High Voltage

by Calista Fox

HIGH VOLTAGE - CALISTA FOX Lightning crackles all around Serena Lamond in the worst electrical storm she’s ever seen. If only she’d stayed in town instead of braving the dark country roads back to her isolated home. But no, with her usual stubborn independence, she’d had to set off in her pickup despite the elements. And now it seems almost as if the lightning is aiming for her, taunting her, forcing her to careen ever more treacherously down the dark road.Suddenly, a flash of green pierces the darkness just moments before Serena hits the animal that jumps in front of her truck. Is that her neighbor’s dog? She can hardly see it in the fierce rain, but she can feel its thick fur as she hefts its injured body into the back of her pickup truck. A shudder ripples through the dog’s body, but at least it’s still alive.But when she finally makes it home safe, there’s no dog in her pickup.There’s a man.A naked man.And the air between them crackles as if the lightning had never stopped….

Genres: Romance, Paranormal

107 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

"Combines pulse-pounding danger and passionate love...tantalizing." – Publishers Weekly (Burned Deep trilogy)

Calista is a former PR professional, now writing fast-paced, steamy books to set your pulse racing! Her publishing houses include St. Martin’s Press, Grand Central Publishing and Harlequin. She is an Amazon bestseller and has won many Reviewer’s and Reader’s Choice Awards, as well as Best Book Awards.

Calista is a college graduate and teaches online writing classes. She is also a Past President/Advisor of the Phoenix chapter of the Romance Writers of America national organization.

www.calistafox.com www.facebook.com/calistafox www.twitter.com/calistafoxbooks

Reviews

[Katie(babs) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rain, rain and more rain! That is all Serena Lamond has seen day and night since she arrived at her lakeside cottage in Silver, Wyoming. She has taken some time off since she was involved in a scandal at work. It seems trouble follows Serena wherever she goes, and her life is like an episode of Twilight Zone.

But the crazy weather doesn’t stop her from taking her old pickup truck out for a drive to pick up some groceries. As she is coming back, a flash of lightening gives her a fright along with an out of control orgasm. Before she can even try to figure out what is going on with her body, she hits something. She thinks she has hit one of her neighbor’s German Shepherds. She has indeed hit a dog and quickly puts the poor thing in the back of her truck to go back to her cottage for help. But when she gets home, the dog is no longer in her truck, but instead there is a naked man looking at her.

Garrett Slater is a werewolf and was the one Serena hit while he was in dog form. He has been watching Serena, along with the other shift changing males that run around town. They want to mate with Serena, and Garrett refuses because he has laid claim to her first. All he has to do is seduce her and hope she will be able to accept him. He does have one thing on his side at the moment, and that is being naked in all his glory for Serena to look upon and lust over.

If only I could be as lucky as Serena to find a gorgeous naked man in my truck wanting to protect me and have his way with me at the same time! HIGH VOLTAGE is not just about a freak storm, but the intense attraction the innocent Serena has for the sexy Garrett. Their introduction is quite out of the ordinary, but the outcome leads to some nice bedroom scenes between the two. Let’s just say Serena gets over her initial fright at finding what she thinks is a dog turned into a very too-good-to-be-true male.

Calista Fox has written a sexy wolf in sheep’s clothing story that has great sex scenes, action, and a sigh-worthy romance that I enjoyed till the very last page.

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know this was just a short story but I was a little dissapointed, it couldve been more. It had the typical whole instant mate thing, which I dont have a problem with, but her freaking out about his changing kind of bugged me for some reason. Wants to marry him but cant stand his other half, kind of weird. If it were longer I think it wouldve been better, and maybe got past her whole weirdness.

[CraftyBirdies · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a quick read that is just average. It is short, and doesn't seem to focus much on either the paranormal aspect, the shapeshifter politics, the sex, or the relationship. It's a little bit of everything that just seemed 'eh' to me.

[tyrianpurple · Rating 3 out of 5]

an okay reading.
sweet rather than steamy.
themed shapesifter, spesifically wolf.
a nice ending. flow nicely. yap definitely a light material to read.