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A CURSE OF FATE

Emmeline is a wolf shifter in a world where all packs live in cities, with multiple alphas, betas, deltas, and rarer: omegas.

These designations form quintets, packs of five, and are governed by alpha councils.

Emme is an omega, just like her mom, who was killed by a pack of alphas when Emme was fourteen.

This was the catalyst for her to run from the cities and the alphas who controlled them.

She swore she would never end up like her mom.

Fast forward over a decade and Emme has been moving between human cities, avoiding the five major pack cities at all costs, and keeping her head down.

An unfortunate series of events finds her in the path of an alpha with tracking capabilities.

She runs again, but he tracks her and drags her to Golden Claw, the largest of the five pack cities.

Here, she faces the Alpha Council, charged as being a rogue—a shifter without a pack city affiliation. But when they discover she’s an omega, they are less inclined to give her the usual sentence of death.

When one of the most powerful alphas scents Emme as his true mate, it’s Emme’s worst nightmare, as she believes that if she bonds with an alpha she’ll be killed the same way her mom was. Her mom’s pack was a scent match too, and they still murdered her.

When she finds out that this alpha is one of four alphas in her scent match, she believes her life is over. Quintets are usually made up of one alpha and a mix of delta and betas. Her pack, though, consists of four alpha males, making it strong, and dangerous , especially for an omega.

Just like her mom’s.

Emme has no choice but to reject the alphas, which receives mixed reactions from the four.

Hunter, the entitled alpha, doesn’t give up when he sets his mind to something, and he’s determined to win her into the pack by whatever means necessary.

He convinces her to move into their pack house for a while, save up some money, and not worry.

He also promises not to bond her without her explicitly begging for it.

Hunter is an obsessive and possessive alpha stalker, with a goal of keeping his pack safe, and as strong as it can be. Also… hand tattoo. That is all.

Kellan, the golden retriever alpha, comes in with his sweet and kind soul (though don’t underestimate his ability to rip another shifter’s head from his shoulders if he looks the wrong way at Emme).

Kellan would follow her through this life and into the next no hesitation.

Emme, who has been alone her whole life, is won over by Kellan’s sweet and unconditional obsession with her.

Slade is a scary dragon shifter. Cold and clinical, he has an observational interest in Emme. She certainly intrigues him. He keeps an eye on her through security cameras, and is as intense a stalker as Hunter, just in a less forceful way. For now.

Finley, a bear shifter, doesn’t take her rejection well. It triggers his childhood trauma where he was rejected and hurt by his family. He decides she is toxic to them all, and he’s determined not to have her in their lives.

Once she’s in the pack house, bonds start to form between Emme, Kellan, and Hunter, despite her best efforts to reject them.

As an omega, who can stand outside of normal pack dominance, she is desired amongst alphas, and her pack is determined to keep her safe.

During one attempted kidnapping by a guard on the Reeves pack security team, she fights back long enough for Hunter and Kellan to arrive and destroy the shifter, which seals another portion of their relationship. Emme grows even closer to those two.

While investigating the attempted kidnapping to find the source—the guard was a hired hit— the end of A Curse of Fate finds Emme and Slade on motorcycles, heading to an interrogation.

On the way, they’re blown up by a rocket, and an injured Emme is thrown into the back of a van before she blacks out.

When she wakes again, she’s in a basement cell, bars blocking her exit.

Slade is across from her, in another cell, restrained by magical bands.

When her kidnapper steps into the room, she freaks out because it’s the entitled alpha of her mom’s old pack. They’ve been searching for her, and when she showed up on the pack register for Golden City, they took their opportunity to track her down.

This is where A Twist of Luck begins.