McConaghy, Charlotte

"A young woman chases the world's last birds--and her own final chance for redemption"--OCLC.

"From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a #1 IndieNext pick, a gorgeous and pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she's witnessed--inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is mauled to death, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn't make the kill, then is something more sinister at play? Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves--if she isn't consumed by a wild that was once her refuge"--Provided by the publisher.

In the land of Kaya, lovers die in pairs--when one dies, the bond of love takes the other to the grave, too. That was true until Ava. When her bondmate Avery is murdered, Ava?s hatred for his murderer beats the bond, allowing her to live on to vow revenge on the barbarian queen of Pirenti. Her vengeance is interrupted when she is captured by the deadly Prince Ambrose, her nation?s enemy. However, Ambrose finds his Kayan prisoner captivating, and when they are stranded on a dangerous island, both Ambrose and Ava find themselves questioning their convictions.

In Kaya, where both members of a couple die together, Finn joins a group of young people in search of a rumored cure, and meets Prince Thorne of the neighboring kingdom of Pirenti who has spent his life rigidly controlling his inner darkness.