Awakened — Lauren Dane

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane welcomes you back to Diablo Lake, Tennessee: a town founded by witches, governed by werewolves and brimming full of secrets

It's autumn in Diablo Lake and the town is buzzing with preparations for Halloween, Samhain, Collins Hill Days, and the wedding of the newly elected mayor and her wolf shifter fiancé.

Ruby Thorne can't think of a better time of year to come back for good and open the health clinic she's been planning for the last six years. Her connection to the town and its veins of magic have snapped back into place, flooding her with a power eager to jump to her call.

She has a sense of rightness. This witch is exactly where she's supposed to be. So it's not much of a surprise that he comes back into her path just like he was meant to…

Damon Dooley has spent the last few years learning how to run the pack at his older brother's right hand. There's been upheaval. Outrage. Violence. Old rules have created a silence so crushing it's collapsed the fabric of not just the wolf shifters, but the town as a whole.

And yet, Ruby has returned. Man and wolf agree she needs to be in their life regularly, and before long, things move from serious to something magically deeper.

Bound to one another heart and soul, both committed to what's best for Diablo Lake, Ruby backs Damon as he pushes for much-needed change. But when something falls into Ruby's lap and she learns the whole, terrible truth, secrets need to be spilled. How -- and by whom -- becomes the only question.