ARC REVIEW Howl For It by Shelly Laurenston and Cynthia Eden

Like A Wolf With A Bone by Shelly Laurenston. The prequel in her Pride series originally published in 2012. The main characters in this are the parents of Dee-Ann, and because this is a prequel and about the parents of course it would have to take place in the 70s. I was diggin' it I could just picture the Farrah Fawcett feathered hair the bell bottoms and southern rock blaring on the am radios, ooooo and the muscle cars. Needless to say I loved the setting. The characters, you can always count on Laurenston female characters to be just as foul-mouthed as they are badass. Eggie you gotta love that strong misunderstood man, sure he would just as soon as kill you as look at you but after he meets Darla-Mae he knows his life never going to be the same again.

Darla-Mae knows just by looking in his eyes that there is a good side to Eggie that other people just don't see. Darla-Mae was allowed to go to San Francisco to study to be a pastry chef, Eggie is in a super secret shifter only black-ops and was hardly ever home. Darla-Mae and Eggie had never met before even though all his brothers are mated to her sister. When they finally do meet Eggie is saving her life. Before leaving San Francisco Darla-Mae saw something she didn't even know she saw and now a bunch of human are trying to kill her and she doesn't even know why. Eggie will stop at nothing to protect her and she trusts him enough to know what he's doing and that he will keep her safe. Darla-Mae is a pacifist and pretty much takes everything in stride, except her sisters, and because she avoids fights Eggie's parents, the alphas of the pack, view her as weak. Boy are they wrong.

Wed Or Dead by Cynthia Eden. I'm not that big a fan of Cynthia Eden's Paranormal Romance I prefer her dark romantic suspense. But this was okay, it starts and it kind of throws you into it and it left me feeling like something was missing. Kayla's parents were brutally murdered by a shifter a hunter found her and her brother and raised them to be hunters too. Gage is an alpha wolf shifter just trying to keep his pack safe. He knows Kayla's secret the moment he sees her but he also knows that she's his mate. With all the hunters after them Gage is willing to wait until Kayla has realized her entire past is a lie and he's her future. But Kayla is a little slow on the uptake and only after they get captured does Kayla realize how much of a lie her life has been. There is some great action Cynthia Eden is always good with that. I liked the story I just wish this was a full length novel instead of this novella that felt like it was truncated.