The Circulate Series

“I am a Lokoti Werewolf.” -- “Oh, is that a name for an ice hockey team, or something?” Career woman Jessica Tandy, has a rest stop in a tiny town called Alma, in the Alaska Range. Coming back from the ‘camping trip from hell’, with a cold and obnoxious boyfriend; she meets Flint Riverclaw, a Native Alaskan. The handsome stranger sees she’s unwell with her diabetes and insists on shouting her food and drink. He offers to take her to Anchorage, since her boyfriend who’s driving, has been drinking beer. Jessica accepts and the two continue to become acquainted, during the journey. Flint’s strong build, handsome features and kindness wins her over, so much so, she invites him into her hotel room. Although there are moments where he growled, his teeth felt sharp or she could have sworn his eyes glowed turquoise; Jessica rates it as her best sexual experience. The next morning, she tiptoes out when he’s still asleep, to catch her flight back to Seattle. However, she can’t get the man out of her mind as her body won’t stop shaking. She’s shocked three days later when out of the blue, Flint shows up at her apartment to tell her two things; he is a Lokoti Werewolf and she is his pregnant mate.

‘Scent’ is told in the first-person perspective of Bianca ‘B’ Wisetail. B is called the Last Circulator with no other Circulators born after her. She is the cherished only child of Jessica and Hunter Wisetail; a mother who is a Circulator and a father who is a Lokoti Werewolf. However on the night of a full moon before her 18th Birthday, a new surprising feature arises inside of B that throws the Lokoti Tribe’s long history of the ‘Lokoti Werewolf’ upside down. The world outside is recuperating after World War Three with the Lokoti Werewolves protecting the borders of the Lokoti National Park in Alaska against marauders. Inside the tribe, the families are closed-knit where everyone knows everyone. One of these families are the Sabre family who are the only non-Lokoti invited to live on tribal lands. As B is best friends with Derik who is the same age as she, it’s a different story with Derik’s older brother Declan. Declan is a European Werewolf and an honorary member of the male dominated Lokoti Werewolf pack. He and B grow up fighting each other just as Declan fights for the tribe’s safety as he patrols the borders with the other Werewolves. Declan’s sarcastic comments and his biting one-liners are constantly aimed B’s way. However after B’s change, their fiery exchange turns into something else... a forbidden love. Declan knows because of his breed of Werewolf that his secret affection for the tribe’s Last Circulator and first female Lokoti Werewolf would be frowned upon. European Werewolves are classified the most dangerous breed of Werewolf in the world. Although Declan was trained the Lokoti Werewolf way to curb his deadly hunger, prejudice still arises. Instead of Declan placing B on a pedestal? With his European Werewolf personality he pounced instead. European Werewolves just love a good fight, which was exactly what Declan got when he secretly chased the tribe’s only female Werewolf. From the mistrust towards his breed, Declan is forced to silently watch B’s arranged marriage to another member of the pack. Although her husband is a good man, B comes to miss the chemistry she shared with her supposed worst enemy. Navigating their rocky romance, B and Declan also have to contend with human looters carrying shotguns loaded with silver bullets, the odd European Vampire, other European Werewolves who are still man-eaters and even a sensitive issue that human couples may face; a barren marriage. With such an obstacle course that could make a new driver hug a traffic cone for comfort; B and Declan find not only passion but absolution in their bloodlust-fueled desires.

Claws come out in a Werewolf marriage; B Sabre is called the Last Circulator and the first female Lokoti Werewolf, whereas Declan Sabre is the last European Werewolf. These two love to fight just as much as they love to make love. In between, the two also like to travel the world. This results in meeting other supernatural beings, like Asian Werewolves, North American Werewolves, European Vampires, South American Vampires, Wiccans, Voodoo and even humans psychic’d up on Yaje. However, B and Declan still butt heads over a problem some couples face... B can’t conceive. Whereas he's relieved not to create more of his kind; she's sensitive over her condition. But just as Circulators are ever-changing as the universe, is her condition permanent?

