Paranormal Romance published by Carina Press 26 Oct 21
It was a pleasant surprise to see a book from Ms. Dane after a long gap. It was even nicer to return to Diablo Lake, along with Ruby Thorne. Ruby’s family is adorable, as are her friends and support system. Of course, the wolf packs are the icing on the cake.
Ruby is a healer and a powerful witch. As she looks for a place that she can call her own, she ends up renting a cottage from Damon Dooley, second in command of the Dooley wolves. Damon and Ruby have a history. They were extremely attracted to each other and Ruby might have even stayed in Diablo Lake if Damon had given the right signal, but, instead, he had had gently ended their relationship before it really took off.
Now man and wolf feel the time is right to court his witch and make her his. Boy, does he pull out all the stops in his courtship. Ruby has eyes for no one else, even though the other single wolves in town get their act together to court her.
Like any small town, there are undercurrents, most of them caused by Damon’s mother and aunt. There are two wolf packs in the area, the two leaders are modern thinking and determined to forge strong bonds of friendship. Their wives are all witches and form a tribe of their own.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and hope to see more in this series from the author.
Grade: A
Summary:
It’s autumn in Diablo Lake and the town is buzzing with preparations for Halloween, Samhain, Collins Hill Days, and the wedding of the newly elected mayor and her wolf shifter fiancé.
Ruby Thorne can’t think of a better time of year to come back for good and open the health clinic she’s been planning for the last six years. Her connection to the town and its veins of magic have snapped back into place, flooding her with a power eager to jump to her call.
She has a sense of rightness. This witch is exactly where she’s supposed to be. So it’s not much of a surprise that he comes back into her path just like he was meant to…
Damon Dooley has spent the last few years learning how to run the pack at his older brother’s right hand. There’s been upheaval. Outrage. Violence. Old rules have created a silence so crushing it’s collapsed the fabric of not just the wolf shifters, but the town as a whole.
And yet, Ruby has returned. Man and wolf agree she needs to be in their life regularly, and before long, things move from serious to something magically deeper.
Bound to one another heart and soul, both committed to what’s best for Diablo Lake, Ruby backs Damon as he pushes for much-needed change. But when something falls into Ruby’s lap and she learns the whole, terrible truth, secrets need to be spilled. How—and by whom—becomes the only question.
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