Karenna Colcroft has a new MM paranormal romance out, Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat book six: Tahe Some Tahini. And there’s a giveaway.
Tobias Rogan never wanted to be a leader. But here he is, the Anax of the United States, ruler of all werewolves in the country. Only two weeks after winning the rank in a challenge fight against his senile predecessor, Tobias and his mate Kyle are still adjusting to their new reality when a frantic call alerts Tobias to the massacre of nearly half the wolves in a pack in North Dakotaāincluding the packās Alpha and Beta.
An investigation reveals that the wolves responsible for the attack are from Canada. Tobias reaches out to Silas Creighton, Anax of Canada, and finds someone like-minded in wanting peace between the wolves of the two countries. At Silasās invitation, Tobias and his mate Kyle, along with their new guard Quinn Boucher, sole survivor of the North Dakota massacre, travel to Nova Scotia to put an end to the conflict between the American and Canadian werewolves. But not all wolves are interested in peaceāand not all want Tobias to survive the trip.
Warnings: violence, gun violence, discussion of past sexual abuse, homophobia
About the Series
Kyle Slidell didn’t move to Boston expecting to be changed into a werewolf. But that’s what happened. He can’t control whether he shifts at the full moon, but he can damn sure continue being vegan–even in wolf form.
Tobias Rogan, Alpha of Boston North Pack, never expected to fall in love with anyone, let alone a man. A male Alpha is not supposed to have a male partner. But when he meets Kyle, he’s immediately attracted. And after Kyle is changed, Tobias realizes the truth: Kyle is not only his partner, but his mate.
The werewolf world isn’t a simple place, and Kyle and Tobias are thrown into the middle of conflict within and among the packs of the United States–a conflict that extends all the way to the top of the werewolf hierarchy. Can they and their love survive what they face?
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Excerpt
I debated knocking and decided to just try the doorknob. Kyle had better hearing than the rest of us. He knew I was here. If he didnāt want me to enter the apartment, he would have locked the door.
He hadnāt. The knob turned easily, and I pushed the door open and entered the living room that had been mine for decades.
The light in the room was off, but the kitchen light was on. I set down my bag and walked slowly into the other room. And there, I found my mate.
Seeing Kyle sitting there, at the same table in the same apartment where our relationship had grown, felt like a knife in my heart. Iād found him. But the way he looked at me almost made me wish I hadnāt. Iād never seen such pain and anger in his eyes.
His eyes mirrored my own emotions. Pain at how heād left me, not a word to me, not even speaking to me when I reached out. Rage at being abandoned by the one person who had sworn never to do that.
I didnāt know whether to hug him or beat the shit out of him. I did neither, just stood in the doorway, fists clenched, waiting for him to fucking say something so I could.
āHey,ā he said.
āHey.ā I went toward the other chair but stopped. If I got too close to him, I might lunge across the table and strangle him. I closed my eyes just long enough to let an image of the ocean form. It didnāt calm me as much as usual, but at least it washed away the urge to hurt Kyle for hurting me. Which was good. I would never hurt Kyle.
I had before. I hadnāt meant to, but I had. And Iād sworn I never would again.
I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. āYouāre here.ā
āAnd the sky is blue, grass is green, and werewolves have fur.ā He folded his arms. āYou found me. Now what?ā
His tone was completely flat. No anger, which would have been a good sign if heād shown any other emotion. But there was nothing. He didnāt want me there. I could feel that through our bond, which was actually a good sign. The bond was still intact. But the way he spoke, the way he looked at me, sent my temper on the upswing again. How fucking dare he be a sarcastic asshole after what heād done to me?
I gritted my teeth and forced another long, slow breath. āWe talk. You tell me why you left, and we decide if we can fix it.ā
āAnd if we canāt?ā
āThen at least we talked to each other!ā My voice rose, and I didnāt give a shit, even though Kirk could hear and probably everyone in the other two buildings could as well. āYou just took off, Kyle. You didnāt say a damn thing, just took off. I was worried.ā My eyes watered, and I blinked a few times as my anger ebbed. āI love you.ā
āYou have a weird way of showing it.ā He sighed. āSit down, would you? Unless youāre trying some Anax intimidation tactic on me.ā
āIām not.ā I sat and leaned my elbows on the table. āHow could you do that? How could you just leave without saying a fucking word?ā
āI didnāt know what to say. You would have told me not to go. And I wouldnāt have gone. And I would have kept dealing with all that shit.ā
āWhat shit?ā
āYou know.ā He waved. āIām a weakness for you. I shouldnāt exist or whatever. Those assholes back in California.ā
āSo you fucking walked out on me because of them?ā I was so furious I was shaking. āYou left as soon as I was gone. You knew you were going. You were gone by the time I called you, and you didnāt say a goddamn word. How could you do that?ā
āI should have.ā This time, emotion filled his tone. āIām sorry, Tobias. I justā¦I needed to get the fuck out of there. And I knew you would have told me not to go. I didnāt want to do this.ā
āDo what?ā
āThis.ā He gestured toward me. āArgue. Process our feelings. I just wanted to get away from the homophobes and the memories. Living in that houseā¦Iām guessing you have some decent memories of the place. You went there for years for the national gatherings. A couple weeks ago was my first time being there, and I spent most of the gathering in a goddamn cage, Tobias.ā
I felt like he had jammed a blade into my heart. Involuntarily, I took a step back. How had I not realized? I knew all too well what trauma could do, but I hadnāt even considered how Kyle must feel waking up every single day in the place where heād been dragged away from me and locked in a tiny basement cell.
Author Bio
Karenna Colcroft lives just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in love with the city since childhood, though she has yet to encounter any werewolves, vampires, or other paranormal beings in her travels. At least none that she knows of.
Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who lives in Massachusetts with her husband. She also has two adult children and three ābonusā kids, four grandchildren, and two and a half cats. (Half in terms of time the cat lives with her, not in terms of the cat itselfā¦)
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