by L. L. Raand
“Wait for me here,” Zora said to Trent.
“Zora,” Trent murmured, “this is our fight.”
“This is for me to do. Trust me.” Zora vaulted the distance to Sylvan in one leap. Meeting Sylvan’s glacial gaze, she said formally, “Alpha Mir, the Snowcrest Weres thank you for your aid and welcome you to Clan home. Forgive my absence. My mate required my attention.”
Sylvan glanced past Zora to Trent. “She is still bonded to me and mine.”
“I know.”
“She cannot give her allegiance to both.”
“She doesn’t have to,” Zora said. “She is my mate, and she will lead my Weres with me. But we are your allies, and we will both honor your call, should you have need of us.”
Sylvan huffed and cut her gaze to Jace and her Snowcrest mate. “And Ash?”
Zora sent a silent question to her captain. How do you choose, Ash?
Ash straightened, her hand moving to Jace’s back. By your leave, Alpha, I would join my mate.
“It seems,” Zora said, motioning Trent to her side, “our Packs will share more than one bond.”
Sylvan nodded. “We may find ourselves united in war and peace in the days ahead.”
Zora took Trent’s hand. “Together we will fight, and together we will triumph.”
About the Author
Radclyffe has written over sixty romance and romantic intrigue novels as well as a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters, as L.L. Raand.
She is a three-time Lambda Literary Award winner in romance and erotica and received the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Award by the Lambda Literary Foundation. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA/FF&P Prism Award winner for Secrets in the Stone, an RWA FTHRW Lories and RWA HODRW winner for Firestorm, an RWA Bean Pot winner for Crossroads, an RWA Laurel Wreath winner for Blood Hunt, and a Book Buyers Best award winner for Price of Honor and Secret Hearts. She is also a featured author in the 2015 documentary film Love Between the Covers, from Blueberry Hill Productions. In 2019 she was recognized as a “Trailblazer of Romance” by the Romance Writers of America.
In 2004 she founded Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing companies, and is the current president and publisher.
Find her at facebook.com/Radclyffe.BSB, follow her on Twitter @RadclyffeBSB, and visit her website at Radfic.com.
Books Available From Bold Strokes Books
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Bet Against Me by Fiona Riley. In the high-stakes luxury real estate market, everything has a price, and as rival Realtors Trina Lee and Kendall Yates find out, that means their hearts and souls, too. (978-1-63555-729-9)
Broken Reign by Sam Ledel. Together on an epic journey in search of a mysterious cure, a princess and a village outcast must overcome life-threatening challenges and their own prejudice if they want to survive. (978-1-63555-739-8)
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Lady of Stone by Barbara Ann Wright. Sparks fly as a magical emergency forces a noble embarrassed by her ability to submit to a low-born teacher who resents everything about her. (978-1-63555-607-0)
Last Resort by Angie Williams. Katie and Rhys are about to find out what happens when you meet the girl of your dreams but you aren’t looking for a happily ever after. (978-1-63555-774-9)
Longing for You by Jenny Frame. When Debrek housekeeper Katie Brekman is attacked amid a burgeoning vampire-witch war, Alexis Villiers must go against everything her clan believes in to save her. (978-1-63555-658-2)
Money Creek by Anne Laughlin. Clare Lehane is a troubled lawyer from Chicago who tries to make her way in a rural town full of secrets and deceptions. (978-1-63555-795-4)
Passion’s Sweet Surrender by Ronica Black. Cam and Blake are unable to deny their passion for each other, but surrendering to love is a whole different matter. (978-1-63555-703-9)
The Holiday Detour by Jane Kolven. It will take everything going wrong to make Dana and Charlie see how right they are for each other. (978-1-63555-720-6)
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