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

That startled Rose; it was the last thing she’d expected Ama to ask. “Yes?” She couldn’t help the note of inquiry in her voice.


“Would they accept me, do you think?”


Rose’s mouth was dry. “Do you want to switch packs?”


“I want to be your mate,” Ama told her plainly. Then she held Rose away from her and seemed to search her face. “Is that what you want?”


“What about your parents?” Rose blurted.


“That’s one reason I’d join your pack instead of you joining mine. I can’t breathe here and they’re too stuck in their ways to accept you.”


Rose hugged her for sheer happiness. “I l-love you,” she stammered.


“I love you too. By the moon goddess, when I saw how much you were bleeding, I wanted to smash that vamp’s—vampire’s—head in.”


Rose didn’t admit that she liked hearing Ama call Master Cameron, now arrested, “vamp.” Instead, she kissed her lover.11


Chapter 22