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When his brother Christian gets thrown into a mental institution Eben is sent by his father to retrieve him. They are both werewolves, and once Christian had gotten caught and they had drugged him, stopping change completely and keeping them from discovery. But he’s still trapped in the asylum, and so Eben is the one that’s got to get him free. While incarcerated, Christian had noticed a woman that was heavily sedated and drawing remarkably accurate pictures of one of his kind. When he points that out to Eben, He doesn’t realize what he was putting in motion. Eben has sensed that this troubled woman is his mate, and there is no way he would leave her behind.
On the night her father died in a wreck with her in the car, Gwen saw a creature worse than her nightmares, a real werewolf. She tried to tell her mother and other people, but they all thought her insane. After trying to kill herself and almost succeeding, she ends up in a mental institution. At least there she is numbed by the drugs most of the time, and escapes the horror of her new reality. When a strange man arrives and takes her out of the hospital, she can’t believe that he would take her from the institution. It’s even worse when she discovers what Eben is, an alpha werewolf, set to take over his fathers pack. She soon finds out that not all werewolves are alike.
Two people meet by chance, but this isn’t your normal feel good love story. Gwen has several issues of her own, having been drugged and in a mental institution for four years. Eben is a brutal man when he has to be, and he makes no excuses. Because of his position in the pack, he has to be hard and mean, in order to stay on top. He wants Gwen with a passion that’s hard to resist, but until she’s a little less fragile he’ll hold off…for now.
I loved this story! It’s a bit unusual, because when it first starts out I started to wonder if it was going to be about Christian, but it’s really about Gwen and her discovery of a man that has many facets to his character. Eben’s rough and ready, and will not take no for an answer, unless it’s coming from Gwen. I grew too really like him and hope that the two would somehow work it out. I liked the way that M.A. Everaux makes the characters come alive and sends me into another world with her writing. It’s not a book for the faint of heart; there are some pretty violent scenes in the story. However, I thought it was right in context and not there just for the shock value. Definitely a winner, NORTH WOLF is one for the keeper shelf.
Reviewed by Julie Brown
for The Road to Romance
October 17, 2005
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