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Touch a Dark Wolf (The Shadowmen Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jennifer St. Giles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 4: The Shadowmen, Book 2

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Jennifer St. Giles begins a dazzling new series that takes you into a world of seductive shape shifters and mystical beings, and into the hearts of a band of heroic warriors known as The Shadowmen. . . .

Yesterday, Erin Morgan worked for a pioneering Manhattan medical center. Today, she's on the run, witness to a chilling conspiracy. Fleeing for her life in the Tennessee mountains, she is run off the road by a mysterious beast . . . and things only get stranger when she wakes the next day to find a naked Adonis sprawled on the hood of her car.

For centuries, Jared has been a shape shifter, sworn to protect mortals like Erin. But in saving her, Jared has damned himself, for the poison from his battle wound stirs a terrible blood lust. Determined to protect Erin, Jared stays by her side and discovers a sensual rapture beyond imagining . . . and a love that can change his fate. But can Jared overcome his savage thirst and protect Erin from the beast within?

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"Riveting . . . sexually charged." -- Romantic Times Book Club

"Ripples with tension . . . an engrossing read." -- Publishers Weekly

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Have you ever visited a place and immediately sensed something special about it? Something different than any other place you'd been before. A uniqueness that had nothing to do with the beauty of the scenery but everything to do with what you couldn't see? I have. I know others have, too. There are books written about the world's sacred places, where people sense spirits lingering in the atmosphere or an underlying mystical aura that reaches deep into their hearts.

In THE LURE OF THE WOLF, I created such a place and called it Spirit Wind Mountain. Amid the mists and the wind, there are restless spirits hovering between this world and the next. And once upon a time, ancient people gathered to worship. It is a place full of mystical power that plays a very important role in my story. If you have ever experienced a place like this, I would love to know about it. So please make a comment on my website jenniferstgiles.com or on Facebook at or Tweet me at @jenniferstgiles.

For readers who didn't read the revamped version of TOUCH A DARK WOLF, I made some subtle changes to the Shadowmen lore. When I first wrote this story, I had to take out certain elements because the original publisher felt readers wouldn't want them. One particular element was the reasoning behind people with "special" blood and what that might mean to the evil forces we all know exist both in this world and in the spirit world beyond. So as I reworked this story to release on my own, I went in and added that element. What I previously had to call Elan, those with special blood, I could go back to calling Chosen. I could now explain that the Chosen were the descendants of King Solomon and his seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines from many nationalities that scattered to the ends of the earth upon his death. The bloodline from which King Solomon came had been blessed, so in the paranormal world I built, I made that blood special and created an evil that craved the blessed blood for its power. I hope you enjoy the changes I made. To me it adds fullness to the story and comes so much closer to the tale I wanted to tell so many years ago.

Reasons do matter.

It takes only one good man or woman to stand firm to keep evil from filling the void.

Happy Reading!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00N4L1QU0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ ; 2nd edition (August 28, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3826 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 202 pages

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USA Today Bestselling author, Jennifer St. Giles, aka Jennifer Saints, J.L. Saint is no ordinary Georgia Peach. She's a Golden Heart, three-time Maggie, two-time National Reader's Choice, Marlene, RT Reviewer's Choice and Daphne du Maurier award-winning author. Jenni writes in multiple genres, including: romance, paranormal, contemporary, historical and military and time travel. She is a passionate patriot, event planner and the Vice-President of a charitable foundation which helps women and children's causes. Jenni believes fervently in following your dreams and never giving up.

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Veronica

Bloodline

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2023

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Wow and amazing are the words to describe this book. I did not stop until I was finished. Superbly written

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2015

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Erin’s day was shot to hell. As a nurse at the Sno-Med facilities, it was her duty to oversee the blood transfusions to the ultra-rich that would hold back their cancer for three months.

Today she’d seen something that she never should have. In an extremely secret lab deep within the Sno-Med complex, she had discovered four bodies. Not injured, not victims of a horrific accident, just four people who carried the special protein in their blood that made miracles happen for cancer patients. Strapped to gurneys, completely drained of their precious blood, these two adults and two children had their lives taken from them so that the insanely rich could live for three more months.

Erin had believed Dr. Cinatas when he claimed that people came into the lab and voluntarily gave of their blood to help others, just as she did. Now the truth was lying right in front of her. Drained of every last droplet of blood.

After a confrontation with Dr. Cinatas, Erin runs for her life. Driving through the darkness of a foggy Tennessee mountain pass, already terrified and running on pure survival instincts, Erin is stunned when a creature lands on the hood of her car with enough force to send spider cracks through her windshield. The dark, almost black creature terrified her as it tried to get through the glass, its fang-like teeth glistening in the headlight’s reflection.

She was shaken from her fear-frozen state when a second crash assaulted the hood of her car. A silver-grey wolf with startling blue eyes had landed on the back of the creature. Before Erin’s stunned eyes, a battle broke out between the dark creature and the silver-grey wolf. When she heard a fierce, wounded howl from the silver-grey wolf, her heart seemed to stop beating. Her frightened glance seemed to be held by the wolf, it was as though he spoke to her mind telling her to “Leave Now”.

Erin threw the car into reverse and drove off into the foggy darkness. Careening around curves, unable to see the road through the fog she felt the car leave the road as she flew through space. The last thing she remembered was the silver-grey wolf’s blue eyes.

Okay, let’s stop right there. That’s enough of a tease.

From this point onward, we will discover what Jared (the silver-grey wolf) really is. Why the dark creature attacked Erin’s car. And why Jared was there so quickly to defend her. We will discover some of the reasons behind Sno-Med and the truly evil Dr Cinatas. Other characters will be introduced and the groundwork for this series will begin to be laid out for us.

