Foehammer: Case File 1

By Lorena Black

Richard Donovan – an exhilarating FBI agent with a dark past.
Lillian Lawson – at the heart of a mystery blacker than the moonless night.
Bishop, New Hampshire –lost in the lunar world of the lycanthropes and shapeshifters.

“I’ve been looking for a great paranormal detective mystery, and Lorena Black delivers! Supernatural detectives and mythical beasts come together perfectly for the first installment in a promising FBI mystery series!” ~Julie

The Foehammer Act has created an America where vampires, werewolves, elves, orcs, and other haunting creatures are now citizens of the United States, with all of the rights, protections, and privileges afforded the human. It’s a new world order, and it’s anything but orderly!

When FBI Agent Richard Donovan comes back from a near death experience, he doesn’t expect to get tossed into the deep end of things, but that is exactly what happens. After years of being a successful agent, he gets the promotion he never wanted as the lead investigator for a team of paranormal detectives who have to investigate all crimes done by and against America’s supernatural citizens.
Brand new to the paranormal FBI investigation game, Donovan has to travel to werewolf country, USA, to figure out why Lillian Lawson, a werewolf, killed her human family. It seems to be fairly cut and dry. Werewolves kill people all the time, right? It’s not that hard to picture one going lunar on her own family.
But when he gets to Bishop, New Hampshire, Donovan realizes the facts don’t add up, and Lillian, no matter how wolfish she can get, doesn’t come across as a killer. When Deputy Sharon Morris tells him that the ghost of Lillian’s husband doesn’t believe it either, he realizes that there is more to this werewolf mystery than meets the eye.

• Language: English
• Publisher: jaumeviladrosa
• Release date: Oct 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370684762

Lorena Black

Lorena Black lives with her family in one of the most boring cities in the United States of America. This has been helpful since it gives her plenty of time to imagine what the world would be like if all the myths and legends that she enjoys reading about were real. She went to college where she couldn't decide what she wanted to study, so she ended up studying a little bit of everything, although her focus was in criminal justice and anthropology.

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Foehammer: Part 1

A Paranormal Crimes Division Novel

by

Lorena Black

Published by Jaume Viladrosa

Copyright 2016 Jaume Viladrosa

This book is dedicated to:

Brandy.

Thank you for showing me the meaning of friendship.

When I started out to write this book I was naive enough to think that authors worked alone. In the time since then I've grown enough to know better. With that in mind I want to thank the friends and family who helped me and understood that I needed to be left alone sometimes. I cannot possibly name you all, but I could not have done it without you.

Lynn, my editor, thank you for being my number one cheerleader and the queen of comas. I don't know what I would have done without you.

Thank you Jaume, the publisher, for seeing the potential in my work. Seriously. This book would not exist without your support.

Sarah, the incredibly talented artist who put so much time and effort into taking my blurbs and turning them into visual art. I cannot thank you enough.

To The Golden Rejects, my writing group, I am forever in your debt for not only helping me get the best out of my work but for being an inspiration.

Thank you Timmy, for letting me take up the whole couch with all of my notes and print outs, highlighters and half finished meals. Your patience was incredible.

Preface

Bishop, New Hampshire

There was blood on her hands, and it was not hers. The brilliant shock of red that shimmered against her pale fingers bordered on hypnotic. Its thick coppery smell was the perfume of her prey. She could not ignore it. The metallic scent stirred the Creature within, waking it from the careful slumber she had locked it in. It pulsed and unfurled in the deepest part of the mind.

No, she whispered. Please don't.

The Beast, however, was not listening. It swam up from the depth of her core stretching out like a soul through the molasses of her subconscious. It was a shadow inside her mind waxing between her own self and a lupine creature.

The change happened in seconds that felt like hours. A dull angry ache began in her knuckles. She wrapped one hand over the other willing it to go no further. The feeling spread up her arm, becoming a harsh grate of tight tendons over bone. One bloody hand stretched forth of its own accord, elongating into claws.

No, she breathed through the blooming pain. Not here, not now.

Muscle, deaf to her pleas, slid beneath skin, becoming monstrous. The ache in her hand spread. Her wrist became thick with unnatural strength. The skin darkened, starting at the fingers and working its way up her arm.

No, damn it!

But the full moon was only three days away. Her mind was fuzzy with clear thoughts of blood and its promise of soft palatable flesh. A lupine creature moved inside her core, thrusting under her flesh, and turning the dull ache of her partially changed arm to a harsh