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

For every loss, there is an emptiness that accompanies it. Like a pair of flirting lovers, the two somehow always meet back at the place they begin. They are entwined like Fate and Coincidence in an empty bar. 


Death never forgives and it never forgets. For every tick of a clock, he grows stronger. 


Some get more time than others. The waste of a single minute is an unforgivable sin in his eyes. 


They are accompanied by his icy gaze as they parade through the forest. One foot at a time, the weight of his burden bearing down on their shoulders like Atlas and the world. 


There is no second chance once you meet his eyes. 


And that’s why she follows, one foot after the other as the shifters carry their fallen brethren on their shoulders. 


The cold mist follows where the rain has ended. The time for tears has passed. It leaves the silence in its midst. 


Chapter 30: Vigil