by Jaymin Snow
Release Date: May 13, 2024
Review by Katy Grant
The Before:
With her beloved at
her side, life is slowly drifting away. They’d gone against the laws of their species,
quelled a war, spent a lifetime together, and raised children they outlived. Only
their daughter Lillith would be left behind. As his beloved takes her last
breath, his wolf doesn’t mourn. It quietly follows the beautiful red head with green
eyes into their next adventure as his eyes slowly close. Their love would follow,
reaching out for the future.
Present Day:
I tried to avoid
the wolf shifters who came into the café where I work. It had taken me years to
pull myself up, finish school and save money to become a veterinarian. I have Mano,
my cat and a few friends, but trusting anyone with my secrets could cost me my
life and possibly theirs. My father had
thrown me out into the night to die, when I was fourteen for being a weak
vampire. Now living/hiding in shifter territory, it is almost as dangerous for
me as if my family discovered I was still alive. My family history could easily
get me killed if they realized that my father is Beruth Sanguinite, Head of the
Nelo Clan of vampires. Cruel beyond measure her brother and father had sold
drugs to the shifters until her brother had been caught and killed.
Robert Montgomery was the Alpha of the wolf shifters, rich
powerful and deadly. For the last two years he had been coming into the café where
I worked, I tried to avoid him as much as possible. Today for some reason he
has chosen to take notice of me, and I am terrified. After my shift at the café,
I headed to the animal shelter where I volunteer. That night as I step outside
to lower the shutters, I see a man, hurt bleeding. If I leave him, he will die.
As I stepped out to help him, I realized I knew him; it’s Robert Montgomery. And then, Hell steps up in the form of two vicious
vampires’ intent on killing both the alpha and me.
Although Charlotte had accepted her need to blend into the
background, masking her true self meant never finding love, have children of
her own or get too close to others, always fearing discovery. Robert would
always wear the horrible scars on one side of his face given to him by his half
siblings, but he was now Alpha, made laws that the wolf shifters followed. However,
his life was a lonely one, seeing only disgust in the eyes of the women who
covet his wealth and power as his mate. Charlotte and Robert are not only drawn
to each other but drawn into the plots of others trying to tear down the strong
hold the wolf shifters have on the surrounding areas.
There is so much going on here but at the heart of it is the
love Charlotte and Robert found for each other despite the odds and the people
against them, where their past and their future comes together. The story
is a maze, they will navigate together to put a stop to an evil genius and the
men that would serve him and work to blend the paranormal and human world in
peace. But be warned, the romance can be spicy at times, there is murder,
drugs, missing shifters, including children, and vicious power-hungry villains.
Where there is life there can sometimes be sacrifice that is
heartbreaking.
From the very beginning of the story, I was swept up in this
telling as I tried to navigate the maze, I felt like I walked each step with
the characters, shared Charlotte’s pain, mistrust, her need to give and receive
love she was so long without. Robert’s tale may be a little less laid out, but
the reader is given enough to fill in the blanks on their own. When I finished this
book, I wanted to turn around and read it at a more leisurely pace for anything
I might have missed but to travel the path Robert and Charlotte walked to the
end. I never saw the end coming when the dust of battle finally cleared, to
offer the HEA for some of my favorite characters. I recommend this story to
those who enjoy paranormal romance with heat, danger, a bit of mystery and
spicy romance.
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