Wounded

Wounded by Laurel K. Hamilton, 65 pages

"Anita attends the wedding of her close friend but finds that even on the happiest of days there are wounds that need healing. She and the wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel are asked to talk to the bride's thirteen-year-old brother, Tomas, who is struggling to recover from a recent gunshot wound. Depressed and demoralized, Tomas isn't doing his physical therapy and could spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair... How can Anita, Micah, and Nathaniel convince Tomas that he can heal when he's given up? They tell him about their own scars and how they took back their own lives after they were wounded. And Anita will realize how lucky they are to have not only survived their pasts, but to now be able to make their own formal commitment to each other— and the vampire in her life..."  This is a short interlude that comes right after Dead Ice and contains serious spoilers if you haven't read that book yet.  It's basically the equivalent of a chapter or two of Hamilton's normal length books and I think it is only available as an ebook.  I liked it and fans of the series probably will too.  Because it is so specific to the series I don't really feel like it stands alone and wouldn't recommend that people who are not already fans pick this up as a starter.