Undercover Wolf

Alpha Force #4

by Linda O. Johnston

Danger and desire collide in a race against time

P.I. Quinn Parran's mission is to join Alpha Force, a unique military team of shape-shifters, and use their new elixir to enhance his shape-shifting abilities. With the aid of Sergeant Kristine Norwood, each shifting experiment sparks something more volatile than any challenge he's ever a primal passion. And when Quinn's brother vanishes on his honeymoon and is suspected of murder, Quinn must join forces with Kristine to investigate.

With no choice but to go deep undercover as newlyweds, Kristine finds herself enjoying the charade a little too much. She is attracted to Quinn, but isn't about to get involved with a shape-shifter. Until their quest becomes more dangerous, and Kristine must put aside her doubts and put her full trust in Quinn….

Genres: Harlequin, Paranormal, Harlequin Nocturne, Shapeshifters, Paranormal Romance

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 5, 2013

About the author

Linda O. Johnston's first published fiction appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year. Since then, Linda has had more short stories and novellas published, plus, by the end of 2018, she will have had fifty novels published, including mysteries and romance.

Linda currently writes the Barkery and Biscuits Mysteries cozy mystery series for Midnight Ink, and also wrote the Superstition Mysteries for them, both featuring dogs. She has also written the Pet Rescue Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime, which was a spinoff from her Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter mystery series. And yes, they involved dogs, too.

Linda also writes for Harlequin Romantic Suspense, including a new miniseries about a K-9 ranch where dogs are trained. Linda additionally writes paranormal romance for Harlequin Nocturne including the Alpha Force miniseries about a covert military unit of shapeshifters--and all the werewolves also have cover dogs.

Linda, a currently inactive transactional attorney, now writes fiction full-time. She is a member of the Los Angeles chapters of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Romance Writers of America, including the Los Angeles, Orange County and Santa Clarita chapters.

Reviews

[Valerie · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh... Story line was too drawn out and the ending was rushed. Too many characters piled on in the last few chapters, as if the author wasn't sure how to end the story. Quinn was awesome and believable as a strong alpha werewolf/shifter/thing, but the girl? Can't even remember her name now. She is a nurse! No wait, she's in the military and has left those years of medical training behind! She's a ninja, fighting with unbelievable skills! Nope, she's texting her male partner to come save her!
Characters apparently had fabulous sex but the reader would never know it since it was barely mentioned. The ending really killed the whole thing for me; they ignore each other for weeks after awesome sexy-times but no wait, they really love each other!

[Angelkristine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a new author for me, but I was surprised. It was a quick read, but very good.

[Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good but not believable in any way.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Setting: Fort Lukman, Maryland; Bar Harbor – hotel, restaurant, tourist places, police station; Acadia nature preserve;

Theme: finding the truth; rules – yes or no;

Characters:
Staff Sgt. Kristine Norwood: human; Grace’s aide, assigned temporarily to Quinn; attracted to him;

Lt Quinn Parran: brother to Simon; joined the army and Alpha Force so as to have access to his brother’s drug and its developing formula to be able to shift any time, and to retain more human cognitive thought, but he is not doing well to following orders;

Lt. Grace Andreas / Lt Simon Parran: married, on their honeymoon, missing since canine attack on 2 tourists;

Maj Drew Connell / Lt Patrick Worley: having to defend Alpha Force, being attacked by someone in Washington, while their hands are tied in investigating… allow Quinn and Kristine to go in undercover;

Darren Olivante: team leader for domestic projects at the Defense Special Projects Agency: wants to destroy Alpha Force – even to point of killing, and making it look like weres, having kidnapped Grace and Simon and planning to turn them loose on the full moon ; motivated because brother was killed by a were, and 2nd brother killed the were and saw it change into human – he wants to eliminate all weres, especially those in his famed unit.


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[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

My review is posted at the Just A Reader book review blog.

http://mellymeljustareader.blogspot.com/

[Harlequin Books]

Miniseries: Alpha Force
Category: Paranormal Romance

[Teresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was nothing wrong with the writing or the story itself, it just didn't really pull at my heartstrings or interest me as much as I thought it would.