Ecaterina Romanov-Lowell

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* Gateway to the Universe
* The Bad Company

## Overview

* Main series - major character The Kurtherian Gambit
* Sub-series - main character The Bad Company

#### Death Becomes Her

Nathan meets **Ecaterina** and her brother Ivan Romanov in her Romanian hometown near a mountainous area. She agrees to guide him into the mountains not knowing he is there hunting for Michael's successor. They are attacked by the Braov pack Alpha Algerian and 3 other weres on orders from Peter (Stephen's son) and she is knocked unconscious.

Her uncle Alexi Romanov is, unknown to her, a Were Bear and the area she is in is claimed by a wolf pack out of Brasov, but his mountain was off-limits. Alexi smells werewolves on his mountain, near where his niece **Ecaterina** is. When he investigates he finds the pack has attacked Ecaterina and her client, Nathan Lowell, who he senses is Wechsalbalg. He is about to attack when Nathan changes and attacks the pack. Realizing Nathan is protecting Ecaterina, Alexi transform and also joins in the fight only to be shot with silver bullets.

Before the pack can take both of them out Bethany Anne arrives and takes out the remaining pack members except for the pack leader. After she has interrogated the leader she turns him over to Alexi, who has had the silver pulled out by Nathan, dispense justice.

#### Under My Heel

David lays a trap on the Turkish border for Bethany Anne's team. Ecaterina is with team as firepower and in the second wave of Nosterfu is severely injured. Nathan Lowell goes into a berserker mode in Pricolici form to stop the assault and needs to be brought back to his senses by Stephen in order to turn Ecaterina. While Stephen could have turned her to a vampire, Stephen knew she would want to align with Nathan.

## Other Subseries

### Frank Kurns Stories of the Unknown World

#### Challenges

The book contains 2 short stories, Payback and Seed Vault

##### Seed Vault

Ecaterina's Uncle Alexi contacts her about trapping activity in her Romanian home area. While hunting is considered honorable, trapping is not especially when the traps are set to cause pain and suffering, not to kill. The request comes at the same time as BA has requested her inner circle build a seed vault so they can take part of Earth with them when they leave. Ecaterina and Nathan take Christina, Yelena, Ashur and Bellatrix with them. Ioan, a local thug has terrorized Andrei, Mathieu, Grigore and others into capturing wolves, alive and dead to for the fur trade. His ruthless behavior cows his followers into performing acts they know are long.

Alexi, Nathan and Ecaterina catch Andrei in the act. He is not only unrepentant, he threatens them with a gun. When they release him he goes back to Ioan who has had Andrei's grandfather Mihai as a hostage. Ioan sees through Andrei's lies and has him severely beaten. Ioan then goes out to set a trap and lure the team in to get Ashur and Bellatrix' fur. Ultimately his team betrays him and Ioan is killed along with the few loyal guards.

Ecaterina does not forgive Andrei, but she also chooses not to kill him. Both she and BA warn him he has used his last chance. Ultimately he gains access to Ioan's illicit money and uses it to make an anonymous grant The grant had been very specific: the money was to be used to clean up the mansion and make it fit for families to live in, the surrounding land was to be kept as a nature preserve, and there was to be a new college established to teach people all sorts of skills for starting and running their own businesses. In short, the town was to take care of those who needed it, and give them the tools to make their way in the world—and no one was to interfere with the nearby forest. Meanwhile, the fenced-in area of the grounds had become the village children’s favorite place to play.

### Etheric Adventures

#### Etheric Recruit

By happenchance, Anne meets Christina Lowell when she is trying to stop some were teens bullying a human boy. Later she encounters Christina again in the park and discovers that she is trying to change into a Pricolici form, but can't do it. This gets Anne to thinking about it and how they go about changing, which she determines is that they need more energy, not extreme emotions. She asks Christina to come and visit her and gives her some of her own blood, not realizing the effect of mixing were and vampire blood. But the dose of blood did help Christina change forms. When **Ecaterina** calls Christina's tablet and Anne answers it, she is concerned so Anne tells her the truth, and Ecaterina sees and hears Christina singing "Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". Ecaterina isn't happy and takes off for Anne's apartment but TOM realizes that there may be proglems when she gets there, so explains to Bethany Anne what is happening. Bethany Anne intercepts Ecaterina and they both arrive at Anne's apartment together.

## References

1. ↑ Anderle, Michael. Kurtherian Gambit Boxed Set One: Books 1-7, Death Becomes Her, Queen Bitch, Love Lost, Bite This, Never Forsaken, Under My Heel, Kneel or Die (Kurtherian Gambit Boxed Sets) (p. 163). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Grey, Natalie; Anderle, Michael. Challenges (Frank Kurns Stories of the UnknownWorld Book 4) (p. 177). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.