Feral Moon
Author: Sabrina Silvers
Series: Dirigo Pack Series, #3
Publication date: April 4th 2023
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
A wolf lost to madness. A princess destined for another. A forbidden love that might save them all.
Maddox knows he’s losing his mind. He can feel his grip on reality slipping, just as it did for his father. The reason is simple. He’s waited too long to find his mate. With Moon Madness creeping in, he fears time has run out.
Until a kidnapped princess is dropped at his feet.
Kayleigh is the daughter of his greatest rival. Yet, the instant their eyes meet he feels the rush of the mate bond. Maddox aches to claim her as his own, but failure to return Kayleigh to her pack could start a bloody war.
Honor demands her freedom. Love requires their surrender.
an excerpt
A noise from the clearing drew her attention, and she opened the cabin door to see Maddox, naked, with a large deer slung over his back. He tossed it at the bottom of the steps and stared up at her. She swallowed hard, taking in the streaks of blood on his torso and tentative expression. If he’d been in wolf form, he would probably wag his tail, waiting for her approval. Guess it wasn’t only cats who brought “presents” to their humans.
“I hope you don’t think I’m going to butcher that thing and cook it. I get my meat from the grocery store like civilized people do.” She folded her arms and glared down at him.
A broad grin crossed his face, and he barked a laugh. “Of course you do. You know we’re wolves, right? We hunt these and eat them raw.”
His words brought an uncomfortable reality to the forefront. She hadn’t felt her wolf since that day in the forest when she’d woken up with Maddox. Granted, it hadn’t been long, and she’d been drugged for several days at least, but she’d never gone without feeling her wolf as a part of her, not since she started shifting at puberty. She felt like a piece of her soul was missing now. Icy fingers of fear crept along her spine. What if she never got her wolf back? What if those males did something to her? She couldn’t let Maddox know about this, not yet. Not being able to shift left her vulnerable, like any other human.
“Well, I’m not shifting and eating that raw.” She folded her hands and glared at him. “I hope you have a plan to butcher that thing so we can eat it like civilized people.”
He cocked his head, looking a little like the wolf half of him. “I’ve been hunting and eating in wolf form for weeks now. It hasn’t harmed me one bit. You could easily shift now. You’d heal those scratches on your feet and work the drugs out of your system faster too.”
She huffed, deliberately ignoring his direction to shift. “I’d say your manners leave much to be desired. You’re more feral than human.”
“And I’d take that as a compliment. I trust a wolf over a human any day.” He took a step forward, his gaze far too penetrating. “You didn’t answer me about shifting. Your feet have to be hurting and those drugs are still in your system. Your wolf can help you heal faster if you shift.”
She shook her head, hugging her arms around her body. “I’m not ready to do that, not yet. Maybe another day.”
He cocked his head to the side, looking far too much like the wolf half, as he studied her. “Why don’t you want to shift, Kayleigh?”
Why couldn’t he let this go? Plenty of packs only used their hunts for bonding and not for actual hunting, especially not for feeding, not when they had easier access to food. Hunting game was no longer necessary for survival.
A part of her wanted to trust him with her secret, wanted to share it, so she didn’t have to deal with it alone. Maybe he knew how to deal with it, could assure her that her fears were unfounded. But the other part of her wondered if she could trust him, even as her entire life was in his hands.
“Kayleigh? What’s going on?” His tone had the edge of alpha command in it without going full into the demand.
She sighed, tears pricking her eyes as her worry and stress finally spilled over. “I haven’t felt my wolf since I woke up in the forest. I thought maybe it was because I was drugged, so I couldn’t shift. But now, when I try to shift, there’s nothing there.” Her voice cracked on a sob, her arms wrapping around her body, pressing hard into her stomach. “Could they have done something to her? What if I never shift again? What did they do to me?”
He bounded up the stairs, completely ignoring the blood and nudity, and grasped her shoulders, forcing her to look into his eyes. “Kayleigh, you survived something very traumatic and came through it. They drugged you for who knows how many days and with who knows what. Your wolf is probably just sleeping. But if you’re really worried, I can ask my healer to come up here.”
The reluctance with which he stated the words told her how much he didn’t want to do that, but the fact that he offered spoke volumes. She shook her head. “I don’t know if a healer can help me. I don’t know if anyone can.”
about the author
Sabrina Silvers began her writing career dreaming of elves, orcs, and hobbits in the fantasy section of her local library, looking in wardrobes for Narnia and Aslan, and hunting for gnomes in the forest. To her dismay, she never found any of them except between the pages of her books. So, she had to go out and create them for herself, leading to her lifelong love of reading and writing and dreaming about adventures, fantasy creatures and love in fantasy lands! She divides her time between writing sexy contemporary romances under a different pen name, reading, knitting and being owned by a very spoiled cocker spaniel who does not share her love of fantasy creatures.
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