Lord of the Wolfyn by Jessica Andersen

This is book 3 of the “Royal House of Shadows Series”.

Our main characters are Prince Dayn who is the second son of the king of Elden.  Alfreda Weston is a police officer who lives in Salem.

Right at the beginning, Jessica introduces the reader to the Wolfyn.  They are ravenous shape shifters who are deadly beasts.  Because of their habits, they need to be killed.

In this book, Dayn’s father can mind speak to him and tells him what must happen to the Blood Sorcerer (the evil element from books 1 & 2).  We also see that Dayn is considered a hunter.

Reda lives in a town that is known as a magical town.  But Jessica makes Reda a non-believer.  We first see Reda reading a book and for some reason she feels a connection to a guy who has green eyes.  While reading, Reda says a “spell” that she learned as a child.  After saying this “spell”, Reda meets Dayn.

Jessica has Reda seeing things that no human should be able to see.  It’s made so realistic that you feel it’s something that could possible happen to anyone.  Then the action starts to happen.

You can almost hear Dayn’s snide attitude after his first confrontation with Reda.  Reda doesn’t believe what’s going on - she hasn’t hear a word that Dayn said.  Even with all that, she still agrees to help Dayn.  Would we behave the same way?

Jessica then gives us their first kiss.  But just as it starts getting good, Jessica gives Dayn a conscience.  But she also has a way of having her main characters compliment each other.  She gives them a past full of hurt.  But there is also something else there that seems to draw them together.

There is a part in the story that Jessica has put an obstacle in their way.  When Reda first views it, you can just about hear her comment.  Dayn, being an alpha male, has an interesting way of getting her to cross that obstacle.

None of the sex scenes were forced.  They just flow within the story.  They are made to feel natural.  Reda and Dayn loved with no expectations from the other.  But the heat that is generated between the two continues throughout the story.

In Jessica’s book, she adds another evil element and her name is Moragh.  Moragh is there to stop Dayn from fulfilling his objective.  This prepares us for the fourth book – “Lord of the Abyss”.

You will definitely want to finish out the series.  I give “Lord of the Wolfyn” 4 1/2 stars.

Enchanted Destiny by Rayka Mennen

Main Characters:  Jake Taggert, contractor and single father.  Katherine Richetti, business woman with magical abilities.  Setting:  Halloween time.  This is perfect since Kat is a witch.

Kat and Jake meet as destiny comes calling.  Kat, of course, doesn’t want it – bad timing.  She goes to talk to her Nonna and comes back to find someone on her porch.  Rayka gives Kat a conscience and she tells Jake what is going on.  But Rayka makes him a typical male, he doesn’t believe her.  It’s funny to watch Jake’s confusion as to what he is going to do about Kat.

Jake is also intrigued by her.  I love how Rayka makes Jake a man who is also shy.  He also finds Kat a little quirky.  But, just like most men, he can’t accept what cannot be explained logically.  Our author is good.  She puts a little “wrench” in the picture, an ex-wife (and as you read you will get to see why).

Then we get to see their first kiss.  For those that love romance, the kiss starts off sweet and then explodes from there.  But then of course they come to their senses.

Rayka also gives the reader a nice family moment when Kat meets Jake’s son for the first time.  Rayka also includes another tender moment between our love birds.  It starts out very innocently and then heats up pretty quickly.  Then we see one of those perfect timing moments and it’s one that you can just picture happening.

The first sex scene fits in perfectly – our author doesn’t force it to happen.  What I love about this story is that even though it is short, the sex scenes don’t take over.  And Jake, being our typical male, has to screw things up.  Rayka did not create anything that didn’t seem believable.  Just like in real life, the parents get involved and try to fix things.

Rayka has two minor characters – Gina and Eric.  Their story will be out in December.  You will not want to miss this sequel.

I give “Enchanted Destiny” 4 stars (only because I wanted to read more).  It will be interesting to see if Jake and Kat make a reappearance in “Enchanted Desire”.