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Roxanne Smolen Fact and Fiction
Category:
Young Adult/Teen
Publisher: MoonRox, Incorporated
ISBN-10: 099156734X
Type: Fiction
Pages: 456
Copyright: October 13, 2015
ISBN-13: 9780991567348
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
Cody travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains to save a girl who is threatened by a super werewolf.
Werewolf Apocalypse, Book 4 of The Amazing Wolf Boy is now available in print or eBook at Amazon. Each book can be enjoyed alone. The Amazing Wolf Boy is different from other shifter stories in that there is no sex, bad language, or gore. There is, however, lots of humor and feel-good moments. The series is a perfect gift for your young adult reader.
Cody Forester is an average sixteen-year-old boy. All he wants is to sleep late, listen to his tunes, and go out with his girlfriend, Brittany. However, he’s also a werewolf with burgeoning supernatural powers that make even other werewolves uneasy. To his dismay, he has been named pack leader of a misfit group of six werewolves, three witches, and a pair of Native American shamans who can turn into bears.
His nemesis, Vilk Bodark, is a powerful werewolf with both hands in the crime underworld. When Bodark expands his territory into the Blue Ridge Mountains, taking over small towns along the way, Cody vows to stop him.
But when Cody and his pack arrive at McCaysville, Georgia, they find a vast network of werewolves and enslaved thralls. His pack wants to flee, but headstrong Cody leads them deeper into danger. Will his rash decisions leave them enthralled to Bodark’s will? How can they survive a werewolf apocalypse?
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Excerpt
ONE
June 27, 2008 Loxahatchee, Florida
I ran through the sawgrass, my sleek, silver paws eating the miles. Ayanna stayed on my flank. Perhaps she thought I planned to ditch her in unfamiliar territory. True, alpha werewolves tended to kill other alphas, but I wasn’t going to harm Ayanna.
I was her pack master. Even thinking the words made my stomach ache. I didn’t want to be responsible for anyone. I didn’t want to boss anyone around. I couldn’t imagine why the pack would want to follow me anyway. I was just a sixteen-year-old kid. All I wanted was to listen to my tunes and spend time with my girlfriend, Brittany. I wished things could go back to the way they were.
But I was pack master. A kind of mental web connected me to the others: five werewolves, three witches, and two medicine men who could turn into bears. I felt their presence in the back of my mind. Always there.
And just like that, something twanged in my head, and I knew William was nearby. I pulled up short, bristling. It was the middle of the night in the middle of the Everglades. What was my apprentice medicine man up to? I turned in the direction of the link, Ayanna trotting at my side.
We came out of the trees into an area of scorched land. I recognized where we were. I remembered this place as a sea of sawgrass—until a brushfire destroyed it. Acres of sweeping yellow-tipped grass became clumps of misshapen charcoal. Ash made me sneeze. As I stepped, puffs of black dust rose around my feet. Ayanna hesitated. I nuzzled her to keep moving. My responsibility.
Ahead, I saw the charred remains of a fishing cabin. William’s campfire flickered. We crossed the basin of a dry pond, the mud scarred and cracked. William’s voice drifted on the breeze, some sort of incantation. Then the breeze intensified.
Crap. I knew what he was doing.
The unnatural wind rose to a whirlwind of soot. Ayanna huddled against my side in the screaming air.
William’s voice bellowed, “To me.”
The wind dropped, ash bouncing down. William stood with his arms raised. Three golden panthers stood outside his conjuring circle. They snarled. William’s eyes widened as they attacked.
With a maddened roar, I leaped onto the panthers. They were quick, but I was bigger. And I had Ayanna, the she-devil. She fell upon them, all fangs and claws. We pulled them off William and chased them away. Ayanna wanted to pursue, but I called her back.
William was bloodied. He staggered to his feet. As he did, I shifted into my human form. That used to be a painful, drawn-out process, but now I could transform with barely a grunt. I stormed toward him. I don’t think I ever felt so angry.
“What did you think you were doing?” I yelled. I’d seen him conjure before, but smaller animals—like bunnies.
William’s eyes flashed. “I had it under control.”
“They would have killed you. Are you an idiot?”
“I was summoning,” he shouted. “I’m trying to learn.”
“Yeah, well, maybe you should ask your dad for help instead of winging it alone out here in the middle of nowhere.”
Howard Shebala, William’s father, was a Navajo medicine man. I knew he wouldn’t approve of what William was doing.
“His talents lean in a different direction,” William said. “He has no interest in controlling nature.”
“Maybe you should listen to him. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.”
“And who are you all of a sudden, my second father?” he yelled. “Cody Forester, our great pack master. You think you can lord over me, tell me what to do?”
“I’m trying to help.” You’re my responsibility. I sighed and rubbed my face. “Look. Next time, wear your hide belt so you can transform into a bear if you get into trouble.”
He looked like he wanted to argue. Then he dropped his head. “Yeah.”
I put my hand on his shoulder. “What do you say you go home now?”
“Perhaps you should go home as well. And put on some pants.”
My stomach sank with dawning realization. I was naked. I looked over at Ayanna. She gave me a doggy grin. Crap. Why did everything happen to me?
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