Pack of Lies

by Charlie Adhara

Overview

"Highly recommend Adhara for all fans of paranormal and romantic suspense." —Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Werewolf meets human. Werewolf snubs human. Werewolf loves human?

Julien Doran arrived in sleepy Maudit Falls, North Carolina, with a heart full of hurt and a head full of questions. The key to his brother's mysterious last days might be found in this tiny town, and now Julien's amateur investigation is starting to unearth things the locals would rather keep buried.

Perhaps most especially the strange, magnetic manager of a deserted retreat that's nearly as odd as its staff.

Eli Smith is a lot of things: thief, werewolf, glamour-puss, liar. And now the manager of a haven for rebel pack runaways. He’s spent years cultivating a persona to disguise his origins, but for the first time ever he’s been entrusted with a real responsibility—and he plans to take that seriously.

Even if the handsome tourist who claims to be in town for some R & R is clearly on a hunt for all things paranormal. And hasn't taken his brooding gaze off Eli since he's arrived.

When an old skeleton and a fresh corpse turn a grief errand into a murder investigation, the unlikely Eli is the only person Julien can turn to. Trust is hard to come by in a town known for its monsters, but so is time…


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Monster Hunt
Book 1: Pack of Lies
Book 2: Den of Thieves

Big Bad Wolf
Book 1: The Wolf at the Door
Book 2: The Wolf At Bay
Book 3: Thrown to the Wolves
Book 4: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Book 5: Cry Wolf

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781335473240
Publisher:	Carina Press
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Series:	Monster Hunt , #1
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	139,468
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Charlie Adhara writes contemporary, mystery, paranormal, queer romance. Or some assortment of that. Whatever the genre, her stories feature imperfect people stumbling around, tripping over trouble and falling in love. Charlie has done a fair amount of stumbling around herself but tends to find her way back to the northeast U.S. After all, home is where the dog is.

Follow Charlie on the usual suspects for more info and updates:

charlieadhara.com

@charlie_adhara

Editorial Reviews

06/06/2022

Adhara (the Big Bad Wolf series) launches her Monster Hunt series with an uneven erotic paranormal romance centered on an endearingly fumbling relationship that gets unfortunately overshadowed by an uninspired mystery. Movie star Julien Doran hopes to get some closure around his monster-hunting brother’s death by following his secret notes to dilapidated Maudit Falls, N.C., where the local cryptid, Sweet Pea, has been making increasingly frequent appearances. Glamorous and sardonic werewolf Eli Smith hopes to establish a safe house for fellow wolf pack runaways, though he worries both about a powerful local alpha and the necessity of keeping his wolves secret from the town’s humans. Eli is suspicious—and attracted—when Julien starts poking around. When a dead body turns up, Julien and Eli’s mutual interest in investigating puts them in close quarters appealing enough for Julien to brave his inexperience with men and Eli to respond enthusiastically despite his fear of being discovered. Adhara grounds the romantic tension in the fraught dynamic of simultaneously pursuing intimacy while keeping secrets as both men express wary tenderness and bring their quirks to bear in wonderfully idiosyncratic sex scenes. The murder plot slogs in comparison, with unconvincing motivations all around. Still, there’s enough charm here that readers will be eager to see where the series goes. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Adhara launches her Monster Hunt series with an enchantingly entertaining paranormal romance that successfully combines all the delightfully spooky charm of Supernatural with equal measures of both hot sensuality and snarky wit.”⁠— Booklist

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