Name: Acts of Fate
Author: Amanda

Story Notes

Copyright

The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Cover design by: Amanda Hanks

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018675309

Printed in the United States of America

Summary

Rose is a wolf shifter who finds her mate on her 18th birthday, but Fate has other plans. Her pack holds a mating ball that coincides with her birthday. What should be a joyous day turns to heartbreak when tragedy strikes the Dark Hollow pack and changes her future. She loses loved ones and herself. With her Alpha's permission, she goes on a journey to find herself and heal after so much loss and heartache. She doesn't know what is to come, but she knows she needs the change. Being where everything reminds her of the mate she lost, the future she lost. She knows she needs to go out into the world and see what else there is. After working through her grief, getting an education, and making friends along the way, Rose eventually returns home to see what exactly destiny has in store for her. She has had many little adventures while she was gone, but it is time she returns to her family and confronts the ghost of her past. Rose spends ten years on a journey to healing and making lifelong friends. Along the way, she meets a panther shifter who becomes her family while she is away. They eventually come across a pack of misfits and make it their home. In this pack, he ends up finding his second chance. After the pain and betrayal he suffered, he never expected to find her, to find happiness. After all these years away, Rose finds it is time to go back to Dark Hollow. She finds herself heading home when her childhood friend and his mate prepare to give birth to their first pups. She could never miss something so wonderful. The future of their pack. No matter what happens in the end, happiness reigns. Through loss and pain comes the good, the smiles, and the happiness everyone seeks. Life continues, and future generations are born to carry it on. Though Dark Hollow and Rose have suffered loss, they have found happiness. Their happily ever after isn't unattainable. The future is never what you planned, but everything happens as designed through simple acts of fate.

Genre: Romance

Author: Amanda

Status: Complete

Chapters: 35

Rating: 5.0 (1 review)

Age Rating: 18+

Prologue

It’s been ten years since I have been back home. Ten years since I have seen my family, my best friend, and my pack. Missing my brother was the hardest part of being gone. Growing up, all of us kids were always together, but my youngest big brother was my protector and partner in crime.

Video chat isn’t the same, but it is all I was able to manage most of the time. I have seen my family a couple of times since I left. They came to me a time or two since I was not ready to go home. Memories still haunted me, and going home felt like I would be visiting ghosts.

In the beginning, going home seemed impossible, but after a few years, I just enjoyed my life and the company of my friends. My ghost seems to finally start to rest. College helped a lot, and that is where I met the person who would help my healing begin. He was just as broken as I was. I knew I would go back home eventually, and I did.

Going home when I did brought me so much more than I thought it would. After everything I lost, I never thought I would find happiness, love, or embed my roots deeper. I guess Fate had other plans.

My best friend growing up, Asher, has been begging me for the last 5 months to come home. He found his mate 2 years ago, and they are having their first pup. I have only met Celeste over video chat, but I already feel like we have been friends all our lives. She was from a neighboring pack and met Ash when she visited Dark Hollow with a friend.

I remember when Asher called me, he was so excited. I could barely understand him; it all came out so rushed. I was so happy things were working out for him, though. Despite my heartache, I could never begrudge his happiness with his fated mate. We all deserved that chance; it just didn’t always work out.

I only hoped my brother Brock would find his happiness soon. He is Asher’s Beta and still alone. He is still young, but I know he is getting discouraged the closer he gets to 30. I don’t want him to give up, and I know he will find his happiness. Let’s just hope it is soon.

Asher is now the pack Alpha. His dad retired 3 years ago. Ash insisted he needed time to get used to being the next Alpha, so he refused the role at 21. He wasn’t groomed all his life to be the next in line. He wasn’t supposed to be Alpha; his brother Jeremy was the Alpha heir, but 10 years ago, everything changed in the blink of an eye.

We all grew up believing we knew our roles in the pack's future, but acts of fate changed everything.