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    Blame it on the Moon: The Nightcreature Novels
    Blame it on the Moon: The Nightcreature Novels
    Blame it on the Moon: The Nightcreature Novels
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    Blame it on the Moon: The Nightcreature Novels

    By Lori Handeland

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    A Nightcreature prequel short story featuring Edward Mandenauer

     

    France, 1944 and the Nazis are up to no good in the Black Forest. The leaders of the resistance have sent me, Renee, to find out what they are concocting in an isolated castle.  On the way, I am captured by Gestapo Major Edward Mandenauer.  But Edward is not what he seems. Together we infiltrate the castle and discover the beginnings of a werewolf army.

     

    Can we stop it? Will we be able to escape . . . together?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLori Handeland
    Release dateFeb 2, 2016
    ISBN9780996836531
    Blame it on the Moon: The Nightcreature Novels
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    Lori Handeland

    Lori Handeland is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 60 published works of fiction to her credit. Her novels, novellas, and short stories span genres from paranormal and urban fantasy to historical romance. After a quarter-century of success and accolades, she began a new chapter in her career. Marking her women’s fiction debut, Just Once (Severn House, January 2019) is a richly layered novel about two women who love the same man, how their lives intertwine, and their journeys of loss, grief, sacrifice, and forgiveness. While student teaching, Lori started reading a life-changing book, How to Write a Romance and Get It Published. Within its pages. the author, Kathryn Falk, mentioned Romance Writers of America. There was a local chapter; Lori joined it, dived into learning all about the craft and business, and got busy writing a romance novel. With only five pages completed, she entered a contest where the prize was having an editor at Harlequin read her first chapter. She won. Lori sold her first novel, a western historical romance, in 1993. In the years since then, she has written eleven novels in the popular Nightcreature series, five installments in the Phoenix Chronicles, six works of spicy contemporary romance about the Luchettis, a duet of Shakespeare Undead novels, and many more books. Her fiction has won critical acclaim and coveted awards, including two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Paranormal Romance (Blue Moon) and Best Long Contemporary Category Romance (The Mommy Quest), a Romantic Times Award for Best Harlequin Superromance (A Soldier’s Quest), and a National Reader’s Choice Award for Best Paranormal (Hunter’s Moon). Lori Handeland lives in Southern Wisconsin with her husband. In between writing and reading, she enjoys long walks with their rescue mutt, Arnold, and occasional visits from her two grown sons and her perfectly adorable grandson.

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      Blame it on the Moon - Lori Handeland

      Blame it on the Moon

      BLAME IT ON THE MOON

      A NIGHTCREATURE PREQUEL SHORT STORY

      LORI HANDELAND

      CONTENTS

      Blame It On The Moon

      Blue Moon

      Midnight Madness Book #1

      Dear Reader/Free Story

      About the Author

      More Books by Lori?

      Copyright

      BLAME IT ON THE MOON

      France—Spring, 1944

      The Nazis are up to no good in the Black Forest.

      I managed not to point out that the Nazis were rarely up to any good anywhere. Hence the need for the Resistance.

      My superior, Claude Joubert, was not happy to be working with a woman. He was even less happy to work with a woman of Haitian descent who was rumored to be a witch. Certainly it was the twentieth century, and we should be above accusations of witchcraft, even in France, but we weren’t.

      What would you like me to do, sir?

      His already thin lips thinned even more. There is a castle in the depths of that forest, surrounded by a moat, guarded by the SS. No one has been able to discover what they are doing. None of our agents have heard a whisper of the purpose of this place.

      Perhaps it is merely another of the Fuehrer’s many retreats.

      If so, then why are they bringing in Jews, priests, nuns and wolves.

      Wolves? I repeated.

      Claude peered at me over the top of his tiny, thick glasses. That is what you choose to question, Renée? The wolves?

      It seemed obvious to me that wolves was the word that did not fit. Yes, Hitler was obsessed with them. No one knew why. Perhaps it was just because Adolph meant noble wolf. Not that he was in any way noble.

      Why would they bring wolves inside a castle? I asked.

      That is what you must find out.

      Getting into Germany wasn’t difficult. It was getting out of Germany that was the problem. Especially with Gestapo on your heels. But that’s another story.

      I took the train from Paris to a small town on the border as myself, then I disembarked and donned my usual disguise.

      I was a tall, solid woman. If I dressed as a man, people believed it, especially since I’d chopped my hair to an inch of my scalp. The locks still wanted to curl—they always did—but I flattened them with a heavy, felt hat. Just as I’d flattened my more than ample breasts with several yards of cloth. The only ones who peered closer were German soldiers, and I’d learned that hauling a cartload of manure, then spreading more than a bit onto myself, would insure enough distance between us so that they didn’t guess the truth.

      My great-grand-mère

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