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Your Hub for all things RUNNING WITH THE PACT
A YA Paranormal Romance Serial Created for Substack
Assigned as a political delegate as her final test to earn her shifter initiation, an unfiltered human teen must help renew a flimsy pact between four shifter clans; but when she secretly falls in love with another clan’s future gentle alpha, she must choose love before an enemy forces her into an impossible choice: personal ruin, or destroying the pact.
(This story was previously titled HOTLANTA MONSTER TREATY CONFERENCE ‘96 and RUINED IN PEACE. There have been minimal updates, primarily to the title cards)
Perfect for fans of voicey, character-driven, first-person stream-of-consciousness readers who enjoyed the large cast of K.F. Breene’s DEMIGODS OF SAN FRANCISCO series, punchy awkward heroine’s like Lexi Price and Evie Sage in Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN series, and the hilarious emotional exhaustion of Vanja in Margaret Owen’s LITTLE THIEVES.
Tropes
Oh, like, I’m gonna spell it every trope in this 📼90s YA throwback?
Like, okay!
We’ve got 🐺Shifters, 🫱🫲YA Romance, , 💘Forbidden-Love, 🧛🐺🧝Shifter-Politics, a🍩🐺Cinnamon-Roll-Alpha x an unhinged Neuro🌶️FMC, all wrapped up in one 🐺👻Paranormal Romance.
Chapter 1
Adira “Addi” Elm, 17, an unfiltered (undiagnosed ADHD) human shifter-trainee, isn’t nervous—well, not, like, super nervous her trainer choose the FOUR Pact Renewal Conference, 1996, as Addi’s final test before initiation to get her shifter powers, but first she has to get ready, and even that has its own dangers.
Chapter 2
Addi surveys the conference room, the conference is called to order by the most unexpected of people, and before a word is spoken Addi feels threatening eyes on her, just in time for someone with the most amazing eyes to step up for Addi.