Not every wolf is lucky enough to be born into a pack.

Some had the misfortune to be birthed by rogues.

Banished from the shifters society, Rogues are branded as criminals and treated as less than. Cut off from their packs, most barely last a few years before losing their minds as well.

Rogues-borns are different. Born to savage creatures with no humanity left in their cursed souls, they have no family to mourn, no sins to repent, nothing to lose.

Alpha's decreed all Rogue-borns to be killed on sight, for the protection of the packs.

But Rain isn’t a threat. She was just born unlucky.

Forced into the life of a scavenger on the streets, begging for food from human scraps and always searching for a place to call home.

Until one day, she wanders too far into the forest on the edge of the city.

There, she meets the Ashwood Pack and their Alpha, Orion.

Mate, he says.

But that’s impossible.

When It Rains is created by Rhys McGinnis, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

When it rains

Before, when she was a tiny thing without any idea she could shift, she had crossed the border between the human city and the woods. 


She was still young, full of hope, her heart less scarred. 


It was easy to identify how different he was from the rogues in the city. A shiny coat, powerful muscles. Not a hint of bones poking through his fur, no scent of infection or open wounds. He smelled of the forest, not of the dirty city streets. 


She still recalls how he looked as she peeked from underneath one of the logs she’d concealed behind. 


Her little eyes had widened in awe, yearning blossoming in her chest, curiosity leading her movements as she approached him without fear. 


She remembers to this day, how she slipped, claws digging into the trunk to keep her steady. How the sound disturbed the pack wolf, head-turning in her direction. 


Chapter 11: Mindless Violence