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This HaBO is from Megan, who is searching for this paranormal romance:
Looking for a crazy sauce lycanthrope book. The heroine somehow ends up in an alternate universe/reality where lycans are a thing. I think she runs and hides in some abandoned cabin or shed in the woods, and screams ensue when lycans come strolling in all fury half-man beast style.
Turns out, in this new reality she has stumbled into (I think there was some invention she had run off with that accidentally sent her there? Could be mixing that up.) everyone is a werewolf. There is some weird virus that is making pack members sick and she ends up helping care for them.
The pack alpha of course gets the hots for her and there is a lady lycan who just cannot understand the appeal of this weird non-wolfie woman. There may have been some botany involved in her creating a cure.
I know I have read this within the last two years but oddly searching “alternate reality werewolf lycan” doesn’t seem to be specific enough to find it.
Hopefully someone can help me!
As someone who loves a good shifter romance, I want us desperately to find this one!
It sounds a little bit like The Edge series by Ilona Andrews, but not any specific book.
Scent of Salvation (Chronicles of Eorthe, #1) by Annie Nicholas has some of these elements: alternate world, alpha love interest and sick lycans. But it’s been a while since I read it so details are fuzzy in my head.
It’s not The Edge. I’ve been reading them recently.
Oh man, I think this is a thing in a Sourcebooks Casablanca series. I love that I can remember the publisher but not the title! But there’s a whole series about women who fall into the alt reality and end up with lycans/werewolves/various shifters!
My first guess was the Annie Nicholas suggested by Elva. I specifically remember She used bread mold to culture penicillin, which she used to cure the werewolves. Maybe that rings a bell? Also, there was a vampire that wanted the heroine for himself.
Except for the alternate reality part, it sounds kind of like Switching Hour by Robyn Peterman. Witch heroine gets stranded in a small town and ends up a healer to sick shifters. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26831823-switching-hour?from_search=true
This sort of sounds like one of the subplots of the Blood Destiny series. Girl is a non-shifter in a shifter world, shifter plague, no one can understand why the alpha wants her, and there is an interested vampire. I don’t think penicillin was involved though, and I don’t think it was an alternate reality.