Cain herself had been dismissed from the case on jurisdiction grounds. There was a lot of back and forth in that story, but eventually the publisher, Blushing Books, agreed that there was no infringement and worked out some sort of settlement. Cain was clearly abusing the DMCA to take down non-infringing works, while the person she was seeking to silence, going by the name Zoey Ellis (also a pen name) not only filed a (perfectly fine) DMCA 512(f) lawsuit in response, but also a highly questionable defamation lawsuit. As we noted in our original article, both parties involved did some bad stuff. There was a lot of background, but the short version is that an author, who goes by the name Addison Cain (a pen name) and wrote a wolf-kink erotica book in the so-called “Omegaverse” realm (which is, apparently, a genre of writing involving wolf erotica and some tropes about the space), used the DMCA to get a competitor’s book using similar tropes taken down.

Way back in the previous century of May, we wrote about a truly bizarre (but, not actually uncommon) story of someone abusing the DMCA to get a competitor’s book disappeared.

If such material offends you, please do not purchase.Thu, Sep 10th 2020 12:05pm - Mike Masnick Though situations may be interpreted as romantic, this is a story about the effect of extreme circumstances on the human psyche and the consequences of obsession – not a standard romance. Some scenes are written to be disturbing. Publisher’s note: Reborn is a dark Omegaverse tale with explicit sexual themes and complete power exchange. Real war is on their doorstep, and unless the Alpha tyrant is willing to pay the ultimate price, everything he has sacrificed will have been for nothing. Thólos is coming apart at the seams, and Shepherd’s men can do nothing to stop it. Claire is desperate to open his eyes, but no matter her progress, Svana is not yet done with him. Claire can see the source of madness that drives Shepherd to do such terrible things: Svana.

She can feel the truth of his terrible history. Under its influence, she is forced to sense the man behind the monster. Due to her mate’s relentless exploitation of their pair-bond, the nature of their link has grown consuming to the point that Claire has difficulty differentiating where her feelings begin and his end. Her time is occupied fighting a war of another kind. Locked safely away in Shepherd’s nest, Claire is unaware of what stirs aboveground.

Reborn by Addison Cain