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  • Moon Magic: Five Book Starter Library for lovers of Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance featuring werewolves, coyote shifters, and beasts of all kinds... on Aug. 23, 2016

    GREAT COLLECTION! This is a review of Shiftless, but I'll be updating my review shortly to include the other books in this great collection. Aimee Easterling is fast becoming my favorite author of the paranormal genre. Her storyline captivates and her characters are well developed and their behavior and dialog realistic. The story centers on Tara, who grew up in a pack led by her powerful alpha father who had little sympathy for a young girl unable to control her shifts to wolf. Instead of compassion, she received disgust and over time suppressed her wolf until she was unable to shift at all, I.e., shiftless. After fleeing her father when he told her on her seventeenth birthday that she was going to be married, she lived in the human world and kept herself isolated because she was always afraid that she would shift involuntarily. Her father approaches her ten years later, stating that he needs an heir and that Tara must bring her nephew, Keith, to him or she must return to marry a werewolf of his choosing. While in town, she runs into Wolfie, a powerful alpha who is in wolf form with his Beta, Chase, and later again when she is visiting her brother-in-law and contemplating turning Keith over to her father. The relationship builds between Tara and Wolfie and Tara realizes she can't allow Keith to be subjected to her overbearing father. Unfortunately, her father and his crew take Keith and Wolfie and his small group of outcasts are left with the dilemma of how to save him. Great read and would recommend to those who enjoy a good shifter story.