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A TWIST OF LUCK

Book two starts with Emme and Slade as prisoners in Silver City, where they were taken and held by Blaine and his alpha pack.

The Rogers pack (Blaine’s pack) uses magic to keep them contained.

Meanwhile, back in Golden Claw, the Reeves pack (Emme’s pack) are hunting down anyone involved for information to find out where their kidnapped pack members are.

They get a lead they’re in Silver City and jump on their plane to head straight there.

In Silver City, the kidnappers underestimate Slade’s power, and he busts through his cell to comfort Emme during a panic attack, which is triggered by being held captive again by Blaine and his pack, as they destroyed her mother and tormented her growing up.

After Slade scares away everyone in the house, they head upstairs to discover the house is magically locked down, and it’ll take the dragon shifter hours to smash them out.

Thankfully, by the time he breaks through, the rest of the Reeves pack have shown up with their own witch in their ranks. To fight magic, you need magic.

They decide to regroup and head back to Golden Claw, since Blaine and his pack have vanished, but on the way to their plane they’re ambushed by a witch.

She tries to hit Emme with a knockout spell but Kellan gets in between them.

He’s taken down by a spell that can only be lifted by the witch who cast it, and unfortunately, she’s dead via Sladdy—I mean Slade, the dragon baddie.

They rush an unconscious and possibly dying Kellan back to Golden Claw and demand their ally witch (Jewels) figure out how to save him. With time running out, they do everything they can to keep Kellan’s energy flowing strongly, including almost naked pack huddles.

Eventually, Jewels and her coven come up with a solution, but they’re afraid Kellan is too weak to fight, even with the counterspell.

With no other option, they give him the spell, and in the end he’s so weak that he can’t survive, and Emme makes the choice to bond with him in the hopes she might be able to share some of her energy.

Which works!

She gives him the strength to fight the spell. This is one of her greatest fears in bonding to alphas, as she feels this is what destroyed her mother, but she notices no changes with Kellan, and he doesn’t try to take any more of her wolf essence.

After this, everything is going fine, as they deal with the Alpha Council and what the future plans for Blaine and his pack are. Silver City puts up roadblocks to hunt the Rogers pack, and it’s all red tape and paperwork getting in the way.

Toward the end of the book, Emme bonds with Hunter (her entitled alpha) in a lovely Hunter and Prey scenario, through the forests of Golden Claw.

She makes this decision because she loves him and trusts him completely.

He’s done nothing but support and care for her almost since the first moment he dragged her into their lives.

Bonding is still an experiment at this stage, as Emme still doesn’t know what will happen if she bonds all four alphas, but she’s willing to try. Her life was empty without them, and they’ve shown time and time again that they’re nothing like her mom’s pack.

She also grows closer to Slade (dragon shifter, aka scary motherfucker) as he attempts to teach her how to defend herself, which leads into a prank war. During one of these pranks, where Emme turns off the cameras momentarily, she gets herself into a bit of trouble.

She opens a book in her room about omegas and packs. A book brought to her by Chelsea from the Thenguard pack. A book she hasn’t touched since that attack at the guard house (in book 1), but which she hoped might give her answers to her designation as an omega in a pack of alphas.

The book is spelled, and has been waiting there all this time for her to open it. As soon as she flips the page, the spell is enacted and she’s under Chelsea’s control. It binds the two omegas together, and she has to follow Chelsea’s actions.

Chelsea takes her far from Golden Claw and deposits her in an old house, right into the clutches of the very alpha who’s been trying to kidnap her all along. It’s not the alpha she expected. Blaine is still there of course, but he has a boss (or father, more accurately) running the show.

Who also happens to be Hunter’s father.

He is the big bad alpha behind everything. He has been kidnapping omegas and experimenting on them for years. It was him who orchestrated Blaine and his pack into her mother’s life, and got them to drain her mother until she chose to end her life.

And now he wants Emme.

Hunter’s father calls a familiar-looking shifter into the old house. If it weren’t for the scar on his face and shorter hair, the shifter stalking toward her would exactly resemble Slade Riverson.

This darker, scarier version of her dragon bites and forcibly claims her under his alpha’s command, and with the last of Chelsea’s control still flooding her system, she’s forced to bite him back and seal the bond forever.

This is where A Claim of Fortune begins.