Zac
looked out the window of the train. It moved along a raised track above the
abandoned streets of Brooklyn. He could see the Manhattan skyline beyond the
rooftops.
“I
see it, Jason. I see it.”
Jason looked out at the vast city a little more appre-
hensively
than his friend. Even in the morning light it looked sinister to him. “Wolf
City, they call it.”
“New
York City is what they call it. The Big Apple. The City That Never Sleeps.”
“I’m
glad you’re so excited.”
“Excited?
Aren’t you? We made it. We finally made it.”
Jason
looked at Zac and couldn’t stop the smile that crossed his face. His enthusiasm
was infectious. Jason had never known anyone so willing to embrace the world,
even with all the awful things he had seen, as Zac Carter. Zac looked at New
York and was filled with awe. Jason was filled with dread.
Zac
gathered his meager belongings and threw them into his pack. He wanted to be
ready for their arrival, to hit the ground running.
And
then they heard the voice they’d been dread- ing for the entire trip. “Tickets,
please.” A conductor was making his way down the aisle, checking the exhausted
passengers who shared their car.
Zac
turned to Jason, the corner of his mouth raised in his distinctive way, and
shrugged. They’d both known this moment would come. They grabbed their packs
and musical instruments, a guitar and a drum, and hurried toward the far end of
the car.
“Hey,
you two, tickets.” “Run,” Zac shouted.
They
never looked back. They ran to the door, twisted the steel latch, and rushed
through. Jason slammed it behind them. They moved up the narrow aisle of the
next car, and the next. Everyone they passed knew what they were doing. Some
cheered them on. One, a teenager a few years younger than them, got up from his
seat and followed.
“Conductor
coming?” he said.
Zac looked him over. It was obvious the scruffy kid
didn’t
have a ticket either. “Yeah.”
The kid looked and saw the conductor, way back,
tripping
over bags and legs. He was only half trying to catch them. The train company
didn’t pay him enough to go any faster.
“Can
I join you?”
Zac
shrugged. The three of them stuck together along the length of the train until
they reached the din- ing car. They couldn’t go any farther. The dining car was
for elites only. A crystal chandelier hung above the aisle and glittering
silverware sat on crisp, white tablecloths. A few diners looked up at them.
“Can
I help you, gentlemen?” a well-dressed waiter said, blocking their passage.
Zac
looked back through the car they’d just left. The conductor was nowhere in
sight.
“What’s
the next stop?” he said to the waiter. “The Brooklyn Bridge Processing Center.”
“Processing Center?”
The
waiter nodded. “You didn’t think they let just anyone onto Manhattan, did you?”
Book
& Author Details:
Shifter: City of
Wolves by Avery Burch
Publication date: August 3rd 2015
Genres: Adult, Paranormal Romance
Publication date: August 3rd 2015
Genres: Adult, Paranormal Romance
Synopsis:
He'll
risk anything to be inside me. I'm his fated mate.
Lyla:
What the hell am I thinking? I can't fall for a wolf. He's a criminal and an outcast. I'm an elite. If we get caught, they'll destroy us. I'll be disgraced. He'll be tortured and killed. But his wolf instinct has locked on me. He says I'm his fated mate. And every time we're alone together, he melts my heart ... and makes me so wet I'll risk anything to feel him throb inside me.
Zac:
Everything they told me about fated mates is true. And that means I'm in a lot of trouble. I'm risking everything. As a shifter, I'm used to living on the edge. The regime wants me dead. But now it's so much more complicated. I'm obsessed with this girl. I can't get her out of my mind. I need to devour her, body and soul. I know I should resist, for her sake as much as my own, but I physically can't. My wolf lust has locked onto her. There's no way we get out of this alive, but one night inside her will be worth any punishment.
Lyla:
What the hell am I thinking? I can't fall for a wolf. He's a criminal and an outcast. I'm an elite. If we get caught, they'll destroy us. I'll be disgraced. He'll be tortured and killed. But his wolf instinct has locked on me. He says I'm his fated mate. And every time we're alone together, he melts my heart ... and makes me so wet I'll risk anything to feel him throb inside me.
Zac:
Everything they told me about fated mates is true. And that means I'm in a lot of trouble. I'm risking everything. As a shifter, I'm used to living on the edge. The regime wants me dead. But now it's so much more complicated. I'm obsessed with this girl. I can't get her out of my mind. I need to devour her, body and soul. I know I should resist, for her sake as much as my own, but I physically can't. My wolf lust has locked onto her. There's no way we get out of this alive, but one night inside her will be worth any punishment.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Avery Burch is a hot
new paranormal romance author and her series, Shifter: City of Wolves is
going to have a huge impact. She writes chilling tales of shifters
and heart-wrenching stories of love and lust. If you like your romance
spicy, your shifters sexy, your love stories intense, and your
heroines passionate, then her books are for you.
She lives in Toronto, Canada.
She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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