Christy raised her hand, felt her power flare to life and tossed fireballs at both of her attackers.
Bruised and bleeding she turned and ran for her life.
Continues in Alpha Ascending
Afterword
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Excerpt from Alpha Ascending
Christy staggered, her limbs protesting from every movement. She couldn’t stop. She had to keep moving. The moment she stopped, Alec’s men would grab her, drag her back to him. She forced herself to move on, stumbling over tree branches, twigs catching on her clothes and hair.
Had she crossed the border? She couldn’t remember.
The first rays of dawn washed through the blanket of clouds.
She glanced back, thought she heard the sound of running feet behind her. She tried to scent what direction they were coming from, but her senses felt weak, numb, just like the rest of her body.
Christy tripped, felt herself falling, stifled a cry of pain. She rolled over, feeling the sticky blood dripping down her side from where Oren had struck her with magic. Exhaustion threatened to overwhelm her as she pulled herself up into a sitting position. She rested her head against a tree trunk, the blood wouldn’t stop flowing and the pack strapped to her back dragged her down like dead weight.
Stretching her arms, she tore through the straps and let her pack fall. The few meagre possessions and clothes she’d brought with her no longer mattered. The movement sent another rash of pain shooting down her arms, but it didn’t register. Nothing mattered anymore.
Memories of Alec’s wolves ripping into her father, and seeing her brother go down flashed through her mind as the numbness started to fade. She closed her eyes, trying to block it out. She loved her brother – even her father – despite their strained relationship. Alec, the man she’d been promised to had done this. She had said no to marrying him and he’d taken her family and her clan from her because of it.
This was all her fault.
Magda had probably died too in the effort to help her escape and Ronan...
Where was Ronan?
Christy let out a sob. She wanted to curl up into a ball, let death take her away but another part of her refused to give up. She closed her eyes again, reaching for her inner wolf. If she could shift it might be enough to heal her. Could she even remember how to shift? She hadn’t done so in over a decade. Muscles popped and bones creaked making her cry out from the agony as her body tried to change forms but couldn’t.
Had she done something wrong? She hadn’t shifted in so long she wondered if she’d forgotten how to do it right.
Christy gritted her teeth. She couldn’t give up, not now. Not yet. Instead she started to crawl inch by inch. She didn’t have the strength to stand let alone walk, but a new emotion filled her now.
Rage.
Alec had done this and one way or another he would pay for what he’d done.
Twigs and stones cut into her hands as she crawled along the forest floor, blood seeped from her palms but she refused to stop moving. She had to reach the outsider’s camp. Ronan had promised to meet her there. He would be waiting for her. She would not consider the possibility of losing him through.
Hours seemed to pass, she made a way forward, not knowing where or how far her destination was.
With the sun high in the sky, Christy finally felt the blackness closing in and gave into it.
“Christy?” She thought she heard someone calling her name, dragging her along but it faded away.
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THE ALPHA’S CURSE: SHIFTER CLANS SERIES BOOK 3
Christy should be happy now she’s finally with the man she loves, but enemies still cover the island sanctuary that the shifter clans call home. After discovering her brother may still be alive, Christy must go back to the man responsible for killing her family and into the heart of danger.
Now the alpha, she must find a way to stop the people who seeks to destroy all shifters, bring together the clans and the outsiders and stop the centuries old Alpha’s Curse before it can destroy every shifter in existence.
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DENAI TOUCH: EXCALIBAR INVESTIGATIONS SERIES BOOK 1
Cate McCray is no ordinary witch.
Prophesied to be the one to destroy the Covenant, an age-old organisation who seeks to enslave all Magickind, the race is on for them to kill her before she receives immortality.
But before receiving the phenomenal power that comes with it, she must first survive the ascension and the only person who can help her is her elemental partner, Jason Talbot. But when the time comes, her forbidden love for Jason threatens to destroy them both.
As leader of Excalibar, an elite team of enforcers, they work to infiltrate the Covenant leading Cate into life-threatening situations. Can she outwit them before it’s too late?
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DENAI BOUND: EXCALIBAR INVESTIGATIONS SERIES BOOK 2
Denai witch, Cate McCray should be enjoying married life with her new elemental husband, Jason. But their arrival in a new city soon has them stumbling headlong into a new case with dangerous connections to the very people that govern their world.
Cate and Jason face opposition from those they once considered allies. Together with their team of enforcers, they must find the killer before anyone else dies.
With danger from all sides and the threat of ancient, dangerous magic, the team must pull together and use all their strength to find their enemy before disaster strikes.
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BETRAYED BY BLOOD: THE AMARANTHINE CHRONCICLES BOOK 1
In a city of lies and deception, only one thing stands between chaos and justice. For centuries, a band of outlaws called the Amaranthine has kept the peace in Ormere and hidden in plain sight whilst the Order of Sorcerers spreads their deadly magic among the city’s inhabitants.
After losing her fiancé in bust gone wrong, Amaranthine Agent Kaylan Avilion returns home to discover that Elijah didn’t die but instead was changed by the twisted guards of the Order, who seek to find a dangerous artefact tied to Kaylan’s past and the murder of her family. When her sister goes missing and a foe from their past remerges, Kaylan knows she must save Freya before she’s poisoned by the very people who took Elijah away from her. But how will Kaylan react when she learns Elijah’s secret and can they come together to stop the Order’s plan in time?
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DARK REVENGE: THE AMARANTHINE CHRONCICLES BOOK 2
Darkness is sweeping through the city of Ormere as unnatural creatures stalk through the streets. People are dying and time is running out as a new evil threatens to take control of everything. The Amaranthine Order has been decimated leaving only a few of its people left to fight the coming terror.
Stunned by her sister Freya’s betrayal and plot to take over the city, Kaylan must do everything she can to find out what Freya plans to do when she finds an infamous book linked to the murder of their family. A book considered so dangerous that the last High Lord erased its location from history, the Amaranthine Chronicles are said to contain the darkest of all magics.
Kaylan is happy to finally have her ex-fiancé, Elijah, back in her life but he’s not the man she once knew and loved. After being turned into a shapeshifter, Elijah struggles to control his inner beast and his lingering feelings for Kaylan.
Can Elijah and Kaylan come together to stop
Freya and uncover the secrets of the book before it’s too late?
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THE FINAL BATTLE THE AMARANTHINE CHRONCICLES BOOK 3
Darkness has claimed the city of Ormere and death has become a certainty for anyone stalking its empty streets. The government is in ruins and lawlessness ensues.
After their last encounter, Kaylan and Elijah barely managed to thwart her sister, Freya’s, latest attempts to find and use the elusive Amaranthine Chronicles. But in her desperation to receive ultimate power, Freya will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Even if it means destroying the last of her family.
Kaylan and Elijah must work on their fragile relationship and put their personal feelings aside to find the book and stop Freya before it’s too late. But with their allies growing thin, and a gang of ruthless shapeshifters close on their trail, will they finally find the book and stop Freya before time runs out? And will Kaylan have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her city and the man she loves?
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About The Author
Tiffany Shand was born in Essex and started writing short stories when she was a child.
She started writing novels in her early teens and discovered her love for fantasy and paranormal romance during this time.
She writes both non-fiction books for writers and fiction, but mostly fantasy and paranormal romance.
After doing a creative writing course in her early 20s, she is now a freelance copywriter and professional editor.
Tiffany lives in Essex with her family, two spoiled cats and a hamster.
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