Bethany Shaw

Just as in real life for humans, when a young girl has her first period, the father suddenly becomes more and more overly protective of his daughter; giving her increasing restrictions as what she can/cannot do, especially when it happens to involve boys; this is what happens to Emily McKinley.

The thing is, Emily McKinley is a shapeshifting female werewolf, which is a rarity. So when she gets her first heat cycle, her already sheltered life becomes almost like a jail, especially since her show more father happens to be the Alpha male of their pack. And like any girl who gets a new hunk of a boy moving next door, she’s immediately captivated by the one who has just joined her pack.

Unfortunately the new member, Marcus Jackson, is off limits to Emily since he’s not an Alpha male like her father. But, then, as you already know, there can only be one Alpha male in any group of animals.

This creates a situation where a suitable match for Emily would have to come outside of her pack, and a situation where her orders her to mate with a male from a women hating pack of wolves. But what woman wants to be forced into mating with a total stranger simply because her father has ordered it.

Due to their shared attraction while Emily is helping to tend to Marcus’ injuries, Emily and Marcus are falling in love with each other. And because of this and the increasing conflict between her father’s wishes and her own sexual desires, Emily must decide whether she should follow her pack’s best interests and obey her father or just go with her heart and the heck with everyone else even though they’re constantly being attacked by other packs.

This book is act ually the prequel to the Werewolf Wars series of books by this author and should serve as a wonderful introduction to the series. You’ll fall in love with the depth of Ms. Shaw’s writing for her characters through the dialogue and the surrounding narratives; for which I’ve decided to give 5 STARS.

I received a mobi.file copy of this book for having subscribed to this author’s newsletter and the above has been my honest opinion. show less

I received this book in exchange for an honest review. I actually enjoyed the book and the concept was well written and developed. After being in a relationship that goes south you go out an have a one night stand. Not a new concept but it was well written and it was nice to see the main character standing up for her independence and not taking the easy way out. It was a refreshing enjoyable read. Glad I got the chance to read what was a new writer for me.

A good coming of age story. The characters grew during the story and it was nice to see the development of the relationship over a few months and not just something that happens within days.

I enjoyed the story.

I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

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A Sci-Fi Romance
I have made ALL my Kindle notes on Goodreads public. This was a hard book to finish. The plot had potential, but never came through. It has a lot of different types of show more errors from the writing of the story to the editing and typos. Chapter 11 is missing. You never feel any connection to the main characters nor the world build. Everything feels 1 dimensional. This book needs a serious rewrite! show less