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    The Hart and the Hound: Novellas and Short Stories
    The Hart and the Hound: Novellas and Short Stories
    The Hart and the Hound: Novellas and Short Stories
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    The Hart and the Hound: Novellas and Short Stories

    By Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese

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    When Henry, a deer shifter and lead stag of his herd, encounters Davey, a wounded omega dog shifter from a dangerous pack, they form an unlikely alliance to protect their people and each other from Davey's ex, the pack's ill-tempered alpha.

    Previously published in Exchange of Power, published by Torquere Press, September 2015.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAvian30
    Release dateNov 10, 2017
    ISBN9781641863261
    The Hart and the Hound: Novellas and Short Stories
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    Erin McRae

    Racheline Maltese can fly a plane, sail a boat, and ride a horse, but has no idea how to drive a car; she's based in Brooklyn. Erin McRae has a graduate degree in international affairs for which she focused on the role of social media in the Arab Spring; she's based in Washington DC. Together, they write romance about fame and public life. Like everyone in the 21st century, they met on the Internet. Sign up for Erin and Racheline's newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/65dMz Learn more at their website: http://Avian30.com

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      The Hart and the Hound - Erin McRae

      The Hart and the Hound

      Novellas and Short Stories

      Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese

      Published by Avian30, 2017.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      THE HART AND THE HOUND

      First edition. November 10, 2017.

      Copyright © 2017 Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese.

      ISBN: 978-1641863261

      Written by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      The Hart and the Hound

      Also By Erin McRae

      Also By Racheline Maltese

      The Hart and the Hound

      THE STAG noses at the ground, chasing after an acorn with its mouth in the autumn twilight. Three hind cluster together over a low rise and farther into woods, where the last of the season’s apples still litter the ground, not yet completely rotten or devoured by other animals. In the distance, the stag hears the dogs that make him wish the girls weren’t always so keen to stray so far from the dwelling they use in their other forms. But the stag, whose name is Henry, lived in a city once, and the girls never have. They may have tied themselves to him for protection and some form of mutual and awkward aid, but they are wild things, in a way he will never quite be.

      The stags picks its head up to listen to the dogs. There are dozens of them to judge from the sound of them. It’s not just their hysterical barking he notices, but the way the ground vibrates under so many paws, the dogs closing in like thunder.

      The hind have their heads and tails up too, but the stag snorts a warning anyway. But they don’t seem inclined to flee, waiting for the storm to pass by. Henry trots to them, intending to chivvy them back to the great house and into their human forms, but the first of the dogs skid up to them over leaves and dirt and twigs, barking furiously.

      The hind step nervously, but Henry holds his ground. The pack may behave like hunting dogs, but there are no humans, no hunting horns, or the beat of horse hooves or the smell of gunpowder nearby. The stag sighs, although in this form, it comes out as more of an annoyed bleat. Henry cannot fairly begrudge any shifter for running from a city where their natures range from party tricks to deadly inconveniences, but the pack has been a growing nuisance for months. Now, it’s apparently a dangerous one.

      He steps forward, stamping, in hopes of driving them off. The hind try to cluster behind him, but the pack—a motley rabble of all sorts and breeds—separates, and some of the dogs begin to circle around behind them to cut them off from their own land.

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