Every fairy tale has a dark side...

Elodie Rose has a secret. Any day, she’ll become a wolf and succumb to the violence that’s cursed her family for centuries. For seventeen years she’s hidden who and what she is. But now someone knows the truth and is determined to exterminate her family line. Living on borrowed time in the midst of this dangerous game of hide and seek, the last thing Elodie needs to do is fall in love. But Sawyer is determined to protect her, and the brooding, angry boy is more than what he seems. Can they outsmart a madman? And if they survive, will they find a way to beat the curse for good?

Red is created by Kait Nolan, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Of course Dad and the others agreed to search. One of those missing was a child. Research could wait.


After briefly conferring with the woman who seemed to be organizing things, we were split into groups - Dad and Abby, Patrick and David, me and Elodie - and assigned search sectors. Elodie passed out radios and explained the check-in procedure. 


"Be sure to keep a close eye on your heading and make notes on your map." She turned to the other woman again. "Have the dogs alerted anywhere along the trail yet?"


"Here in sector three was the last strong alert. They found Molly's windbreaker. That was about forty-five minutes ago. The Junior Explorers troop leader thinks she left it when they stopped for lunch."


"So maybe Rich brought her out here to find it before they went home," said Elodie.


"That's the thinking. It's the damnedest thing. The dogs were able to follow their scent from the parking lot to about a hundred yards in, then lost it. It's like they up and disappeared."


Chapter 11: Sawyer