Moonlight: The Big Bad Wolf (Black Swan 4)

Moonlight: The Big Bad Wolf (
Black Swan 4)

Victoria Danann

Copyright 2013 Victoria Danann

Published by 7th House at Smashwords

Read more about this author and upcoming works at
VictoriaDanann.com

Smashwords License

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

Special THANK YOU'S...

Thank you to Kelly Danann who gave me the confidence to publish the first book.

Thank you to Julie Roberts, world's best editor.

Thank you to my friend and bridge partner, Michele Murphy. I'm so lucky to have a native French speaker to trust with my outrageous translations.

Victoria is a big fan of the Black Swan A Team.

Anna-Marie Coomber

Brandy Ralston

Christine Merritt

Cristi Riquelme

Dawn Dow

Dee Bowerman

Diane Nix

Elizabeth Quincy Nix

Joanette Fountain

JoBeth Sexton

Judy Fox

Kelli McDonald Young

Kim Staley Schommer

Leah Barbush

Leslie Miner

Lisa Jon Jung

Lovena Stover-Stump

Maggie Nolan

Mark Reeves

Megan Root

Nelta Baldwin Mathias

Pam James

Patricia Smith

Preksha Thaker Lakhia

Rochelle Taves

Sherry Evans Botelho

Tabitha Schneider

Talisa Martin

Teri Zuwala

Ticia Morton Hall

Tifinnie Henry

Tracie Runge

***

author's note...

One of the questions that I'm most often asked is, "What inspired this story?" Or, "How do you create your characters?"

For the first three books I was stumped for answer. The reason why I never knew how to answer these questions is because it doesn't
feel
like I
created
a story or characters. It feels like I'm just reporting events, chronicling the lives of certain "people" along with their friends, families, or associates.

Readers tell me they get the sense that the characters and world are so real that you might find them just around the next corner. I love hearing that because it's a reflection of my own perspective. I confess to entertaining the idea that I am reporting in fact on a world that is every bit as real as this - in a similar, but alternate dimension.

My best,

Victoria

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER_1

CHAPTER_2

CHAPTER_3

CHAPTER_4

CHAPTER_5

CHAPTER_6

CHAPTER_7

CHAPTER_8

CHAPTER_9

CHAPTER_10

CHAPTER_11

CHAPTER_12

CHAPTER_13

CHAPTER_14

CHAPTER_15

CHAPTER_16

CHAPTER_17

CHAPTER_18

CHAPTER_19

CHAPTER_20

CHAPTER_21

***

PROLOGUE

This series is also a serial saga in the sense that each book begins where the previous book ended.
READING IN ORDER IS
STRONGLY
RECOMMENDED
in order to fully enjoy the rich complexities of this tapestry in book form.

There is a very old and secret society of paranormal investigators and protectors known as The Order of the Black Swan. In modern times, in a dimension similar to our own, they continue to operate, as they always have, to keep the human population safe. For centuries they have relied on a formula that outlines recruitment of certain second sons, in their early, post-pubescent youth, who match a narrow and highly specialized psychological profile. Those who agree to forego the ordinary pleasures and freedoms of adolescence receive the best education available anywhere along with the training and discipline necessary for a possible future as active operatives in the Hunters Division. In recognition of the personal sacrifice and inherent danger, The Order bestows knighthoods on those who accept.

BOOK ONE.
The elite B Team of Jefferson Unit in New York, also known as Bad Company, was devastated by the loss of one of its four members in a battle with vampire. A few days later Elora Laiken, an accidental pilgrim from another dimension, literally landed at their feet so physically damaged by the journey they weren't even sure of her species. After a lengthy recovery, they discovered that she had gained amazing speed and strength through the cross-dimension translation. She earned the trust and respect of the knights of B Team and eventually replaced the fourth member, who had been killed in the line of duty.

She was also forced to choose between three suitors: Istvan Baka, a devastatingly seductive six-hundred-year-old vampire, who worked as a consultant to neutralize an epidemic of vampire abductions, Engel Storm, the noble and stalwart leader of B Team who saved her life twice; and Rammel Hawking, the elf who persuaded her that she was destined to be his alone.

BOOK TWO
. Ten months later everyone was gathered at Rammel's home in Derry, Ireland. B Team had been temporarily assigned to The Order's Headquarters office in Edinburgh, but they had been given leave for a week to celebrate an elftale handfasting for Ram and Elora, who were expecting.

Ram's younger sister, Aelsong, went to Edinburgh with B Team after being recruited for her exceptional psychic skills. Shortly after arriving, Kay's fiancé was abducted by a demon with a vendetta, who slipped her to a dimension out of reach. Their only hope to locate Katrina and retrieve her was Litha Brandywine, the witch tracker, who had fallen in love with Storm at first sight.

Storm was assigned to escort the witch, who slowly penetrated the ice that had formed around his heart when he lost Elora to Ram. Litha tracked the demon and took Katrina's place as hostage after learning that he, Deliverance, was her biological father. The story ended with all members of B Team happily married and retired from active duty.

BOOK THREE
. Istvan Baka was captured by vampire in the Edinburgh underground and reinfected with the vampire virus. His assistant, Heaven McBride, was found to be a "summoner", a person who can compel others to come to them when they play the flute. She also turned out to be the reincarnation of the young wife who was Baka's first victim as a new vampire six hundred years before.

Elora Laiken was studying a pack of wolves hoping to get puppies for her new breed of dog. While Rammel was overseeing the renovation of their new home, she and Blackie are caught in a snowstorm in the New Forest. At the same time assassins from her world, agents of the clan who massacred her family, found her isolated in a remote location without the ability to communicate. She gave birth to her baby alone except for the company of her dog, Blackie, and the wolf pack.

Heaven was instrumental in calling vampire to her so that they could be intercepted and given the curative vaccine. Baka was found, restored, and given the opportunity for a "do over" with the wife who had waited for many lifetimes to spend just one with him.