Werewolves of Washington Series

What would you do if you went into the hospital after an accident - and came out a werewolf? How would you keep your parents from finding out, attend a family gathering at full moon, and deal with an older werewolf who thinks he's the boss of you? How would you find out how you got infected? Creede White has a big challenge ahead of him, and it's going to get ugly before the end. (Book 1 in the 'Part of the Pack' series)

Sheriff's Deputy Jack Herschel has a problem. He's been assigned to investigate a few minor anomalies in an autopsy report, and it leads him to a local pack of werewolves. Herschel doesn't believe in werewolves. So much the worse for him. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it remains to be seen what happens when you investigate a werewolf. Meanwhile, Creede White learns to hold his own against a bully in the pack, and his sister Mandy discovers that being the sexiest thing on four legs brings out all kinds of predators. Second in a series.

Mitch Phillips is a petty lifetime criminal, the kind of guy who makes others' lives harder in his search for Easy Street and beer. He got more from his arrest for joyriding than bed and board at county expense, though: Mitch is a werewolf now. Poor Mitch. There isn't anyone to teach him right from wrong, even if he wants to learn. Everything he knows he learned from popular movies, and that can't possibly end well for him, Jack Herschel's Colville pack, or anyone who gets between him and Easy Street. Meanwhile, Creede and Rosemary move to Missoula so Creede can try to get into law school at the University of Montana, adopting other packs' rejects and growing a pack of their own. Unfortunately, the area has already been claimed by none other than Brant Durrell, the jerk they used to deal with in Spokane. Jack needs to find Mitch now. Creede needs to find a way to deal with Brant. And oh, yeah, just exactly who is this Skyhawk fellow, anyway?

With Creede getting along well in college, and Mandy settled in Spokane with her new husband, waiting for their baby to be born, everything's going to be just fine for the young Colville werewolves, right? Um, wrong. Benny Altos, Creede's old frenemy who can't let go of a grudge, is about to learn that karma's a bitch. Meanwhile, Jack's still balancing lycanthropy with his job as a Stevens County Sheriff's Deputy and learning that managing a pack is a lot like managing any other group of people thrown together by chance: politics, politics, politics. And teeth. It'd sure help if he could become a true Alpha. If only he knew how. And then there's Sharon, Creede and Mandy's mother, who still doesn't know about her childrens' secret. She's caught between Benny and his grudge, and it's going to cost her. There is one big consolation, though: she's going to have a grandbaby. A sweet, round, cuddly baby. Unless of course it's not a baby at all.

Frank Mellencourt is a werewolf by choice and a member of the Spokane pack by happenstance. He isn't happy, though. The pack Alpha grates on him, the Beta is worse, and he's having problems at home with a wife who doesn't know his secret. Something's going to give. Tobias James and Tam Franklin, members of the Gladstone pack, have a mission if they choose to accept it: take over the Spokane pack by any means necessary. Frank doesn't like them, either. For Tobias, Spokane is the city from which he moved as a young man. Going back means making peace with his ailing, elderly father. For Frank, Spokane represents a threat to his wife, and no one is allowed to threaten her but him.

Mitch Phillips disappeared after his devastating attack on Amandine, Deputy Jack Herschel's wife. You know the saying 'You can't keep a good man down'? You can't keep a bad man down, either, especially if he's not a man at all. Amandine isn't going to just roll over: she's investigating something that will take out the troublemaker once and for all, even if she has to test it on herself, first. In Missoula, Creede's pack is coming together into a comfortable family. Some of them are even dating each other. But why shouldn't they? After all, when your partner is also a wolf, there's one secret you don't have to keep. Meanwhile, Brant is one paycheck away from being homeless, and he doesn't have a job anymore. This bodes very badly for him. Fortunately, Skyhawk is there to help. Or is he? Will there be justice in the end? Or will it merely be revenge?

A fisherman on the Clark Fork River finds a skull along the riverbank, and a door that linked Creede's pack in the Bitterroot Valley to Mitch Phillips -- lifetime criminal and one-time werewolf -- is opened once more. The pack doesn't need the trouble: Creede is up to his eyeballs in his studies, and Rosemary feels like a Law School Widow. They're worried about the chance of discovery, but determined to go on as if everything is perfectly normal, including socializing with Creede's friends from the university. Unfortunately, a young local boy goes missing on a camping trip, and the wolves are left to make a choice: Do they preserve their secret, or do they lend their talents to the search?

Amandine Herschel, Alpha female of the Colville, Washington werewolf pack, has grown used to being a wolf. What she cannot ever accept is the risk of discovery this fact brings every day of her life. She's determined to find a cure, even if it kills her. But what if there were a cure? Who would take it? Who would refuse? And what would that do to the social fabric of the packs? A cure isn't as black and white a prospect as it seems.

Kids will be kids - even werewolf cubs. They're not good at keeping secrets, and little boys often collect cuts and bruises the way they collect bugs and rocks. When William meets his grandpa Brian, Mandy has to try to find a way to let her son have a grandparent, and keep her volatile father from discovering the truth. Meanwhile, Skyhawk finds his life situation going pear-shaped. From the oil fields of North Dakota to ... somewhere ... he needs to find a place to live, but most of his bridges were burned long ago. Creede is still forging ahead with his legal career, but as if that weren't enough, now he has to juggle a prodigal or two. Will he kill the fatted calf?