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On the Canadian frontier in 1875, nature is a harsh mistress. But the supernatural can really do you in. . . A Lone Wolf Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He's the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he's always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed. . . And The Woman Who Left The Pack Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world's magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she's loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan's searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life–and perhaps even for love. . . Praise for The Blades of the Rose "Crackles with adventure, a rich sense of place, and terrific characterization." –Mary Jo Putney on Warrior "The action explodes on page one and the pace never lets up. You're gonna love The Blades of the Rose." –Ann Aguirre, national bestselling author of Hell Fire on Rebel
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Zoe Archer. Rebel:
THOSE EYES
The Blades of the Rose
REBEL
Zoë Archer
Contents
Chapter 1. Encounters at the Trading Post
Chapter 2. Solitude Shattered
Chapter 3. Transformation
Chapter 4. The First of Many
Chapter 5. Astrid Awakened
Chapter 6. Rapids
Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundary
Chapter 8. The Earth Spirits’ Judgment
Chapter 9. In Pursuit
Chapter 10. By Firelight
Chapter 11. The White Lake
Chapter 12. Alliances and Reunions
Chapter 13. The Solitary Hunter
Chapter 14. A Battle of Bones
Chapter 15. Gaining Perspective
Chapter 16. Vows
Chapter 17. Flight, Fight
Chapter 18. The Assault
Chapter 19. A Most Unusual Battle
Chapter 20. The Battle Ends, the War Begins
Epilogue. Hunting a Story
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They burned him and would leave an afterimage branded into his mind. Never had Nathan seen such eyes, the hue of clouds just before a storm. It wasn’t their color so much as the depth of feeling he saw within them that seared him. Haunted, hunted. A feral creature, trapped within the body of a striking woman. That creature called to him, even more than the wilderness outside. A kinship there. Something dark inside of him stirred and awakened as he gazed into her eyes.
An animal within himself. He’d always felt it, fought it down every day. White men thought Indians were animals. He would prove them wrong, even if it meant brutally tethering a part of himself. But that hidden beast recognized her, saw its like within her. And demanded.
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Williamson seemed more accustomed to the way Nathan spoke. He hardly blinked as he said, “Very little. She comes to the post a few times a year. Never stays overnight.”
“Tell me about her husband.”
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