Title: The Alpha's Daughter (Wolvers, #3)
Author:
Jacqueline Rhoades
Source: Author
Genre: Paranormal Romance (wolf-shifters)
Length: Novel (398pgs)
Reviewer: CaroleDee
There is a balm in Gilead, to heal the wounded soul…
Jazz Phillips is on the run, fleeing from a fate most females in her pack accept as their lot in life; an arranged mating, something Jazz thought wasn't in her future as the Alpha's daughter and only child. She doesn't want to be the next Alpha's Mate. She doesn't want to be anyone's mate. She likes her life just the way it is until she finds herself stranded in the mountain town of Gilead, home to a small and close knit pack of wolvers. Once there, she begins to question her life as it was and begins to wonder about what it could be, especially in the arms of the wolver the people call Doc.
Doc Goodman claims to have settled in Gilead because he saw a need for his services, but in fact, he's a runaway, too. He's rejected his wolver heritage and the warring politics that stripped him of everything he loved most. He's biding his time, waiting to die, until he meets the blue haired, foul mouthed beauty who shows him there are still things worth living for and the most important of them are worth fighting for
Another fantastic read by Jacqueline Rhoades!
In a world where almost anyone can independently publish a book it can become tedious to wade through the mediocre to find a winner and I'm here to tell you that you can put those waders away because Jacqueline is a sure thing! I've read everyone of her books and fell in love each time!
The Alpha's daughter is a bit different than previous entries into the Wolver's Series. This time we get a female shifter that knows the ins and outs of Wolver politics. Unfortunately she comes from an archaic pack that treats women like crap. In an attempt to escape a forced marriage she flees and finds herself in a back-water Appalachian town and it's pack. When the local pack doctor takes her in she quickly learns that life in Gilead might be simple, but it's anything but boring.
Filled with hilarious characters, a romance that builds, an action filled climax, and a bitter-sweet rise to power this book has it all!
Treat yourself and pick up
The Alpha's Daughter today.
*While this is book 3 in the series, it can be read as a stand-alone.
Although, seriously, you're going to want to check out the rest of them because they're awesome ;)
Be sure to check out Jacqueline's other books!
The Wolvers Series:
The Alpha's Mate (Wolver # 1)
Welcome to Rabbit Creek....
City
girl Elizabeth Reynolds hopes to find peace and contentment in the
small Appalachian town of Rabbit Creek. Okay, so the bucolic cottage
she’s rented turns out to be a dilapidated cabin without phone service,
but the people she meets are wonderful. Friendly and down to earth, they
welcome her with open arms. It’s just like moving to Mayberry… if Andy
and Aunt Bea were wolves.
Only an outsider would call them
werewolves. They’re wolvers, a community of man/beasts that have lived
in these hills since their ancestors emigrated from Scotland three
hundred years ago. And that gorgeous Chief of Police, Marshall Goodman,
the guy she met while covered in mud and wearing granny underpants? The
one who sends her heart spinning? He’s their Alpha and his pack is under
attack from outside forces. Elizabeth, being a sane and reasonable
woman, wants no part of any of this, but if she refuses to risk her life
and her heart, the people she’s grown to care about will lose
everything and she’ll lose the one man she was born to love.
The Alpha's Choice (Wolver #2)
Katarina Bennett
stopped believing in fairytales a long time ago. Prince Charming doesn't
exist. Careful planning is what makes dreams come true and that's what
she's spent her adult life doing. Now those plans have fallen apart.
She's lost everything; her fiancé, her job and her home.
Determined
to make a new start, Kat takes a job as a governess and teacher for five
orphaned children and finds herself in an old Gothic mansion in the
middle of nowhere with people who aren't what they seem.
Charles
Goodman is the Alpha of his wolver pack, the modern descendants of an
ancient line of man/beasts who've hidden among the human race for
centuries. Charles has his hands full with taking his pack in a new
direction and dealing with dissention in the ranks and doubts about his
own abilities to lead, but when he meets his feisty new employee, he
begins to believe in a future he didn't think possible.
Together, Charles and Kat, Alpha and Mate, set out to prove all things are possible and fairytales do come true.
The Alpha's Daughter (Wolver #3)
There is a balm in Gilead, to heal the wounded soul…
Jazz
Phillips is on the run, fleeing from a fate most females in her pack
accept as their lot in life; an arranged mating, something Jazz thought
wasn't in her future as the Alpha's daughter and only child. She doesn't
want to be the next Alpha's Mate. She doesn't want to be anyone's mate.
She likes her life just the way it is until she finds herself stranded
in the mountain town of Gilead, home to a small and close knit pack of
wolvers. Once there, she begins to question her life as it was and
begins to wonder about what it could be, especially in the arms of the
wolver the people call Doc.
Doc Goodman claims to have settled in
Gilead because he saw a need for his services, but in fact, he's a
runaway, too. He's rejected his wolver heritage and the warring politics
that stripped him of everything he loved most. He's biding his time,
waiting to die, until he meets the blue haired, foul mouthed beauty who
shows him there are still things worth living for and the most important
of them are worth fighting for.
