Böcker av Sarah Spade

After my mate rejected me, I wanted to kill him. Instead, I ran away-which nearly killed me...A year ago, everything was different. I had just left my home, joining the infamous Mountainside Pack. The daughter of an omega wolf, I've always been prized-but not as prized as I would be if my new packmates found out my secret.But when my fated mate-Mountainside's Alpha-rejected me in front of his whole pack council and my secret got out, I realized I had one choice. Going lone wolf was the only option I had, and I took it.Now I live in Muncie, hiding in plain sight. If the wolves ever left the mountains surrounding the city, I'd be in big trouble. Good thing that the truce between the vampires and my people is shaky at best and Muncie? It's total vamp territory. Thanks to my new vamp roomie, I get a pass, and I try to forget all about the call of the wolf. It's tough, though. I... I just can't forget my embarrassment-and my anger-from that night.And then he shows up and my chance at forgetting flies out the damn window.Ryker Wolfson. He was supposed to be my fated mate, but he chose his pack over our bond. At least, he did-but now that he knows what I've been hiding, he wants me back.But doesn't he remember?I told him I'll never be his mate, and there isn't a single thing he can do to change my mind.To Ryker, that sounds like a challenge. And if there's one thing I know about wolf shifters, it's that they can never resist a challenge.Just like I'm finding it more difficult than I should to resist him.

I think I'm being haunted... and it's all that weird book's fault.I'm a librarian. I love books.But the one I found in the depository?Yeah... there's something off about that one-and not only because I had a hard time figuring out if I should shelve it under foreign, occult, fiction, or out of print selections.I think... I think it's following me.Does that sound crazy? It might. With my anxiety ratcheting up to eleven after a recent rush of break-ins near my house, I'm more on guard than usual. But robbers usually steal stuff, right? They don't snatch library books and plant them in the librarian's home.And yet, somehow, that's where I find the book.That's not the only strange thing that's happening to me. I get this feeling like I'm being followed, but when I look behind me, all I see are shadows. I swear I hear a voice calling to me, too...Okay. Maybe I am going crazy, but when I finally discover that I'm being haunted by a towering shadow monster with horns and a mournful gaze, I decide it's not so bad.Especially when he finally finds a way to let me know that I'm his fated mate... and he's mine.

There's no escaping him...Fate sucks.As a shifter, I've always known that Fate-in the form of our goddess, the revered Luna-would have the final say when it came to my life. That includes everything: my pack, my rank, even my forever mate.And I hate it.I want to choose. I want my life to be mine, and if that makes me the odd one out in our pack? Oh, well. As a delta, it's not like the higher ranks-our Alpha, his Beta, and the pack council-have much use for me anyway.Still, even I'll admit I've always been drawn to the Beta of the Sylvan Pack. When I discover that he's my fated mate, it seems like giving in to the Luna's demands might not be such a bad thing after all-until he rejects me for a female he can't even have.Because, yeah. Not only does Fate suck, it has a twisted sense of humor when it comes to me.So that's that. I have to pretend like my broken bond isn't a constant ache while watching as my fated mate begs for table scraps from another wolf.Is it any wonder that I start spending my free time in the woods surrounding our territory?I wasn't afraid. Even at my low rank, I know I'm scarier than anything else that lurks in the darkness of the trees. But I was wrong-and when I see those insane golden eyes staring at me, I know I'm in deep, deep trouble.My name is Quinn Malone, and I've just been captured by a feral...

Wolves and witches and curses, oh my...I never believed in the paranormal mainly because I never had any reason to-at least, not until I received a telegram from a grandmother I didn't know existed, inviting me to a small town that was nearly impossible to find, full of shifters and witches that shouldn't be real.Of course, I didn't know that until after I agreed to visit her in her secluded home.When I pull into town, I almost regret my impulsive decision to take this trip. Bordered on all sides by rivers and mountains and dense forests, Winter Creek is a trap. Once you get in, it's just as difficult to leave. No one has cars here or internet service, and my own phone is a glorified paperweight as soon as I step off the train.Speaking of the train... I discover too late that it arrives on its rickety tracks once a week if you're lucky. And, of course, there's the small matter of the town's curse.Turns out there's a reason why my estranged grandmother finally got in touch with me for the first time in twenty-five years. In Winter's Creek, there's a curse involving a coven of witches, the feral wolf who haunts the dark forest, and a woman from seventy years ago who looks enough like me to convince my grandmother that I'm the only one who can break it at last.When I refuse, I discover that my grandmother isn't just the head witch of Winter Creek-she's the one responsible for the curse that's kept the town in stasis for the last seventy years. To break it, she's willing to do whatever she has to, including sacrificing me to the big, black wolf that's been lurking in the shadows, watching me since my arrival.Because the beast in the woods is hungry, and I'm the perfect prey...

I didn't mean to steal the book-but I did... and now I'm in big, big trouble. The moment I convinced one of my loyal customers to buy the leather-bound spellbook, I regretted it. At first I thought it was because I could've gotten more than fifty dollars for it-money that would've come in handy while I was on vacay-but while I was on the beach, all I kept thinking about was the book.It called to me for some weird reason, and when I got Shannon's message that she had a question about it, I hoped that meant she would let me buy it back. Nope. She wanted to know where I got it from.Too bad I had no idea. Almost as if by fate, it popped up in one of my boxes of stock, but I couldn't trace it. Believe me, I tried.So when Shannon offered to drop it off so that I could get a closer look at it, I jumped at the chance. And that's how I found the "true love" spell in the middle of the book.I don't know what made me decide it was a good idea to read it out loud, or what came over me when the beastly shadow monster appeared in my bedroom and crooked his claw at me...One thing led to another and, suddenly, I'm the bonded mate to a horned demon who doesn't speak English, who stole me away to a terrifying world of shadows and skulls, and who I can't stop touching even so.When I finally understand him, there's only one thing my new mate wants to make sure is clear: I'm his. He has no intention of letting me go, either in Sombra or my world.And it isn't long before I start to wonder if it would really be so bad to be forever bonded to the beast... especially when I discover just what mating during the gold moon in Sombra leads to.

Never Say Never is a collection that features the first three full-length novels in the Claws and Fangs series: Never His Mate (Claws and Fangs #1)A year after Ryker rejected her in front of his pack, Gemma is shocked when her fated mate returns to make things right. She has no interest in taking him back - but it may be impossible to resist the alpha shifter... especially when he not only knows her secret, but he has a few of his own.Always Her Mate (Claws and Fangs #2)Still determined to prove that they belong together, Ryker is willing to do anything to claim Gem as his - these days, she's more than happy to let him. But old enemies and threats for the future begin to interfere with their mating dance as news gets out that she's a rare female alpha. With the another full moon approaching, will Gem finally have Ryker... or will she lose him?Forever Mates (Claws and Fangs #3)After their mating ceremony is interrupted by Ryker's former Beta, Gem finally claims her fated mate. She's looking forward to their forever... until the Wicked Wolf summons her to visit her birth pack. When she refuses, he makes a member of the Mountainside Pack pay for it. But Gem's determined not to let anyone ruin her happily ever after...