The Witch’s Wolf
Fated Destinies #1
Heather K. Carson
Publisher: Self-published
Published: March 1, 2023
Genre: Paranormal romance
Rating:
Fate doesn’t exist.
But try telling that to the growling wolf shifter who thinks I’m his mate…This is not my week.
Or month.
Or year.My now-ex-boyfriend cheating on me with my best friend?
I’d get over it eventually.
Pretentious chefs who looked down on me because I never went to culinary school while I was raising my little sister?
Screw ‘em.
Finding out my sister has Lycan wolf DNA and I have hours to get her out of the city before she’s locked away in a government research facility?
I definitely didn’t see that one coming.To save my sister’s life, we take off in the middle of the night following cryptic instructions from our late father to what was supposed to be the toxic wastelands.
Imagine my surprise when we stumble into a fairy tale civilization of wolf shifters where magic is real and a frustrating, but ruggedly handsome pack enforcer has serious plans for me.
The big, bad, and hungry wolf thinks I’m his fated mate and he’s not taking no for an answer.
That’s just the icing on the metaphorical cake.
But this isn’t some magical bedtime story.Real danger exists in the Cerberus pack. There’s a poison in the ranks. Shifters are leaving. My sister isn’t safe.
And a blood-thirsty Alpha murders anyone that challenges him.
Which I may–or may not–have accidentally done…
Did I mention today is not my day?
My thoughts…
When Sage’s sister is revealed as having lycan blood, Sage knows what that means. Her sister will go into a facility to be a “lab rat” for the rest of her life. Instead of allowing that to happen, they flee and head for a location that is supposed to be a toxic wasteland. However, when they get there, it’s a running town full of werewolves. The same pack of werewolves that her sister apparently belongs to. If that wasn’t chaotic enough, the enforcer immediately sees her as his mate, the Alpha of the pack is a drunken psycho, and she finds out that she’s apparently a witch.
I really enjoyed this story. We get both of Maddox’s and Sage’s side of the story. So we are there for Maddox fighting his basic instinct to claim his mate, because he knows she’s not a werewolf and therefor doesn’t feel the same pull that he does. Unfortunately for him, his wolf is there every moment of the day chomping at the bits to be let out and claim his mate and make her happy. Meanwhile, Sage is in a new place, learning about what her sister is, what that means for them, navigating pack customs, and coming to terms that she’s a witch with powers. The two dynamics really helped paint the picture as a whole.
I loved that the story didn’t just revolve around Sage and Maddox in the cottage only interacting with each other. As enforcer, Maddox is dealing with everyone in the pack, especially his brother who is the current Alpha. Sage’s sister and Maddox’s niece hit it off immediately and become fast friends, so they are always in the picture. Then you have all the shifters who pop in to talk to Sage, and Maddox’s mom who is a half wolf, who takes Sage under her wing to help her navigate her new powers. With all the characters coming in and out of the story, it really made it feel like a town of people and not such a bubble story of two people.
This is the first time I have read this author, but I don’t think it will be my last. I really enjoyed her take on werewolves and the pack dynamics she worked into the story.
