Not many years after the Black Death ravaged Europe, a group
of Teutonic knights was harried across the border into
Poland by a monster. When the sorely-battered band of
warrior monks begged succor at the fortress of a former
enemy, he granted them shelter, but their vows forbade
sharing any knowledge of their holy mission as Wolfjäger...
wolf hunters.
Josef fought alongside his brethren, though he was still a
supplicant, and had not taken holy orders. His grievous
wounds were bound and tended by Maria, a woman of quiet
beauty who, simply by existing, challenged his vows of
chastity and silence. Not since he lost his Sarah to the
plague had he been so moved by a woman.
Maria loved her family, yet knew she was apart from them in
some way. Her stepmother had raised a harlot's daughter as
her own, but what brought the look of fear into her eyes?
Why did her father make her swear to never remove the silver
cross he gave her? When a wild-eyed stranger, Darien,
rescued her from an attacker he spoke in puzzles, saying she
was like him; stronger than she knew, yet bound by silver.
Should Maria's loyalty be to those who raised her, or to the
birthright revealed through the stranger's trickery?
WOLF'S CROSS is the second in a series begun in
Wolfbreed, yet is very much a stand-alone novel.
The connection to the first book is only in the richly
textured and finely detailed world Swann builds. It
describes a time when men clung together against the wild
and its mysteries, and their only answer to fear was to
drive it out from among them to be destroyed. The story of
Maria, caught between Darien, Josef, and her loyalty to her
human family is a powerful one that will linger long after
the final page is turned.
S. A. Swann
continues to reinvent the werewolf myth in this fantastic
new novel set in the medieval world of the celebrated
Wolfbreed. Like its predecessor, Wolf’s Cross is unafraid
to cross boundaries and break taboos to tell an
unforgettable story of romance and adventure that will
forever change how you think about
werewolves.
Maria lives a simple life in a
small Polish village, working for the lord of the nearby
fortress. Motherless since birth, Maria has been raised by
her father and stepmother. Around her neck she wears—as
she has always worn—a silver crucifix, to protect her from
the devil. Or so her father tells her.
But when a
contingent of badly mauled Teutonic knights, including a
handsome and gravely wounded young man named Josef, ask
for succor at the fortress, Maria’s quiet and comfortable
world shatters. For the knights are Wolfjägers, an order
dedicated to the extermination of werewolves, and Maria,
unknowingly, is one of the creatures they hunt. Only the
crucifix about her neck prevents her body from changing
into a lethal killing machine.
When Maria meets
Darien, a wolfbreed bent on exacting a terrible revenge on
humans, she will learn the truth about herself, and find
her loyalties—and her heart—torn in two.
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