B has finally achieved her hearts desire in the form of her pregnancy. Since Declan swore he wouldn’t create any more European Werewolves like himself; at first B’s condition hits him with horror. Then with his beloved mate’s determination to have the baby, he reluctantly participates in fatherhood. However, he’s not the only one who’s concerned over what genetic traits will emerge in their child; but the pack of Lokoti Werewolves are also on guard. When B and Declan start their family, they inadvertently start something else... further battles with the separate species of Vampires. The ‘fang heads’ who prey on humans, relish drinking the regenerative blood of Werewolves. So when they learn of their reproduction, Alaska’s river system turns red, as natural and supernatural blood is spilt whilst the eons old war of the predators’ rages.

How was the North American Vampire created? What is the mating habit of the Lokoti Werewolf? What connects Human/Animal Shape Shifters to psychics? What do South American Vampires have to do with the Aztec culture, or Human/Animal Shape Shifters to the Inca? Which supernatural creature is drawn to Leylines? Why do the species of Vampire hunt humans with auras? These are the classified reports made by the Circulator Elisha Worthall and the human Dr. Xavier Bell, who run the Supernatural Scientific Investigative Team (SSIT). Read about the physical appearances, abilities, history and methods of reproduction of the subjects in the reports. Travel around the world and through time as they explore fact vs fable, or truth vs myth.

The story of ‘Circulate’ is told via emails, text messages and diary entries of the 16 year old Australian character, Elisha Baker. The main character is sent overseas at first against her choice, to an international boarding school in Ontario, Canada called Hamilton’s College. As Elisha is adjusting to her new surroundings, by chance one late night she and two friends witness a supernatural occurrence. Elisha and her new friends then come to believe that this school is haunted and decide to investigate the apparitions and to ultimately understand why they were chosen. As they continue forward to find answers, they only seem to come across more questions. Feelings of mistrust begin to divide the new friendships and Elisha even begins to become suspicious of her teachers. The investigations come to a climatic end when one night, Elisha and her friends are caught breaking into the Principal’s office. That night they are told the truth by their teachers... that the ‘ghosts’ they believed they had seen, were in fact members of a secular group of time travelers from the Circulate. These people have the ability to phase through the layers of time and during this process, would appear ghostly to an outsider. From this, they also learn the reason why Elisha and the rest of the students had been invited to study at this College, is because they will also one day be able to do this too. From this moment onwards, Elisha and her friends’ whole perception of the world, space and time is changed. Everything that they had previously known or been taught, is turned upside down, as they relearn new angles to the previously established ideas in the world of modern man. Time is no longer linear and the history of mankind could be their playground. On Elisha’s first supervised excursion back through time, she is taken to an English Aristocratic Ball in 1755 AD. There she meets and becomes entranced by a young Navy Captain, Guy Robertson. The handsome man becomes the crush of the teenaged protagonist, so much so she risks expulsion from both her school and the Circulate; when she attempts to change the time line that records Captain Robertson as dying in the Battle of Plassey in 1757 under the command of Sir Clive of India.

Lucia becomes an older sister as B and Declan delight in their domestic bliss. However, raising half-breeds and training them not to hunt human is nothing compared to being hunted themselves. Whereas the parents and the pack prove willing and able to fight, B's visions as a 'Light Person' are darkened by what looms ahead. The Lokoti National Park turns into a battle ground, as the warfare of fang vs. claw takes place. Friends and family members are lost and the tribe is changed forever. Amidst the grief, further tragedy strikes with the arrival of B and Declan's third daughter. Although it seems Declan's nightmares have come true, B's real strength shines through.

Mali Roanne is a shy 16 year old girl who has just moved from Africa to an Alaskan town called Alma. As Mali tentatively begins a romantic relationship with Kevin Wisetail, she wonders why he, Lucia Sabre and Xenthe Creillaic, don’t come to school when it’s a full moon? Although her Lokoti friends welcome Mali and her mother into their lives, she suspects that they’re hiding a secret. It is after an attack made by a coven of North American Vampires; that Mali discovers the truth about her new boyfriend and friends. With her Extrasensory Perception, Mali is able to fit into her friends’ world of different breeds of Werewolves, separate species of Vampires and Circulators. Although the planet has entered the ‘Second Renaissance’ with advances in technology; Mali finds there still are man-eaters lurking in the dark corners.