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Sometimes playing cat and mouse is no game… Play? Right. My Pride is under fire from all sides, my father's authority is in question and my lover is in exile. Which means I haven't laid eyes on Marc's gorgeous face in months. And with a new mother and an I-know-everything teenager under my... read more

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  • “Violence was as old as our existence, and we could not stop it. The best we could do was harness it for our own use.”
    Faythe
  • “Meow, meow, motherfucker.”
    Faythe
  • “They're moving bodies, not storming the Bastille.”
    Ethan
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  • Procrastination and I were lifelong friends, and our reunion was pleasant. If not exactly welcome.
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  • Because the ache in my chest was unlike anything I’d ever suffered. It was like something gnawing me alive from the inside out, leaving a dark, empty cavity where my heart had once been.
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  • And to my extreme satisfaction, that bastard hobbled away from me with a dislocated shoulder, mewling like a newborn kitten. Meow, meow, motherfucker.
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  • Brutal death shouldn’t be so easily accepted. It should still be an occasion for tears and hysteria and, at the very least, an interruption of daily life. Routine should not continue in the face of such a loss. It should be shattered like silence before gunfire. It should shake everyone it touches, and we should demand an end to it.
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  • He obviously remembered our first meeting, when I’d knocked him unconscious with one swing. I like to leave a good first impression.
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  • I’d play it by the book from then on. At least until I was in the position to rewrite the rules.
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  • I gasped for breath that seemed to freeze in my throat, to numb my lungs. My thoughts took no form. There was only a massive, horrible storm of pain and sorrow, slamming into me over and over again with an almost physical force. Grief threatened to drown me, and I made no effort to stop it.
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  • I’d rather die than let someone else decide who I would marry. Or that I would marry at all. That decision was all mine, and if the council thought otherwise, they could happily go fuck themselves.
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  • “But if you ever come near me or Marc again, we’ll all know exactly what happened to you.”
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  • And honestly, until I know that Marc Ramos’s well-being is secure, I don’t give a flying fuck about yours. Consider that your one and only warning.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

You planning to get there sometime this century, Vic?

Table of Contents edit see section history

There are 29 chapters.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 4 of 6 in Shifters. (standard series)

Preceded by Pride, and followed by Shift.

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  1. Rachel Vincent (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Mira Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 2009
ISBN: 978-0778326816
Page Count: 400

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Reading Level: Adults

Sexually explicit scenes

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Stray
  • Rogue
  • Pride

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