Reviewed by Cindy
TITLE: Destined Prey
SERIES: Wild Ones Book 1
AUTHOR: Bailey Bradford
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 134 Pages
RELEASE DATE: March 2, 2021
BLURB:
The call of the wild has never been so hot.
All Jack Tucker wanted was to come home for a little while and try to figure out where his life had gone wrong. Moving from Wyoming to New York didn’t turn out the way he’d thought it would, and a bad breakup has left him bruised—emotionally and otherwise.
He doesn’t expect to be glad he’s back on the Double T Ranch with his brother, Rhett, and he sure doesn’t expect to find the place crawling with coywolves, wolves and coyotes. There seems to be some kind of animal warfare going on, and he and Rhett are caught in the middle of it.
Coywolves—the hybrid of wolves and coyotes, hated by both, and more predatory than either. Add in the fact that all the battling species are shifters, and there’s bound to be trouble.
Ben Akers is part of his brother’s pack. The only coywolf shifters in existence, they find themselves under constant attack from wolf and coyote packs determined to make the Akers pack extinct. But coywolves don’t die out so easy, and when Ben’s life takes a surprising turn in the form of one sexy human named Jack Tucker, they’re both in for surprises, danger and the chance at the kind of love most people—and shifters—can only dream of…
REVIEW:
This is awfully bloody for such a sweet story.
Jack is looking for his place in life. He thought he found it in New York but now he’s back home to heal from a bad relationship. Being home feels good and once him and his brother figure a few things out they become friends again.
Ben is just trying to survive, even though there’s a big threat to that survival. Finding true love was definitely not on his radar, but then Jack falls into his lap.
The ista-love works in this fated mates romance. It’s quick and intense and very, very steamy. The two men’s big brother’s are very funny and I’m hoping the subject of the next book in this series.
The relationship between Jack and Ben is very sweet as well. They spend most of the book trying to figure out how to not be killed by the wolf and coyote shifters who have taken exception to Ben’s very existence as a coywolf. Neither one is willing to let go of the love they’ve found.
They find some help in someone unexpected and keep working towards that happily-ever-after that I knew they both deserved.
I found some of the “details” kind of…anti-climatic I guess and would have traded some of the steamy sex for some character building, but it’s a pretty good shifter story and the author does a good job of world building…and writing some pretty bloody death scenes for some bad guys.
Now, I’m gonna be waiting for the brother’s story. I’m betting it will be a lot of fun.
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