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Cold Hard Ground by Ariel Millar
Carpe Noctem, Book 1
Kor: As an Alpha of the First War, the only thing I had ever known was battle.
Captured, bound, and unable to see, I wasn’t the sort of Alpha to give up without a fight.
Escape turned out to be the easy part, but coping with everything else threatened to drop me to my knees. Learning that my injuries were permanent made me question my abilities as an Alpha, but when my Wolf wanted to bond with the human who had been brought in along with me, I started to question my sanity. Never mind that I had no time for a mate, there was no way the resistance would follow a blind Alpha with a human as his bonded. Still, they had little choice. More of our people were going missing every day, and it was starting to look like the corruption was going all the way to the top.
Misha: I never believed the madness of my father would one day turn on me.
Held prisoner in a genetic lab, rescue came at the hands of a Wolf, and the promise that they could figure out what sort of experiments my father was working on me. The pain was overwhelming, and it wasn’t until I saw glowing orange eyes in the mirror that I realized what was happening. I was turned. I was an abomination, and unlikely to survive.
And I might have welcomed death if it hadn’t been for the blind Alpha whose soul wrapped around mine. When his lips called me his, I knew I had to fight. There was a war looming, and mistrust everywhere we turned, but I knew if anyone could protect his people and end the suffering of both humans and Wolves, it was the one who called me mate.
Cold Hard Ground is the first book in a Dystopian MM Werewolf trilogy featuring A/B/O hierarchy with no mpreg, mild violence, and a happily ever after.
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Rolling onto my side, I saw Kor was in a chair at the side of the bed.
He didn’t lift his head, but a smile tugged at the edges of his lips when he realized I was awake. “I thought I was gonna have to call Danyal to come in and give you a shot of adrenaline to wake you up.”
I dragged a hand down my face, then pushed up to sit. “How long was I out?”
Kor grimaced as he stood, his hands stretched out for the bed railing. “No idea. I’m still kind of struggling with telling how much time is passing.”
I had forgotten that so much was probably lost to him until he had more tech, but he didn’t seem too put out about it when I dragged my fingers along the tops of his knuckles. “So, visiting hours, or…?”
“I brought you clothes,” he said, and I noticed then a shopping bag sitting on the end of the bed. “Shoes too. I never even asked if you were barefoot back at the safe house.”
I thought about the way my feet had been torn to shreds as we were running. “Yeah, I was. Uh… thanks, I guess?”
Kor huffed quietly, and I could sense a sort of subvocal growl underneath it which trembled in my sternum. “We’re leaving. There’s a car out front waiting for us.”
My heart hammered in my chest. It couldn’t be real, but Kor didn’t seem like the kind of person who would joke about something like this. “Why?”
“Because I’m the Head Alpha of this compound now,” Kor said, and he grinned toothily with a hint of fang. “They’re not going to keep my bonded locked up like a prisoner.”
My legs shook a little as I pushed to stand, and I tried to wrap my mind around the idea. “They’re not worried I’m going to run?”
“I don’t think they care,” Kor said, his voice weary. “And I know you’re not going to run because I’d be able to feel it if you were.”
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About the Author:
Ariel Millar who also writes Contemporary MM Romance as E.M. Lindsey is a non-binary writer who lives in the southeast United States, close to the water where their heart lies.
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