Life should come with an instruction manual.

Because nothing in mine to date has equipped me to deal with it.

My mom is lost in her own world of drugs, gambling, alcohol, tobacco and the worst possible choices in men. If she’s even still alive. My dad, well, I don’t know who he is or where he is which is why this group home has been my home off and on since I was three.

A girl with anger issues and only one leg isn’t really first in line to get adopted by the shiny, goodhearted people who stroll in here looking for a dream kid. In fact, sometimes they don’t even bother bringing me out for show. There’s no point, even though Mom signed off her rights to me. Like selling a used car, or giving one away.

So, now that I’ve turn eighteen, they treat me as all children are who have grown out of the foster system. They put me out on my own with fifty bucks in my pocket and disappointment written on my forehead. Oh and a few months of rent in an apartment building that looks like a crime scene documentary location shoot.

Survival is my only plan for life. Get a job. Rent a place to lay my head where no one can hit me and no creepy foster dad can try to sneak into my bedroom in the middle of the night. Eat. Sleep. Rinse. Repeat.

I’m not a dreamer. Never have been. A shifter female with only one leg has no choice: survive and stay under the radar.

Mangled is the first in the brand new Ridgewood Rogue Wolf Saga series featuring a heroine with greater physical challenges than most and a background that no young adult should be saddled with, a pack of misfits, three of the hottest possible wolves who may be her fated mates, and maybe just enough determination to make a better life. Or even a great one. It is a why choose, slow-burn romance and, of course, Mazzie guarantees a happily ever after. Eventually.

This isn’t a battle–it’s a war.

Not for fame or glory or riches, but for the good of an oppressed people–one of them being my mate.

I’ve had about enough of the Molgrove pack. All of us have. Property damage was the least of what they’ve done to us. They crossed the line when they tried to murder Lynne, a woman who hads become like my mother as well as my mother-in-law.

And now they are keeping people under a savage leader. People like my fourth mate, Stephen. Until he’s free, until all the people in their pack are free, I will not relent.

My decision is absolute. One way or the other, I’m bringing my mate back and the only way they will stop me is over my dead body. Without him, my family will never be complete.

Absolute is book 5, and the final installment in the popular Ridgewood Rogues Pack series by Mazzy J. March. It features a wolf shifter who lost one leg in a terrible accident and grew up in the foster system before finding her way to those who can help her to navigate the dangers of her past life and become a full-fledged wolf shifter and mate to four of the strongest, most loving alpha wolves in the country.

Just when things are looking up, someone wants to kill me.

I thought I’d found some steps forward, some positivity. Recently aged out of foster care, I have my own place, small but mine alone, giving me privacy I’ve yearned for as well as a safe space. A job that, to my amazement is turning out to be satisfying and pays enough to cover my expenses if I’m very careful. And a few new friends, including my boss and three guys any girl would give her almost anything to date. I’ve surmounted so many challenges to get to this point.

Then I return, one evening ,to find my apartment ransacked and vandalized. A clear sign things are taking yet another turn for the worse. I shouldn’t have been so quick to let my guard down, but despite all the troubles of my childhood and youth, I didn’t think I had any true enemies. Some kids from various fosters and the group home who weren’t my best friends, who were cruel even, but not one I could think of who would pursue me like this.

And they didn’t just break my belongings. They ripped out the wiring, pounded holes in the walls, smashed the toilet, broke or destroyed anything possible. My six months’ rent, bestowed as part of a program to help fosters who were aging out of the program, was ending early. Someone wasn’t getting their security deposit back. And worse, the housing officer called by the landlord declared it uninhabitable until someone put a whole lot of money and time into fixing it up. They refused to even consider my doing it myself —and I probably don’t have the skills anyway.

With nowhere to live, I am offered a place to stay by Lynn and the Ridgewood Rogue pack. I’m not sure how I feel about it. Yeah, they say I belong with other shifters but it seems like giving up on my newfound freedom.

It’s that or the street.

Watching my back when I was in the group home or a foster home isn’t a new thing for me, but at least then I knew my enemies.

Now, I mistrust everyone and everything.

Maybe everyone will be better off if I just disappear.

I have a mate. I have a pack. So why does my wolf feel so damned unsettled?

Finally shifting after years of my wolf being in hiding is incredible. My mate Andrew is everything I never dreamed of but somehow always wanted.

Still, my wolf wants more. She wants Neville and Vincent. And she wants them now.

And another thing…

No one talks about the whys and hows of the other pack that slowly seems to be creeping in, but I have a bad feeling about it.

My bad feelings have never steered me wrong.

So now, I wait.

Marred is book 3 in the popular Ridgewood Rogues Pack series by Mazzy J. March. It features a wolf shifter who lost one leg in a terrible accident and grew up in the foster system before finding her way to those who can help her to navigate the dangers of her past life and become a full-fledged wolf shifter and mate to three of the strongest, most loving alpha wolves in the country.