The Long Way Home
(2027)(The tenth book in the Magic of Wishes & Dreams series)
A novel by Allie McCormack
She ran to keep her child safe. She never expected to find a home. Or love.
Maya Harris is pregnant, desperate, and out of options. Her husband has fallen deep into anti-shifter hatred, and she knows he can never discover what she truly is—or that their child will be a shifter too. So Maya does the only thing she can: she shifts into her mountain lion form and runs. Six hundred miles across mountains and forests, half-starved and exhausted, to reach the one place the Shifter Council promised would be safe.
The Hudson Valley becomes her sanctuary. A rambling Victorian inn. A community of shifters, vampires, Djinn, and elementals who ask nothing except that she stay and heal. And Declan—an earth elemental with quiet strength and endless patience, who guards the land and everyone on it. He doesn't push. He simply shows up with hand-carved gifts, a fairy hound guardian, and the kind of steady care Maya didn't know existed in men.
For the first time in years, Maya begins to breathe. She finds work, friendship, laughter, and the fragile beginnings of love. Until her ex-husband appears in town with his anti-shifter group, threatening everything she's built. Now Maya must face the man she fled—and discover that the community that saved her will fight just as fiercely to keep her safe.
A quick note: No AI wrote this story — just a very caffeinated human with a deep fondness for Djinn, shapeshifters, and happy endings.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Maya Harris is pregnant, desperate, and out of options. Her husband has fallen deep into anti-shifter hatred, and she knows he can never discover what she truly is—or that their child will be a shifter too. So Maya does the only thing she can: she shifts into her mountain lion form and runs. Six hundred miles across mountains and forests, half-starved and exhausted, to reach the one place the Shifter Council promised would be safe.
The Hudson Valley becomes her sanctuary. A rambling Victorian inn. A community of shifters, vampires, Djinn, and elementals who ask nothing except that she stay and heal. And Declan—an earth elemental with quiet strength and endless patience, who guards the land and everyone on it. He doesn't push. He simply shows up with hand-carved gifts, a fairy hound guardian, and the kind of steady care Maya didn't know existed in men.
For the first time in years, Maya begins to breathe. She finds work, friendship, laughter, and the fragile beginnings of love. Until her ex-husband appears in town with his anti-shifter group, threatening everything she's built. Now Maya must face the man she fled—and discover that the community that saved her will fight just as fiercely to keep her safe.
A quick note: No AI wrote this story — just a very caffeinated human with a deep fondness for Djinn, shapeshifters, and happy endings.
Genre: Paranormal Romance