Alphas: Origins
by Ilona Andrews

From Ilona Andrews—#1 New York Times
bestselling author of Magic Shifts and the Kate
Daniels novels—comes a stark, seductive tale of a
world torn asunder by supernatural gifts and irresistible
passions…

Karina Tucker is driving a van of children home from a field
trip when an unplanned detour to a seemingly ordinary rest
stop changes her life. There, she witnesses a world beyond
humanity’s sight, of frightful powers and chaos, where
she is in death’s grip…before an irresistibly
dangerous male saves her—only to take her captive.

For she is a rare commodity in the shadowy realm she’s
entered.

Karina soon finds herself caught in a violent civil war
where those with inhuman powers strive to destroy each other
without mercy. And it becomes all too clear that she must
make a choice: submit and become a pawn, or take hold of her
own destiny and fight for survival against impossible odds.

Alphas: Origins originally appeared in the October 2011
trade paperback anthology, ANGELS OF DARKNESS by Berkley
Sensation Trade.

Ilona Andrews' Bio

"Ilona Andrews" is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Andrew is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Andrew was not an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was not the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Andrew is still sore about that.) Andrew and Ilona currently reside in Georgia with their two children and two dogs, one of whom is clearly neurotic and the other who believes herself to be a thirty pound wolf. They are working on Kate Daniels's next adventure.