Two Fates

by Kari Gregg

  One Last Try

  When Nox was fourteen, his brother Joth murdered their older brother, their mother, and a human girl. Nox survived, but the attack wrecked his womb. Shattered, Nox rejected the pack who fumbled helping a barren, grief-stricken omega cope. He built a new purpose for himself as a master craftsman. Mating? No thanks. He’s better off alone.

  Humans studied Joth in prison until his father’s death ended the weekly visits. Joth demands Nox in their father’s stead in exchange for resuming therapy and tests… thereby risking the destruction of Nox’s carefully ordered world. Again.

  The pack drafts alpha fixer Dio to untangle the mess. One sniff of the wary omega convinces him Nox is his mate. New medical treatments offer a slim possibility Nox could bear children, but if the past years taught shifters anything, it is an omega’s value is greater than his fertility. Reconciling Nox with his pack is more important. Laying to rest the ghosts haunting Nox is too. Learning to trust? Vital.

  Dio just needs to coax Nox into one last try.

  Content Warning: Omega mpreg and fertility themes, dubious consent, shifter knotting, an omega who rejects labels, and a bewildered alpha who wouldn’t have it any other way.

  Stray

  With a lycan father, a human mother, and the human side of his genetic makeup dominant, Luke left his birth pack to try living among humans, but he felt awkward and uncomfortable isolated from the culture that raised him. He’s still searching for where he fits in.

  After losing his family in a vicious attack, Dean rebuilt his pack by accepting loners, rejects, other survivors, and even ferals. He and his ragtag group of strays made a warm and welcoming home.

  Luke believes he’s finally found where he belongs. Meddling parents and a neighbor who isn’t as human as he seems won’t sway him. Luke wants Dean to take in one last stray… him.

  Content Warning: Shifter knotting/tying, mating heats (yes, plural), and jerky!

  Pretty Poison

  Deadly poison… or exquisite cure?

  Noah fell from an eighth story balcony as a toddler, cracking open his skull and shattering his body. The accident would've killed a human, but even shifter blood can't heal some damage. After the pack recommended a mercy killing, Noah's family ran. But there's no outrunning the mating pact formed before Noah's birth.

  Wade, the new alpha, chooses an adult Noah to fulfill the pact. Wade believes the previous alpha was a fool to reject Noah as a weak and inferior wolf, but Noah's family was wrong to hide him and starve his wolf, too. Human doctors with human medicines are poison to shifter physiology. Now that Noah is fully grown, halting his shift to retain the pins, plates, and bars holding him together hurts rather than helps him, and for Wade, more than Noah's recovery is at stake.

  Noah's family sacrificed everything to keep him alive. Noah will do whatever it takes to save them—including mate with the alpha who is determined to correct past mistakes and defeat old prejudices contaminating the shifter community.

  Too bad some still believe Noah is the true poison… and should be culled from the pack for good.

  Content Warnings: Dubious consent, shifter knotting/tying, and Nerf gun assassination attempts. Ereaders (and you) may spontaneously combust—Don't say I didn't warn you.

  About Kari Gregg

  Kari Gregg lives in the mountains of Wild and Wonderful West Virginia with her Wonderful husband and three very Wild children. When Kari’s not writing, she enjoys reading, coffee, zombie flicks, coffee, naked mud-wrestling (not really), and…coffee! If you would like to catch up with Kari, caffeinate yourself and head to KariGregg.com.

  Also by Kari Gregg:

  Lovely Wicked

  Spoils of War

  Plunder (Spoils of War #2)

  “You Melted Me”

  What Rough Beast (Out of Print)

  “The Importance of Being Denny”

  I, Omega

  Collared

  In the Red

  “Foreshock”

  I Don’t: A Christmas Wish

  Half a Million Dead Cannibals

  An Unauthorized Field Guide to the Hunt

  “Mating Season,” Bump in the Night

  Pretty Poison

  Tame a Wild Human

  Act One: Safe Travels (For Whom the Heart Stone Burns)

  Act Two: New Beginnings (For Whom the Heart Stone Burns)

  “Sightings”

  Stray

  One Last Try

  The Last Emperor

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Dedication

  Blurb for Two Fates

  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

  Epilogue

  Contents

  Thank you

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