Animal Secrets: A Gray Wolf Pack Paranormal Romance (The Animal Sagas - Thrown to the Wolves Book 3): The Animal Sagas, #3

By Susan G. Charles

INSIDE: Werewolves and shapeshifters!

This book contains some violence, and sexual situations. Recommended for ages sixteen and up.

Book 3 in The Animal Sagas. Werewolves, shape shifters, sisters, werecougars... The Seron sisters are now romantically involved with members of the wolf pack they "joined" a few months back.

READER REVIEWS:

"I really enjoyed this book and the relationships between the characters."

"The story is about everyone's willingness to do what is taken to keep each other safe and happy."

"If you like paranormal soap operas, this is the book for you."

Lynda Seron is pregnant, newly married and having to get used to being a team player with all the responsibilities that go along with being the Alpha's mate. She has always been more of a loner, while her younger sister, much more of a free spirit, has just became romantically involved with her "security guard".

As time passes the two sisters have some issues adjusting to pack life. Lynda, the older, more serious sibling, seems to be having more problems as she rebels from the pack mindset. Not to mention the whole issue of her pregnancy. Then another surprise comes the girls way, just as they are starting to accept their new family. Will a terrible secret from their family history now end their future?

This werewolf and shape shifter paranormal romance book is available now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan G. Charles
• Release date: Oct 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781497731943

Book preview

Chapter 1

LIFE HAD BEEN HARD on the Seron sisters the past year or so, what with their parents sudden deaths, financial worries, extreme changes in income, vocation, expectations, and then, most recently, Sonya's abduction. Thankfully at least that event did have a happy ending for them. And now, through a series of events totally unplanned by the pair, the sisters find themselves right smack in the middle of a new family pack – one that they had no idea even existed only a year or so ago.

The Strongheart pack, their new family, had also changed quite a bit since it welcomed its new members just a few months ago. This werewolf pack was also a well known clan in their own right - well known for their history, traditions, strength and current members. In fact, Ben, their Alpha, and Clay, his second in command, were commonly discussed in the were-circles for their past feats of bravery and courage. Those two were rock stars in their own right among their werewolf brethren.

Yet at the same time for some unexplained reason, the numbers of the Yukonia were-line, of which the sisters were card carrying members, had died down over the past several decades, almost to the brink of extinction. Things were very different if you compared the girls heritage currently to the thriving Strongheart clan. As so it happened, through no fault of their own, Lynda and Sonya Seron were likely the last rare surviving members of the Yukonia clan, a once large and proud line of were-cougars that roamed North America from shore to shore and top to bottom.

At first the were-cougars were an unusual mix with the were-wolves that made up the Strongheart pack, but eventually they were also seen as a very powerful asset. Just imagine trying to put a few cats in a room with a solidly formed dog pack and you might have some idea of the kinds of changes that were now going on inside the newly hybridized Strongheart clan. If you had told the current members that this was going to happen a few months ago they would have called you a liar. So this new arrangement between the two were-species was completely unexpected to say the least. And it was causing a few problems inside the group that needed to be taken care of right away.

Ben Wilder, the current Alpha of the Strongheart pack, was a shrewd leader, a man of action and supremely thoughtful of all actions which might have consequence upon his pack family. It was he who had recognized the strength of the potential alliance when Lynda, the older sister, had come to him months ago agreeing to offer herself up as his mate. Normally, this would have never happened but these were unusual times - in exchange for his rescuing her sister from the grips of a man who sought to claim her as his wife against her will she agreed to marry him and bear his children. He agreed to the union. Heck, it was actually his own idea if you knew the whole story, and they had been together ever since.

And not long after Sonya's rescue several months ago, she became bonded with her own mate - her bodyguard, Clay. In fact, it had just happened recently. It was a surprise to practically all the pack members, except for Lynda, who had thought that they would make a perfect match the entire time. Nothing like sisterly intuition when it comes to potential mates! And he was the perfect man for her too – Lynda couldn't have made a better choice for Sonya herself.

Of course, her Yukonia intuition might be further heightened by the fact that she was now pregnant with twins! She had been fertile on the night of her first mating with Ben, and their union had resulted in twins. Needless to say he was so happy about the possibility of being a dad that everyone in the pack was aware of it. Everything had happened so fast to him - only months ago he was a happily confirmed bachelor. And the thought of being married, not to mention being a dad, was something that he envisioned to be far away into his future. But he was happy with how things had worked out and enjoyed the unexpected turn his life had taken.

There were just so many changes going on for everyone in their tightly knit group, that the entire Strongheart pack was struggling a bit with their current growing pains. Ben did his best to make sure that all the members were as comfortable as possible inside their group and as happy as they could be in the transitionary process. So he scheduled many different activities for the pack to let them have fun, interact and blow off some steam and he also managed members concerns in as fast and efficient a manner as possible.