Book Description
I came to Penfell Heights to escape my cruel alpha—not to find a new one. But fate has other plans for my wolf and I.
After years in a forced marriage to the alpha of the Moon Falls pack, I escaped with my life—but barely. Now I’m broke, on the run, and being hunted, but at least I’m free. I need a job, a place to live, and time to heal—and when I end up in Penfell Heights, a tiny fishing town with suspicious townsfolk and protected by a motorcycle club made up of bear shifters called the Blood Brotherhood, I think maybe I’ve found exactly that.
Flint, the club alpha, seems willing to offer me that same protection. Why, I don’t know exactly, but it can’t be out of anything other than the kindness of his heart. After all, he’s a bear shifter and I’m a wolf—and I’m not looking for love, or anything else. It doesn’t matter if Flint’s handsome face and huge—muscles make me feel things I’ve never felt before, or if he calls to me in a way that not even my wolf alpha ever could. It doesn’t matter if he makes my heart race.
I’m on the run. Penfell Heights is supposed to be a stop on the way, not my forever. But fate might have different ideas. And when my past catches up to me, it might be Flint who turns out to be my savior, after all.
My Review
Layla is a wolf shifter who escapes her alpha who forced her to mate him. He is cruel and abusive and she's hurt when she escapes. She finds herself in Penfell heights just to stop long enough to get something to eat and rest for a little while. But things take a strange turn when she meets the alpha there and has feelings for him right away.
Flint is the alpha of Penfell Heights and realizes after he meets Layla that she's his mate. So even though he knows that she's in danger and probably running from something or someone and that might put his pack in danger, he talks her into staying in town and taking a job.
The only problem is the pack isn't very welcoming and they really don't like strangers so they weren't very nice to her. I really didn't like most of them. The other problem is Flint is part of a motorcycle club that might be doing some illegal things. Flint is also a bear shifter so the pack is worried that wolf and bear shifters might not get along all that well.
I didn't really like Layla or Flint and I really didn't like most of the townspeople who were less than understanding. Layla had been abused but she jumps right into feelings and a relationship with Flint because her body responded to him? No. Plus she stayed in a place that she was clearly unwelcome? Again, no. She should have left and gone someplace else. Flint kept stringing Marilyn along even after meeting Layla? No thank you. These people were not likable.
When Layla's past some knocking it brings danger with it.
The first half of the book was so slow and even though I can read a book really fast this one took me a few days because the story was just lagging for me. The better part of the book was the ending since things really ramped up and got better.
I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.
