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.

The tent was small, one of those ultra-light backpacking numbers that folded up to practically nothing. To the front, a circle of stones marked the remnants of a fire from the night before. Gear, if there was any, must've been inside the tent. Nothing stirred in the long, dawn shadows, but I didn't go any closer. I could move in silence, but I couldn't move fast.  Not yet. 


My chest wound had closed up in the dark hours before sunrise, the whistle-gurgle blessedly changing to a wheeze. My collapsed lung still hadn't re-inflated, and I'd been coughing up blood off and on for a few hours now. That limited my capabilities of exertion, which meant I had to be smart rather than rash. Rushing the tent and tearing it open without knowing who was inside and how they might be armed would just be foolish. So I bellied down at the crest of the ridge above to wait and rest.


Chapter 43: Sawyer