WOLF HUNT

Nick Carter, Sentinel consul adjutant, runs as a timber wolf--and it shows. But few of his Sentinels know the line he's been walking within compromised Brevis Southwest, and he needs to keep it that way. Uncovering entrenched Atrum Core moles has proved to be a long-term effort, requiring much patience--but it's time to step up the hunt.

Jet is a woman with no last name, because Jet didn't start life as a woman at all. She is an Atrum Core construct, a wolf turned human, roughly educated to Core purposes and turned loose on a mission: Take out Nick Carter...

When the two come together, neither Sentinel nor Atrum Core will be able to predict--or contain--the results.

SENTINELS: Powerful & Passionate Protectors of the land.

Long ago and far away, in Roman-in-Gaul days, one woman had a tumultuous life--she fell in love with a druid, by whom she had a son; the man was killed by Romans, and she was subsequently taken into the household of a Roman, who also fathered a son on her.  The druid's son turned out to be a man of many talents, including the occasional ability to shapeshift, albeit at great cost.  (His alter-shape was a wild boar.)  The woman's younger son, who considered himself superior in all ways, had none of these earthly powers, and went hunting other ways to be impressive, acquire power.  He justified his various activities by claiming he needed to protect the area from his brother, who had too much power to go unchecked...but in the end, it was his brother's family who grew into the Vigilia, now known as the Sentinels, while the younger son founded what turned into the vile Atrum Core.