Conner [Kindle Edition]

Miranda Stork (Author)

Book Description

"5 stars! One of the best novels I have read all year!" --Nicole Hill, Author of Legacy Forgotten, 5 Stars

"You are hooked whether you like it or not! A great read." --Maxi Shelton, Author of Sold Into Marriage, 5 Stars

"'Conner' took me on a wild, fantastic and exciting ride!" --Trish Marie Dawson, Author of 'The Station' Series, 5 Stars

"Conner is a must read for all werewolf fans. It has a fresh spin on wolves, and I thought it was great." --Fictional Candy, 4 Stars

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Erin is a young psychologist, with no time for anything but her work, and unable to remember anything about her past. She leads an uneventful life, but a lonely one, in which she secretly wishes for a soulmate...

Conner is an unusual patient who approaches her, thrusting her into a strange world of darkness that runs beneath our own. He believes himself to be a creature of legend-a werewolf. But he also draws Erin with a roguish charm, and an irresistible feeling that seems to bind them together...

Conner desperately tries to save her from an unknown evil that pursues her with a relentless passion that crosses centuries, an evil that once took her very soul away, somewhere in Erin's lost memories.

As she becomes more entwined in a series of events that will remind her of who she really is, will she make it away from the oncoming darkness unscathed...?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Miranda Stork was born in Guisborough, North Yorkshire in 1987 and has lived in various places around Britain, including Newcastle and Glasgow. Her writing is inspired by various writers, including the vivid characters of Charles Dickens, the imagination of Stephen King, and the gothic imagery of Anne Rice. She currently still lives in North Yorkshire, and can be contacted through www.mirandastork.com

Product Details

• File Size: 828 KB
• Print Length: 466 pages
• Publisher: Moon Rose Publishing (April 19, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007VZO792
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #547,417 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars You have to know more! June 17, 2012

By Maxi Shelton

Format:Paperback

Miranda is a very cunning when she writes. She tells you just enough to get you interested, then drip feeds you the rest of the plot slowly throughout the book. You have to read until the very end, you are hooked, sucked in, begging for more. You have to read until to very end, to quite simple find out what is really happening, what is it Miranda is not telling you, that you know is in the air and feel in you bones. You are hooked whether you like it or not! A great read.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, surprising and exciting story! You won't put it down! August 24, 2012

By Proserpine

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I like the imagination of the author for this one! The way the author introduced her story, characters and the plot with Conner into a mental institution for believing he to be a werewolf, was fantastic.

Ms. Stork has a lot of creativity and a good sense of plotting, humour and entertainment. I have to say that the little twist at the end was a great surprise and surely quite interesting!

Erin is a psychologist who's working at the same mental institution where Conner is detained. She was assign to his case. But Conner isn't a standard patient. He seems to believe he's a real werewolf! Oh Yeah! You got me with this punch line!

The whole werewolf background surrounding Conner's. His past, his life since he's in the mental institution, his life as a werewolf and/or human was well described and pretty fun to discover! But the most interesting part was when Conner is trying to convince Erin of his true nature. When Erin begins to doubt, the story got into full speed and everything rush in!

The only bad point (if it's a bad point); it's the fact that it's too long before we learn the true about Erin, Conner and everything about the whole story. I was so caught up in the story, but always keep at bay without answers!!!

I liked the fact that Miranda Stork gives the reader a new Paranormal Romance story that stands out from the original/plain werewolves stories!

Recommended for all PNR lovers, werewolves lovers and for something refreshing in the shape-shifters world! Buy, borrow, and put on your TBR pile!

Proserpine @ Proserpine Craving Books

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative and Exciting Book August 22, 2012

By kgkdh

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Erin is a psychologist who agrees to take on a patient who believes he is a werewolf, Conner. Erin and Conner have a hot attraction toward each other, but Erin isn't sure who or what to trust, not even herself or her own memories. What I loved about this book was that there is a such a twist on the traditional werewolf/shifter story, and you never really knew what was going to happen until the end.

I could not stop reading this book until it was finished because I had to know what happened! Could not put it down! Is Conner really a werewolf? Is his world real? Is Erin imagining everything? And the biggest question of all...Will Erin and Conner be together in the end?

This was a well written, imaginative book, and I can't wait to read the next in the series!!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, engaging read by a brilliant author. July 5, 2012

By Tara Wood

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Let me start off by saying, that as a sub-genre of paranormal romance, werewolves do not interest me. I find that they are overly clichéd, and frankly, too much attention is given to the more "wolf-like" aspects of the hero. I don't think dogs are sexy. And I don't want to read about sexy dogs. That being said, Conner has made me do a complete one-eighty on the whole werewolf thing. At least on Miranda Stork's werewolves.

From the beginning, Conner is described with just enough detail to be sexy and intriguing without all the overt alpha-male sexuality that is so common. He's cheeky and sly, yet there's something vulnerable that makes you want to find out more. And just wait until you discover his secret. My jaw literally dropped and I almost spit coffee everywhere.

Erin is a woman to be identified with. She's smart, yet has her faults, but she is definitely not one of those too-stupid-to-live, can't-find-her-way-out-of-a-room-without-a-man-to-lead-her type of woman. She is sometimes a bit too trusting, but that speaks to the earnest nature of her character. But when push comes to shove, her backbone snaps straight in an instant and she's ready to give as good as she gets.

