yipped in pain.


“I can’t,” Ama told her. “He won’t let me.” Besides, she added silently, I don’t know how. All she knew was music. And not attracting others with her scent.


Chapter 21