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Oath Sworn Hardcover

by K.N. Banet (Author)
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Jacky Leon isn’t someone who goes looking for trouble. She owns a bar, pays her taxes, and serves her drinks cold outside a small town in Texas. The fact that she’s a werecat is just something she’s had to live with. Alone in her territory, she’s lived a secretive life for six under the radar, avoiding her past and the baggage that comes with it.

Trouble finds Jacky, though, in the form of an eleven year old girl and a werewolf turf war just outside her borders. Forced to honor an ancient treaty and the Laws of the supernatural world, Jacky swears an oath to protect Carey Everson, the human daughter of a local werewolf Alpha from Dallas.

When his enemies come after Jacky and her charge, she’s going to have to embrace the more dangerous side of who and what she is. She’s going to have to challenge the very Laws that govern her kind.

And nothing is going to stop her from honoring her word.
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  1. Book 1 of 10
    Jacky Leon
  2. Print length
    334 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Lifeblood Publishing
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1732000239
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1732000230
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  1. “Stop. I’m just…this is what good people do, right? We show up, even when we’re not ready and we’re totally out of our depth. I made a promise to her and I’m going to see it through. Stop…thanking me for that.”
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  2. They were here for my girl, my charge, my Duty. They were idiots if they thought I was going to let them leave with her and just go back to my life. I was in this now. There was no turning back.
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1732000239
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732000230
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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K.N. Banet

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K.N. Banet loves to read books that make people cry. She likes to write books that make people cry (and she wants to hear about it). She’s a firm believer that nothing and no one in this world is perfect, and she enjoys exploring those imperfections—trying to make the characters seem real on the page and not just in her head.

She might just be crazy, though. Her characters think so, but this can’t be confirmed.

You can find her reverse harem works under Kristen Banet!

Check out her social media to catch what's going on in the worlds inside her head. She drops teasers, new covers, and opens ARC reader slots through her Facebook group, The Banet Pride.

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Maine Ah
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Plot…Kept Me Turning the Pages
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
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Oh wow, this is a very cool and surprising female heroine with an unusual job to do. Jackie is a solitary werecat, a giant and ruthless one when she goes through the change. Like many big cats everywhere, she chooses to keep to herself, staying in her own territory, minding her own business. Her human side is busy running her little bar five nights a week, this is the comforting though lonely pattern of her life…until the surprising night an 11 year old human girl with a werewolf dad asks for protection. By supernatural law, she is Duty Bound to protect a human asking for help and instantly accepts the responsibility, and to her surprise, becoming instantly bonded to the courageous, little girl. Then all hell breaks loose!
This is a great, page turning read with plots unlike anything else I’ve read and I read a lot of supernatural type fiction. Ha, I am so late starting my day right now because I HAD to read the ending. Excellent paranormal story/series I just found on Kindle Unlimited. Well written, I look forward to book 2
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Doemakey
4.0 out of 5 stars KINDLE UNLIMITED
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024
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4.75 STARS 🌟

While reading, if I paused, I found myself eager to resume as this is a really good book! What made me hesitate in giving it 5 stars was due to her meeting the love interest, as I felt she suddenly went from Alpha to Beta.
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K. M. Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Main Character and Intriguing Worldbuilding
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2022
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Jacky Leon just wants a quiet life. She's a reluctant werecat who just wants to run her bar and live her life. But when eleven-year-old Carey Everson comes begging for her protection under terms of an ancient treaty, she has no choice but to protect the child.

The treaty says that she can't get involved in werewolf politics, but Carey is the pack alpha's human daughter. And groups of werewolves want her and are willing to fight Jacky for her despite what the treaty says.

After the first attack, Jacky and Carey run and hide out in an out-of-the-way motel which happens to be owned by a fae. When trouble shows up, the fae helps and offers Jacky healing and a gift she doesn't really want. When she is attacked again and Carey is taken, Jacky has no choice, at least according to her sense of honor, but to head to Dallas and rescue the child, no matter whose politics she has to interfere in.

The story was action-packed. The worldbuilding was intriguing. Jacky is a nicely complex character just coming to terms with her new life. I liked her loyalty and loneliness. I liked her determination to protect Carey no matter what it might cost her in the future.

