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The Gathering Tales: Blasius Dante and Moira - The Gathering Tales #3 - cover

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The Gathering Tales: Blasius Dante and Moira - The Gathering Tales #3

Ellis Leigh

Publisher: Kinship Press

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Summary

You are cordially invited to the event of the season… 

Please be our guest as the National Association of the Lycan Brotherhood hosts the seventy-eighth annual Gathering. The biggest event of the social season, the Gathering has become the favorite method of networking among packs and bringing together fated mates. At the Gathering, shifters from across the country show up to show off and to see who’s the true leader of the pack. 
The final party of the weekend is a time to relax and enjoy the company of your fellow shifters. As the Gathering draws to a close, NALB President Blasius and his longtime mate Dante finally find the woman destined to complete their triad. Moira O’Shea is thrilled that her brother and friends have found their mates, but jealousy has a way of undermining even the happiest of times. When the three fated lovers finally meet, Blasius and Dante have to convince an uncertain Moira of their desire to include her in every aspect of their relationship. 
Come and enjoy tales from the biggest shifter event of the year as wolves from around the country fall in lust, in love, and in fate at the Gathering. 
Each Gathering Tale is a stand-alone short romance, though reading them in order introduces characters as the author intended.
Available since: 02/16/2016.

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