Shadow's Curse
The Imnada Brotherhood series has been up and down for me, but the underlying story of a trio of cursed soldiers desperate to find their place in a world divided by magic and the mundane was enough to keep me interested. With much of the background and world building out of the way in book one Demon’s Curse, author Alexa Egan is able to jump right into the story of the second man torn between his loyalties to his people over what that allegiance has cost him. Since returning to England under the curse’s power and being stripped of his ties to the Imnada clans, David St. Leger has been living a double life in London as a way of coping. In the daylight he is just another indolent nobleman among many within the hells and clubs, but at night he prowls the back alleys in his animal form of a wolf looking to execute justice on the criminal element. His vigilante activities have gained attention in the press, with the headlines calling him Monster of the Mews, while the crime bosses are out for his blood. David understands that he risks the exposure of himself and his kind every night he goes out as the wolf, however with the curse already cutting short his life and the cure discovered by his friend Captain Mac Flannery possibly speeding up the effect, David cannot find it in himself to care. When he comes to the rescue of a young woman being assaulted, there is nothing to indicate this night will be any different from the others, yet fate has something more in mind for David.
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