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

Long ago, the Moon Goddess was lonely. In her loneliness, she created shifters, half-beast, and half-man. Just as she is the balance between darkness and light, they are the balance of man and nature. 


However, due to their wild and aggressive natures as the beasts, the newfound shifters would fight, ending in the slaughter of their own kind. 


To stop the destruction of her creation, the Moon Goddess gifted a select few individuals with the ability to “bond” with the others. They became the center point in which all wolves would come together and form a pack around. 


Though every shifter was able to pack bond, it was only through the Alpha that they were given this gift. Those exiled from the packs, the criminals we call ‘Rogues’ lose their ability to pack bond as soon as their connection with the Alpha is cut. 


Though much of the mystic connection gifted to the shifters is unknown, it is certain that only


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