A member of Boston North Pack is attacked by humans who say they were hired by a shifter. The same night, Melia, the wolf who changed Kyle Slidell, returns to Boston. The pack suspects Melia of arranging the attack, but Kyle believes someone else is behind it. He just doesn't know who.
The following day, at the regional Alpha gathering in Pennsylvania, Kyle finds his answer. Saul Hughes, another Alpha, has a long-standing grudge against Tobias, Boston North's Alpha and Kyle's mate. Believing Tobias and Chal Torres, the other Boston-area Alpha, are both too weak to rule packs, Saul wants to take control of Boston North and City Pack. But no one suspects how far he'll go to get it.
Warnings: References to sexual assault; on-page gun violence
About the Series
When Kyle Slidell moved to Boston, MA for work, he didn’t expect to develop a Massachusetts-sized crush on his neighbor, Tobias Rogan. After watching Tobias with occasional hellos for a few months, Kyle is thrilled to learn that Tobias is into him, too.
But Tobias isn’t what he seems, and neither are most of the rest of Kyle’s neighbors. Kyle finds this out too late, when one of the neighbors turns out to be a rogue werewolf who attacks Kyle. And it turns out Kyle’s other neighbors are also werewolves, Tobias is their Alpha–and now Kyle is a werewolf too, and Tobias’s mate! But, being as stubborn as he is, even in wolf form vegan Kyle refuses to eat meat.
The werewolf world is not a calm place, as Kyle learns. Some local wolves have a grudge against Tobias. And Tobias has attracted attention beyond the Boston limits from those who want to make sure he never poses a threat to them. Together, Kyle and Tobias build a life together while fighting to protect their pack and each other.
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Author Guest post with Karenna Colcroft
A Day In an Author’s Life
A few people have asked me what I do when I’m not writing, so I decided to give a glimpse into my daily life. Kind of a “then and now” glimpse, though; what my days looked like when I first wrote Veggie Burgers to Go compared to now, when I revised and re-edited it so I could release it again.
When I originally wrote Veggie Burgers to Go, things were very different. It was 2011. Both of my kids were still living at home; one was in high school, the other in middle school. I worked part-time for my father-in-law doing light bookkeeping and other office tasks.
I usually got up around five in the morning so I could have time to shower and maybe do a little writing before waking my kids up for school. Around six, I started making sure they were getting out of bed and getting ready. We all looked forward to summer vacation, when none of us would have to get up that early, though since I tend to get stuck on schedules, I usually wound up getting up early even during school breaks.
Once my kids left for school, I made sure our cats were taken care of and then did some more writing. Some days, mid-morning, I would leave to go to my father-in-law’s office, which was only about ten minutes away. (Well…depending on traffic and on whether I drove or chose to take public transportation. It’s Boston.) Other days, I kept writing all day, stopping only to do housework and to eat, until my kids got home from school.
After they got home, I tried to spend some time talking with them about their days and checking in about homework. At some point, we would have supper, and then it was right back to writing until I went to bed. Not a very exciting way to spend a day, and I admit that after over eleven years, I may be forgetting some aspects…
When I revised Veggie Burgers earlier this year, my days didn’t even look close to that. My kids are grown and gone now; one has three kids of their own, and the other is in graduate school in another country. I stopped working for my father-in-law in 2016. And for several years, I hadn’t been writing much of anything.
My days now, having gotten back into writing, still start pretty early. I get up around 6:30; earlier if I’m having trouble sleeping or if my upstairs neighbors are thumping around. I shower, take care of my cats (one of the two was with me back in 2011), and sit down at my computer to write and take care of other tasks. I’m somewhat self-employed as a mindset coach in addition to writing fiction; some of the things I write now are nonfiction related to the other work I do.
During the time I was revising Veggie Burgers, I was also working on a book for kids ages 7-11, part of a series I started writing for my oldest grandson and a girl about the same age who my partner looks after sometimes. Part of my writing time was devoted to that, with the rest going to revising, editing, and updating Veggie Burgers, including correcting some continuity errors that existed in the original version because the first book in the series, Salad on the Side, wasn’t meant to be a series, while Veggie Burgers was intended to be the second book of a five-book series. The advantage of redoing these books now is that I can retcon and smooth things out so the series is more cohesive.
After lunch most days, I head out to do Lyft. I tell people I drive for a rideshare service to support my writing and coaching careers. I don’t drive every day, but on the days when I do, it’s usually from early afternoon until around suppertime. Although I’m still in the Boston area, so traffic is still a bit of a nightmare at times, rideshare is usually fun. I meet entertaining people, and on the longer drives if my passenger isn’t interested in chatting, I’m able to mentally work on a book while I focus on the road.
I come home in the early evening, feed my cats—who usually mob me, as much as two cats can mob, the moment I walk through the door—feed myself, and then settle in to binge-watch whatever (currently Reservation Dogs) while I do a bit more writing or researching or sometimes brainstorming for the next project. And then head to bed so I can get up the next day and do it all over again.
My “real life” isn’t always very exciting. But at least I get to create imaginary lives!
Karenna Colcroft lives just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in love with the city since childhood, though she has yet to encounter any werewolves, vampires, or other paranormal beings in her travels. At least none that she knows of. Though since in her non-writing life, under another name, she offers services as a channel and energy healing practitioner, it could be said that she herself is a paranormal being. The jury’s still out on that.
Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who splits time between the home she shares with her husband and the one she shares with her committed partner. She also has two adult children and a bonus son, three grandchildren, and two and a half cats. (Half in terms of time the cat lives with her, not in terms of the cat itself…)
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