In the past, werewolves roamed the open country, living in small, isolated townships. Nowadays, they live lives of relative comfort, creating for themselves gated communities within the suburbs. It’s easy enough – high property values (unless you have an “in” with the homeowners), strict HOA rules, and an overwhelming sense of unwelcome ensures that only those who carry within them the blood of the wolf find a home within those gates. There, families live, work, learn, and play beside those of their own kind. Animal Control will never be called about a stray dog, the police will never be called because a neighbor’s wife has a black eye from a “fall.”
The Pack has a hierarchy, and if you follow the hierarchy, you can live a relatively safe life. However, safe is a relative term here, and the stronger you are, the more impunity you have. Arranged marriages ensure that the bloodlines remain pure, and those who need protection the most are often the ones who receive the least of it.
Eleonore was to marry her childhood best friend, Matthew, the fall after graduating from high school. The problem was she didn’t love him, and he couldn’t love her. And so together, they hatched a plan for her to escape the Pack, and set out on a path of her own choosing, even if it meant leaving behind everything she had ever known.
She thought she was safe, until a late night phone call from a panicked Matthew reveals the ugly truth. Her younger sister is now to be married to a cruel and petty wolf to strengthen her father’s hold on the Pack. Desperate to keep her sister from living a life of suffering and abuse, Eleonore heads home, determined to save her sister’s future.
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My Sister’s Keeper is a familial tale about the lengths to which we will go to save those we love. Eleonore is an everyday woman placed in a situation that is beyond her control, yet she confronts the wrongs she sees and rights them. She is an intelligent, capable young woman who only wishes to give a voice to her sister, and others like her, even if it means that she must shake the very foundation upon which her family is built.
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About the Author:
Blair Riddle is happy. The only way she would be happier is if she could look up into the sky and see dragons flying overhead.