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Werewolf Ted Brand had not had an easy life. His soulmate Shan is a wolf & his twin cubs change into human children when the moon is full. Fortunately, he found Bulfinche's Pub where folks don't look down on his lifestyle choices. In a flash, his life has completely unraveled. Ted has been beaten, his family taken by another more powerful werewolf. To make matters even worse, he has found out Paddy Moran has kept secrets in order to protect him. To track down and save his family, Ted will have to unlock the secrets of the werewolf in order to stop the rogue D.M.A. agent Buck Lang. His quest will take him from the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Department of Mystic Affairs to the Eternity Club in Philadelphia. Ted thinks he has to go it alone, but the staff & patrons of Bulfinche's Pub take care of their own, whether they want it or not. With the help of the cursed magí Hex, vampyre Lucas Wilson, two former Knights of the Round Table, & bartender John Murphy, Ted will get his family back, no matter who or what stands in the way.
The patrons of Bulfinche’s Pub speak out on THE SHADOW OF THE WOLF: “DESTINED TO BE A CLASSIC.” -MURPHY’S MOM “A BOOK WORTHY OF A KING. HERE KING...” -Sir Dagonet, The Infinite Jester, former Knight of the Round Table “RED HOT STUFF!” -Mox Monroe, Department of Mystic Affairs agent, fire demigoddess “ON THE ADVICE OF MY ATTORNEY, I CANNOT COMMENT ON THE EVENTS OF THIS BOOK.” -Buck Lang, rogue DMA agent, werewolf |
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Lastly, the intruder turned his attention on our host, but Ted was a split second faster. He already had closed the distance between himself and the attacker. Ted wrapped his hands around the man-wolf’s throat. The intruder laughed. His laugh was a dark thing, not the growl of a wolf or the sound of a man, but some sort of freakish hybrid.
“Pitiful. You can’t even transform without the moon, can you?”
With hand-paws, the man wolf grabbed Ted’s arms and bent them back. Ted’s grip was forced open and he went down on one knee.
“Who are you?” demanded Ted.
“I thought that your friends would have told you about me by now, if for nothing else than the curiosity value.”
A light went on in Ted’s head. “You’re Buck.”
Buck laughed again, and it wasn’t any more pleasant the second time. “Very good.”
“What the hell are you doing? I thought you were a federal agent,” said Ted, pulling his arms free and stepping back while simultaneously kicking out at Buck’s hind knee. Buck was just a split second faster and moved before the blow could connect.
“I am, and I’m here in that capacity. I have a warrant,” said Buck.
“A warrant? But I haven’t done anything,” said Ted.
This time Buck snickered, and it wasn’t any more pleasant than his laugh. “Oh, the warrant’s not for your arrest. It’s for the retrieval of property, namely those half-breed pups and their mother,” said Buck.
“I’ll kill you before I let you take my family,” said Ted, launching himself at Buck’s gut. Buck stepped back, but not quite fast enough. Ted caught him around the mid-section. Buck spun back, while simultaneously striking a blow between Ted’s shoulder blades. Ted fell to the floor.
“You are one sick S.O.B. Not only do you do it with a real wolf, but you pretend to marry her because you knocked her up. I wouldn’t do that with a human woman, let alone with a wolf bitch,” said Buck. “However, your offspring have many potential uses, which is why the federal government is confiscating them.”
“That’s my family. We have rights,” said Ted, still easing himself up from the floor.
“You do, but as far as the federal government is concerned your so-called family is just a bunch of animals. Hell, you don’t even have them licensed, I bet. The government can do whatever it wants with them.”
“You touch my family, I’ll kill you,” growled Ted.
“Too late and doubtful,” said Buck, smiling through the fur on his face.
The time for words had ended. Ted again launched himself at Buck, but Buck had been expecting him this time. The agent merely stepped aside while reaching out and adding to Ted’s momentum, tossing him out the same window that Buck had smashed in. As Ted landed and tumbled across the lawn, Buck gracefully leapt out the window to stand beside him. Ted rolled to avoid Buck’s fist smashing downward and bumped into a large steel-mesh cage, lined with silver. He looked up and saw his family.
“No!” Ted reached up and tried to yank the lock off with his bare hands, but the metal would not bend.
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