Oak Point, Louisiana homicide detective Caleb Bourque is tasked with solving the case of a serial killer who leaves an unusual calling card with each victim—a sprig of mistletoe. After Joanna Chatelaine, a co-founder of a women's outreach center, is killed, her sister Jamie starts receiving threats to her life if she doesn't close Magdalen House.Can Caleb unravel this complicated case before the killer makes good on his threat to kill Jamie?

In June of 1940, Nazis march into Paris, France. Brutality haunts the streets.Engel VanWolf, the Alpha of a Shunu pack—immortals, who shift into wolf-spirit—has a painful past and the patch on his eyes serves as a reminder of human cruelty. No stranger to injustice, he poses as a Nazi officer to smuggle Jewish orphans from the city. Drawn to a seductive fragrance, chocolate skin, and velvet voice, VanWolf comes upon a human beauty, Alexia, in danger. A hunger long forgotten burns anew inside him.Alexia Pane is taken in by the Shunu pack, and finds communal living isn't the only thing they share. When danger comes knocking, she's sent to warn VanWolf, who has been discovered but needs rescuing of her own. As he whisks her to safety, he awakens her dormant passion. It's not the flames of the city she fears, but the fire he invokes inside her. The closer she gets, the more he pushes her away. And then, she falls into enemy hands.Can VanWolf save the woman he loves...

His by pack law, and he wants more than her body. Will she be able to surrender her heart?Switzerland, the winter of 1940. Alexia, a wolf-shifter, is mate to the Alpha of a powerful clan. Her life, the pack's future and the lives of countless children the pack smuggles out of Europe are in jeopardy. The Gestapo want her blood to breed an unstoppable regiment endowed with her gifts. Cathen, the pack's Epsilon Beta, is charged with protecting her. When Alexia's beloved mate is killed, Cathen becomes Alpha and by pack law, she is his new mate.On the run from the Gestapo's werewolves with Cathen, Alexia has no time to mourn. Can she resist what she's beginning to feel for her protector, despite her aching loss? Should she try? If she rejects him–not so easy to do do–he will die and the future of the pack she loves as family will be in danger. Cathen and Alexia's destinies are bound together, and to find peace and love amid the horror of war, she must accept her...

Romance. 18034 words long. First published in 2012, 2012