I look forward to reading more books in this series.
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Angry Hedgehog
5.0 out of 5 stars A great surprise
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020
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The synopsis read like about 50% of other female-centered urban fantasy. The cover is terrible. I thought a werecat sounded interesting and rolled the dice. Very glad I did.
Solid plot, excellent world building (no info dumps), consistent and rational internal mythology. Even when things are implied rather than explained (there's witches in this world, and vampires, but none of them are anything more than tertiary characters at most, so their powers/mythology aren't very clear), it fits into the overall "rules" of the author's world. The book is well edited, too. There's NO useless romantic subplot!
Jacky is a person, not a caricature or a wish fulfillment or a trope. She's tough, and strong, but it never goes over the line into the cliche of "mysteriously powerful like no one has ever seen before." Carey, the child she's protecting, isn't cloying sweet, oddly powerful, or fated to be safe the world. There isn't any of the "snarky, wisecracking female main character" theme currently glutting the urban fantasy genre.
It's a good story with excellent characters and a plot that moves along steadily, without dragging in spots and rushing in others. I read a lot of urban fantasy, and there are a lot of typical traps books like these fall into. Overpowered main characters. Underdeveloped secondary characters. Infodumps. Pointless bickering to demonstrate a character 's cleverness. World building that overexplains, underexplains, or fumbles show vs. tell. Oath Sworn neatly avoids them, and that's honestly so unusual that I can forgive a few flaws in the story.
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Trish T
5.0 out of 5 stars Oath sworn
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024
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I enjoy urban fantasy, finding an original story line always catavates me. can't put it down. This is one the story line will build. can't wait to read the next one
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Carmen
4.0 out of 5 stars Jacky Rocks!
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023
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Have to say I wasn’t sure what I was going to think of this book but it’s a good start to the series.
I like Jacky and what she stands by. Totally understand her strengths and beliefs. She’s determined to do what’s right as a werecat she’s pretty interesting. Hmm, I’m curious as to what her and Heath will get into next so I’ll definitely continue with the next book.
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bjstaley
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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I love that there isn't so much seed in this that you don't want to even read it. I love that the girl gets to be the hero for a change
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Kerry H
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2023
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I was a bit skeptical because I'm not really a werecat fan, but this was okay.
A bit repetitive, definitely spent the first few chapters reminding you that she was a werecat, which got a tad annoying.
The Laws needed a bit of clean-up, though. It didn't really make sense that werecats were supposed to be protectors, but there wasn't any recourse if their position wasn't respected.
Jacky is a decent female lead. She's not timid but shows her vulnerability and isn't a man hater. She was easy to relate to. The rest of the characters could use some fleshing out. Jacky isn't the only character in this story. Keep the others interesting, too, but just pop up cardboard cutouts when you need one.
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Cliente Kindle
3.0 out of 5 stars Werecat
Reviewed in Italy on April 14, 2024
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Il libro stenta a partire, per almeno il 40% sono in fuga e francamente è piuttosto ripetitivo, poi finalmente la storia prende piede. Nel complesso è stata una lettera piacevole e leggerò il seguito
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Collette
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice
Reviewed in France on June 1, 2022
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I’m kind of confused about this book. It reminded me a bit too much of Mercy Thompson for my taste. However it’s well written and the story is good. I’ll read the second book and decide later.
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myrelle
1.0 out of 5 stars Unausgegoren
Reviewed in Germany on January 8, 2022
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Das Buch fängt mit einer Privatdetektivin an, die am Ende Magierin ist.
Der sympathischste Charakter ist ihre WG-Partnerin, ansonsten wurden so viel Personen eingeführt und wieder fallen gelassen, dass ich den Überblick verloren habe.
Dafür gibt es zwei sehr lange Sexszenen, die die Handlung nicht weiterbringen.
Die Teile 2-4 werde ich nicht lesen.
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Alan B. Clements
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging
Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2020
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Jackie is a werecat who is honorable. What I like most of all about the story is she does the right thing even if it means her own life is on the line. That and the fact that she doesn’t become a drooling mess over the male lead.
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Chrissy’s Book Shelf
5.0 out of 5 stars Another bullseye from Kristen Banet
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2019
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This book is a cracking urban fantasy book, the first in a new series, by Kristen Banet. I have to be honest here and say that I’ve never read a book by this author that I haven’t loved. Kristen Banet knows how to write about strong women, without them becoming two dimensional. It takes real skill to avoid shortcuts when creating a fictional universe but this author has that in spades.

The book is about Jacky Leon, a werecat. Jacky has been a werecat for 10 years and lived alone for 6 of those years. Werecats are loners by nature and create and hold territory by themselves. They defend that territory with their strength and fierceness. They are incredibly protective of what they own. They also hold incredibly tightly to their oaths. This means when an 11 year old human daughter of the local Alpha werewolf turns up at her door asking for protection, by treaty and Duty she is bound to protect her, from all the supernatural shenanigans going on around Dallas.

This Duty would normally be relatively simple, keeping humans away from supernatural wars is written into Law and therefore Carey should be safe with Jacky, 2 hours away from where a werewolf war is going on. As this happens in the first section of the book, it should be obvious that this doesn’t happen.

I love the intricate web of Laws that are set up to determine the actions of the supernatural community. These Laws are slowly revealed as the book progresses in a natural way, that also informs the reader.

I really like that Jacky is not only an outsider within the supernatural community as a whole, but also with her werecat ‘family’. She is lonely and isolated, but also strong and protective. I love that her werecat instincts run parallel to her human ones to protect a child. Her situation explains why she bonds so hard to Carey.

Being dragged into this supernatural mayhem allows the author to gradually expand the reader’s knowledge about the supernatural community at large, as well as learning about Jacky’s true depths. We learn about her fears and pain as well as her loneliness. I love that Jacky isn’t the perfect warrior, but is determined to do the best that she can do to protect Carey.

This is not a book with any romance. This is about Duty, family and Law. It is about people and what they are prepared to do to protect what they believe in and those they care about. It’s a book that I devoured in one sitting and I loved every page.

If you love a book about a strong woman who isn’t afraid to show her fears, but continue on doing what she believes to be right, then this is the book for you. If not, find another book, there are lots out there!

I can’t wait for the next in the series. As this one just came out, I’m sure I’ll have to wait a while, but I know that the wait will be worth it.
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