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|title=Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega novel

|author=Patricia Briggs

|publisher=Orbit

|date=March 2015

|website=http://www.patriciabriggs.com/

|summary=From this stalwart mistress of urban fantasy comes a big misstep, as we get too many horses and nothing like enough drama in her mystical, mythical revenge plot.

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Just because you're werewolves, you still can find love, like Charles and Anna. Even with your new nature (although in his case, new is a couple of hundred years) you can still have joint hobbies. A little lycanthropy doesn't stop you wanting a fabulous horse to go riding through the mountains on. So Charles and Anna are holidaying on an Arabian stud farm to check out the stock and meet up with his old friends, when something nasty happens. One of the young women in the host Pack of werewolves suddenly turns nasty, and has to put herself through a serious ordeal just to stop herself from stabbing her young children. Such is the torment that Charles has to take the life-changing – but life-saving – decision to turn her. The problem is, the very magical strength to push the situation to such an end is definitely a mighty one – and things and people turning into nasty entities are going to be a recurring theme in the days ahead…