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Viola, the Rock Prowler pack omega, lives alone in the forest. She ekes out a living growing herbs and brewing possets. On the rare occasion a Lykae can\u2019t shape shift and force a healing, her herbal medicines come to their aid.<\/p>\nViola, the Rock Prowler pack omega, lives alone in the forest. She ekes out a living growing herbs and brewing possets. On the rare occasion a Lykae can\u2019t shape shift and force a healing, her herbal medicines come to their aid.<\/p>\n
When she hit puberty, the alpha\u2019s thugs beat her so badly her inner wolves died. No longer able to shape shift she struggled on with a crippled knee\u2014another legacy of the beating she barely survived. Bending to tend her herb garden isn\u2019t easy, so everything she grows is dual purpose.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s listed her five favorite herbs.<\/p>\n
Sometimes Viola uses it to make flavoring sachets, but it also sells well when distilled and marketed as an insect repellant.<\/p>\n
Lavender<\/p>\n
When distilled, a few drops of lavender oil on a pillow aid sleep. Her lavender oil scented candles also sell well. Even the fiercest warriors love a rub down with lavender oil. It eases the pain from their aching muscles. Afterwards though, they\u2019re not very keen on the girly smell.<\/p>\n
Mint<\/p>\n
Mint tea is a Lykae favorite, and Viola\u2019s happy to supply it. Lately, she\u2019s experimented with minted sugar tablets. Since every Lykae has a sweet tooth, this went down well in the general store.<\/p>\n
Rosemary<\/p>\n
Viola brews this into a herbal shampoo that the pack\u2019s she-wolves rave over. Her meat flavoring sachets containing rosemary sell well too.<\/p>\n
Saffron<\/p>\n
Collecting this herb from the autumn crocus takes a toll on Viola\u2019s knee, but because it\u2019s a scarce commodity, it\u2019s worth it. Wolves love it as food coloring and even a dye. When a she wolf first comes into heat, she\u2019s too young for sex. Drinking an infusion of rosemary helps her through it.<\/p>\n
I hope you\u2019ve enjoyed a brief glimpse into Viola\u2019s world. If you\u2019d like to read her story, please check out To Seduce an Omega<\/em> \u2013 a stand alone romance in my Scattered Siblings<\/em> series.<\/p>\n Blurb<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rock Prowler alpha condemns Viola for her inability to shift. Forced into poverty and isolation, she ekes out a meager existence as a healer. As the pack omega with a crippled knee, she\u2019s forbidden to mate. Her first heat beckons, but no wolf will dare to bed her.<\/p>\n Titus, a wolf rejected by his true mate, overflows with violence and anger. The Lykae King sends him to take over the Rock Prowler pack. He condemns Viola for wanting payment before she treats her patients and threatens to bring in a new pack healer. With her crippled knee and no other income, she\u2019d starve. 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After taking a moment to stand up as straight as her crippled leg allowed, she donned her professional healer persona. \u201cFor a price. Cash. Up front.\u201d<\/p>\n Viola lied, of course. Leaving anyone in pain was beyond her, but the man with the broad chest and gold-flecked eyes didn\u2019t need to know that. Besides, unless she got hold of some cash soon, she might never eat meat again.<\/p>\n The low growl that rumbled from his throat and the way his eyes narrowed made her wish she\u2019d stayed silent. He bared his fangs, and although she wanted to retreat, she stubbornly held her ground.<\/p>\n His lip curled. \u201cDo it. I\u2019m good for your fees. Just get a move on.\u201d<\/p>\n His deep, angry rumble made her think of a volcano ready to erupt. And damn, when she stared up him, he looked as tall as the mountains that trapped her in Rock Prowler territory. Out here in the midst of the forest, miles from the nearest settlement, she should be wary. This stranger emanated strength, protection, and\u2026flat-out fury. At her.<\/p>\n His jaw clamped as he shoved past her into the hut. She followed, mentally triaging her patient. Tansy\u2019s clothes hung off her in tatters, and an arrow stuck out of her leg. Deep scratches, the sort only a murder thorn could inflict, covered her torso. The woman\u2019s breathing came in fast, shallow pants. Her skin looked as though it had been touched with frost, and rivers of dried blood stained her leg.