Lynn Hagen
ManLove Romance
RISE OF THE CHANGELINGS SERIES
Rise to Love
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M
Series: Book One in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: January 7, 2013
It has been three years since the discovery of nonhumans. Vampires and shape-shifters, commonly known as changelings, have come out, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with them.
When Dorian is asked over for dinner by a coworker, he has no clue that he has just been nominated as a possible mate to the local werewolf changeling pack’s alpha. But before he can fully protest, the government has secretly put together an extermination list, and the alpha is their number one target.
Alpha Enrique Marcelo has just turned thirty-five, and his pack insists he find a mate. Rick wants no part, but he gives in, agreeing to choose one of the nominees as his mate.
Never before has a human been nominated.
But before Rick can decide, three changeling juveniles are murdered, one of them his nephew, and he and Dorian are accused of the crime. They must flee in order to clear their names.
While on the run, Rick learns about not only the conspiracy to frame him for the murders, but that the government is secretly putting together a Death Squad to exterminate the entire nonhuman population.
Rise to Trust
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M With M/F
Series: Book Two in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Edward Costello was taken prisoner by the werehyenas. He knows his second reached out to Enrique Marcelo for help, but after three weeks of constant torture, he knows that the werewolf alpha has left him to rot in the hellhole of his cell. He lies in pain, contemplating his revenge, and knows the perfect tool to destroy Enrique is to destroy his sister, Isabelle.
Isabelle Marcelo snuck away from the pack healer’s home to work for a few hours. Cabin fever was driving her crazy. But when she is kidnapped from a parking lot by a dark and lethal man, Isabelle knows she is in trouble.
When a group of men comes after both of them, Edward and Isabelle find themselves on the same side as they run for their lives.
Meanwhile, Rick is still fighting to stay one step ahead of a unit referred to as the Death Squad. He knows they will stop at nothing until he is dead.
As the saga continues to unfold, traitors are discovered, deception grows deeper, and love finds a way to blossom in a deadly world where trust for one changeling is as precious as life.
Rise to Embrace
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M With M/F/M
Series: Book Three in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: February 4, 2013
When Lieutenant Commander John Freedman called in his favors, Ryan Deluca and Kenneth Brooke of Special Forces answered. But when Freedman asks Deluca and Brooke to track down Enrique Marcelo and make sure he isn't killed, they are baffled. John Freedman is the leader of the Death Squad, out to exterminate the nonhumans, and Enrique is at the top of their list.
Willow Toreno lives with her changeling coyote pack deep in the Smoky Mountains. Alpha Garrett tells her they are having guests and she is to see to their needs. Even though she hates Garrett with every breath she takes, Willow is not foolish enough to disobey.
But what she hadn't expected was to find two human males who spark a fire deep within her soul. They call to her beast, making Willow tempt fate. There is just one small problem. Garrett kills anyone who mates outside their coyote pack.
When Willow is forced to the detention center, it’s up to Brooke and Deluca to get her out. The stakes grow higher when the men learn Willow’s dark and agonizing secret.
Rise to Submit
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M
Series: Book Four in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Ian Campbell is a fang addict. He knows this, but is powerless against the drug that has taken over his very existence. When Newman, the vampire feeding his habit, tries to hand Ian over to the coven to be drained, he knows it’s time to go.
While on the run himself after being accused of bombing the college that he attended, Mason is sent to pick up Ian. He finds that Ian isn't a happy man. In fact, Ian tries to escape.
But little does Ian know that the very man he is running from might be the only man who can bring him back from the devastation his addiction has caused.
Rick is leading a war to save his species, and his job only grows tougher when Ian returns, and the alpha must tell Dorian, his mate and Ian’s brother, that he suspects Ian of being a mole.
Rise to Seduction
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M With M/M/F
Series: Book Five in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Nate Valez is Rick’s top enforcer. He is a sure and competent man, able to handle anything thrown his way—unless it’s Selene or Sasha.
Selene Lopez hates Sasha. She is the one in love with Nate, not Sasha, but it seems every time Nate gets around the wereleopard alpha, he loses his damn mind.
Sasha Monroe loves to play, loves to purr, and can slice a throat in the blink of an eye. He knows Nate is attracted to him. He knows Selene is attracted to Nate. But what the two don’t know is that Sasha has been attracted to them both for some time.
He just loves playing hard to get, but when Nate and Selene's lives are threatened, Sasha must choose between protecting a key element that could possibly win the war and protecting the werewolves who are beginning to mean so much to him.
Will Sasha hand over what he has discovered, or will he let fate decide whether Nate and Selene live or die?
Rise to fall
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M With M/M/M
Series: Book Six in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Salvador is an ancient vampire who has come to America to settle a score with Kraven, the master vampire of Hamilton County. What he hadn't expected was to find his mates.
John Freedman, formerly the leader of the Death Squad, must save Omar from the government, who is holding him in the last remaining detention center. When a stranger shows up claiming he wants to help, Freedman isn't so sure he wants the man anywhere near him—especially considering the fact that Salvador is a vampire.
Omar Reed is in a truly messed-up situation. His parents had been less than understanding, and then his alpha knocked him down to juvenile status, an insult to any changeling breed. Worse yet, Omar was captured and experimented on by a sadistic scientist.
As the war against nonhumans becomes critical, the three spend most of their time just trying to stay alive, but there's plenty of chemistry between them to take up the rest. Can they find enough common ground when their clothes are on to last forever?
When Dorian is critically wounded, no one is sure if he will live or die, until Salvador offers a choice that just might send Rick over the edge.
Rise to Live
Genre: Alternative Paranormal Romance M/M
Series: Book Seven in the Rise of the Changeling series
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Marco and Remus have been best friends since they were small cubs. Marco worshiped the ground Remus walked on. If only the leopard wasn't so thickheaded Marco just might have a shot at happiness. But when he helps Remus in rescuing a werewolf from Dexcom labs, his life takes a turn that will scar him forever.
What starts out as two best friends helping out their alpha turns into a nightmarish situation that Remus isn’t sure he can survive.
Meanwhile, the war has spilt onto the front doorstep of the White House. Enrique Marcelo is determined to make the president either call a halt to the insanity, or kill the man for wanting the changelings exterminated—maybe both.
But ending the war won’t be easy, and neither will the task of disbanding the Breed Hunters and mercenaries. Rick, Dorian, and the people who have fought by their side encounter betrayal, lies, and deception that rock their very foundation as they rise to live.
Lynn Hagen