Torment (Dark Alpha #1)
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Authors: Alisa Woods
Torment (Dark Alpha, Episode 1)
Copyright © 2015 by Alisa Woods
January 2015 Edition
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Torment
(Dark Alpha 1) -
New Adult Paranormal Romance
Shifters live in the shadows of Seattle, just under the skin of the alpha male, dot-com entrepreneurs who are building a new Silicon Valley in the Emerald City.
Jak enjoys the female human population of Seattle as much as any wolf, but his heart belongs to a female shifter who's already mated. Worse, she's the mate of his alpha's brother.
Arianna was captured from her pack when she was only twenty and mated to a wolf whose dark side takes full advantage of her unbreakable bond to him. Her nights belong to him, but her days are free to explore other things... including feelings for a wolf she can never have.
Is love stronger than magic? Or will breaking an unbreakable bond destroy them both?
Torment
(Dark Alpha 1) is 60 pages or 15,000 words.
It’s the first of six episodes in the
Dark Alpha
serial.
Dark Alpha
is the sequel series to
True Alpha,
the debut shifters-in-Seattle paranormal romance from Alisa Woods.
Dark Alpha Release Schedule - 2015
1 -
Torment
(1.19)
2 -
Pleasure
(2.2)
3 -
Untitled
(2.16)
4 -
Untitled
(3.2)
5 -
Untitled
(3.16)
6 -
Untitled
(3.30)
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If only she weren’t so beautiful, it might not hurt so much to watch.
Jak guarded Arianna’s backpack while she skipped around University of Washington’s Red Square—although the red brick paving of the central plaza was mostly covered by the colorful fall leaves that Arianna was kicking up as she twirled around, arms flung wide. Her smile was big enough to garner smirks from the passing students who had to dodge her little freedom dance, but she didn’t seem to care. The mountain was “out” today—the normal dreary drip of Seattle had parted to reveal brilliant blue skies and Mount Rainier shining in the distance. It was gorgeous and breathtaking and far, far out of reach… like Arianna in every way.
She spun closer then stopped and fixed him with her blue-dazzle eyes. “What are the chances, Jak?” Her breath make a small puff in the cool fall air, and her smile was infectious.
He grinned. “The chances of you being late to class? Getting better all the time.”
She lunged over and hit him. Not hard, of course. A slap on the shoulder for daring to remind her why they were here. But it was the first time she had ever touched him, and it brought a whiff of her natural scent over the backdrop of fall leaves: his shifter-enhanced senses detected a hint of musk under her blackberry-and-lavender soap. The earthy scent might be arousal… or it might just be the plain joy clear on her face. Either way, it speared through his heart. He had to force himself to keep the grin in place.
“No, Mr. Bodyguard!” She grinned again, and the noontime sun played with her hair. “What are the chances we would have such glorious weather for my first day back at school?” She tipped her head back, arms flung wide again, as if to embrace the sky. Her cascading brown hair picked up red and gold tints from the leaves. “It’s a sign!” she declared to the heavens.
His grin was more natural again. “A sign of what? That you’ve been cooped up in Mace’s house too long?” His grin faltered as he realized how bitter the words sounded out in the air, not just in his head. Mace was her alpha… but he might as well be her jailer. As far as Jak could tell, Arianna hadn’t left the Red pack estate since she’d been brought there, nearly six months ago. Jak lived in the main house, with the rest of the unmated wolves, and while he could see Mace’s house from his window, he rarely saw Arianna… and then only when she haunted the windows like a pale wraith imprisoned in the suburban-styled home. Mace didn’t let her even step foot on the lawn outside without an armed guard.
Which made sense, given Mace had basically kidnapped her.
But, for some reason Jak wasn’t privy to, Mace had decided to allow her to return to school. And today, for Arianna’s first day of freedom, Jak had pulled guard detail—probably because he was a recent alum of UDub himself. Or maybe because Mace was still angry with his own betas about the run-in over the summer with the Sparks pack. But whatever twist of fate that allowed Jak the right to escort Arianna out into the world again, it was a duty that both twisted his stomach and enlivened every other part of his body.
