[The Union 01] • Call of the Raven

Love is something everyone longs for at the deepest level—but for some, love

is a curse. This is most certainly true for Asher Lake, the Keeper of an

unknown group of people called ani-shifts. Ani-shifts, those with the ability

to shift into animal forms, compose a secretive body of individuals known

simply as the Union.

A wolf in shifter form, Asher lives with a curse placed upon him and his

predecessors by the elusive Raven—a dark entity whose identity remains a

mystery. According to the ancient archives, the Raven’s curse is conditional

and set in motion by one fatal decision: if a Keeper ever allows himself to

fall in love he will die.

Choosing to live in isolation within the walls of Lake Manor, a private estate

concealed by the dense woods of Brokenridge, Asher has vowed never to love or

to fall in love with anyone believing it to be the only way to survive.

However, after ten years of neglecting his people and the protégés left in his

care, along with the impending threats of an uprising, Asher learns the only

way to break the Raven’s curse on future Keepers, thereby preventing them from

suffering the same fate, is to accept his.

This becomes his strongest challenge of all when he encounters Elle Ison, the

woman of his dreams. Does Elle hold the key? Can she help him change his fate?