Between the suspicious death of her pack’s previous alpha, her fiancé’s subsequent appointment as new pack leader and his philandering, Cheerio’s suburban werewolf dream life quickly begins to unravel before her wedding. As she grapples with how to cope with the harsh reality of her situation, a new player, Asher, enters the stage and further disrupts the world as she knows it. Asher is part of an elite group of ruthless, bear, shape-shifting, mercenaries called Ursinairies hired to protect the country club werewolves. It should be an easy gig, but Asher gets more than he bargained for when he meets Cheerio. He was hired to guard her body and nothing more. Will Cheerio and Asher give it all up for whirlwind tryst? Or deny their true feelings to preserve the status quo?
The heroine is a doormat. She knows it, the reader knows it, the heroes know it. Our milquetoast heroine and her clueless cad of a fiance cheat on one another. Sexy tines aren't; the intimacy is glossed over and the reader never really feels connected to the indecisive heroine with the stupid name. The investigation into her boss' death is laughable and hardly an investigation at all. Pair that with sloppy editing and a cliffhanger ending, and I am not impressed.
What started off as a fun story with a solid combination of urban fantasy romance tropes, ended up being a story where I actually cared about the characters. Not gonna lie. There were moments when I wanted to punch a certain character in the throat. Anyone who reads it certainly knows who I'm talking about. Definitely looking forward to the sequel.