Review: Surrounded by Woods - 5 Pepper's Hot!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2012
I found this book to be a hot paranormal erotic romance about a family of males who are mountain lion shape shifters.  This book is definitely not suitable for the faint of heart as the love scenes are hot!In an effort to forget her recent breakup and to satisfy her boss' reminder of her urge to make partner in the law firm, Mikaela finds herself taking on one of her firms biggest client who has some well defined rules about female visitors to their compound deep in the heart of Texas.  Arriving at the Woods' estate to handle some legal affairs, she is met by the reclusive senior Woods and his four hot and sexy sons.  Mikaela is a fiercely independent lawyer and is immediately thrown for a loop upon meeting Josh Woods.  The odd and overwhelmingly powerful attraction send up sparks and while both try to ward off the fire that burns with each glance they can't seem to stay away.  Josh pushes Mikaela to the edge of her comfort zone and when they finally fall into each others arms, Josh must decide how to deny his true nature of his 'other' who longs to claim Mikaela as his 'mate'.  Once the secret of Mikaela's availability becomes known, Josh finds himself protecting Mikaela from dangers she can hardly fathom.I was surprised at how the author managed to weave so much in to the short story.  The storyline flows well and didn't feel overly rushed.  The subject and quality of the author's work could have easily flowed well into a standard novel length story.  Editing was pretty well done, errors were minimal.  This is book 1 in a series which has a 20 page prequel and 2 more books and I would love to read the others but I was a bit disappointed that the pricing on the subsequent stories is a bit high for the length.  If the pricing was about half, I would have bought the other 3 books as soon as I completed this one.