Guardians of the Race series:
Guardian's Grace (Book 1)
Grace Masters always dreamed of a family she could call her own and
always knew that for her, those dreams would never come true. Yet here
she is, in an old Victorian home, living and loving under the cover of
night. Who knew the source of her lifelong torment was really her gift
as a Daughter of Man or that this gift could be controlled and used for
something good? Who knew there was another race called the Paenitentia
who live side by side with humans? Who knew that demons were real? Grace
certainly didn't until one fateful night when her world falls apart and
comes together again in a place where she finally belongs.
Sometimes a
person just knows when something is right and destined to be. Sometimes
convincing someone else of that fact is a little more difficult. Canaan
ad Simeon is that someone else. Canaan is Liege Lord to a House of
Guardians whose job is to protect the Race from a demon threat many no
longer believe in. Already breaking away from the outdated traditions
that are depleting their numbers and threatened by a hierarchy resistant
to change, the last thing Canaan needs is to fall for this innocently
sexy Daughter of Man.
But fall he does, with a mixture of comedy, drama
and romance that will touch your heart.
Guardian's Hope (Book 2)
Hope parsons has heard about the evil of demons since she was a child in
the little isolated community where she grew up. Demons were part of
the outside world; demon sex, demon drink, demon music, demon woman.
According to her father, her mother was evil, too.
This is Hope
Parson’s world until she finds a box her mother hid years ago and the
remnant of a letter her runaway sister wrote begging for help. This is
the impetus she needs to embark on a journey out into the world and the
city where she hopes to find her sister and learn more about her
mother’s legacy. Once there, she learns her father was wrong about most
of the evils of the outside world. Unfortunately, he was right about
one; living, breathing demons are real.
Nico ad Nimeni, with his dark
charm and magazine cover good looks, is a recent addition to Canaan ad
Simeon’s House of Guardians. As a Guardian of the Race, it’s his job to
protect his people, the Paenitentia, along with humankind from the
demons who cross over, but Nico knows there are other kinds of demons
than those who stalk the night, like the ones that plague a man’s soul
and insist he stand apart.
When circumstances bring Hope to the
House, she finds a place where everything she knows about good and evil
is turned upside down. In this world of witches and demons, vampires and
Paenitentia, she learns that things are not always what they seem and
that a shy, over-sized country girl can find love in the arms of a suave
sophisticate.
Guardian's Joy (Book 3)
JJ Justice has spent her adulthood lost and alone and vulnerable to the
haunting of a past she can’t remember. It’s no wonder she feels
different from other people and not surprising that she chose the police
force as a way of standing up for others who are defenseless against
the evils of the world, but when her only friend and partner is brutally
murdered by a creature not of this world, JJ discovers a greater
purpose. She is called to hunt the monsters only she can see. Once
again, she resigns herself to living her life alone.
Guardian of the
Race, Bernardo ad Tormeo, longs for a woman of his own, one that’s as
fun loving and loyal as his Liege Lord’s Lady, Grace, and as soft and
gentle as his fellow Guardian’s mate, Hope, but the chances of meeting
such a woman seem slim to none. What with the nightly patrols and his
gaming business, he hasn’t the time to go searching for love. Besides,
he’s seen too many matings that didn’t work out.
Nardo is sworn to
protect his people and their human cousins from the demons who cross
over from the Otherworld. He never thought he would be hunting a
vampire; just like he never thought of falling in love with a leather
clad ex-cop who can kick demon butt with the best of them.
How do you
romance a woman who thinks more of knives than roses? And how do you
help her fight the demons of her soul when she can’t remember who they
are? Nardo doesn’t know, but he’s determined to find out. He only hopes
he and his new love can find the answers before a monster from Joy’s
past takes away the only woman he will ever love.
Hidden Mountain Series: (Contemp Romance)
Preston's Mill (Book 1)
When her disastrous
marriage ends in the most humiliating way, Meg Hanson doesn’t know what
to do or who to turn to. Unhappy with her life as it was and unwilling
to become what her mother and sister envision, she retreats to the
little Appalachian town of Prestons Mill, the place where her father was
raised. Meg has promised herself six months away from the influences of
home to find out who she is and what she really wants out of life.
Her
Great Aunt Annie doesn’t hold with such nonsense, but she does believe
that good food, hard work and fresh country air have the power to heal
the soul and she sees in Meg a soul that belongs to the mountain.
Coming
from wealth and privilege, Meg isn’t sure at first what to make of a
place where much of your wardrobe comes from Gorton’s Farm Supply and
the only coffee available is what’s brewed at the Downtown Café.
However, it doesn’t take long for her to become attached to the people
of Prestons Mill with their blunt honesty and strange speech or to
reluctantly fall for the boy who kissed her under the apple tree when
she was only ten. He’s grown into an intriguing man with problems of his
own.
JT Preston is burdened with his family’s past sins, sins
that prevent him from seeking the life he’s always envied and longed
for. Annie thinks this is nonsense, too, and sets about bringing Meg and
JT together, but nothing is ever as easy as it sounds.
When a
coal company makes plans to begin mining the mountain, Meg and JT find
themselves in the middle of the battle between those who consider it
progress and those who see it as the end of a way of life. Greed rears
its head, people are hurt and lives are endangered, Meg’s most of all.
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