<\/p>\n Absently, Viola wondered what the other woman been up to that involved tangling with a bush renowned for shredding skin.\u00a0Not running from Mr. Fix-It here, I hope.<\/em>\u00a0Ignoring her concerns and her attraction to a newcomer with the short hair and bad attitude, she reached out to stroke Tansy\u2019s hair. Rather than gather her supplies, Viola hardened her heart and met the stranger\u2019s gaze.<\/p>\n With his torn ear and bent nose, Mr. Fix-It looked ready to tear out her throat. Her stomach clenched as though he\u2019d punched her, and his disgusted look promised a reckoning once she\u2019d tended Tansy\u2019s wounds. Viola\u2019s tender heart went out to the woman in his arms. Despite her bold words, she\u2019d never let Tansy suffer, but she needed to bargain to survive.<\/p>\n As the pack\u2019s omega wolf, she expected nothing from anyone\u2014except insults, of course. Chin high, spine stiff, she kept her hands at her side. \u201cPerhaps you shouldn\u2019t have chased her into a murder thorn in the first place. Of course, I\u2019ll help her once we\u2019ve agreed on a price.\u201d<\/p>\n The stranger\u2019s furious growl cut to her heart, but unless she demanded her cash in advance, she\u2019d starve.<\/p>\n Rather than pass the woman into Viola\u2019s arms, he stared around the two-room hunter\u2019s den she\u2019d moved into when her home burned to the ground. \u201cAnd you call yourself a healer. Just for the record, I heard her whimper from the middle of a thorn thicket, and unlike you I couldn\u2019t leave her to suffer. You care more about money than your calling, but once the woman\u2019s back on her feet, I\u2019ll pay your price.\u201d<\/p>\n This man didn\u2019t fit any classically handsome mold, but he oozed charisma and power. If circumstances had been different, she\u2019d have welcomed him with refreshments and maybe her body. Recently the need to screw someone\u2014anyone\u2014stirred her blood, but no self-respecting wolf would screw the pack\u2019s omega.<\/p>\n Even if one approached her, the alpha would kill them. Despite their shared blood, the alpha hated her. No way would he let an omega wolf reproduce and dilute the pack\u2019s gene pool. Deep down, she hated being so alone.<\/p>\n Mr. Fix-It\u2019s presence fired up her body in a lightning strike of sensual heat, but with his bad-boy attitude and take-charge nature, women probably threw themselves at him. She sighed over another broken dream and coolly met his gaze.<\/p>\n She couldn\u2019t shift and hunt prey, so she needed to scrape together what coins she could just to buy meat. Unlike most Lykae, she couldn\u2019t turn wolf to heal her injuries. Her heart told her to run through the forest and let off steam, but her twisted knee prevented her enjoying such a simple thing. Thanks to the beating that killed her inner wolves, that was another pleasure Zebadiah had stolen from her.<\/p>\n Lately, she\u2019d been teaching herself to shoot with a bow and arrow, but archery didn\u2019t come easy to her. What spare time she had, she spent tending her vegetables and herbs, but all that bending made her knee feel like someone hit it with a hammer\u2014again.<\/p>\n She persevered because she needed fresh food to survive. The herbal remedies and potions she\u2019d crafted from her surplus and traded for fresh meat were an unexpected bonus. After all, a wolf couldn\u2019t live by vegetables alone.<\/p>\n The stranger\u2019s eyes darkened until his gaze felt like copper blades cutting through her composure and condemning her poverty-stricken surroundings. His disgust curdled something inside her, but his narrow-eyed look and curled top lip were all too familiar. The pack had looked at her that way for years.<\/p>\n Her fleeting attraction for Tansy\u2019s rescuer shriveled beneath his I\u2019ll-wipe-you-off-the-planet gaze. With his huge muscles, short-cropped hair, and inbuilt arrogance, he looked more a brawler than a hero. She should shove him out the door, not that her flimsy wattle and daub hut would protect her. Then, despite everything, her stupid hormones flared with desire\u2014for him.<\/p>\n The bend in his nose, as if he\u2019d broken it and it hadn\u2019t healed right, puzzled her. Most Lykae healed when they shifted, but not him. When he wasn\u2019t looking daggers at her, pained shadows filled his eyes.