Flung into the 21st Century, Highland shapeshifter Col Limont needs to find the healer Charity Greves in order to get back home and save his family.
However, the healer’s sister, Lenore, is determined to do everything she can to keep Col from dragging her sister back to 13th Century Scotland into his family’s supernatural war. But when monsters and a strange yuppie trio also try to stop him, Lenore has to reconsider her options.
But by helping Col, she’ll lose her sister.
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Resolved, she edged forward and
dragged the heavy tarp off the creature underneath.
And stared.
It was just a man.
He sat against the sewage pipe, arms
pulled behind him, either tied or handcuffed. His head hung forward, dark hair
obscuring his face. His jeans were ripped and loose, as was his dirty T-shirt,
splattered with blood and mud. Cuts and abrasions speckled his arms and she’d
guess there were more under his shirt and on his face. Anger at his harsh
mistreatment rose up in her.
“You’re into trafficking humans now?”
“Ha!” Starch flung his large hands up.
“Hardly human. Shapeshifter. And a powerful one at that. Took three ghouls and
a troll to subdue him and that was after they tranqed him.”
“Is he still drugged?” She crouched
down beside the guy, squeezing her hands into fists to hide the anger. This
wasn’t right. “What’d you give him?”
She touched his arm and he flinched.
Her heart went out to him. He looked young and innocent. A year or so younger
than her, maybe eighteen or nineteen. Too young to be caught up in whatever
mess this was. Her instinct was to soothe, but she couldn’t show any softness
here. Grabbing his chin, she lifted his head.
And the world narrowed down to a pair
of mossy green eyes.
Energy shot into her, buzzing
strangely across her skin in a lightning rapid pulse. An instant familiarity
burned through her, as if she knew him, though she was certain she’d never seen
him before, but there was something. Staring into his battered face, a
connection rippled between them, tangent and swift and then was gone as quickly
as it came.
Stranger still, she wanted that
connection back.