I stumbled on this series about two years ago, and fell in love with it! If you love shifter stories, I can guarantee you’ll love this one – and with each successive story, it just gets better and better! I also immediately put Ms. Holley on my list of authors ‘to keep an eye out for’ so I can grab up their books as soon as they are published – Unfortunately, I have yet to see anything released since 2011. (Sigh) I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we haven’t heard the last from this author. In the meantime, I hope you will take the opportunity to discover this series – and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Book #1 – Kiss and Kin
Brotherly love? Oh hell no…On the surface, court reporter Lark Manning looks like the luckiest girl in the world, blessed with great friends and a wonderful family. Underneath, she harbors a hopelessly unrequited love for the sexy werewolf everyone thinks of as her cousin. Taran rarely notices her except to condescend or lecture. He’s treated her the same way since she was eight years old, and there’s no reason to think he’ll ever change. Taran Lloyd, a detective in the Houston Police Department’s Shifters Investigations Unit (SHIU), lives for those rare moments he gets to spend around Lark, torturing himself with what he can’t have. Kin only by marriage, she thinks of him as her big brother. He couldn’t bear her pity—or her disgust—if she learned he wants her for his mate. When weres from a rival pack attack her, Lark screams out the first name that comes to mind—Taran. Only this sexy alpha can keep her safe until they find out who wants her dead, and why. But keeping her safe means keeping her close. And the closer they get, the harder it gets for these not-really-cousins to honor their commitment to keep their paws off.
Book #1.5 – The Nanny Years: A Yours, Mine, and Howls Prequel (novella)
Cade MacDougall is determined to raise his daughter Rebecca. The Alpha of the Rocky Mountain Pack lives on a horse ranch in Colorado with his pack, including his best friend and second-in-command, Michael Wargman, and his childhood guardian, a four-hundred-year old brownie named Sindri. Cade knows he and Sindri can care for Becca, but the child’s maternal grandmother doesn’t think so. And courts sometimes deny single werewolf fathers custody of their daughters. Cade needs a female nanny if he wants to keep his baby mama-in-law from challenging him for custody. Finding a nanny is easy. It’s keeping one that proves to be difficult…
Book #2 – Yours, Mine, and Howls
Sometimes happily ever after is on the wrong side of death’s door…Thirteen years ago, Ally Kendall died defending her young cousin from his werewolf stepfather. She hasn’t been the same since. Ally returned from the hereafter with strange new powers, burdened with the secret of why and how she survived. She managed to scrape her life together and raise her cousin, but now he needs a pack to guide him into adulthood. That means pulling up stakes yet again and heading for Colorado to find the only werewolf qualified for the job. A werewolf, she discovers, who tempts her to give up control in a thousand sinful ways. Cade MacDougall, Alpha of an unrecognized pack, has a tragic history, a sizable ranch, and a daughter who thinks she’s a cat. Time to find a mate? Don’t make him laugh. Until Ally shows up with a smokin’ hot, preternaturally strong body that smells like mine, and introduces him to a nephew who holds the key to unraveling mysteries about Cade’s family—and himself. But Ally’s holding something back. As Cade’s enemies gather, the cowboy and his secretive new mate must come clean about their mysterious pasts…or else all hope of protecting their newly formed family—and their future—will be lost. Warning: A sexy, smartass alpha hero, a heroine who could kick his ass if she wanted, heart-pounding action, and some serious werewolf cowboy lovin’.
Book #3 – Ready to Run
Sometimes a girl’s gotta save herself. Sara Hedges had planned to escape the backwater, bigoted town of Luxor, Texas on the wings of a college degree—not on the back of a Harley, riding for her life. Just a couple months shy of loading up her Miata, however, betrayal bares its ugly fangs. Her scumbag uncle has sold her to a pack of werewolves willing to pay any price for her special bloodline and it looks like there’s no way out. She never expected the new-in-town, sex-on-a-stick loner to come riding to her rescue. Or to discover he’s a werewolf, too. A good one…with one too many secrets. Bryan Keeton waited two months deep undercover for the chance to get his hands on one of the gangster Eurowolves wreaking havoc across the South. After calling in the FBI to blow the lid off Luxor, he’d planned to leave town before he did something he might regret—like get involved with the suspect’s niece. But Sara makes him stupid. And now they’re on the run from the Feds, who aren’t interested in her innocence, and from the wolves who want her for their own personal squeaky toy…Warning: This story includes an undercover alpha with a sexy Texan drawl, a heroine with a dangerous secret, a ring of wolves willing to pay just about anything to own her, and a small town that needs to learn a little something about tolerance.
