Review: Desert Wolf: Complete Collection by Anna Lowe

17 January of 2016 by

Reviewer's Rating: 4
4.0Overall score

Take a bite out of love and life

Desert Wolf: Complete Collection by Anna Lowe
Desert Wolf: Complete Collection By Anna Lowe

Paranormal Romance

Released January 4, 2016

Twin Moon Press

Series: The Wolves of Twin Moon Ranch, Book 1.1-1.4

Reviewed by Jean

All four DESERT WOLF short stories in one great collection – including an exclusive bonus episode not available anywhere else!
 
A stubborn alpha struggling to balance duty and desire. A determined she-wolf who knows just what he needs. A dangerous world of shifters, rogues, and inter-pack feuds, where the desert moon casts pale shadows over friend and foe.
 
Ty Hawthorne and Lana Dixon may have earned their happily-ever-after as destined mates, but that doesn’t mean the challenges let up. There’s always a new enemy to battle, a new challenge to overcome. And there’s always unwavering devotion to fuel them through thick and thin.
 
DESERT WOLF: COMPLETE COLLECTION includes the following four short stories, all of which take place after the events of Desert Moon (Book 1 in the Wolves of Twin Moon Ranch series):
 
Desert Wolf 1: Friend or Foe
 
Desert Wolf 2: Strangers in the Night
 
Desert Wolf 3: Chance Encounters
 
Desert Wolf 4: A Very Close Shave
 
Many of the characters and conflicts encountered here take center stage in the next books in the Twin Moon Ranch series, so this collection takes you deeper into the rich layers of this paranormal world.
 
NOTE: The full-length version of Desert Wolf 4: A Very Close Shave is available EXCLUSIVELY in this collection. You won’t find it anywhere else, not even as a single title!
 
These are paranormal romance short stories with adult content. The perfect read for fans of strong heroines, alpha heroes, werewolves and shapeshifters, red-hot cowboys, romantic westerns, paranormal suspense, action-adventure romance, and fantasy romance!

Take a bite out of love and life

 

Desert Wolf 1: Friend or Foe
Desert Wolf is a great slice of the happily ever after for Lana and Ty of Desert Moon. However, it’s just that, a slice, not the whole cake. But this cake happens to be multi-layered as well as multi-textured. In Desert Wolf, Lana and Ty have traveled to visit the Berkshire pack on the east coast. Considering the Berkshires are Lana’s old pack and family as well as pack enemies to Ty’s pack, you can guess things aren’t going to go overly smooth for Ty. Challenges are inherent to the situation. But, aside from these things you get to witness the two of them away from their own pack and the growth even such a short trip away can give their own relationship. While short the story was a great introduction to the series. I was definitely intrigued by Lana and Ty who are obviously both strong alphas and very in tune with each other. Desert Wolf was my introduction to The Wolves of Twin Moon Ranch series and I looked forward to picking up Desert Moon and the rest to see what I’d been missing.

Desert Wolf 2: Strangers in the Night
Their love and bond are still as strong as ever and Ty is feeling the pressure to ensure his mate is taken care of in the last trimester of her pregnancy. The impending stress of fatherhood weighs on him. Can he be the father his never was? The alpha demands of pack life are many but there has to be a balance. Three days away in the wilds of the desert at their cabin calls to him. But his duties as an alpha forever pursue him. In this case, it’s a visit from old allies… are they still allies or are they a threat to his mate and pack? Find out and discover just why Ty and Lana are the perfect compliment to each other.

Desert Wolf 3: Chance Encounters

“God, life was easier when all he had to do was run a ranch, deal with his father, and fight off enemies of the pack. But then again, easier wasn’t better, and he wouldn’t trade his new life for anything.”

Such are the thoughts of Ty, a new wolf dad on the eve of his mate, Lana going off for a girls night out leaving him with their baby. Four hours alone with the baby. That shouldn’t be so hard now should it? He’d done it all before, burping, diapering, the works. And, what of Lana? Four hours away from her four-month-old baby and her mate… a much-needed reprieve to reward her wolf. Still, it’s hard to walk away. Even harder still is confronting the dangers of the night when one wrong step could mean never coming home again. But, like the alpha wolf she is, Lana is more than up for any challenge. All of it makes coming home so much more rewarding than she ever thought possible.

Desert Wolf 4: A Very Close Shave
It’s funny how just changing the POV of a scene can stir totally different things in a person. The main scene in this short story is presented in Desert Blood from Cody’s perspective. Of course, you only get a glimpse into the scene from an outsider perspective. It was hot but nowhere the kinda hot it is from Ty’s.

”He leaned back before she told him to, exposing his throat unquestioningly. There was something quietly thrilling about submitting to the chiseled edge of a razor, as long as it was yielded by the one person in the world he could truly trust. Something that turned on every fight-or-flight instinct yet kept them barely leashed, thrumming with tension.”

As hot as this scene was between Ty and Lana I have to admit the first thing it stirred in me was nostalgia. I can remember standing quietly at the door to the bathroom as I watched my grandfather go through his shaving routine. The straight razor, the bowl of shaving soap, the brush and finally the sound of the razor rasping up and down the strop… these memories floated through my mind quite viscerally as I read the scene. Were these memories not enough the heat of the scene stirred further sensual memories of similar occurrences in my own life. If you’ve never shaven or been shaved by a lover then let Ms. Lowe tease you with just a glimpse of how arousing it can be.

Desert Wolf: Complete Collection is an enticing glimpse into the lives of Ty and Lana of The Wolves of Twin Moon Ranch. The vignettes will capture and tease you with their possibilities. Now that I have read them I’m just a little impatient for my next trip to the ranch. If you enjoy a good wolf shifter tale then this series should definitely capture your interests.

 

♥♥♥♥

O Factor: Spicy

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The Wolves of Twin Moon Ranch Series:

Desert Hunt, Prequel
Desert Moon, Book 1
Desert Wolf, Book 1.1
Desert Wolf 2, Book1.2
Desert Wolf 3, Book 1.3
Desert Wolf Complete, Includes 1.1 – 1.4
Desert Blood, Book 2
Desert Fate, Book 3
Desert Heart, Book 4
Happily Mated After, included in Wicked Alphas, Wilder Nights, Book 4.1
Desert Yule, Book 4.2
Desert Rose, Book 5
Desert Roots, Book 6…coming spring 2016

Desert Wolf: Complete Collection, Includes 1.1 – 1.4

 

Desert Hunt, Prequel
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Desert Moon, Book 1
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Desert Blood – Book 2
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Desert Fate, Book 3
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Desert Heart, Book 4
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Happily Mated After, included in Wicked Alphas, Wilder Nights, Book 4.1
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Desert Yule, Book 4.2
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Desert Rose, Book 5
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