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    The Omega Shift: The New World Shifters, #1
    The Omega Shift: The New World Shifters, #1
    The Omega Shift: The New World Shifters, #1
    Ebook118 pages1 hourThe New World Shifters

    The Omega Shift: The New World Shifters, #1

    By Tamsin Baker

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    In a world where only the paranormals survived... A virus wiped out all humans on Earth ten years ago and now there is a war going on between all those left standing. 

     

    Caden is an Omega wolf, struggling to stay alive among the ranks of the vicious pack he belongs to. He's been used and abused by so many who were meant to protect him, yet is alive, unlike so many other Omegas who did not survive the rigors of the new world. His only goal is to fulfill his promise to his grandma, to survive at any cost. 

     

    Max, Alpha of the Olano pack was a cop for ten years before the world went to hell in a hand basket. Now, he fights to keep his pack on top, fed and alive. He mounts an attack against a rival pack, only to realise that a revered Omega is among their ranks, and not only that, but Caden is his fated mate. 

    Can Max convince the broken Caden that love and destiny still exist, or will the violence of their fractured world tear them apart?

     

    M/M Dystopian Paranormal romance.

     

    *** Guaranteed happily ever after, standalone book. Steamy short read with a possessive Alpha and a broken Omega.***

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTamsin Baker
    Release dateMar 31, 2021
    ISBN9781540188694
    The Omega Shift: The New World Shifters, #1
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    Tamsin Baker

    Tamsin Baker loves everything erotic. Her books can be long, short and everything in between, but they’ll all be fast paced with snappy dialogue and lots of sex. No Tamsin Baker book is the same except there won’t be a lot of angst in as she wants her books to be everything that a fictional world can be- full of happy ever afters, dirty words and sweet love. ‘Love is love’ and she tries to show that in a range of sub genre’s, from m/m contemporary to paranormal ménage. She has a need to shock people and bring up embarrassing topics at the most inappropriate times.

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      The Omega Shift - Tamsin Baker

      ​Chapter 1.

      CADEN

      I couldn’t feel my toes, but at least that wasn’t a permanent thing...I didn’t think. The all-encompassing cold sapped my will to move and check. The first rays of the sun stroked my cheek, but even that didn’t give me a reason to get up. This new world sucked. In every way.

      Bad enough that we had to fend off attacks from the vampires and the other animal shifters in this new world. But as an Omega wolf, the weakest and smallest of my kind, how was I going to survive with my own pack killing each other for sport?

      Get up, you lazy bag of shit.

      My eyes popped open and my heart hammered against my ribs in fright. That grizzly voice haunted my nightmares and most of my day time hours. My tired legs moved so fast my head spun like a top as I jumped from my make shift bed on the dirty floor.

      Yes, Alpha, I croaked out.

      Bear wasn’t an Alpha, nowhere near it. The men that had ruled us before the fighting began, they’d helped us, protected us...they were true Alphas. Real leaders.

      The cruel bastard only ruled our pack because he was older and stronger than the other Betas left standing. But Bear, the pseudo Alpha, liked to hear those words from my lips, and I wasn’t going to deny him. I didn’t deny him anything. I had the sore arse and black eyes to prove it. I didn’t fight back. Ever. It kept me alive.

      Go with the Betas and collect food. The women have nothing to cook. Bear’s snarl was as ugly as a muddy toad, but I kept the cringe from my face as he leaned close and the scent of his dank breath wafted up my nose.

      Yes, Alpha.

      I scurried off through our disheveled camp. An old, fenced off section of what was once Seattle. Composed of not quite ten whole houses, and about a hundred people living in conditions not fit for the wild cats that roamed the streets.

      I jumped over playing children and tried to ignore the crying, hungry babies the best I could. The stench of the open toilets burned my nose hairs as I ran by. No matter how long I lived in this world, that wasn’t a smell I ever got used to.

      No one had enough to eat. We lived like scavengers. Eating what we could find. Not growing anything. It wasn’t a sustainable, nor healthy way to live, and our community was going to die. Soon, if we weren’t careful.

      Yet, the men who were meant to keep us alive, the stupid Alphas, didn’t give a shit.

      I sidled up next to the hunting party that congregated by the front gate and cleared my throat. Uh...hi, Tommy. Bear sent me over to help.

      Tommy, one of the half decent Betas, nodded. His cheek bones were so angular they gave him a hard look that didn’t suit his sweeter personality. All right. Let’s go.

