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    Undead Uprising: Villalobos Legacy, #1
    Undead Uprising: Villalobos Legacy, #1
    Undead Uprising: Villalobos Legacy, #1
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    Undead Uprising: Villalobos Legacy, #1

    By Caridad Piñeiro

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    Catalina de Villalobos is a wolf like no other, a wolf alone in her pack.  Next in line to be the head of the prosperous Villalobos clan, Catalina knows that her path to leadership is complicated by the unusual nature of her werewolf state and her love for a human, Ramon Santander, the pack’s physician.


    Unlike the other Villalobos wolves, Catalina cannot control her wolf during her monthly transformation, but she is stronger than any other wolf in that state as well as in her human condition.  For that reason, Catalina hunts the vampires who kill humans almost every day of her life.  Only during her transformation is she free of that burden.  But when the wolf emerges during her lunar cycle, only pleasure-pain can help her keep the wolf at bay for a very short time until she morphs into a mindless animal.


    As Catalina approaches her twenty-fifth birthday, she is facing a challenge to her leadership from within the pack, the threat of an undead uprising, and the possibility that her father will make her mate with whatever alpha male wins the Gauntlet, a dangerous contest designed to weed out the weak.

    Will Catalina fight off the challenges to her leadership and guide her pack in the battle against the vampires or will she sacrifice everything for the human she loves?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaridad Pineiro
    Release dateSep 18, 2014
    ISBN9781516358113
    Undead Uprising: Villalobos Legacy, #1
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    Caridad Piñeiro

    New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller Caridad Pineiro is a Jersey Girl who just wants to write and is the author of nearly 50 novels and novellas. She loves romance novels, super heroes, TV and cooking. For more information on Caridad and her dark, sexy romantic suspense and paranormal romances, please visit www.caridad.com.

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      Undead Uprising - Caridad Piñeiro

      UNDEAD

      UPRISING

      A Villalobos Legacy E-serial

      Book 1, Part 1: A Wolf Alone

      Caridad Pineiro

      Catalina de Villalobos is a wolf like no other, a wolf alone in her pack.  Next in line to be the head of the prosperous Villalobos clan, Catalina knows that her path to leadership is complicated by the unusual nature of her werewolf state and her love for a human, Ramon Santander, the pack’s physician.

      Unlike the other Villalobos wolves, Catalina cannot control her wolf during her monthly transformation, but she is stronger than any other wolf in that state as well as in her human condition.  For that reason, Catalina hunts the vampires who kill humans almost every day of her life.  Only during her transformation is she free of that burden.  But when the wolf emerges during her lunar cycle, only pleasure-pain can help her keep the wolf at bay for a very short time until she morphs into a mindless animal.

      As Catalina approaches her twenty-fifth birthday, she is facing a challenge to her leadership from within the pack, the threat of an undead uprising, and the possibility that her father will make her mate with whatever alpha male wins the Gauntlet, a dangerous contest designed to weed out the weak.

      Will Catalina fight off the challenges to her leadership and guide her pack in the battle against the vampires or will she sacrifice everything for the human she loves?

      Chapter 1

      New York City, June 2014

      A good kill no longer brought satisfaction, only despair.

      Pain lanced through Catalina de Villalobos's side as she neared her latest victory.  She raised her arm and glanced down at the four angry furrows raked deep into her ribs.

      The vampire she had confronted that night had been a Wolverine wannabe, sporting a glove with razor sharp claws. Claws with which the vampire had successfully slashed through the protection of the leather jerkin she wore for battle.

      Catalina ran a hand over the wound.  It came away wet with blood.

      Shit.  Too much blood.

      She nudged the body of her undead foe with the point of her polished black boot and bent beside him to examine the claws.  Picking up the vampire's gloved hand, the gleam of silver shone bright in the moonlight along with the shock of her blood along finely honed edges.

      It explained why her wounds weren't closing yet.  The silver was messing with her body's ability to heal.  She couldn't delay.

      Weakness slowly crept into her extremities from the loss of blood.  She couldn't afford that.  The vamps would be out in force on a night like tonight, thinking they could have a vamp's version of Mardi Gras before others like her emerged during the three days that were the height of the shifter’s lunar cycle.  When the werewolves came out to hunt, the smarter vampires retreated into their lairs for safety.

      Fuck, she thought, cursing her stupidity at allowing the demon to get close enough to wound her.  With that thought came a wave of wooziness, reminding her she couldn't delay any longer.

      Hurrying, she removed the silver throwing knives from the vamp's heart, wiped them clean on his shirt, and then tucked them back into the leather vambrace along her left forearm.

      She stood and glanced at the body.  The moonlight illuminated the young vampire's pale face.  Barely out of his twenties human-age wise, but also fairly fresh to the undead life.  She had sensed his power was not as strong as that of an older bloodsucker.  That could explain the clawed glove he had added for protection.  Newly turned, he had somehow become aware of the fact that he lacked the strength to defend himself against anything other than a human.

      Guilt blossomed within her as she wondered whether the young man had chosen his undead life or been sired against his will.  The latter made her hesitate until the vampire's hand suddenly twitched, reminding her she had a job to finish.  No matter how he had been turned, the end result was the same—a thirsty  bloodsucker.

      She had stopped this one from draining an NYU coed he had dragged to the rooftop from the street below.  The coed had fled, screaming, as soon as Catalina had arrived on the scene.

      Funny, but she didn't know if the coed had been more afraid of her in her human state and battle gear or the vampire.

      Easing her blade from the scabbard where she had sheathed it earlier, Catalina raised the Crusader's sword high in the air, uttered a small prayer for the young man's soul and hers, and then brought the blade rushing downward, cleaving the vampire's head from his shoulders.

      The body jumped one final time, confirming that the smaller silver knives had only slowed the demon.  It had taken her sword to finish the job.  The morning sun would quickly dispose of any evidence of the kill.

      She wiped down the sword on the vamp's t-shirt.  The silver-plated blade was as toxic to the undead as it was to those of her kind.  A weakness the vamps had passed on to the werewolves they had inadvertently created.

      Once back in its scabbard, she laid her hand on the leather wrapped hilt of the sword and the cross deeply engraved into the silver pommel glittered in the moonlight.

      Somehow apropos, she thought.  Her father had chosen a Crusader's sword for her and Catalina formed part of the front lines of a campaign against the undead.  The cross was a symbol for the righteous who battled against immoral demons who no longer recognized any kind of god.

      Once more despair rose up strongly within her.  This would be the rest of her life, until one of the undead got luckier than the untrained and unlucky youth she had battled tonight.

      Werewolf versus vampire.  Catalina and her brethren against the unholy bloodsuckers.

      Life was truly a bitch.

      But it was her life, as much as she hated the fighting.  Hated the lack of control that arose when the wolf took over her body.

      Unlike the others in her pack, she was useless during the full moon.  No one understood why that was her particular legacy and she had long ago given up trying to understand her unusual powers and had just learned to adapt to them.  So while her pack battled the undead during the three days of their lunar cycle, she was forced her to do her fighting the rest of the month.

      Every day of the rest of her month.

      A wave of dizziness swept over her again, reminding her that she was done for the remainder of the night.  She needed to return home and heal. She would never make it on foot.

      Too weak, she thought.

      Hurrying down the fire escape, she slipped into an alleyway and rooted through the garbage cans, looking for something she could wrap herself in to hide her battle gear and wound.

      This might be New York City where anything went, but her weapons and the blood dripping down her side might actually raise an eyebrow on the subway.  Finally, deep at the back of

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