He never wanted to fall in love. She never planned to let him.
Jenny Layne has made a career out of investigating werewolf reports, but every case has only confirmed that shapeshifters are the stuff of legend or madness. Until now. Lured to a remote Scottish estate to meet a researcher working on the science behind the werewolf phenomenon, Jenny finds steadily mounting evidence that something strange is running wild in the hills.
Billy Stewart has traveled the world in pursuit of stories of shapeshifters and other strange phenomena, but the last thing he ever expected to find was love. Billy is not a man who falls easily, but when he does, it is a force of nature. When he meets Jenny he knows immediately that she is his soulmate, but Jenny is not so sure. Are his intense feelings for her just some kind of insanity, or is Jenny turning him away because that's exactly what she always does when a guy gets interested?
By turns passionate romance and gripping paranormal thriller, Last Alpha tells the story of two people whose paths collide with earth-shattering consequences. As love boils over and the dark secrets buried away in Jenny and Billy's past rise to the surface, a night of murder raises the stakes yet higher.
And as she fights for her own survival, Jenny must face perhaps the biggest question of them all. In matters of life, death and love, can Beauty ever really hope to tame the Beast?
Billy Stewart has traveled the world in pursuit of stories of shapeshifters and other strange phenomena, but the last thing he ever expected to find was love. Billy is not a man who falls easily, but when he does, it is a force of nature. When he meets Jenny he knows immediately that she is his soulmate, but Jenny is not so sure. Are his intense feelings for her just some kind of insanity, or is Jenny turning him away because that's exactly what she always does when a guy gets interested?
By turns passionate romance and gripping paranormal thriller, Last Alpha tells the story of two people whose paths collide with earth-shattering consequences. As love boils over and the dark secrets buried away in Jenny and Billy's past rise to the surface, a night of murder raises the stakes yet higher.
And as she fights for her own survival, Jenny must face perhaps the biggest question of them all. In matters of life, death and love, can Beauty ever really hope to tame the Beast?
Review by Cherri-Anne
My rating = 5 stars
I’m the real thing. A natural shifter.
As far as I know, the last of my kind. What a scary thought! Can you imagine being the very last of your kind?? Initial thoughts while starting in on the story is that Ruby starts off running & is very descriptive. The fact that it is set in Scotland is awesome!!! Definitely love the descriptions when it comes to any & everything Scottish!!! Now that I am finished and trying to find the right words to do this review, I have to take a step back first. Overall, I was firmly caught in Ruby's web, ensconced in this story, determined to figure out what was going on before the story revealed the answers. Thankfully I was wrong most every time! That is a great thing because it shows how original, how different & how unique the story is. Now to think about the story on the deeper level...without ruining any single part of the story... The intensity level sure amps up quickly and often, which makes it a very furrific read! ‘All I ever wanted was to find companionship in others like me, and I ended up falling in love.’ This isn't a romance story about shifters, this is a last wolf shifter story with a side of romance...until it becomes a romance, then shifts to a shifter romance. ‘We don’t do all that. It has to be for life. A soul-mate.’ ‘He meant everything he said. He believed it. That he was a werewolf, the last of his kind. And that he was in love with Jenny.’ Ok, maybe in my 'real life' I would think a guy a nut job if he said all that to me, but since I prefer to live with my head - and heart - in paranormal romance books, I would LOVE to have that all said to me!! That is actually one of the very cool parts to this story - how much it shifts, grows almost. 'Tender intimacy taking over from animal intensity.' While this line describes something else (obviously! snicker), to me it describes the story perfectly! This book ranges from the lightheartedness to highly intense, humor to solemn, and back again, making this story very hard to define, all in a good way though! The psychosis of the wolf, of the man, of the woman, are all separate entities, even when they really aren't. Trust me, after reading the book you will understand what I mean. I can't find a way to say more about it without giving spoilers. Because of these vastly different features this isn't a book that I would call a shifter story...until it is one!! I love how you get sucked in and pulled through this amazing adventure! Ruby has created such an innovative shifter story, where nothing is like any other shifter book that I have ever read! And I have read a LOT!!! And that ending?!?! I was NOT expecting that at ALL! FANGTASTIC!!! Even though this is the first book that I have read of Ruby's, I can already see just how gifted of an author she is! She has impressed me very much with this book and I cannot wait to experience her other stories!
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