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Marked Wolf by Lilliana Rose

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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Tamaska has just had the fright of her life, the man who she feels a connection with has lied to he and worse is what he lied to her about, being a wolf, so with the shock of her worst nightmares coming through, Tamaska turns and runs away, it is too much to process, as well as reeling from the vampire attack, she doesn’t know what to do, or where to turn, so she decides that the one thing she can do is go after the jewel which started this madness off, the Blood Opal, so she heads alone, shocked and angry back to where she saw it last. Kodiak has broken one of the main rules of his pack, not to reveal themselves to humans, but he just did and it backfired, Tamaska has rejected him in the most absolute way, because of fear, but he is determined to keep her safe, but first he has to report what has happened to his pack and fulfil his duty to them, but he is torn in two and doesn’t know what to do about it, so as his minds swirls with his thoughts, he returns to his home to face whatever his alpha has to say. 

 

The Blood Opal is on everyone’s minds and is the key to the mystery of why the vampires want it and so Tamaska heads into the vampires night club, but it is not as inviting as it was the last time she visited, in fact it looks abandoned, but Tamaska has a feeling it isn’t, but as the memories of her last encounter there surface, she pushes them to one side and carries on with her search. Meanwhile, Kodiak is facing his pack and trying to work out how he can have both his pack and Tamaska, but they are not making it easy for him and the internal struggles between him and his pack are straining, as is his connection to Tamaska, but he cannot allow the insanity to rule, he has to do his best for both and once he has met with his team and alpha, he heads back out and follows Tamaska’s trail, while hoping it doesn’t head where he thinks it will. 

 

As Tamaska explores, she realises just what is at stake and is horrified by her discoveries, but just as she thinks she has seen the worst of it all, she finds that it is far from it, fortunately, as she is about to be surrounded by attacking vampires, Kodiak appears as if by magic and comes to the rescue again, but as the danger increases and they have to take measures to keep her safe. This doesn’t last and just as Tamaska and Kodiak begin to trust each other things come to a head and the choice between pack and a mate has to be made, but what will Kodak decide and will he even have time to be able to make that decision while keeping up with his duty to his pack and keeping Tamaska safe? This is a whirlwind of suspense as two factions battle for superiority and action is never far away in this rollercoaster of danger and emotions which will pull you along to see how it ends.