Shadowed

by Dominic O'Reilly

Karin is a lucky woman. She’s found the chance to start her life afresh in a perfect home with a perfect job, and all by pure coincidence. Or so she thinks.

Away from the stifling drama of her old city life, she can relax in the eighteenth century mansion’s office, which overlooks both loch and mountain, through the luxuriant forest that surrounds her small village in the Scottish Highlands, while the friendly locals do all they can to make her feel at home.

But as the nights get longer, she soon discovers that the forest contains more than she’d ever wanted to imagine, and why the villagers keeps their doors locked and curtains drawn against the strange creatures that come out at night; prowling, hunting, killing.

As events become ever more sinister, Karin finds herself caught up in a web of secrets, betrayal and dark temptation. In order to save her very body and soul, she must choose her loyalties with caution, and solve a mystery spanning the centuries before it’s too late.

And hope that her luck doesn’t run out.

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 16, 2012

About the author

Born to the mean streets of Stoke on Trent, Dominic is now an economic immigrant in the Manchester area; living in a box in Stockport and jumping around various temp jobs which range in excitement from typing address information for the Royal Mail, through typing Census forms, all the way up to typing railway station surveys.

When he can clear his mind of postcode information and defective platform copers, he writes stories in genres including horror, humour and erotica- typically depending on what mood he's in, and his total career earnings thus far amount to 33 US Dollars, for which he is very grateful.

Dominic also writes about himself in the third person for no apparent reason.

Reviews

[Dominic O'Reilly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this book is absolutely amazing- although I did write it so... that probably doesn't count for much. Anyway, I'll give it 4 as a compromise and to get the ball rolling.

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And please visit my Website while you're here. I'll stick the kettle on.

[Alice666 · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, this is about a woman who moves up to the Highlands in Scotland and finds herself involved in a war between some very amorous shapeshifters. The story shifts back and forth between the eighteenth century and modern times until the strands link.

The mood’s constantly dark and mysterious while I think the strongest points are the characters, who are very realistic and develop as the story progesses, and it’s far more three dimensional than many Twilight clones you see. You wait a while for the sex but it’s very hot when it arrives.

The mix of contemporary and historical settings can be confusing at first but makes sense as the book progresses. Wish it had been edited more thoroughly. It did feel like an indie book at times but there’s a very good story here and I enjoyed reading.

[Discfan2 · Rating 1 out of 5]

I liked the premise of the book. I liked not having half the populace with readily available weapons, which makes changing into a wolf much more frightening as a whole.

The reason for the one star review is bad, really bad editing. Everything from mixed up characters ex: conversation starts with Amy and Duncan (in the past) yet Karin (present) is mentioned as a part of the conversation. Basically the author got something mixed up and never corrected. There were a number of that type of error.