Poor Emily has no clue, and since breaking pack silence is a death sentence, Cait cannot explain the situation to her.

Cait knows clearly what is happening and finds herself mated to the brother of the kidnapped Balmoral femwolf for restitution. Lachlan, who rules the Balmoral clan, must deal with the Sinclair insult appropriately, and that leads to the kidnapping of Cait and Emily.

The Sinclairs and the Balmoral clan are feuding because the Sinclairs kidnapped one of the Balmoral femwolves. They shun Emily, whose only friend is Cait, Talorc’s pregnant and recently widowed sister. Emily tries to be accepted by the Sinclairs, but in her frustration she calls Talorc a goat, which may not be a mortal insult amongst humangs – it’s deadly when dealing with Chrechte politics, and his clan reacts accordingly. Talorc isn’t such a bad guy, but he clearly wants nothing to do with the king’s order. Emily believes that life couldn’t be much worse for her with the Sinclairs.Īh, the foolishness of the young! Emily is a spirited lass, with a sarcastic tongue, and the Sinclair laird Talorc doesn’t want to marry an Englishwoman, for one of her kind betrayed his father and their clan. After Emily’s mother died birthing her brother, her father ceased to care for Emily, since she was not the son he wanted.

It’s not as if her father truly cares for her, anyway. Emily knows fifteen year old Abigail could not survive such a fate, and offers herself up instead. Emily’s stepmother throws Abigail up for the sacrifice. After Emily’s father angered the English king, he was ordered to betroth a daughter into the Scottish Highlands Sinclair clan. Abigail is deaf due to a fever she had when young, and her mother has made it clear that she would have preferred Abigail’s death instead of her deafness. The Scottish Highlands have become an excellent refuge for their clans.Įmily Hamilton, a not so gentle English lass, fears for her younger step-sister Abigail. They guard their secret fiercely, and although they have intermingled with humans, some of their offspring can still shift, and it’s those shifters who become the clan rulers. Their king betrayed them, and they eventually joined the clans in Scotland, although no shifter clan is ruled by a human. The mighty Picts with their blue tattoos are more than legendary warriors their tattoos identify the animal they can become. Lucy Monroe really sets the stage in Moon Awakening with an interesting background for her shapeshifters.

Moon Awakening by Lucy Monroe