      I tucked in behind Jerry, another Beta, and as a group of four, we walked to the front wall. Our closed in community had only one gate at the front of the tin panels that surrounded the houses. Barbed wire twirled over the walls and a shudder coursed over my body as the memories flashed inside my mind. I’d been tangled up in them more than once when I’d displeased the Alphas in some way. I was never quite sure what I’d done wrong, but I definitely had the scars to prove it.

      Tommy held his hand up and flicked his wrist, giving the signal to move out. Together, we moved through the front gate that opened up and walked into the dangerous world around us.

      My breath caught in my throat as my gaze darted left and right. I hadn’t stepped out of the compound in months. Not since the last attack.

      Overgrown greenery flourished in front of my eyes, and even though the beauty of our new world made me want to relax, I reminded myself that it was all a façade. Evil lurked out here, in amongst the roses and ivy. The vampires were sleeping, away from the powerful rays of sunshine, but there would be other shifters about. I kept a lookout for any signs of danger, and once I was pretty sure there was nothing but the tranquil overgrowth, I moved forward.

      This way, Tommy called out as the other Betas and he crouched low and wove around the trees growing wildly through what was once a beautiful, thriving city.

      The broken, crumbling sky scrapers, highlighted against the crystal blue sky, caught my gaze and I looked up. Sadness filled me up like a rising cold tide, making my skin crawl and my gut ache. I could still remember what this city looked like before the mass genocide.

      And Seattle had been beautiful.

      A decade ago, a powerful, clever, obviously sadistic paranormal created a virus that targeted human cells. Some people said he was a vampire, others believed him to be a half cast beast. But no matter what he actually was or had been, he’d done something that changed the surface of the planet.

      He’d released a virus into the air that, within a few years, killed off every human on the planet. Only the paranormals remained, and every different faction fought for supremacy.

      The vampires fought against the werewolves, who fought against all the other animal shifters. And within each race, we fought against each other. For land and power that equated to nothing in the long run.

      This new world was chaos.

      Tommy stopped and pointed, whispering to us, There. Look.

      A group of brown, large hares sat nibbling on the overgrown grass. Perfect. My stomach growled and saliva pooled in my mouth as I imagined sinking my teeth into a single piece of the delicious meat. Warm, nutritious flesh. It had been so long since I’d eaten any fresh protein. I swallowed hard, amazed to see the creatures out in the open like this.

      The Betas slipped away from me in formation, silently surrounding the group of hares in a circle. Tommy held up his hand to signal we were to wait, and I held my breath in anticipation. His hand came down sharply and we all charged.

      I raced forward, arms extended and teeth bared, my heart banging away in my chest.

      The hares bolted.

      My hand shot out and I grabbed for the fat, brown bodies that ran past me. Two slipped by my hand.

      Damn!

      I jumped and rolled, frantically grabbing at a little hare that had gotten confused amongst the fray. My hand found the soft fur and I managed to snare him. My fingers clenching down hard on the single ear I held, then I pulled the body into mine.

      It wriggled and kicked out, bucking for its life.

      And it was. Literally.

      My fingers managed to grab it by the back legs and held on tight. My ass would be black and blue if I came back with nothing tonight.

      Tommy broke the neck of two hares that he held. The snap of the bones made me flinch and cling tighter to my own little hare. My teeth clamped together and a strange coldness crept over my neck.

      I’d heard that noise too many times in my life.

      Too many battles, too many deaths.

      I looked away as Tommy grabbed my own soft hare and killed it for me.

      The other Betas had at least one each too. Which was good. At least some people would eat tonight. Time would tell if I was one of them.

      We’re going to go out further and see if there’s anything bigger to hunt down. Caden, take these back. Tommy grabbed all of the hares from the Betas and walked over to me, tossing me five dead bodies.

      I struggled with the weight for a moment, pulling them all up into a warm, soft pile of still floppy bodies.

      Are you sure? I asked him. That would ensure my favor when I returned to the camp. Did Tommy realize that?

      He gave me a half smile that indicated that he knew he was helping me. Would he ask for anything in return? Yeah. Go. Let Bear know we’ll be back in a few hours, hopefully with a bigger kill.

      I nodded, intensely grateful for the reprieve. How to repay such a thing? Bear didn’t like me bonding with other pack members. He was nasty possessive like that. But I could wake Tommy up one night and say thank you with a head job, or something if he asked me to. It wouldn’t be too bad with a gentle guy.

      Tommy nodded once and headed off in the opposite direction of the compound, not asking for anything in return.

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