Erin and Jared’s love story will unfold in a sensuous, satisfying way. There is a legend involved in the overall story – and we will also discover if the legend becomes true or is completely myth.

I really enjoyed Touch A Dark Wolf and will search out the remaining novels in the series – because I now want to know the rest of the story. I believe that anyone who loves paranormal love stories would enjoy this novel. Yes, it is the first of the series and leaves as many questions as it gives answers. But I’m not surprised by that, and it won’t keep me from reading the other novels.

Touch A Dark Wolf gets a 3 outta 5 on my rating scale. I expect the next book to be a higher rating because the world building is mostly past and we will get into the story faster. (my opinion)

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When you read this novel (and it is free right now so why wouldn’t you go download it *book lover grin*) please, oh please pay attention to the author’s notes in the very beginning. At times, we the readers, have no idea what goes on behind the scenes of a book’s publishing and how, more often than not, it is not the author’s decision as to how the novel becomes a finished product – but it is the publisher’s final decision based on projected sales or the tone of the readership at the time of publication.

In the reissue of Touch A Dark Wolf, this becomes very obvious as Ms. St. Giles intended the special blood of some characters to make them of the Chosen (not the Elan) – with a fascinating background on why they were Chosen (again read the author’s intro) – it makes so many parts of the novel and the series make much more sense. Why must publishers mess with an author’s creation? How many novels have we read, never knowing what the original story could have been? It is frustrating to me as a reader and a buyer.

There are times when a reader just has to let the first book in a series be the world builder. This is where we start to piece together the parts of the author’s world into a land that we will come to know and understand better over time. At last check there are four (4) novels in The Shadowmen series, so expect characters to show up on the fringes, for the story to not be as full as a stand alone novel would be and give the series time to just develop.

That is my best advice when starting Touch A Dark Wolf. It does leave a lot of questions unanswered… but, this is the first novel in a series. I expect there to be things left to follow up in the coming novels. Why would it be a series if there wasn’t more to the overall story?

(can you tell I get extremely frustrated with reviewers who trash a book or give it the insult of a one star review when they haven’t taken into consideration that it is the FIRST BOOK IN A SERIES?)

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Krista S

Intriguing tale

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021

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Wolves and magic meets angels and demons. A fun read with erotic notions to leave you breathless and you heart overjoyed

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boklenhle

I liked it.. but it could have been thought out a bit better

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016

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The plot was solid. The author knew what she was trying to write about and didn't stray from that unless it was needed. While this is a good thing, it was also a sort of fault. I felt that the story could have built upon a lot of things.
It set itself up really well with Emerald and her Irish magic. I would have enjoyed it much more if that magic would have played more of a role in the final scenes of the book. I mean, Emerald came all of the way from her home country to the USA to help the spirit beings she believed would be awaiting her assistance. And all she really did was get them to a doctor and a place to stay. Of course, those are important things; however, it would have seemed more tied together for her to have used her magic more in the actual assistance (in my opinion).
Also, emerald's daughter, Megan, was an interesting character that could have been built upon more. At one point, Emerald was so worried about doing these readings on her daughter that she did twice as many as she usually did. The enemies seemed to be getting closer and more danger at that time, too. I expected the daughter to be somehow drawn into the whole thing and was greatly disappointed when that didn't happen.
Then there was one of the main characters. Jared was a spirit being, a warrior for the good spirit beings. The only issue I had with him was his name. You had Logos, Pathos, Sargon (I think that's how it was spelled), among other spirits beings.. with very convincing, very "spirit-y" names.. and then there was Jared. Certain parts of this story were very well thought out. That one was not. It bugged me the entire time I was reading.
The author included meaningful symbolism, which I really liked. What with the hidden meanings of "cinatas" and "sno-med." And sno-med's logo meaning chaos. I really liked that. It was well thought out.
Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the story. There were just a lot of things I would have done differently if I'd written it.

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Tee Spreck

Even better the Second time around

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014

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I first read this book a few years ago while I was coming down from the long haul of reading another author's series back to back to back and needed something to cleanse the palate, so to speak. It was a refreshing change at the time, but when I noticed it had been re-released (my print copy was loaned and never returned), I felt the need to read it come over me again and now I'm in for another series marathon. Like Lay's, you can't enjoy just one after the first bite.

I think I enjoyed the story more this second time around, with a better understanding of the characters and the surprise of discovering bits and pieces I had forgotten, that made it also feel like a new read.

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carol morgan

love can cure all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2018

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Erin is on the run after discovering her job really wasn't what she thought it was , running for her life she has a car accident & wakes up with a very hot , naked man on her bonnet . Jared wakes up to find he's not in the shadows any more & that he's carrying a tsara bite which will either turn him into a blood sucker or force him to end his life . I've got to admit i love Emerald , the crazy sex therapist that knew both Erin & Jared would be turning up in the sacred stones just not a specific timeline , i'm guessing there's a lot more to her than meets the eye . This is just the start of a fantastic story of good versus evil that has plenty of twists & a man ready to sacrifice himself to save the woman he loves , question is can her love also save him , dying to read the next in this series already .

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Hoener, Birgit

Nice plot, but a bit boring to read

Reviewed in Germany on December 22, 2017

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I am sorry to say, I found this a bit boring to read, and I cannot put my finger on the reason why. There are likeable characters, a good plot, what I think is good storytelling - and still, at least in the first half of this book, the story sort of dragged for me. I caught up a bit in the second half.
Apart from that, and some less believable passages (how could Jared NOT know more about human/mortal life if his kind have been watching over the Chosen?), it was quite a nice story to read, and yes, although I expect a bit more boring reading, I would like to get my hand on the sequel to this series.

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