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Ancient Vendetta
Katie Reus
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Release Date December 28, 2021
Get ready for King and Aurora’s long awaited, action-packed story!
His responsibility is to his pack, his people—the territory of New Orleans.
When the world devolved into chaos and fire, Alpha wolf King kept his territory from collapsing. Now, every day it seems there’s a new challenge—rogue witches, treacherous vampires, evil dragons. But his biggest threat is Aurora. Unique, magical, a female who sees him, the male, and not simply the Alpha in charge. But she’s thrown up so many walls that he’s afraid he’ll never be able to break through to the woman behind them. When the most dangerous threat they’ve ever faced ravages the city he’ll need her at his side—to defeat it, and then claim the woman who already owns him, body and soul.
But she makes him want more.
After being held captive for a year, Aurora has embraced her freedom. For the first time in her life she’s living away from her older sister in a new territory. A new world. She’s made friends and is helping New Orleans get back on its feet. Giving to others is helping her combat her PTSD, but she’s far from the woman she used to be. Even so, she can’t fight her ever present and growing attraction to King. Except she’s afraid she’s broken, that she’ll never be able to have a normal relationship again—that she can’t handle being an Alpha’s mate. When an evil linked to his past threatens to tear them apart and destroy the city, she must set her fears aside and find the courage to follow her heart—and the wolf who’s already won it.
It is finally time for King and Aurora's book!
King is the new alpha wolf of NOLA and he has his hands full with the melting pot of shifters and enemies. He is strong, loyal, fair, protective, and is preparing for a war that they assume is coming at some point.
Aurora is a rare phoenix just getting her life back after being held captive for a year. She is smart, kind, creative, and brave. Despite still dealing with the after-effects of her trauma, she jumps in whenever needed and has become a leader and liaison. And King is sure he wants her to rule beside him because he is already very attached to her. And she has feelings for him too even though she also has insecurities. But they have been acting as friends and avoiding it for quite a while, but it is getting harder to ignore.
And now they are facing a formidable foe who has his sights on revenge against King, but all of their lives and very existence could be at stake. It might take all of their allies with special skills to battle this opponent, but they will not go down without a fight.
This is a story of two strong, intelligent, and resilient warriors, and love, loyalty, and sacrifice. It is full of tension, action, and has several romantic threads brewing. King and Aurora will be put to the test, but the seriousness of the situation also brings awareness of what they really want and need.
This brings back so many of the previous supernatural characters and seems to couple some more up. It also brings in some new characters. There are some surprises and twists too. I really enjoy revisiting this rich world with so many different types of supes that develop strong bonds and relationships. I am looking forward to more in this world.
It’s finally time for King and Aurora’s story. This is the story I have been waiting for in the series and watching them circle each other in the background, I’m glad they are finally at the center of the story.
King is the new Alpha of New Orleans, working to rebuild the city and protect all its inhabitants - magical and human. The balance between shifter, vampire, witches, and humans is a fragile one that King hopes to keep in order to protect everyone. He has a plan, but despite all his hard work, the people closest to him think he needs a mate to fully put his plans into action.
Aurora is a phoenix, one of the last in existence. She has settled into her life in New Orleans even if she still has trauma effects from her kidnapping. She is strong and leads her pack with patience and wisdom. Helping King with the things he needs gives her a bigger purpose and she is willing to help out in any ways he needs.
Her past has her hesitating if she can ever be ready for anything with King, but he is patient and doesn’t want to push her too fast. But his patience and her hesitation may keep them from having anything real when someone from King’s past, someone King thought was dead, comes back to threaten everything.
This was a slow burn, but it wasn’t slow moving at all because of everything going on around King and Aurora. There are very few “down” moments in this story between King’s work rebuilding the city and the newest threats that have popped up to endanger the population. There is a lot more going on here than just Aurora and King figuring out if they can be mated, and as always I have loved returning to this world. This is a world filled with so many beings and stories and I can’t wait for more as they rebuild.
“Not open,” Mac’s deep, rumbly voice called out from the back about a second before he stepped out from his workshop. His eyes widened when he saw her.
And he stood there looking like deer in headlights. Good.
“Adeline,” he began.
“A text? Seriously? You blow me off with a freaking text,” she snapped out, her boots stomping forward of their own volition. That burning fire that had spent days kindling was licking up her spine now as she worked up a good head of anger.
He closed his eyes briefly as he moved toward her. “Look, it’s not what you think.”
“Really? It’s not what I think? You didn’t send me a dismissive, crappy text about an hour before our date? After spending all that time together and becoming…friends.” Or she’d thought they had. Obviously she was wrong. “So you didn’t blow me off after all that? And then ignore me right in front of people on Main Street?” It was quite literally possible there was actual steam coming out of her ears right now.
Guilt flickered across his expression for a moment but then his face went carefully neutral. “Look, I didn’t know how else to handle it. I just don’t think we should see each other. I shouldn’t have ignored you and I should have called, but—”
She’d took another step forward, hands on hips, when the front door behind her swung open with a bang.
She jumped and turned to find some guy stalking in. He had on heavy-looking boots, jeans, a short-sleeved T-shirt, and there was a chain hanging from his back pocket attached to his belt. And he had some ugly-looking tattoos on his arms. Prison tats.
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Katie Reus is the New York Times, USA Today, and IndieReader bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Moon Shifter series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it.
However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense. Her book Avenger’s Heat recently won the Georgia RWA Maggie Award for Excellence in the fantasy/paranormal category.
However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense. Her book Avenger’s Heat recently won the Georgia RWA Maggie Award for Excellence in the fantasy/paranormal category.
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