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Usually Hanleigh Bradley writes in British English but as Lupine: Wanted by Wolves is part of a Multi-Author Series, she is writing in US English on this occasion. Please have patience with her because a random bit of “Brit” might come out accidentally.
Hanleigh Bradley’s Books
Hanleigh’s Reverse Harems
Reverse Harem books have one female main character with multiple male main characters. It is not just a ‘Love Triangle’.
Lust & Lyrics – A Celebrity RH Trilogy
His, His Or His?
All Mine
Less Than Conventional
Kumari’s Kitsune – Fantasy/ PNR RH Series
Cursed by the Crown
Tainted by Prophecy
Silver Springs – PNR RH Shared World
Lupine
Lupine: Wanted by Wolves
Lupine: Trick or Treat
Love Blooms
Standalones
First Snow
RH Boxsets
Lust & Lyrics
Hanleigh’s London Saga
All the books in this Contemporary British Saga have interwoven plotlines, returning characters and places.
The Rules Series
Broken Rules
Enforced Rules
Revised Rules
A Secret Melody
The History Series
Repeating History
Deleting History
Forging History
A History In Paris
The Intimacy Series
Damaged Intimacy
Entangled Intimacy
Forceful Intimacy
Call Me Doctor
The Fate Series
Inescapable Fate
Inexplicable Fate
Irreversible Fate
A Bleak December
Hanleigh’s London Boxsets
RULES
HISTORY
INTIMACY
FATE
Hanleigh’s Standalones
These contemporary romances don’t fall into a particular series.
A Brit Down Under
Dollar Signs
Hanleigh’s Darker Romances
The lives and loves of those who don’t believe they can be saved. The protagonists are broken, ruthless and downright deadly. You might even say they’re monsters.
Utterly Betrayed – Organised Crime Romance
Flip A Coin
Place Your Bet
The Elite – PNR Vampire Romance
INSTINCT
CRAVING
Table of Contents
Can’t Keep A Secret
I Hope It’s Good News
I Shouldn’t Be Surprised
They Found You Once…
This Isn’t What I Wanted
War Is My Birth Right
A Monkey’s Tea Party
Will They Always Be This Way?
All Glowy And Pregnant
A Tempting Prospect
Date Night
My Luna
Unanswered Questions
A Trip to The Park
Feral Supes
A Witchy Visitor
Going All Wolfie
Retribution
Baby Shower Bedlam
Unwanted Guests
I’m A Force to Be Reckoned With
Far from Over
Waiting for Magic
Rescue Mission
Power or Destiny?
You’re Going to Have to Kill Me
Autopilot
Will It Kill Me?
Don’t Go
She Likes Cake
He Can’t Be Trusted
Armani Looks Good in Pink
Without the Carnage
Epilogue
Preview of Lupine: Trick or Treat
Anything but Ordinary
Preview of Calluna by Jewels Arthur
Chapter One
THANK YOU!
Hanleigh Bradley’s Newsletter
About Hanleigh
Hanleigh Bradley’s Books
Anything but Ordinary
H alloween is ages away, and yet the children are talking about nothing else. It’s as if the holiday is in only a day or two instead of several weeks. To say that they’re excited would be the understatement of the century.
And what’s more, apparently their enthusiasm is catching because they’ve managed to get both Jacqueline and Lewis onboard. We have exactly two weeks to go and yet they have Lewis carving pumpkins with them at the kitchen table while Jacqueline sits in the next room sewing costumes.
The last thing I want to do this year is go trick or treating, but the children are pretty insistent. I had been hoping for a quiet night in alone with my mates but apparently that isn’t an option. Even though technically October 31st will be my day off, it would seem that everyone and I do mean everyone seems intent on dragging me out into the cold.
I even have a costume. Though I wish I didn’t. It’s awful. Not that I’ve told the children that.
I’m currently hiding away upstairs, watching my sleeping daughter. I do this more often than I probably should, but I can still hardly believe she exists. My little wolf. She’s so perfectly peaceful, but I know all too well that it won’t last. A door will bang or one of the children will shout from somewhere else in the orphanage and her sensitive little wolf’s ears will pick up the sound and she’ll be wide awake.
And probably hungry too.
Turning my head so I can see her better, I smile down at her. She really is incredible. She makes a small sound in her sleep, perhaps dreaming, and then the crash comes, a bang no louder than the dropping of a carving knife, and yet to her ears and mine it’s as loud as the crashing of a firework above our heads. The only downside of being a wolf is that you rarely get a good night’s sleep, not when the sound of every creaking floorboard and dripping tap is intensified.
Her eyes open immediately, finding my own.
“Hello little Luna,” I whisper, stroking a finger along her cheek.
She gurgles up at me, a small smile on her face as she reaches her tiny arms towards me. I pull her up into my arms, cradling her against my chest as I sing under my breath for her. It probably sounds dreadfully off key, but she seems to like it all the same.
Sitting on the bed, I unbutton my shirt so I can feed her. As she suckles, I tell her all about the small stretch of time that she was asleep. I tell her how beautiful she is and how perfectly she had slept. It’s strange because my whole world feels like it’s centered around her little face.
“Your daddies will be home soon,” I tell her quietly as I glance at the alarm clock beside the bed. The other five faces that make up the center of my world feel too far away. For the most part, the guys are at the gym they run in town, the one that acts as a front for their mafia enterprises. I’ve been meaning to find out more about the family business for a while now, but I keep putting it off, not feeling completely sure that I want to know.