The abduction of the elven queen by the renegade hybrid, Morris Bradshaw, has the wolves joining the vampires and witches to avoid the exposure of their existence by an army of vengeful elves from the Shroud in search of their cherished Moglahran. Saes finds herself at a crossroads; being the elven queen and battling her growing needs as a woman. It becomes increasingly difficult for her to ignore the fact that she is in love and that her unrequited love for an unattainable woman is making her desperate. How much more can the supernaturals take before the humans get wind that they aren’t alone but that powerful, immortal creatures have been living alongside them all this time?
Born and bred in Windhoek, Namibia, Stein has considerable experience in the media field and has worked as a journalist, TV producer, and PR consultant before starting her own small media production company. Her hobbies include writing, reading, cooking, travelling, photography, and scouting the airwaves for new music and watching soccer. The thirty five year old Stein started writing at the age of thirteen after feeling cheated by the ending of a novel she was reading. She took the novel and rewrote it from the ending back to the front, adding 200 more pages to it. Since then she's only written in her native language, Afrikaans, a derivation of the Dutch language. Throughout her high school career, she 'lended' out her work to fellow boarding school students at a fee and made a killing writing love stories for couples on Valentine's Day. Not a native English speaker she decided to experiment in 2007 by writing a few short stories in English, which since has been kept password-protected on her hard drive never to see the light of day. By pure accident, she came across platforms on the internet to publish her work and was encouraged by a friend to try and post some of her stories. Stein still resides in Windhoek.
We meet two very interesting characters from the Fae. The queen, Moglahran aka Saes and the Assassin, Nordea. It’s spans centuries after their first and only brief meeting that from the first look, it was love. They meet again in one of the most horrific ways. This meeting confirms their secret feelings one from and for the other. No one knows, not even each other.
Then on the 3rd encounter, things finally take off, slowly. We were down to the last 20-30 pages before ANYTHING happens. Sigh. I wish there was more in this installment. The characters of both are so wonderful. I enjoyed the “ending” although it was too soon. I wanted to read more about them. I am sure that there is more to come about them in the next installment.
We still have some loose ends to tie up from the other books with some villains leftover. We also may have a new one on the horizon. It is hard to say.
I like the changes in the Crescent, but want her to stay her same scary self. I relish that part of her. I’ve always liked Pharah and I like seeing more of her.
I like Myer. I am not so sure about Gillian. Being what she is and Myer having to defer to her somehow bothers me. I understand the lineage, but… We didn’t get enough time to see more of Myer before this discovery. I needed to see more fight in her. More dominance. Just more… We saw her looking for “packages” being delivered and not a whole lot on seeing her in her current Alpha role before Gillian. Then it would have made this whole Feral/Purebred dynamic more palatable.
Anyway, new allegiances are being formed. New friendships are being established. New love is also blossoming. On the flip side darkness and destruction persists. What’s next? I can’t wait.
Awaiting what comes next on this journey to new chapters. Many lives intertwined as new friendships and relationships form in this new installment of this series making you want more.
I love this series. Actually I love all of Stein Willard's books! I buy everything she writes. I don't need to know what the book is about, just that is was written by Stein Willard! Right now this series and her Wolven series have be checking frequently when the next books are coming out. She is definitely one of my favorite authors!