Challenged
by Lorie O'Clare

Stone McAllister will not settle down. No lady will tame him. He's happy that his littermates have found good women, set up happy dens, and enjoy the calm life of mated werewolves. That life just isn't for him.

Even after meeting Ali Bastien, an aggressive young thing anxious to learn everything at once, Stone forces all thoughts of settling down out of his head. Some werewolves are simply meant to prowl the night, take on any lady who comes their way. And that is the life Stone will hang onto—with teeth and claws if necessary.

When Ali starts announcing to her pack and her family that Stone McAllister is the werewolf for her, Stone knows it's time to leave. Something won't let him though. And to make matters worse, when another werewolf starts sniffing around Ali, Stone finds himself ready to fight for her—a fight to the death, a fight for the right to call Ali his—for life.

Lorie O'Clare's Bio

All my life, I've wondered at how people fall into the routines of life. The paths we travel seemed to be well-trodden by society. We go to school, fall in love, find a line of work (and hope and pray it is one we like), have children and do our best to mold them into good people who will travel the same path. This is the path so commonly referred to as the "real world". The characters in my books are destined to stray down a different path other than the one society suggests. Each story leads the reader into a world altered slightly from the one they know. For me, this is what good fiction is about, an opportunity to escape from the daily grind and wander down someone else's path. Lorie O'Clare lives in Kansas with her three sons.

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