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The Pack #3
Alpha
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, public exhibition, HEA]
Jacques is a lone alpha who doesn't want a mate or pack. He lives for his art and has closed his life to emotion. Meeting Toby, a cub on the verge of turning, he wants nothing to do with him. When Toby turns up at his home, begging for a week of his time, Jacques finds that, somehow, he can't refuse. The longer they're together, the more Jacques wants Toby and the more determined he is to push him away.
When he succeeds, however, Jacques can't let go, realising almost too late that Toby is his mate. While he gets Toby back, things are strained, not helped by the issues from Jacques's scarred past and the family that Toby is running from. Then Toby is taken from him and Jacques will do anything to save him, even swallow his pride and call the only pack he trusts for help.
Jacques is a lone alpha who doesn't want a mate or pack. He lives for his art and has closed his life to emotion. Meeting Toby, a cub on the verge of turning, he wants nothing to do with him. When Toby turns up at his home, begging for a week of his time, Jacques finds that, somehow, he can't refuse. The longer they're together, the more Jacques wants Toby and the more determined he is to push him away.
When he succeeds, however, Jacques can't let go, realising almost too late that Toby is his mate. While he gets Toby back, things are strained, not helped by the issues from Jacques's scarred past and the family that Toby is running from. Then Toby is taken from him and Jacques will do anything to save him, even swallow his pride and call the only pack he trusts for help.
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First published July 18, 2012
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Teya Martin
5 books23 followersMy mother likes to boast that I was reading at the age of three. I'm not sure if that's strictly true but my childhood memories are mostly of being indoors with a book of some description. I distinctly remember having a Ladybird copy (English young children's books) of Dracula so I think my tastes were set quite early. Like a friend once said, while other young girls wanted to be ballerinas, I kind of always wanted to be a vampire.
I grew up in Belgium and went to a multi-national school before moving back to England to get my first degree. Microbiology and Virology... what was I thinking? Naturally I didn't do anything with it, in fact the thought of real life was off putting enough that I went and did another degree straight away. Medical herbalism this time, much better although it was in my final year of this degree that I rediscovered writing. Not sure why I ever stopped because once I started again it became a compulsion.
Once the second degree was finished I was stuck, I didn't want to practice herbalism, I wanted to write... only write. So I got a job in a health food shop and that was the first in a long line of short term jobs to pay the bills while I wrote. Some of them were brilliant though. I met some of my best friends ever when I was a barista in a coffee shop and I got many wonderful books and ideas when I worked in a sex shop... okay not technically a sex shop as we didn't sell porn but still an adult 'toy' shop. During this time I lived with my sister which was also brilliant but made me incredibly lazy. It took nearly five years before I actually wrote a full length, complete novel.
Moving to the other end of the country to live with one of my best friends, and I would go as far as to call her my muse, really kick started the novel writing and now I have several that are complete, although again it took me a while to actually start sending them out. I don't know if other writers feel the same but they're my babies and rejection is extremely painful.
I grew up in Belgium and went to a multi-national school before moving back to England to get my first degree. Microbiology and Virology... what was I thinking? Naturally I didn't do anything with it, in fact the thought of real life was off putting enough that I went and did another degree straight away. Medical herbalism this time, much better although it was in my final year of this degree that I rediscovered writing. Not sure why I ever stopped because once I started again it became a compulsion.
Once the second degree was finished I was stuck, I didn't want to practice herbalism, I wanted to write... only write. So I got a job in a health food shop and that was the first in a long line of short term jobs to pay the bills while I wrote. Some of them were brilliant though. I met some of my best friends ever when I was a barista in a coffee shop and I got many wonderful books and ideas when I worked in a sex shop... okay not technically a sex shop as we didn't sell porn but still an adult 'toy' shop. During this time I lived with my sister which was also brilliant but made me incredibly lazy. It took nearly five years before I actually wrote a full length, complete novel.
Moving to the other end of the country to live with one of my best friends, and I would go as far as to call her my muse, really kick started the novel writing and now I have several that are complete, although again it took me a while to actually start sending them out. I don't know if other writers feel the same but they're my babies and rejection is extremely painful.
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July 24, 2012
A worthy sequel in this series! The timing of the book makes it feel like it should have been the second book and not the third, though.
Absolutely adored Toby. Jacques is a pompous ass that should have been shot a long time ago...but in the end you come to love him too. There were times in the book that I just wanted to kill him!
Alas, for me, it was a great book, though Zacky and Tyr will probably always be favourite...
Absolutely adored Toby. Jacques is a pompous ass that should have been shot a long time ago...but in the end you come to love him too. There were times in the book that I just wanted to kill him!
Alas, for me, it was a great book, though Zacky and Tyr will probably always be favourite...
March 2, 2013
She's baaack! This book was a vast improvement over the 2nd installment. Still plenty of sex without overwhelming the book with too many unnecessary scenes, as in the last book. Really loved both of the main characters in this one. I was also happy to see that some of the gaps were filled in between what happened with the pack right after the first book ended.
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August 1, 2012WTF!?!?!?!
My eyes, my poor eyes! They were brutally attacked by this horrible cover, they lost their innocence, they're never going to be the same.
My eyes, my poor eyes! They were brutally attacked by this horrible cover, they lost their innocence, they're never going to be the same.
February 26, 2013
I kept thinking it would be nice to see things from Toby's perspective too, but a great read nevertheless.
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