Hunting Hearts: Boxed Set (The Complete Collection, Books 1-6) (Werewolf Romance - Paranormal Romance)

By Melissa F. Hart

Amazing price: The Complete Collection of Hunting Hearts Series

Book One: The Book of Unbound Chains
Tara spends her days teaching at the local college and her nights dreaming of something more, but she never thought that picking up a strange old book at a used bookstore could change her life like this! Before she knew it, there were monstrous winged creatures knocking on her door, and the handsome but mysterious werewolf Mads Magnussen coming through her window!

Tara's careless purchase sets off a chain of events that put her body and her heart to the test, and soon she realizes that there is far more to the world than she has ever considered.

Book Two: Dreams of a Restless Sleep
Thrust into the middle of an ancient conflict between werewolves and the beings who call themselves angels, Tara has learned to face dangers that she never knew existed. Now she has sworn to help the werewolf leader Mads Magnussen wake up the ferocious Fenrisulfir, the legendary leader of his kind, but along the way, she realizes that Mads may not be telling her the whole truth.

As if that wasn't enough, now they are faced by the formidable being known as the Three in One, and Tara soon sees that some of her greatest enemies come from inside her own heart and soul.

Book Three: The Wolf Released
Mads and Tara's journey has taken them to the heart of Scotland, the ancestral home of Mads' people. As they come closer and closer to their goal of waking the wolf, Tara comes to understand that her heart will always belong to Mads, but what does Mads most desire? Their love burns as bright as a bonfire, but there are dark shadows on Mads' heart, ones that could destroy them both.

As Tara and Mads approach an end to their hunt, and as the angels close in. Tara is forced to see Mads for who he is. Now she has a choice to make: will she stay by his side, or must she find a way to free herself with the help of an enigmatic winged man who calls himself Lukas?

Book Four: My Only Safe Place
A year after she fled Mads and his war against the angels, Tara is making a life for herself in a large anonymous city. She is finally beginning to believe that there may be some kind of life for herself and her son, Fen, but then everything changes in a single terrible moment, and the war is on her doorstep again.

Mads has never forgotten Tara, but when he realizes what she has done and who she has hidden from him, can he ever forgive her?

Book Five: To Soar with Eagles
Mads and Tara enter into an uneasy alliance with Lukas, the angel of prophecy, to find their son. Lukas guides them to the Aerie, the nesting place of angels, where no wolf has gone and lived to tell the tale.

Mads and Tara's love is put to the test as they search for their son in a terrifying stone labyrinth, and Tara is forced to make a decision that might doom everything that she holds dear.

Book Six: Love at the End of the World
Tara and Mads face off against Anders, the leader of the fallen angels, and they soon realize that his madness endangers not just the wolf clans but the entire world as they know it. Tara makes a desperate decision, risking her child and the man she loves, and she can only pray that she made the right choice.

In the end, Tara knows that Mads loves her, and she knows that he would give his life for her and their son. What she does not know is whether it will be enough.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MFH Ink Publishing
• Release date: Sep 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311123992

Melissa F. Hart

I started writing romance fiction since I was 16 years old. I'm now a published writer thanks to the wonderful world of ebooks.I live in Canada and I love the winter months. As you can see, I wrote several books related to the winter holidays.I'm not represented by an agent and I'm a proud indie. I have learned how to create websites and edit images, design book covers, etc. All my books and what you see on this website I have created myself.I'm currently a certified accountant but my dream is to be a full-time independent writer of hot erotic romance books.

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Hunting Hearts: Boxed Set (The Complete Collection, Books 1-6)

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Books in the series

The Book of Unbound Chains - Volume 1

Dreams of a Restless Sleep - Volume 2

The Wolf Released - Volume 3

My Only Safe Place - Volume 4

To Soar with Eagles - Volume 5

Love at the End of the World - Volume 6

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Synopsis

Book One: The Book of Unbound Chains

Tara spends her days teaching at the local college and her nights dreaming of something more, but she never thought that picking up a strange old book at a used bookstore could change her life like this! Before she knew it, there were monstrous winged creatures knocking on her door, and the handsome but mysterious werewolf Mads Magnussen coming through her window!

