Sorority Wolf
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Sorority Wolf
Copyright © 2014 by Rebecca Royce
ISBN: 978-1-61333-729-5
Cover art by Syneca Featherstone
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Tempting her Tiger by Virginia Cavanaugh
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Initiation
Driven
Bar Mate
Out of Place Mate
Mate by the Music
Unwanted Mate
Behind the Scenes
Believe in Me
Embraced
Eye Contact
Rebirth
Subversive
Return to the Sea
I’ll be Mated by Christmas
One Night With a Wolf
Forever
Love in One Night
Hexed and Vexed
Justice
February Lover
Sorority Wolf
By
Rebecca Royce
Dear Reader,
Welcome to autumn, 2014. It’s a time for pumpkin spice lattes, cooling days, and kids
heading back to school. I swear it feels like just yesterday that we were doing this
last year. You know, I have a deep and abiding love for paranormal romance. I actually
fell in love with urban fantasy and by extension paranormals thanks to two authors:
Anne Rice and Emma Bull. If you’ve never checked them out, you should.
Fortunately, in the years since I read those the genre of paranormal romance has grown
by leaps, shifts, fangs, and fur. I’ve always had a soft spot for shifter romance,
and if you told me a book had wolves or cats or bears in it—well, I was so there.
This hasn’t changed, not one bit. I don’t think there’s enough shifter romance in
the world, but I did want to see more—what happens when young shifters leave their
packs? What if they go off to school? How do they start over? How does a young wolf
or cat or bear or any young person really make that final leap to adulthood?
I am thrilled to introduce Decadent ROAR as an answer to those questions. The line
is dedicated to featuring stories about young weres and shifters who have come of
age but now must determine the path of the rest of their lives. It's an exciting time
of making your own decisions and not having to seek permission, but freedom always
comes with a cost. Fortunately for these burgeoning adults, they have the ROAR hotline
to reach out to.
Run by the mysterious siblings Hui and Min, 555-ROAR is a line shifters can text or
call for help, whether it’s,
What’s the best spot to hunt
, or
I’m in danger. What should I do
? It’s a helpline, and a lifeline in some cases. Growing up is hard—being an adult
is harder.
So what do we have to kick you off as ROAR launches a new school year? How about a
mongrel attending college close to home who must contend with a sexy Alpha and his
pride moving into her region? That’s the problem Mischief “Missy” Jones faces in
Mischief, Mongrels & Mayhem
by Heather Long.
Pledging a sorority can be hell, but is it so bad when you have a demon on your side?
Werewolf Alexandra will have to decide when Kieran promises to turn over heaven and
hell to help her out in
Sorority Wolf
by Rebecca Royce.
Not everyone gets encouragement when they head off into the big, bad world on their
own. This couldn’t be more true for fragile and abused Riletta who’s dumped at school
with no options, no fallback, and no hope—that is until delicious Macen intervenes
in the hot ride that is
Phoenix Rising
by Cara Carnes.
Choosing college can be a grueling experience, but, then again, so can diving into
adulthood and taking responsibility for your actions. Samira faces s a lot of hard
choices, none tougher than accepting human Gavin might be her mate in Lia Davis’
Imperfect Mates
.
Life is what happens when you’re not paying attention, and the best things don’t always
occur in the order you expect. They sure don’t for Avery and Declan. Both are busy
setting up their lives but the allure of mating throws them for a loop in Brandy Walker’s
Shifted Plans
.
Attracting attention from the male species is a hard job, even more so when that male
is a shifter. Some lines, though, are hard to cross, and Jordan will fight his attraction
to his best friend’s sister, Stacia, with everything he has in
Tempting her Tiger
by Virginia Cavanaugh.
Ultimately, the question these six stories must answer is not who will they be as
adults, but who are they? How do they reconcile everything they've ever known with
what can be? It's a new type of shifter romance, with all the love and passion required
to achieve a happily ever after....
Thank you for joining us as we launch a hot new series—we’ll do our best to make every
single tale memorable.
Happy Reading!
Heather Long and
Decadent Publishing
~Dedication~
To Heather Long, for so much.
The wind blew hard against him, and his body acted as a natural resistance to the
onslaught of a Massachusetts winter. Three months into the school year, November had
hit the northeastern part of the United States with a vengeance. Any sane person would
be inside where it was warm. But
she
had come outside, and he’d followed—as though a length of invisible rope connected
him to her.
He loved to watch her.
The way she moved. The way she sometimes didn’t move.
He rubbed the stubble on his chin. How long had it been since he’d shaved? A day?
