The Truth About Familiars
By Michele Hauf
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The prequel to FAMILIAR STRANGER, and a new release in the Dark Enchantments series by USA Today Bestselling author Michele Hauf:
He was supposed to be researching night hounds. Caratacus Bane, member of the secret hermetic order, The Cadre, was perfectly happy traveling the world in search of the elusive beast. Until a familiar stumbled across his path and purred her way into his heart.
Mirabelle isn’t supposed to be enslaved to the witch, and she is trying to escape so she can have a good life as a free, shape-shifting familiar. First sight of the handsome man in the forest and she knows he’s the one who can free her—and maybe even give her a happily ever after.
Michele Hauf
Michele Hauf lives in Minneapolis and has been writing since the 1990s. A variety of genres keep her happily busy at the keyboard, including historical romance, paranormal romance, action/adventure and fantasy.
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The Truth About Familiars - Michele Hauf
THE TRUTH ABOUT FAMILIARS
Copyright © 2018 by Michele Hauf
Cover design by Michele Hauf.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments or events or locales is entirely coincidental.
This digital edition published by Swell Cat Press, LLC.
The World of Dark Enchantments
Welcome to St. Yve Estate. If you are pure of heart and can get past
the threshold guardians, you’re invited to enter the castle gates. Do
not mind the gargoyles, their giant wings will protect you. Come
inside the Manor and meet the Cadre, a secret order established four
hundred years ago, comprised of both mortals and otherworldly beings.
We have the talents we need to study paranormal creatures, to
experiment and capture them, and sometimes to return the evil ones to
the otherworld. Our goal is to keep the human world safe from darkness
and to maintain the delicate balance between the mortal and the dark
realms.
Along with the peaceful science geeks at the university's Department
of Anachronistic Research, and the relentless and deadly agents of the
highly covert branch of the British Security Service called P-Cell,
together we fight the evil powers gathering in the dark realm that
would do all of us harm.
So you can sleep at night undisturbed, knowing we are here, working to
protect you.
Mostly.
Enjoy your visit to St. Yve, but don’t stay too long. Once the sun
goes down, humans who wander into the enchanted faerie wood at night
can never find their way out again. And then, nothing can help you...
Here are the other novellas and novels in the DARK ENCHANTMENTS series. They do not have to be read in a specific order.
These novels were originally published by Silhouette Nocturne in 2007, and have been updated by the authors:
NIGHT MISCHIEF by Nina Bruhns
THE VAMPIRE’S RECKONING by Cynthia Cooke (formerly titled Rising Darkness)
SAVING DESTINY by Pat White
FAMILIAR STRANGER by Michele Hauf
The following novellas are brand-new 2018 releases:
LORD WESTON, VAMPIRE SLAYER by Nina Bruhns
THE DRAGON’S WOMAN by Cynthia Cooke
SECRET SEDUCTION by Pat White
THE TRUTH ABOUT FAMILIARS by Michele Hauf
The Truth About Familiars
Chapter 1
Caratacus Bane slipped on wet grass and moss as he made his way through the enchanted forest. Midnight enhanced the full moon’s glow. Somewhere. Clouds blocked his view of the mistress moon. Rain had been falling for twenty minutes. Time to head in and dry off. He would find no night hounds this evening. And if he did get so lucky? His camera was wet. He’d not anticipated the weather changing so quickly.
Striding surely down a sort-of path that wended its way through the forest surrounding his cottage, his rubber boots cracked wet branches. Rain pattered his soaked shirt. The camera clattered against the shoulder holster D-rings that held a knife and his standard gear, a salt-round pistol.
It was never wise to go traipsing around on a night hound hunt without the proper weapons. But his most important item was beyond hope. Despite tucking it into his waistband, the notebook he used to jot down information and research