Mei walks through the new village of Daak, Alaska, and ignores the whispers. The whispers are respectful enough. They call her the Mediator here. She's the one you bring problems to. And a village of shifters and humans are bound to have problems.
She likes being the Mediator, just fine.
But there are other whispers when they think she can't hear. They call her La Loba, Mu Lang, Mesu Okami — just words for a she wolf in Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese. Sometimes she hears bruja — witch. But the names seem to mean something more than just descriptive. They're names, it feels like. Names of something they fear.
What did she do?
Book 13 in the Wolf Harbor series.
L.J. Breedlove is a former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
L.J. grew up on a cattle ranch and then went to college to be an oceanographer. She decided getting seasick was not a good trait for any oceanographer to have, and discovered journalism instead — a field that liked people who asked questions!
As a reporter and editor, she worked in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Texas, and Washington, D. C. — places that have become the sites for her books. She got homesick for the Pacific Northwest and came home to work with college newspapers and teach journalism.
She is an over-educated, bleeding-heart liberal with a penchant for heroes such as Jack Reacher. She isn't particularly bothered by the inconsistency. Some of her thrillers have werewolves in them — that doesn’t faze her either.
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