Samuel’s Pride Series (1-4) by Kathi S Barton [wee_wiwie]

Samuel Payne left his pride five years ago because of his father, a cruel man with a heavy fist and little conscience. Samuel despises the man and only goes back to save his mother and start a new life―as far away from his father and the pride as he can get. Taking a mate is at the bottom of his list of priorities.

Kennedy Buehler’s brother, Shamus, promises her hand in marriage to a man older than her father, and she is having no part of it, so she flees to America. The first job that looks promising is as a cook for Summer Payne, Samuel’s mother. Kennedy hopes the job will pan out so she can afford an apartment and do a little better for herself. Kennedy isn’t banking on the master of the house taking any interest in her.

The last thing she needs is an overbearing man ordering her around, again.
No job is worth that.

Kennedy’s grandmother gives Samuel a proposition he can’t refuse―to marry Kennedy that very day and inherit all that she would have had she had been born a man―and Kennedy feels betrayed again. Samuel only wants to protect her from her brother, he isn’t counting on falling in love.

Samuel is a Were-Lion. Now that he’s mated, he is either supposed to be with his original pride or form a pride of his own. Besides his mother, he is the only Were-Lion around. However, a rag-tag group of Weres want to join his pride―bears―wolves… Will the Pride Council even allow this?

Danger pursues them at every turn―his father―Shamus―and Alton Stockberry―all are relentless and bloodthirsty…When Samuel is trapped, will the bond he’s formed with Kennedy be enough to save him?



A Woman Driven By Guilt…
Mechanic by day, hunter by night, Gab Parker is no stranger to the supernatural world. Nicknamed the Silver Queen by those she hunts, Gab, in turn finds herself the hunted. Riddled by guilt because of the death of her brother, she hunts the species she hold responsible―vampires.
A Wolf on a Mission…
James Burger is an enforcer for Samuel Payne’s Pride. Jimmy has no intention of finding a mate―ever. But when he finds this beautiful mechanic―a human no less―bleeding to death, his wolf kicks in to save her. She has no scent, but he’s pretty sure she’s his mate… His plan? To save her, then stay as far away from her as he can…
Gab isn’t any happier to find out she has a mate than Jimmy is―she’s a loner and just wants everyone to leave her alone. However, Stephen and Samuel have other ideas…
Thrown together, Gab and Jimmy have to work out their issues. And after one taste of her Jimmy is warming up to the idea…maybe this “mate” thing isn’t so bad after all…that is until he accidentally converts her to a wolf without her permission…



Thor is running out of time. She’d been caught and now she’s dying. The thought of death doesn’t scare her, she just doesn’t want to die alone. There is only one person she cares enough about to reach out to―a childhood friend―Samuel.

Samuel sits up from a dead sleep in a sweat, his body hurts all over. It takes him a few seconds to realize it isn’t his body that hurts but a childhood friend’s body―Thor. Thor has always had a mental link with him and is telling him goodbye. Goodbye is not an option.

Kaleb Jonas joined Samuel’s Pride a year ago. Bears are loners, but he’s found a sense of belonging with Samuel. Now, Samuel needs his help to find a childhood friend before it’s too late. But when he finds Thor, it may already be too late. She is his mate―he doesn’t want a mate―but he can’t just let her die.

Thor is a loner and has worked very hard to stay out of personal entanglements. When she wakes from her injuries, she is not happy that the big handsome man, Kaleb, won’t leave her alone. But she doesn’t want to see him hurt either. She has to go. The men who tried to kill her will try again and she doesn’t want anyone else getting hurt.



Stephan Silva is a three thousand year old vampire. He is too set in his ways and has existed too many years to find a mate now. But the woman did save his life. He couldn’t just let her die, could he?

Clarice Kelley, Clar to her friends, is hiding out from her stepfather and has been for several years. She’s a loner and prefers it that way, because she always winds up getting hurt whenever anyone gets too close to her. She only killed the vampire because he would have killed her friend. Now the vampire she saved won’t leave her alone. He doesn’t want her and makes no bones about it, but he won’t just let her go either.

A new mate is a handful enough, but when an old lover, one he’d condemned to the ground for eternity resurfaces, is anyone safe? Velvet December has sworn revenge on Stephan, but what will she do when she discovers he has a new mate?

**James requested by Snarky_nerd3