Shades of Moonlight

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Malandante: descended from the Etruscans but born with a bent toward evil, with a taste for power and wealth

Praenuntio: Goddess Gift of foresight

Praepositus: an officer rank in the lucani army

Praetorian: elite guard of the lucani king

Pugio: a Roman dagger

Quercioli: the offspring of a folletta and a linchetto, always female

Salbinelli: Etruscan satyr

Sicari (pl: sicarii): assassin

Silvani: one of the three original Etruscan Fata; always female, protectors of fields and forests

Speculator: spy

Strega (pl. streghe): Etruscan witch

Versipellis (pl. versipelli): literally “skin shifter”—shapeshifters including Etruscan Lucani (wolves), Norse Berkserkir (bears) and French loup garou (wolves)

There he was again, the huge gray wolf prowling around the shadows outside Mara Maruccini’s tiny home.

Well, it wasn’t actually her home.

Cole Luporeale, the lucani king, graciously allowed her to stay here, close to the very little family she had left. The five-room building sat on the outskirts of this small community of versipelli. Skin shifters. In this case, Etruscan wolves, members of the magical race of Etruscans who continued to survive in the modern world.

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