Silver-White (The Great North Woods Pack #1)
by Shawn Underhill
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
~ Robert Frost
*Evie’s family has been holding out on her …
Big time.
On an unexpected visit to her grandparents’ house in New Hampshire’s secluded North Woods, the sixteen-year-old literally runs into the truth of the long-hidden family secrets, and finds herself thrust without warning into the clandestine world of the Great North Pack—a wild and exhilarating world of rugged beauty, heart-pounding adventures, and long nights running under a sea of stars … but as she’s set to discover, a world also fraught with potential dangers lurking in the shadows.
Excerpt:
Her head was
turned up to the sky, her ears pricked, waiting for the next lines. But instead
of the next line of a melancholy song, she heard next a sound far too close for
comfort. From directly behind her a sudden swishing sound sent her spinning on
her heels. As she whirled and faced the house, a bright shape flashed into her
line of sight. It was her grandfather, robed in white, suddenly standing just
this side of the glass door.
“It’s time,” he
said in a low, serious tone.
“N—now?” Evie
stuttered. He had appeared so quickly, and her nerves were so on edge, that he
had startled her.
“Now,” he
answered coolly. “Do you understand how young birds learn to fly?”
“What?” she gasped.
“Do as I say.”
“Do what?” Evie
began, but before she could form the words her grandfather was gone.
In one fluid
motion he had stepped from his robe, dropped in height, lightened in color,
spread in width, and in a blink transformed into a massive white wolf; Evie
felt his great weight creaking the deck boards. Slightly smaller than the wolf
of her dream, this wolf too had eyes that absorbed all of the night’s small
light and reflected it in stormy pools of green. With sides swelling from his
first deep breaths of the night, he stared into her with those piercing eyes. A
deep rumble started low in his belly.
About the Author:
Shawn is a part-time writer from New Hampshire, where he spends his free time hiking in the mountains, camping, racing dirt bikes, or anything else that keeps him outdoors. Dogs are his very favorite people. He is also the author of the novel All Things Different.
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