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.

I don't know how long I ran or even where. There was no thought to laying a false trail or doubling back. No careful walking up the river bed.  There was just running. Every step was an agony because my body didn't have time to finish shifting to one form or the other, and I didn't stop to let it. I had to put as much distance between me and Patrick as possible. And a part of me desperately wanted to escape the reality lying back there in that cabin because if I let myself think about it, let myself voice the thought, I would break. So I kept running, kept tripping over my feet and falling, picking myself back up and running some more because the pain kept truth at bay. 


Until I fell again and just couldn't make myself get up. Couldn't make myself care about the smell of my own blood or the physical aches of shifting and exertion. Breath sawed in and out of my throat, my chest rising and falling in great gusts. And in my mind I saw Sawyer's chest. Blood-soaked and still. 


Chapter 40: Elodie