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Rise Again Warrior: Mission Accept by Stacy Eaton

Dana is a spoiled rich girl who is cut off by her parents because she is directionless.  Derek is a homeless veteran who carries a lot of guilt around for what happened when he was a Navy Seal sniper.

Dana meets Derek by accident on the streets and they keep running back into each other as Dana begins to realize that there is a lot more going on around her than worries about shoes and penthouse apartments.  

When her dad cuts her off, he suggests she approach her cousin Shane about a job.  Shane founded Rise again warrior, and he offers Dana a job at the ground floor, literally.  Rise Again Warrior is a project to help veterans accept and overcome the baggage of war and move on to re-join society.  Gradually, Dana begins to learn about the problems the veterans have and the need for a place like Rise Again Warrior. 

I enjoyed the book.  It is challenging in places because of all the hurt and emotional scars of the numerous characters, but rewarding with more than one happy ending.  This book is well worth your time.  

I received a review copy from the author.

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Mated to the Pack by Jade Alters

Mated to the Pack is a reverse-harem romance book.   Each book in the series is stand-alone.

 

Vivian is in the first semester of her graduate program in Archaeology when she is chosen to assist on a dig in Columbia.  Unfortunately, the dig director runs into problems with the cartel and Vivian is rescued by mercenaries and sent out of the country.  With nowhere to go, she heads to the home of her recently deceased grandmother.

When the mercenaries rescue the dig director they find out that he hid valuable documents in Vivian’s bag, so they follow to protect her from the cartel.  The mercenaries are actually a pack of wolf-shifters with military backgrounds.

Shorly after arriving home, Vivian meets four strapping guys that answer her advertisement of rooms to rent in exchange for some help fixing up the house.  Vivian thinks she must be going crazy.  She’s attracted to all four guys. Meanwhile, each of the guy’s are hearing their wolves say “Mate!”

I enjoyed this book.  despite all the excitement of the cartel and the tensions over who, if anyone can claim Vivian, there is a sweet romantic feeling to the story.  Each character is given a backstory and feels complete.

I read a review copy of the book.  My opinions, as always are my own.

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Luther – Base Camp Bears by Amelia Jade

So, a bear shifter walks into a bar and runs into a friend.  Then he’s smitten with a cute waitress and says all the wrong things.  Then… all hell breaks loose.

Bear shifter Luther just lost his job with the Green Bearet border patrol due to budget cuts. He wanders into a bar in the neutral city of Cloud lake to drown his sorrows and decide what to do next.  Once there he’s smitten with Allix, a human who works as a waitress at the bar. When shifters from the Fenrir enclave arrive and cause trouble, he acts to defend her.  It turns out that the Fenrir shifters enclave have started attacking humans and shifters all over town. Fenrir has just declared war.  Luther and his friend have no choice but return to their old base in the Cadia enclave.

Allix has been wandering all her life looking for something.  She sees Luther in the bar and there’s definitely some special bond there.  Suddenly, Allix finds herself in the middle of a shifter war and in need of rescue.  Can love bloom in the shadow of war and can Allix finally find a place to belong?

This was an exciting story based in Amelia Jade’s Cadia shifter world.  Green Bearets – Luther is Book 1 in the Base Camp Bears series.  I thoroughly enjoyed the book.  It combined a lot of different elements such as shifter/human conflicts, conflicts between shifters, Military tactics and training, and of course romance.  The story is unpredictable and keeps your guessing what will happen next.

 

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