There is a common thread of duality in this book, a trait I noticed early on, but it wasn't until the end that I really began see how it was weaving together. I was pleased, and then upset, because as the action in the book was ramping up and things were falling together in the excitement of the narrative, BOOM! End of story. Which, mind you, is not a bad thing. There is a sequel coming. I'm just a little put out that I have to wait to read more, because what was written was so thoroughly enjoyable....

The good parts: Characters you will love (and some you will love and hate), a fast-paced narrative laced with twists and turns, keeping you on the edge of your seat and wondering what could possibly happen next. An interesting take on the werewolf sub-genre without being overblown or hackneyed.

The bad parts: Not bad, per se. A few editing quirks, nothing I haven't seen in books put out by the Big Six, and certainly not anything glaring enough to detract from the story or from my reading. Also, I would have liked a little more sexual tension, and even a little more sex (as this is a romance), but looking back, I can see how maybe having more of that would have impacted the storyline in a way that would deviate from where Ms. Stork was taking the plot.

Overall: I found this book to be engaging, exciting, and a great read. A solid 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. And I'm overly picky. Read more ›

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Conner by Miranda Stork June 11, 2012

By J. Chase

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Erin is a psychologist, who is asked to work on a new case. Little does she know this case will turn her life upside down, if she takes it. Conner, who is the name of the patient in the case, thinks he is a werewolf and has been in the practice for some years. Conner is handsome, built and charming and Erin and Conner seem to have a connection, but why? Read the book and find out.

I found that although this novel is a paranormal-romance it wasn't over-loaded with erotica which I quite enjoyed, a little is great, but I find when there is too much it ruins the story. I found that Miranda Stork wrote this novel beautifully, it has just the right amount of sex, drama, mystery and a little bit of pyschiatry to make me want to keep turning the pages. The story was well-written and fast-faced, there's never a dull moment.

I really enjoyed this novel and gave it a strong 4 stars mainly because the plot is set up in a manner that gives you little bit by little bit and you can't help but want to keep reading until BANG! Something you didn't expect happens and you want to keep reading even then and finally you're up until 2am and you have to work the next morning! The characters are well-developed and interesting. I don't know why but I always seem to like the bad guys in books. Even though Filtiarn is pretty much evil, he has subtance and issues and that to me makes the characters more real.

If you like paranormal-romance that's full of mystery that keeps you guessing, then you will enjoy this book!

More About the Author

I was born in Guisborough, North Yorkshire in 1987 and have lived in various places around Britain, including Newcastle and Glasgow.
My writing is inspired by various writers, including the vivid characters of Charles Dickens, the imagination of Stephen King, and the gothic imagery of Anne Rice.

My love of horror began at an early age, when I was only three or four. I could read proficiently at the age of three, and devoured fairy-stories, but I always had a bent towards the darker stories, such as the Brother's Grimm's tales...Red Riding Hood was always a firm favourite, although I always felt sorry for the wolf, despite him having tried to eat everyone!

I also had an incredibly vivid imagination, leading me to believe that the noises that the radiator in my room made, were in fact the noises of monsters hiding behind it. This led to me having terrible nightmares, in which I believed I woke up and would see them sat in my room, doing nothing more extrodinary than playing cards or reading a book.

As I got older, my love of tales about unknown creatures persisted, always wanting to devour tales about ghosts or other beings. Being born in Guisborough was also a coincidence, as it is a town rich in folklore and ghosts in various places, such as the Black Monk of Guisborough Priory...whether or not any of these stories were true, I still don't know, but I love the tingle of imagining whther or not they might be.

As I began school, I began to read more books, and became enraptured with the tales of ancient Greece and Rome, loving the explanations for simple things around us turned into figures and gods. To this day, I still have an avid love of ancient customs, and I have especially fallen in love with Celtic symbolism and myths, winding them into my novels whenever possible.

As I got older, about ten or eleven, I had moved, to a small village, with only about 80 children or so. I quickly became the main story-teller of my friends, my favourite one being a story about a girl who buys a porcelain doll, only to hate it after a few days and lock it away in her family's garage. The doll of course, is haunted, and breaks back into the house, calling, 'I'm coming, I'm coming...!' until she reaches the little girl, who is hiding under her cover, where she whispers, 'I'm here, I'm here...!' The poor mother of course comes into her daughter's room in the morning and finds her daughter dead, with the doll sat on top of her. I have a vague memory of telling a wide-eyed group of peers one morning, and one of them running off crying...I think I got told off for telling stories that were too scary at school.

At the age of seven or so, I was given two books by a relative; one of them was a large collection of Lewis Carroll, and to this day my favourite poem is 'Phantasmorgoria'. The other book was a collection of weird tales, all involving fair maids and witches, devils and wicked spirits in some form or another, a lot of them derived from eastern story-telling, where children and evil witches costantly collide-usually with awful consequences. This persisted with a series of magazines and music called 'The Magical Music Box'.

At this point I began to really get into more horror books, watching all and any horrors on television, even ones that were far too cheesy to watch without laughing. Point Horror stories became a favourite on my shelf as I went into my teens, alongside my classic favourites such as Dorian Grey and Great Expectations (still my favourite book to this day). I got hooked onto Anne Rice novels as well, loving the combination of a typically monsterous creature who had redeeming qualities akin to human ones.

The most terrifying book that ever made an impression on me has to be The Exorcist. The film is nothing compared to the book-I don't believe I slept the night after finishing it, waking up at everynoise in my room, imaginging it to be a voice or whispered giggle.