Insane: Werewolf Keep Trilogy, #0

By Nhys Glover

Loved Werewolf Keep?
Then you'll love this unlikely romantic couple

This bite-sized Werewolf Keep novella is a prequel to the trilogy and follows the adventures of Charlie Hughson, a feisty blue-stocking, as she attempts to help a man with no name, on trial for murder, and about to be condemned to an insane asylum.

After being found unconscious beside the body of a man whose throat has been torn out, ex-priest and Opera singer, Juan Alvarez, has just spent the last three weeks in a foul prison cell, awaiting trial. Filthy, bloody and near-starving, with eyes that tell of a journey to hell and back, he is hardly a Victorian lady's dream of the perfect gentleman.

But Charlie will go to outrageous and inappropriate lengths to safeguard and stay beside the man who has stolen her heart.

Even if that man turns out to be a werewolf.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nhys Glover
• Release date: Dec 10, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223206613

Nhys Glover

After a lifetime of teaching others to appreciate the written word, Aussie author Nhys Glover finally decided to make the most of the Indie Book Revolution to get her own written word out to the world. Now, with more than a quarter million of her ebooks downloaded internationally and a winner of an SFR Galaxy Award for 'The Titan Drowns', Nhys finds her words, too, are being appreciated. At home in beautiful Durham County England, Nhys these days spends her time "living the dream" by looking out over the moors as she writes the kind of novels she loves to read.

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OTHER BOOKS BY NHYS GLOVER

ANCIENT ROMAN HISTORICAL ROMANCES:

Liquid Fire

The Barbarian's Mistress

Lionslayer's Woman (Sequel to Liquid Fire)

White Raven's Lover (Sequel to Barbarian's Mistress)

The Gladiator's Bride (Sequel to White Raven's Lover)

WEREWOLF KEEP TRILOGY:

Guardian of Werewolf Keep

Imprisoned at Werewolf Keep

Defiance at Werewolf Keep

Insane (A novella)

NEW ATLANTIS TIME TRAVEL SERIES:

Nine Lives (Cara/Jac)

The Dreamer's Prince (Jane/Julio)

Savage (Faith/ Luke)

Shared Soul (Maggie/Travis)

Bitter Oath (Liv/ Rene)

The Titan Drowns (Eilish/Max, Karl/Lizzie, Pia/Marco)

The Key (Kat/Bart)

Pieces (Krista/Dirk)

Second Chance (Bree/Hakon)

Watcher (Jin/Rafe)

Vision of You (Ellen/Duke)

Osiris (Takhara/Dan)

Causality (Willow/Jarvidh)

Gods of Time (Teagan/Jason, Lucien/Alba)

Book of Seeds (Shay/Cy)

Echoes of You (Josie/Chen)

Breathe (Meg/Rico)

SCORPIO SONS SF/SHIFTER ROMANCE SERIES:

1: Colton  2: Connor  3: Cooper  4: Chase

5: Cameron  6: Caleb  7: Conrad  8: Charles

GREYWORLD SWEET PARANORMAL ROMANCE

Your World or Mine?

Her World or Ours?

Their Worlds Collide

His World on Repeat

REVERSE HAREM ADVENTURES:

THE AIRLUDS TRILOGY:

The Sacrifice

The Chosen One

Goddess Unbound

THE AIRSHAN CHRONICLES

The Five

Daemon

The Devourer

GLADIATOR

1. Typhon  2.Asterius  3. Talos  4.Orion  5.Marcus

THE DANANS

Captive

Escape

Reunion

Outliers

Gift

Shattered

Stolen

PROTECTORS

Sand, Stone & Steel

Ice, Shard & Smoke

Blade, Hilt & Amphion

Galaxeans

Shadow

ALFIE WIMPLE TRILOGY (Paranormal Romantic Comedy)

Sticks and Standing Stones Can Break my Bones

But Ferrets Can Never Hurt Me

Dragons, On the Other Hand...

MINERVA’S MYSTERIES (Cozy Mysteries)

The Lost Child

The Missing Party-Girl

The Troubled Man

OTHERS:

The Way Home (Ghost Romance)

Caught in a Dream (SF Sweet Romance)

Labyrinth of Light (New Age Inspirational)

For Love of Liam (A Sweet Romanic Comedy)

Haunted (A sweetish Romantic Mystery)

Return to Me (New Age Healing Romance)

Find out more about Nhys and her books here:

www.nhys-glover.com

CHAPTER ONE

What do you do when your heart is stolen? Painfully. Ecstatically. Impossibly. That was the question reverberating through Charlie’s mind as she stared at the man in chains before her.

He wasn’t much to look at. In normal circumstances, she would have turned her gaze away from the sight of someone as filthy and unkempt as he. The smell issuing from his general direction was more than enough to have her reaching for the vinaigrette in her reticule.

But there had been a strange, out-of-time moment between them. She’d glanced at him as she took in the noisy courtroom of the Old Bailey. In that exact moment, he’d looked up as he was being led into the docks. His gaze had snagged hers and something electric had passed between them.

Charlie caught her breath, the vinaigrette meant for her nose clutched to her breast instead. Her heart chittered away in her chest like angry magpies protecting their nest. Swallowing became a conscious effort as her mouth dried out and felt as parched as the papers her father rustled in front of him.

And still she hadn’t been able to break the stare, her eyes drinking in every minute detail of him: tall, something over six feet, skinny to the point of emaciated, but with a breadth of shoulder that seemed too wide for his bony frame; long, filthy black hair hanging lank around his face; dark olive skin, a foreigner’s colouring, mottled from lack of sunlight and bruising; unshaven cheeks grown into a straggly black beard; and large, intelligent brown eyes, fringed by thick dark lashes, sunk deep into the cavernous hollows of his thin face.

Those eyes told her more with every passing second that their gazes remained meshed. They were wild, knowing eyes that seemed to comprehend the depths of hell. Haggard, tortured and mad eyes.

But in that endless moment, Charlie felt her heart ripped from her chest. She felt it burst free with glorious abandon; pouring forth all of her myriad hopes and dreams onto this one filthy stranger, a criminal in the docks. Tears stung her eyes as the joy of recognition settle in.

She was lost.

‘Charlie, what is wrong, lass? You are staring in a most unladylike manner,’ her father, Barnaby Hughson, demanded.

Charlie registered his words, heard the concern in his tone. But, for the life of her, she couldn’t form words