Mated to the Warrior Beast
[COMPLETE] What life is left for a warrior when there is no more enemy to fight? ...He knelt before her in the posture of a soldier giving honor to their Queen. And she didn't even know it. “Harth," he rasped, "I come empty-handed. I bring no weapon. Because I swear to you, I will never choose to harm you. Never draw your blood—in anger, or in fear. I bring no shield. Because I vow I will never defend myself from your eyes, your hands, your mind. I am yours.” ***** After a year of peace in Anima, Tarkyn finds himself... lonely. As the Captain of the Queen's Guard and a lion-shifter, he has met every female in the tribes, but never found his mate. Certain he must have overlooked someone, Tarkyn undertakes a grueling ritual, pleading with the Creator to reveal her. But the ritual presses him to the end of even his formidable strength. Yet, the Creator heard his cry... Discovered on the brink of death by his mate, Harth, and nursed back to health, Tarkyn now faces the most difficult battle of his life. Because Harth isn’t just a stranger to the Anima, she is a weapon of the humans who tried to destroy them. Can the love of a warrior and his enemy bring peace to Anima? Or will they be torn apart forever by war between their peoples? ***** STANDALONE STORY: While Tarkyn's story is a part of the Anima world and fans will be reunited with some of their favorites as side-characters, Tarkyn and Harth are new POV characters and their story is a new plot arc, so their story can be enjoyed without reading the previous books! But please add Falling in Love with the King of Beasts, and Taming the Queen of Beasts to your library to enjoy later! Cover Art by artist: Aenaluck. Find more incredible art and support the artist on www.patreon.com/aenaluck
A Different Kind of Sh*tshow – Part 3
~ GAR ~
Gar sighed and pulled Rika in tighter against his ribs, stroking a strand of hair from her face, half-hoping that she'd wake up and pull his thoughts away from impossible problems that he couldn't solve. But she was exhausted. Had barely slept while they'd been apart. And now with him there—laying in his "big, manly arms" as she put it—she'd gone out like a light.
So Gar stared at the ceiling and set his mind to the problem that he could bear to think about.
Pegg could shift. That, in and of itself, would have been a massive revelation. But the reason Pegg had been shocked… that was an earthquake that threatened to shift the plates under this entire conflict with the Chimera.
Something was killing the Creatures.
Creatures, the Chimera who lived in twisted, half-human, half-beast forms, who were supposedly the human "accidents"—never able to shift, never able to reproduce, always male and always one of a kind…