The Patient Wolf
Wicked Urban Fantasy
Book One
Karen Hodges Miller
Genre: paranormal romance
Publisher: Can’t Put it Down Books
Date of Publication: May 2, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9972024-2-7
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 42,225
Cover Artist: Genevieve Cosdon
Book Description:
The small town of Rivelou is hiding secrets, and they are about to claw their way to the surface.
Ana Dugan used to enjoy her nighttime walks through her quaint college town, but all of that changes when a handsome stranger rescues her from an attack. She’s not sure who she should be more afraid of the four legged beast who attacked her or the two legged one who saved her. She narrowly escapes, but soon learns that others weren’t so lucky.
When another man enters her life claiming he’s there to protect her she’s not sure who she should trust, the wolf or the hunter.
The Patient Wolf Chapter 1
Ana breathed in the early autumn air as she headed away from the university
and onto the darker streets of the neighboring suburb. It was an older
neighborhood, built in the 1920’s when the town of Rivelou had begun to spread
from its central location on the river across the railroad tracks to the north.
This particular section of the town had been built for the railroad workers,
with tiny shotgun houses lined up on even tinier lawns.
As Ana crossed Roosevelt Avenue and headed into her own
neighborhood, the streetlights ended and the sidewalk became lighted only by an
occasional porch light or walk light. She loved walking home from her night
classes at this time of the year. The air, while it could not yet be called
crisp, had lost its summer sultriness, a welcome change from the blistering
heat of a Midwest summer.
And these walks home after her night classes were one of the
few times during her week when she could be truly alone. No bosses, no
teachers, not even Sophie chattering away in her ear. She’d been a mom long
enough not to feel guilty at enjoying a a little time alone without her child.
Her thirteen-year-old daughter was the light of her life, but that didn’t mean
she couldn’t enjoy a little time by herself, too.
As she headed down Harlan Street, farther from the more
heavily trafficked avenue, the street became even darker. It was too soon for
most of the leaves to have fallen, they were just beginning to turn red on this
last week in September and they were so thick on the trees that they hid the
full moon. Part of the charm of the old neighborhood was the beautiful, large old
maples and oaks, but their roots also tore up the sidewalks. Ana tripped on one
of those cracks, and shook her head in disgust. How could she always trip in
the same spot, night after night? It wasn’t as if she hadn’t memorized the bad
spots in the sidewalk after years of walking this way.
About the Author:
Karen Hodges Miller’s fascination with werewolves, vampires, witches, ghosts, and all things supernatural began with the childhood classics. She gobbled up everything from The Haunting of Hill House to the Narnia series, from Dracula to Rebecca. As a writer, however, she stuck to non-fiction; working as a newspaper and magazine reporter and editor and in 2004 opening her own publishing company.
She has written several books for authors on the subject of writing and publishing. The Patient Wolf is her first fiction novel and of course, it features a very sexy werewolf.
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