Touch a Dark Wolf (The Shadowmen, Book 1) - Softcover

St. Giles, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416513329 ISBN 13: 9781416513322

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2006

Synopsis

Jennifer St. Giles begins a dazzling new series that takes you into a world of seductive shape shifters and mystical beings, and into the hearts of a band of heroic warriors known as The Shadowmen. . . .

Yesterday, Erin Morgan worked for a pioneering Manhattan medical center. Today, she's on the run, witness to a chilling conspiracy. Fleeing for her life in the Tennessee mountains, she is run off the road by a mysterious beast . . . and things only get stranger when she wakes the next day to find a naked Adonis sprawled on the hood of her car.

For centuries, Jared has been a shape shifter, sworn to protect mortals like Erin. But in saving her, Jared has damned himself, for the poison from his battle wound stirs a terrible blood lust. Determined to protect Erin, Jared stays by her side and discovers a sensual rapture beyond imagining . . . and a love that can change his fate. But can Jared overcome his savage thirst and protect Erin from the beast within?

About this title

From the Author

WHEN I FIRST WROTE this story, I had to take out certain elements because the original publisher felt readers wouldn't want them. One particular element was the reasoning behind people with "special" blood and what that might mean to the evil forces we all know exist both in this world and in the spirit world beyond. So as I revamped this story to release on my own, I went in and added that element. What I previously had to call Elan, those with special blood, I could go back to calling Chosen. I could now explain that the Chosen were the descendants of King Solomon and his seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines from many nationalities that scattered to the ends of the earth upon his death. The bloodline from which King Solomon came had been blessed, so in the paranormal world I built, I made that blood special and created an evil that craved the blessed blood for its power. I hope you enjoy the changes I made. To me it adds fullness to the story and comes so much closer to the tale I wanted to tell so many years ago.

Reasons do matter.

Given the history of our world and delving into the events that are currently playing out on the world stage, there are some truths to be seen. Good and evil exist. Religions and ideologies play a huge part in everything that happens. And while there is power in money, if you go back through time, there is more power in blood. In creating the Shadowmen Series, I mixed those truths up a bit and had fun in writing stories that I hope show the hearts of strong men and women who go against the odds to fight a growing evil that threatens to overtake the world.

Would that I had the resources and could do so in real life.

Finally, I mention in this story that time travel might not be a person going from one time period to another, but of a person's heart, soul, and spirit transcending the "normal" time it takes for certain things to happen, to courageously leap forward and grasp what is most important.

When life and death are on the line, the normal barriers that keep people isolated from each other disappear as they rise to the occasion and fight for survival. This is even truer for a man and a woman, whose hearts are willing to sacrifice all for another.

I hope you enjoy Erin and Jared's love story, for their whirlwind tale begins many more that follow.

Happy Reading!

About the Author

Under a barrage of nagging by BFF's, I've been told my bio was boring. So, what can I tell you about me?
I don't play video games or watch horror because I can't take the heat, but give me a kickass thriller every minute of every day and I am there. Be prepared for a Hoover Dam meltdown if you're with me and the movie is sad. So, to avoid disaster, I love romantic comedies.

Never coffee. Always tea. Never beer. Always champagne. There's more, but hey, gotta save some secrets until after the first date, right?

I grew up in Miami, went to nursing school in Georgia and wrote for nine years before publishing. I am a believer that a person should NEVER GIVE UP ON THEIR DREAMS.
Besides great kids, family, and friends, that perseverance has so far garnered me a USA Today Bestselling tag. I write in a number of genres and have won a number of writing awards. See jenniferstgiles.com for a list. I work with several amazing women in a charity to raise money abused and homeless women and children and also the Angels of East Africa. .

I write romance because I believe that when you take a human being to the very core of his existence, then you will find that what matters more than anything else is to be loved and to give love.

Life is all about choices and to pull from one of Erich Fromm's quote, I choose to create and to love rather than destroy and to hate. Go forth, dream, believe, create, inspire, and love,

Jenni (J.L. Saint, Jennifer St. Giles, Jennifer Saints)

PS. Writers don't develop split personalities. They develop pseudonyms.
The Mistress of Trevelyan 8/04, His Dark Desires 11/05, Touch A Dark Wolf 9/06, The Lure of the Wolf 7/07, Kiss of Darkness 4/09, Bride of the Wolf 5/09. Wild Irish 6/09. Smooth Irish 6/09. Collateral Damage 12/10, Midnight Secrets re-release 4/11, Darkest Dreams re-release 8/11, Tactical Deception 3/12, Hard Irish 6/12, Silken Shadows re-release 7/12, Unleash the Past 8/12, Aerik: Point of No Return 8/12, Cocktail Cove 12/12.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1416513329
• ISBN 13: 9781416513322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320