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Blood Ties
Life has settled back to normal for the Blackwood family. But is life ever normal for the leader of a werewolf pack struggling to fit into a modern world that refuses to believe they exist.Just as Jonathin thinks his life is about business and family things shift and change, leaving him on very unfamiliar ground with a smoldering sibling rivalry that will affect far more than his family and pack.Are the ties of blood and family enough to keep old enemies from tearing a pack apart, or will it fuel the rivalry into a raging fire that will consume everyone and everything in its path.
273 pages, Paperback
First published June 24, 2015
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C.J. Galaway
8 books67 followersC.J. Galaway was born in a small town in Pennsylvania in the peak of the summer season. It wasn’t until three months later she would meet her family through adoption and become the youngest of three children. Though since her two older siblings are at least twenty years older, it was like being an only child.
C.J. grew up in a world of adults in a neighborhood with no children her age to play with, so her mother instilled in her a love of reading. She couldn’t imagine a time she wasn’t reading. “I grew up without computers, PS3 or XBOX, and cable T.V.,” she laughs. “So my favorite way to pass the time was to lose myself in a good book. I could easily read three to four a week.”
School was never that important to her, some studies came easy but for the most part it was boring for her. She was the quiet kid who sat in the back of your junior/senior high school classes doing anything but what the teacher wanted her to do. Although she would develop a passion for learning and return to college later in life to earn her bachelor’s degree from California University of Pennsylvania.
It was in junior high she started putting pen to paper and writing down what she imagined in her mind. An English teacher encouraged her to keep writing after enjoying a story she had written for extra credit over the holidays. “I had played with imaginary friends as a child and would lay out these elaborate scenarios in my mind for what would happen that day,” C.J. recalls. “It was easy to transfer that planning from my play time onto paper.”
It is from that love or reading and an over active imagination in childhood that the idea for her first novel Bite Marks was born…
C.J. grew up in a world of adults in a neighborhood with no children her age to play with, so her mother instilled in her a love of reading. She couldn’t imagine a time she wasn’t reading. “I grew up without computers, PS3 or XBOX, and cable T.V.,” she laughs. “So my favorite way to pass the time was to lose myself in a good book. I could easily read three to four a week.”
School was never that important to her, some studies came easy but for the most part it was boring for her. She was the quiet kid who sat in the back of your junior/senior high school classes doing anything but what the teacher wanted her to do. Although she would develop a passion for learning and return to college later in life to earn her bachelor’s degree from California University of Pennsylvania.
It was in junior high she started putting pen to paper and writing down what she imagined in her mind. An English teacher encouraged her to keep writing after enjoying a story she had written for extra credit over the holidays. “I had played with imaginary friends as a child and would lay out these elaborate scenarios in my mind for what would happen that day,” C.J. recalls. “It was easy to transfer that planning from my play time onto paper.”
It is from that love or reading and an over active imagination in childhood that the idea for her first novel Bite Marks was born…
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July 23, 2015
Family ties, ancient law, and selfish stubborn young leaders all come head to head in this exciting sophomore novel by CJ Galaway. A werewolf pack that doesn't believe in hunting is infiltrated by a vampire with a vengeance. Throw in some powerful witches and a zombie werewolf/Witch and you have the make up for Blood Ties. From page 1, even a non reader of fantasy/supernatural literature will be hooked!
March 26, 2020
This book has a great ending....which you'll have to read to discover. It's a real intrigue laced ride through customs and cultures that become quickly familar to is mere humans.
We see growth in both good and evil and find so many greys as the story progresses. Our villains are mysterious in an unnerving sense that I cant wait to see develop.
Another great title from a great author that makes the wolf in me howl in the best of ways
We see growth in both good and evil and find so many greys as the story progresses. Our villains are mysterious in an unnerving sense that I cant wait to see develop.
Another great title from a great author that makes the wolf in me howl in the best of ways
August 14, 2016
OMG!!! I love a book that draws me in so deep that I fall asleep while reading it and then dream about what I read so far... I need to finish this book the story line is FANTASTIC so far and I am only about 1/3 of the way through.
I woke up at 4 AM couldnt sleep so I picked up my copy and continued reading..... just finished the book.... BRAVO!!! Cliff hanger... leaves you turning the last couple of pages at the end of the book going wait... wait.. what happens!!! MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I TOTALLY loved this book. The plot and story line draws you into the characters secret world and you find yourself lost in a world of corrupt mythical creatures that you just cant put down.
I woke up at 4 AM couldnt sleep so I picked up my copy and continued reading..... just finished the book.... BRAVO!!! Cliff hanger... leaves you turning the last couple of pages at the end of the book going wait... wait.. what happens!!! MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I TOTALLY loved this book. The plot and story line draws you into the characters secret world and you find yourself lost in a world of corrupt mythical creatures that you just cant put down.
September 9, 2023
It is a great read. Very well written. You find yourself not wanting to put the book down.
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