<\/p>\n Her antagonism melted when she thought of how he\u2019d rescued Tansy from the murder thorn. Viola wanted to curl her body around his and taste every inch of him. Why was it that the only wolf her stupid oversexed body wanted in her bed had already condemned her.<\/p>\n He glanced down at Tansy, then turned his death stare back on Viola. \u201cBustle about, or I\u2019ll find the Rock Prowler pack a new healer. Anyone with an ounce of compassion would be better than you.\u201d<\/p>\n She blocked the bedroom doorway. \u201cYou will pay me?\u201d<\/p>\n He hurled three gold coins onto the floor of her hut. \u201cThere. Take your blood money. The drayman who pointed out your home said you were a hard-hearted bitch. Stupidly, I dismissed his opinion. Biggest mistake I ever made. I should have flashed that poor woman to someone who knew what they were doing, not depended on an unskilled hedgewitch like you.\u201d<\/p>\n How dare he! V<\/em>iola\u2019s hands shook, and her cheeks flushed. She opened and closed her mouth, then clenched and unclenched her fists. She\u2019d never wanted to hit anyone so badly. At least he\u2019d paid her, so she\u2019d ignore him and help Tansy\u2014just as she\u2019d intended all along.<\/p>\n This stranger watched her intently, and under his scrutiny her hands shook. What sort of man could walk in and announce he\u2019d replace her? Someone important, that was for sure. If he voiced his misgivings to the alpha, Zebadiah would have the perfect excuse to cast her out completely. He\u2019d wanted to do it for years. If she knew of any safe haven, she\u2019d have already left. Not that any of the other packs would adopt a damaged wolf like her.<\/p>\n All she could do was stay put and take life one day at a time.<\/p>\n Pack members could take their woes to Zebadiah, the pack alpha, and on a good day he might even listen, but an omega wolf was a different story. He\u2019d just laugh Viola and her troubles out of the great hall. Besides, she\u2019d already suffered enough at his hands. She should warn Mr. Fix-It about the alpha\u2019s murderous tendencies. Strangers who strolled into Rock Prowler territory didn\u2019t usually stroll out.<\/p>\n Even though he condemned her, this stranger oozed so much masculinity that her mouth watered. Not that she would ever act on the deliciously sexual feelings he kick-started in her womb.\u00a0Omega wolf, remember?<\/em><\/p>\n Looking at him rekindled her dreams of love and romance, the ones the alpha\u2019s thugs had beaten out of her. This newcomer woke something wild inside her, but Viola had long since resigned herself to a solitary existence. No mate. No cubs. No decent home. Little fresh meat and rarely a kind word. She was sick of being isolated and alone. When the alpha had declared her the pack\u2019s omega wolf, he hadn\u2019t expected her to last long, but her stubborn streak had kept her strong.<\/p>\n Zebadiah\u2019s harsh rule crushed the Rock Prowler pack, and even the cockiest of the Lykae males didn\u2019t dare defy him. Too many sisters and mated she-wolves had vanished from the families that protested his rule.<\/p>\n Viola poured distilled wine over her hands and winced when some ran into a cut in her finger. \u201cWho are you? And do you have the alpha\u2019s permission to cross Rock Prowler lands?\u201d<\/p>\n He shoved past her and carried the unconscious woman into the back room of her hut. \u201cI\u2019m Titus, and I\u2019m here by your alpha\u2019s invitation. He wants me to marry his daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n Any attraction Viola felt toward him withered. She had no respect for any friends of Zebadiah Lightfoot\u2014the man she refused to call father ever again. Even if she didn\u2019t despise Titus, she didn\u2019t own a chair she could offer him. Then again, since he\u2019d come here at her father\u2019s behest, she should ram her hands against his chest and shove him out the door. Not that she could move a man-mountain like him.<\/p>\n
\nShe-wolves from families who disagree with the alpha have vanished. When Titus investigates, the alpha\u2019s allies imprison both him and Viola. To escape, he must seduce Viola\u2014the she-wolf he insulted and reviled. If that\u2019s not bad enough, she despises him for his seeming allegiance to the alpha. As he gets to know her, she steals his heart, but after all that\u2019s happened, how can she accept him when even his fated mate refused him?<\/p>\n