J.D.Tibbetts

“I first met Gravestone when he saved my father from drowning. And that is when the troubles began.”
Belasarius, the princess of the kingdom of Wat, learns one night that her father nearly drowned in the river. His savior, a mysterious mercenary named Gravestone, asks only for work as payment. To Belasarius’ annoyance, the gruff, ill-mannered merc is hired as her personal bodyguard. For all their headbutting, though, the two will come to rely upon each other when Belasarius becomes the target of a violent cult that seeks her blood. 
Fortunately, the lazy and neurotic princess is equipped with a genius mind, and her gruff but lovable bodyguard is equipped with the power to shift into an eight-foot tall furry killing machine. Political intrigue, budding romance, and a metric a*s ton of swearing await. Come meet the Princess and her Alpha, Gravestone. You just might be glad you did.
The Princess’ Alpha, Gravestone is created by J. D. Tibbetts, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

The Princess’ Alpha, Gravestone

Three weeks had passed since we fled from Cornelius’ village. Three weeks of barely making it past patrols, scrounging whatever we could get our hands on, and a lot of me and Allesandra hiding in the now covered wagon as Gravestone took us through every back road and off-beaten path that he knew about to make the journey across the country as safe as possible. 


However, safe also meant slow as sin, what would have been a three day journey without stops turned into a never-ending game of stop & go that stretched out across the month. 


We’d finally made it about halfway to our destination (Gravestone tracked our progress on the strength of the stench he was following from Addicus’ cloth. Not the most accurate method in the world, but the shifter clans didn’t exactly hand out maps) when we had to camp for the night.


Chapter 36: The Long Road