Tara's careless purchase sets off a chain of events that put her body and her heart to the test, and soon she realizes that there is far more to the world than she has ever considered.

Book Two: Dreams of a Restless Sleep

Thrust into the middle of an ancient conflict between werewolves and the beings who call themselves angels, Tara has learned to face dangers that she never knew existed. Now she has sworn to help the werewolf leader Mads Magnussen wake up the ferocious Fenrisulfir, the legendary leader of his kind, but along the way, she realizes that Mads may not be telling her the whole truth.

As if that wasn't enough, now they are faced by the formidable being known as the Three in One, and Tara soon sees that some of her greatest enemies come from inside her own heart and soul.

Book Three: The Wolf Released

Mads and Tara's journey has taken them to the heart of Scotland, the ancestral home of Mads' people. As they come closer and closer to their goal of waking the wolf, Tara comes to understand that her heart will always belong to Mads, but what does Mads most desire? Their love burns as bright as a bonfire, but there are dark shadows on Mads' heart, ones that could destroy them both.

As Tara and Mads approach an end to their hunt, and as the angels close in. Tara is forced to see Mads for who he is. Now she has a choice to make: will she stay by his side, or must she find a way to free herself with the help of an enigmatic winged man who calls himself Lukas?

Book Four: My Only Safe Place

A year after she fled Mads and his war against the angels, Tara is making a life for herself in a large anonymous city. She is finally beginning to believe that there may be some kind of life for herself and her son, Fen, but then everything changes in a single terrible moment, and the war is on her doorstep again.

Mads has never forgotten Tara, but when he realizes what she has done and who she has hidden from him, can he ever forgive her?

Book Five: To Soar with Eagles

Mads and Tara enter into an uneasy alliance with Lukas, the angel of prophecy, to find their son. Lukas guides them to the Aerie, the nesting place of angels, where no wolf has gone and lived to tell the tale.

Mads and Tara's love is put to the test as they search for their son in a terrifying stone labyrinth, and Tara is forced to make a decision that might doom everything that she holds dear.

Book Six: Love at the End of the World

Tara and Mads face off against Anders, the leader of the fallen angels, and they soon realize that his madness endangers not just the wolf clans but the entire world as they know it. Tara makes a desperate decision, risking her child and the man she loves, and she can only pray that she made the right choice.

In the end, Tara knows that Mads loves her, and she knows that he would give his life for her and their son. What she does not know is whether it will be enough.

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Table of Contents

The Book of Unbound Chains

Dreams of a Restless Sleep

The Wolf Released

My Only Safe Place

To Soar with Eagles

Love at the End of the World

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The Book of Unbound Chains

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It all began in a bookstore.

The day should have been perfect. It was a bright and warm day, she had just finished grading her students' final papers, and the university itself was buzzing with the energy of being finally free of a cold wet spring. It was the perfect day, unless you were Professor Tara Roth, who had previously dated the man who was making his way down the street toward her with a gorgeous blonde on his arm.

Tara, who had had nothing on her mind besides possibly lunch at her favorite Thai place, felt a blush of panic and shame creep up over her face, and before she knew it, she had dodged in the doors of the used bookstore.

As the heavy door closed behind her and she watched her ex pass by with her replacement on his arm, she sighed at herself. It was a little silly to be this distraught over a relationship that had lasted only a few months, but she’d had a good feeling that had turned out, as it so often had, to be false.

Oh, Tara dear, welcome back. Are you looking for more cookbooks?

Mrs. Pillson was the elderly proprietor of the used bookstore, and she smiled kindly at the young woman who stood so sadly in the entryway.

Tara Roth was twenty-eight, but with her slender figure, round face, and mass of ash-blond curls, she could have passed easily for one of her own students. She tried to dress up in skirts, leggings and cardigans, but she always had the sneaking suspicion that she looked like a little girl playing dress up.

She shook her head at Mrs. Pillson, who had a habit of lightly mothering everyone who came in the door.

No, I'm still working my way through the last one I bought, but thank you. Is there anything new?

Tara figured that even if her love life was doomed to end in with a whimper rather than a bang, her fantasy life didn't have to. She was an avid reader and had been since she was a child. It led to her life-long love of language and words, and eventually, to a scholarship to study ancient linguistics in France.

