The Shadow WolfThe Familiar Empire Series G. Bailey Contents Other Books by G. Bailey Join Bailey’s Pack to chat with me! Description Prologue 1. Anastasia 2. Anastasia 3. Anastasia 4. Anastasia 5. Liam 6. Anastasia 7. Anastasia 8. Anastasia 9. Anastasia 10. Anastasia 11. Alexander 12. Mason 13. Anastasia 14. Anastasia 15. Anastasia 16. Anastasia 17. Mason 18. Anastasia 19. Anastasia 20. Anastasia 21. Anastasia 22. Anastasia 23. Anastasia Epilogue Stay in Touch and get some free books! Excerpt from Winter’s Guardian… The Shadow Wolf Copyright © 2020 by G. Bailey (Midnight Publishing Limited) All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademark owners of various products, brands, and/or stores referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners. Edited by Polished Perfection. Cover design by Sylvia Frost. Created with Vellum Her Guardians Series Her Fate Series Protected By Dragons Series Lost Time Academy Series The Demon Academy Series Dark Angel Academy Series Shadowborn Academy Series Dark Fae Paranormal Prison Series Saved By Pirates Series The Marked Series Holly Oak Academy Series The Alpha Brothers Series A Demon’s Fall Series The Familiar Empire Series From The Stars Series The Forest Pack Series The Secret Gods Prison Series Join Bailey’s Pack to chat with me! Join my Facebook group, Bailey’s Pack or Sign up here. to my newsletter (promise not to spam you!) for exclusive bonus scenes and paperback giveaways. The houses of Dawn and Violeta have declared war, and I must stop them. But I’m not alone. After finding out secrets that have been hidden for years, now more than ever, I need to stop my sister before it’s too late. My name is Anastasia Noble, and I have to go against my family to save everyone I love. They say dreams don’t always come true. But mine do. When gods and familiars go to war, not everyone can make it out alive. 18+ RH. The final book in The Familiar Empire Series. Prologue Diana Violeta Many years ago… Running a blade through the masked man’s chest, I can barely contain my scream of anger and fear. His death means nothing to me; his existence and why he is here means so much more. The assassin’s body falls to the leaf-covered floor at my feet as the smell of blood and fire attack my senses. I can’t hear anything over the car on fire and the whipping wind of a storm coming in. My familiar cat, White, jumps onto my shoulder, curling herself around me like a scarf for comfort as I ignore the screams behind me. Clive, my dear husband, moves fluidly, killing the assassins sent after us, like they are trees he is cutting down with an axe. The ones the humans send, the ones they think will have a single chance at killing us? They won’t. Clive will never die from a human hand. Neither will I, it is not my fate. But our sweet girls? Our babies could. “Are you alright?” Clive asks me when he is finished with the humans, rushing in front of me and checking for injuries. This night was meant to be our fresh start. We just moved to a new town, hoping to escape the humans who hunt us and the Familiar Empire who are always following, but it hasn’t worked. It never does. We are always on the run, always trying to breathe underwater when no one is helping us. I nod, wrapping my arms around myself as I stare at our car on fire nearby, the embers flickering and spitting onto the nearby trees. Falling to my knees, I thank all the familiar magic in the world for the simple fact our children were not with us today in that car. Oh how differently this night could have ended for us all. Clive kneels in front of me, holding me like he can make all of this simpler with just his love. But he can’t. “If we left now, they would follow us and leave the children alone,” he suggests, the same suggestion he has asked me a million times. “Leaving them… How can we leave our sweet children? Bethany? Anastasia? Phoebe?” I cry. He looks down, a single tear falling from his cheek into my hand. I feel his pain like it is my own, mixing with my own into something so unbearable I can’t breathe right. “Because we know they will never stop coming for us, and they will never be safe.” I want to fight. I want to be with my children, but my husband is right. I can’t do both. Gods forgive me. I can’t stay. Chapter 1 Anastasia Secrets are the lies we keep… Clive Dawn and Diana Violeta stand in front of me like no time has passed at all. Like time has just frozen them, with no feeling or care for the pain it would cause. My mother still has beautiful blonde hair cascading down her back, strands moving with the wind. Her eyes, so much like Bethany’s and Phoebe’s, shine with a blue hue, and she looks like a distant memory that has somehow come to life. My dad has the same eyes as the cloaked god, my friend who gave me the map to come here, to find out the truth, but otherwise, he looks like my dad on the last few days I remember of them. The same crisp brown suit, a hanging pocket watch chain appearing out of his jacket pocket. They hold hands as they both stare at me, and I’m speechless. Utterly speechless. Tiny cracks in my heart, the ones they created when they died, now blast open, cutting me more deeply than they ever have before. Abandoning us, their children, is far worse than them dying and being forced to leave. Nothing they could say will make this better. Nothing. Alex and Mason help me stand up, and I cross my arms, like the tiny movement could protect my heart from the shock. I want to shout, I want to cry and hit
