A Story of the Nine Worlds (previously Unbound series)
Captured and determined to escape no matter the cost.
When hellhound Gray Barsk awakens in the dark cell, he isn’t alone. He doesn't know how he got here, but he knows he has to get out and he can't let anyone or anything get in his way. Not even the base desires of the beast inside him.
Female hellhound Leve has lived through hell before. Been bait before. She knows her captors’ game. She’s dealt with it for years, but this time, she won’t surrender. This time the male they would force on her will have to kill her first.
To finally get out of Kamp Arena, where hellhounds are bred for fighting, Leve will have to give up the fight and do something much harder… trust. Gray will have to do something just as difficult, resist the pheromones pumped into their chamber and the savage demands of his inner beast.
Will either survive? And if so, at what cost?
(Captured is a work of short fiction. Originally published as a Harlequin Nocturne Bite.)
Lori Devoti grew up in southern Missouri and attended college at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she earned a Bachelor of Journalism. She, however, made it clear to anyone who asked, she was not a writer; she worked for the dark sideadvertising. Now twenty years later, shes proud to declare herself a writer and visit her dark side occasionally by writing dark, sensual paranormal romance, urban fantasy and young adult novels.
Lori lives in Wisconsin with her husband, daughter, son, Siberian husky and shepherd/puggle cross.
I read this as part of the Midnight Cravings Anthology - A connected hellhounds short (Unbound series) - The hound who is imprisoned with her for breeding purposes, may be the one to erase the scars of her captivity and free her from the nightmare that has been her life - A nice little short, I like this series and Devoti's hero is a good one.