A week? A month? The longer he spent with the humans, the more his body adapted to
their form, which was exactly what he’d planned and why he’d risked everything to
come to Northern Tide University. The more time he spent in this dimension, the less
he had to try to resemble them.
Not understanding total assimilation was exactly what he craved, his father had warned
him this would happen as if blending would deter him from his plan.
Only he hadn’t counted on
her
.
Alexandra Morgan
.
She stood staring up at a white sorority house at the very top of the Greek hill the
university was so proud of. Queen House—the one to rule them all—where dreams of young
girls were crushed on a regular basis. All the female students desired to be
Lambda Chi Sigma
. The smartest, prettiest, strongest-willed women the university produced came from
the sorority housed there. But first, they had to be accepted into the hallowed halls.
Unbeknownst to the human population of the school, LCS took only one type of student—female
werewolves. No matter how many human girls threw their best smiles, hopes, dreams,
and money at LCS, they would never be offered the opportunity to pledge. Unless they
shifted under the full moon, they were no one.
If he wasn’t mistaken, Alexandra met that particular requirement.
So, why was she so nervous?
“Hey, Alexandra.” The others in her dorm called her Alex, but the nickname didn’t
suit her. She embodied the nobility of Alexandra. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed with the
cutest cleft in her chin. He wanted to run his human hands all over her luscious curves
until he made her squirm with pleasure. Another symptom of his apparent internal change.
Sex had been the last thing on his radar when he’d arrived on campus.
“Kieran.” She jerked, placing a hand over her heart as she laughed.
Jumpy for a werewolf
….
“What are you doing out here? It’s cold.” For a human, she meant. She’d not feel the
chill any more than he did. But she couldn’t know about his resistance or that he
knew her secret.
He shrugged and pushed the glasses he didn’t need back up on his nose. He might need
them soon with the way his body had changed—continued to change—but for the moment,
they were for show.
“That’s what jackets are for.” He pulled at the sleeve of his leather coat.
“Oh.” She blushed. He resisted the urge to rub his hand over the touch of pink on
her cheeks. Weird behavior wouldn’t do.
“What are you doing out here?” A repeat of her earlier question. She seemed to want
an actual answer. Alexandra smiled, and for a second, he forgot to breathe.
“I could ask you the same thing. Planning on pledging there tomorrow? You freshman
girls are all the same. Dreaming of your Greek letters and the privileges associated
with them.”
She snorted. “I could say the same to you. You’re a Sigma guy, aren’t you? And a senior.
So when you started, you must have been standing in line to rush with all the other
freshman guys.”
Well, no, that hadn’t been him. His body, yes, but he would never have bothered with
the show. As it was, he barely refrained from committing mass murder every week at
his fraternity meetings. “That was then. This is now. I have other…interests taking
up a lot of my time.”
“Such as?”
He grinned. The woman needed to learn to watch the growl in her voice if she didn’t
wish the humans to find out about her. A lot of the newly arrived wolves had the same
problem. They’d never lived anywhere except around other wolves before college.
“Are you okay? Something in your throat?”
“Oh.” Her face heated up again. “Maybe I have allergies.”
“Ah. I see.” He nodded and stared at the house she watched. Why was she worried? She
was a werewolf. They took werewolves as their pledges. Boom. Done deal. Moving on.
“You didn’t answer my question.”
He cocked his head to the side. “What question?”
“What do you do if you’re not invested in Greek life anymore? I really need to know.
In case I don’t get in. What will I do for the next four years?”
“I study.”
Her frown said she’d been hoping to hear a different answer.
Kieran had his goals, and nothing would get in his way. Studying fell into the required
category. Maybe he didn’t have to make it so dour for her. “And I’ve gotten very involved
with politics on campus. It’s good positioning for later in life.”
“If you say so.” She pointed at LCS. “My mother was a sister there. My grandmother,
too.”
“So then what are you worried about?” And why did he care? This werewolf woman was
taking way too much of his time and energy. Five hundred new freshmen every year and
he fixated on this one? Why? Tons of women were beautiful. It wasn’t as though he
could ever date her. A werewolf wouldn’t work for his ultimate plan.
“My mother didn’t leave on good terms.” She sucked in her breath. “But I guess it
shouldn’t matter. I’m a legacy; they’ll take me.”
Her words resonated in his brain. He knew what his body had suffered during pledging.
The hell his so-called brothers had put him through before he’d been initiated into
his letters were stored in his mind. And those frat brothers had liked him, had asked
him to be a brother. What would happen to this little werewolf if they didn’t wish
for her? If they were forced to take her because of legacy rules?
He shook his head. “Well, I guess…good luck.”