New Moon Rising

CONTENTS Content Information Stalk Serenity Everywhere Stalk Cassandra Featherstone in the Dark Corners of the Web Author Ramblings Notes for Readers A Note To Cass’s Family Members and Friends… Dedication Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 Chapter 65 Chapter 66 Chapter 67 Chapter 68 Chapter 69 Reviews Sneak Peek: Secrets of State U Sneak Peek: Bloodthirsty Sneak Peek: Nikita Sneak Peek: His To Protect About Serenity Rayne Also By Serenity Rayne About Cassandra Featherstone Also by Cassandra Featherstone Copyright © 2023 by Cassandra Featherstone and Serenity Rayne All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Any unauthorized copies will be pursued through DMCA, legal channels, and reporting to all appropriate companies and law enforcements agency, both foreign and domestic. Contact the authors for permissions or rights inquiries at www.cassandrafeatherstone.com or www.serenityrayne.com . The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to persons, places, brands, or locations—real or fictional—are coincidental and not intended by the authors. Ebook Cover: Covers by Christian Alternate PB Cover: Pretty in Ink Creations Editing & Formatting: Little Tailfeather Publishing Alphas/Betas/Arc Teams: Cassandra’s claws, Serenity’s Den & BCATs teams Sensitivity Readers: Brit Mason, Gail Jericho Cassandra’s logo: Pretty in Ink Creations Serenity’s logo: Pretty in Ink Creations Translation Consultant: Mo Jacobs Legal Services: Joshua Farley, esq. Images/Fonts: Creative Fabrica, Depositphotos & Photoshop PR Services: Sam o’Neill CONTENT INFORMATION Content warnings are important and we don’t ever want to harm a reader, so if you’d like more comprehensive warnings for any of my books visit: https://cassandrafeatherstone.com/series-by-cassandra-featherstone/ (This does get updated as I write, so it changes.) This is a paranormal whychoose romance with poly elements. There are many situations included that are intended for mature audiences (18+). In this book, there may be instances/references that could trigger some individuals such as: BDSM, violence outside of the families, bullying outside of the families, PTSD, body dysmorphia, bad language, impact play, body modifications, casual sex, mention of self-harm, masturbation, voyeurism, objects used as toys, bondage, shifted sex, rough sex, biting, marking, mating, orgasm control, submission, blood play, death (outside of family group), drug and alcohol use, slow family group build, tails/horns/ wings during sex, body modification, primal play, knotting, parental death, unusual genitalia, multiple harems and FMCs, piercings, tattoos, brands, threats of violence, injury to FMCs friend, jealousy, possessive alpha holes, murder, injury by knife (not MCs), magical sex, raw sex, talk of heat cycles, abusive relatives (emotional), asshole fathers, asshole uncles, elitist jack holes, fangs, multiple partners, copious caffeine consumption, unhealthy coping strategies, and more. Everything is consensual, except death. Consent is ALWAYS sexy, and our MCs will always seek it. STALK SERENITY EVERYWHERE Facebook: Serenity Rayne Readers Group Twitter: Author Serenity Rayne Instagram: Author Serenity Rayne Goodreads: Serenity Rayne BookBub: Serenity Rayne Amazon: Serenity Rayne Website: https://www.serenityrayne.com Join her Pack Updates: Bi-weekly updates on new releases, snippets, and contests. https://www.subscribepage.com/o0b9s4 STALK CASSANDRA FEATHERSTONE IN THE DARK CORNERS OF THE WEB JOIN MY FACEBOOK GROUP AND FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE! WANT MORE? SIGN UP FOR MY BI-WEEKLY MANIFESTO FOR A FREE SERIES SAMPLER: AUTHOR RAMBLINGS Readers, I come to you with a book that I am intensely proud of. Not only because I believe it’s a fabulous beginning to the series, but because writing it was a personal and professional triumph. When we announced this series last February, I was completely jazzed to be working with an amazing author. But due to other circumstances, I’m sad to say I almost didn’t follow through with it. There were issues I was dealing with in both aspects of my life that were difficult, but Serenity’s support and friendship over the next few months as a co-author and friend were integral to surviving the miasma of other problems. I spent much of the spring and early summer mired in an abusive situation that damaged my mental, emotional, and physical health in ways that took the latter half of 2021 to address and resolve. But every time a horrible missive or vague taunt appeared, Serenity was there. I considered a lot of options during that time, but allowing an emotional terrorist to win wasn’t one of them and she helped me sort through that and find strength. The road to healing has not been easy—I had to fight a continuous battle on many fronts to not allow this behavior to affect me in public, but also to make sure I don’t allow the same abusive, controlling machinations and insults to cause me harm. That’s difficult when you have a connection not easily severed, but I can now say that I responded with as much grace, class, and kindness as possible while not always having access to the awful lies being propagated. My doctor suggested adopting a dog and Tilly has been one of the best decisions I could have made. I wasn’t prepared to increase my anxiety medication to a level where I’d have trouble working simply because I had this bullshit in the background. But also, I pulled away from most public open spaces little by little, limiting the amount