Who could love a monster?

Lena asks herself this question after a freak encounter with a wolf leaves her bitten and transformed. It took no time once the symptoms hit for her to realize she was a danger. A killer.

So, ignoring her shattered heart, she leaves.
 
Leaves Los Angeles. Leaves Ice Hockey.

Leaves him, the one who taught her what it meant to love. Eason.
 
For the next five years, Lena did all she could to forget by starting a new life for herself in a little rural town. But, just as the moon rises, the past finds a way back. Eason, a star ice hockey player and owner of her heart, wants her back. And ushered with him comes an old crime tying them both together.
 
Lena knows she should push him away, it’s the only way to keep him safe.
 
Yet, through the turmoil of it all Lena can’t help but think that maybe ... being a monster isn’t that bad after all.

Moonlit Goals: A Love Restored is created by Cara TaleSmith, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Moonlit Goals: A Love Restored

I felt the weight of everything that had happened settle in the pit of my stomach as I walked into my house.


Five years of protecting this secret and the world had to strike me in the face with this horrible turn of events. I cried for myself, the part of me I’d lost. I cried for Eason, for what I’d brought into his life.


My hands trembled as I sat on the couch and hugged my knees to my chest, replaying the conversation in my head. I couldn’t move, couldn’t stop crying. My heart hurt so much that I wished I could take it out and hold it until it stopped aching.


I stood slowly, the warm morning air hitting me as I made my decision. If I sat here and waited, I’d drive myself crazy with worry. I needed to see him, even if he didn’t want to see me. 


I knew he would be craving home, something safe to ground him to reality. But Mariposa wasn’t his home. Eason only had one home.


Chapter 30: The Pattern of Love