She drifted toward the New Arrivals cart that Mrs. Pillson pointed out and ran her finger haphazardly across the spines of elderly romances and self-help books. She was wondering if she was looking at her future, spent entirely in used bookstores and take-out Thai when she blinked and noticed something different.

The book was small but thick, and to her surprise, it seemed to be bound in genuine leather. There was no name on the spine, but when she opened it up, she was greeted by a vivid red illustration of a dragon chained to a pillar, surrounded by words she thought she recognized.

It had the look and feel of some of the manuscripts she had worked with, the ones from the very earliest days of printing, but she knew that was foolishness. Those books were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there was a faint sticky spot on this book where Mrs. Pillson had probably scraped off an old price sticker. Still, it was odd and the leather cover was attractive, so she brought it up to the front.

Oh, that's part of that strange lot that came in the other day, said Mrs. Pillson, checking the price she had lightly penciled into the front cover. Hm, I said ten for this, but we'll just say five for you, dear.

Tara smiled, because if Mrs. Pillson continued to treat her like a broke college student, she wasn't going to complain too loudly.

She only remembered the book after she had finished her dinner that night. There was still a chilly bite to the spring air, and she was cozily wrapped in a blanket on the couch. Turning off the television, she fetched the book from its plastic bag and opened it curiously.

Now that she was looking at it much more closely, she realized that it was indeed very old. Her area of expertise was in the words, not the pages that they were written on, however, so she turned her attention to them instead.

It was not Latin or Coptic, as she had assumed, but instead it was a code, one used by a group of people who considered themselves wizards. They were known as the Sybelline Brotherhood, and she had done her thesis on them just four years ago. An odd shock ran down her spine as she realized that this must be a piece of writing from the same group that she had spent so much time researching.

They were strange men, convinced that they held the keys to the universe, and now, she was holding something that she was becoming more and more certain was part of their library. Her excitement rose, and she hastily opened her laptop, consulting her notes on their strange code. There were perhaps five people in the world who would have even known where to start when confronted with this book, and Tara was one of them.

In a fever of excitement, she wrote down the words that she saw in the book, typing them hastily onto her computer. She was so consumed by the act of translation that she didn't even look up to see what she had until she had finished.

For the freeing of things once caged, and for setting right the wrongs that have been done... she murmured in confusion. Deep inside her, she felt a cold shiver, something that chilled her to her fingertips.

Things are changing, she thought incoherently, and for a moment, Tara was almost frightened.

The moment passed, and she started to laugh at her own silliness. The Sybelline Brotherhood was a group of rich men with too much time on their hands, she reminded herself. They had produced some fascinating works, and they offered a glimpse into the mystical minds of the era, but no matter what fantasies they spun, they meant nothing in the new era. She knew this.

The knock on the door nearly made her jump straight out of her blankets. Then she remembered that a knock meant that there was someone at the door and, pulling her robe over pajamas, she went to investigate.

Her hand was just on the knob when her window exploded inwards. The shattering glass was terrifyingly loud, and she instinctively threw herself to the ground, covering her head with her arms. When she looked up, she realized that she was completely unhurt, but now there was a wild-looking man standing in her living room.

He was tall enough that he seemed like a giant in her home, and she froze as his startlingly bright blue eyes roved the room. He saw her crouched by the door, and with a sound like a bestial growl, he strode toward her as she tried desperately to push herself to her feet.

His hand clamped like an iron band around her shoulder, hauling her to her feet, and he loomed over her, menace etched in ever line of his body.

Where is it? he growled. You have it; you must tell me where it is.

Gulping back a whimper of fear, Tara tried to tell him that her purse and her wallet were on the table, that he should take it as long he left her alone, but she couldn't make the words come out. Her voice shivered and shook, and for a brief moment, the intruder looked almost repentant.

He started to speak, but then the knocking at her door came again. No, not knocking, pounding, and to Tara's shock, she saw the door, heavy and steel, start to bend inwards.

The man swore in a language that Tara's distracted mind recognized as Scandinavian of some sort and thrust her behind him.

I'm sorry, he whispered. Damn me for a fool but I have led them right to you.

She