Review: Good paranormal short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
This is the first time I have read anything by this author and I liked this story, my complaint is that I wish it had been longer. The characters were interesting and this story started their development, but wasn't long enough to really let them fully form and get a strong relationship established. I like the start that Alex and Sarah got on their "true mate" life time partnership, but she was still wary when the story ended. Also, the town the author has created with the sheriff being a priest of sorts for the Goddess and the people of the town understanding that some of their citizens are a little bit special, really has potential for development. I'm hoping a series comes out of this.Alex is a werewolf, but with a twist. He's also a hell hound, a wolf that can channel the fires of the Underworld in order to defeat any of it's denizens that escape and threaten the world above. His former mate, also a hell hound but centuries older, left him to go and die by herself eight years ago. On the anniversary of her death, the sheriff calls him in for a special assignment, dictated by the Goddess Herself; to protect a werewolf mother and son on the run from a demon set on killing them and anyone in the way.Sarah's village was attacked by demons while she was pregnant and they mutilated her and left her for dead. The rest of her pack, including her husband, was killed. She somehow survived and her son, Liam, now seems to have developed some in utero immunity to demon blood and is able to see their true forms, even when others cannot. The demons want them both killed and have been tracking them across the world from Ireland all the way to Colorado.The minute Sarah and Alex meet, their inner wolves begin howling that they are "true mates", something very rarely encountered, the one true perfect match. Sarah doesn't want to listen. Everyone who's tried to help them fight the demon has ended up dead, and she couldn't have that be the case with a true mate. Alex isn't sure how he's supposed to kill the demon, but if the Goddess assigned this to him personally, then he knows it's within his special powers to do so, and he will do everything in his power to save his true mate and new son.Heat factor hot.