(Mis)fortune (Judgement of the Six #2) - Melissa Haag

You loved Gabby and Clay?  

 Well, then come and meet 

 Michelle and Emmitt in (Mis)fortune !

  (Mis)fortune (Judgement of the Six #2) by Melissa Haag

 Blurb:

Our world is being judged and even they remain unaware.

Michelle, another young woman with an unexplainable gift, finds herself surrounded by the previously undiscovered werewolf society. Kept prisoner for the predictions that torment her, she meekly follows orders waiting for her opportunity to run. When her stepfather dies, she takes a chance and escapes.

After witnessing Blake, her captor, grow canines, she knows he will do anything to find her. She needs a place to hide and someone to listen to her predictions so her head doesn’t explode, but knows there’s nowhere she can hide forever, and no one who can protect her… unless she can find someone just like him.

Part of the fur wearing faction wants to use her, another part strives to keep her safe. The second book of the Judgement of the Six series will raise more questions about the purpose of these gifted few and Michelle will need to fight for answers. Will what she discovers be enough to help her keep those she loves safe from an emerging evil?

 
I really really love the books of this series. They are rather special - well written, imaginative, gripping, romantic and even though all books of this series are linked, each of them is unique and tells its own story.

I also love the characters the author creates as they are not just lovable but authentic and complex as well.
When Emmitt meets Michelle and her little brothers in the parking lot of small town diner or rather - when he rescues Michelle and her brothers from some pretty bad guys in said parking lot of a small town diner, he knows that his life has just changed forever.
Being on the run from some very powerfull enemies with two small kids and no place to go is not easy (especially when you don't know how to drive the car you're driving...) and Michelle is very tired and very desperate when Emmitt comes to her rescue. It takes time getting used to the idea that maybe someone is really nice and really wants to help but when Emmitt takes Michelle and the boys home to meet Nana Wini and his brother Jim and asks them to live with them in one of the apartements she accepts his offer. Well, she is not the only one to keep a secret or two (or three..) but maybe, maybe Emmitt's secret will not drive her away... Will it? And what about those enemies of hers, will they ever give up?

I love the interaction between the characters and I think it is amazing how those books are linked with each other and how they complement each other. (Hope)less told us how Gabby and Clay found each other and in Clay's Hope we got to know how Clay felt about their rather tumultuous courtship. (Mis)fortune is Michelle's story and very soon Emmitt will get his chance to tell us his part of it, when Emmitt's Treasure gets out on May 24th (2016). Apart from that there are always the stories of Bethi, Charlene and Isabelle, if you still want to know more about weres and the Judgement of the Six.

★★★★★