Kait Silver: The Complete Series

Kait Silver The Complete Series Books 1-5 Copyright © 2023 Laken Cane All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Table of Contents BROKEN MOON Playlist Broken Moon Blurb BLOOD MAGIC Playlist Blood Magic Blurb BOLD MERCY Playlist Bold Mercy Blurb BAD MEDICINE Playlist Bad Medicine Blurb BEAUTIFUL MADNESS Dedication Beautiful Madness blurb Review About Laken Cane Laken’s Books BROKEN MOON Kait Silver book 1 By Laken Cane Playlist SILENT RUNNING—Hidden Citizens LOOK AT YOU—Screaming Trees NEVER LONELY ALONE—Space Needle MILLION REASONS—Lady Gaga CRUEL WORLD—Active Child PERFECT—Ed Sheeran TRY—Pink I AM THE ONLY ONE—Ursine Vulpine & Annaca Broken Moon Blurb I'm a wolf shifter... who can't shift. Twelve years ago, I was hobbled by my alpha, cast out of my pack, and forced into an unfriendly world without any protection. But I’m not exactly helpless. Despite being unable to shift, I have talents the others don't have. I can see the spirits of dead people, for one. And I have a knack for fighting rogue supernaturals. My ex-alpha will never let me back in, but there's another alpha in the city. Something has been killing his wolves, and he wants me to destroy it before it takes another one. He'll triple my going rate--but that's not the thing that makes me agree to help him. He says he can free my wolf. It's not possible, but... What if it is? I'll help him, either way. Monster hunting is what I do, and if there's a monster killing wolves, I will stop it. Because those two warring alphas might believe the city is theirs, but this is my territory. The city embraced me when the packs wouldn't have me, and I will protect it--with or without my wolf. Chapter One My breath whooshed from my lungs as I ran, and despite the cold, a layer of sweat covered my skin like the thin carpet of crunchy snow on the ground. The woods were still and barren, and the vast, dark sky seemed too low as the moon watched me with a mocking eye. It was the first night of October and too early for snow, really, but it had come anyway. The full moon had come, as well, making the night one big miserable, endless trial. At least for me. I couldn’t outrun the moon. I felt its bright halo pulling at me, insisting I do what my nature—my very birth—had said I must do, and shift. But I could not. I couldn’t shift, and it was torture. My old alpha had hobbled my wolf before he’d cast my mother and me out of the pack. My mother was punished for my father’s sins, and I was punished for attempting to kill the alpha. I’d been fourteen years old and full of grief and rage, and the daughter of the wolf who’d betrayed the pack. He’d been sentenced to death, and they’d forced my mother and me to watch him die. My mother’s grief had been huge and as hard to watch as my father’s death. When the alpha had told her coldly he would banish her but that I, the innocent child, might stay, I had begged to differ. He hadn’t threatened to keep me because he wanted to protect me. He threatened to keep me to terrify me. He didn’t want me there. I had not yet found my shift when I’d gone at him with my baby claws and a grudge, and to his surprise—not mine, because I was so full of emotion and darkness that I was thinking of nothing but somehow ending the pain—I cut him. I cut his face in front of the pack. Me, a little nobody. I had drawn his blood. He had not taken that well. Before he threw me out, along with my mother, he’d hobbled me. “I’ll make sure wherever you go, you’ll be a harmless little pup when you get there.” Which meant that when my shift came in after I reached the age of fifteen, I wouldn’t be able to accept it. I would suffer with the need to accept it, though. Oh, would I suffer. Bastard. I wasn’t a kid anymore. Over the past twelve years, I’d learned to deal with the pain. The moon called to me nearly every night, but I could handle it… Until the full moon came. When it swelled in the sky, huge and white, I could only run and hope to wear myself out while it followed me and tried to force me to do something the alpha had made impossible. Shift. Become my wolf. I screamed, but it was more of a howl. I should find a way to get to the alpha, and I should kill him. Maybe then the chains that bound my wolf would be broken. But I could not get to him. Not that he was far away. My mother and I had left the little town of Stonebridge, which was the Stone Moon Pack community, and we had gone straight into the big city of Jakeston—which was also Stone Moon Pack territory. The Gray Shadow Pack claimed it as well, with neither clan willing to give up and start over somewhere else. The territory had unofficially and tentatively morphed into natural divisions over the decades, with the area of the county to the north belonging to the Gray Shadow Pack and the area to the south belonging to the Stone Moon Pack. The city, however, had no such division and both packs claimed it. Which meant they fought over it—and quite viciously at times. Someday, I would