Review: Getting better
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2013
REVIEW:  SURROUNDED BY SECRETS is the fourth storyline in Mandy Harbin's Woods Family series focusing on a family of mountain lion shape-shifters and their need to mate.  When unmated and single females enter the property, the male shifter only knows one thing-mate.Jack Woods is the most `unstable and aggressive' of the Woods brothers and with that comes the guilt and shame of previous transgression against his brother's mates.  When he willingly volunteered for the research program everyone was unclear as to how successful the treatment would be for Jack.  Keeping his distance from his family was the only option with which Jack  felt most comfortable, but when the family bought the neighboring land, the owner's daughter came along with the package-she was going to be working side by side with Jack and his brothers.  To Jack's amazement and astonishment, the feisty female was more than willing to fall into bed.-but Jack's lion side decided Lillian was its mate.The storyline follows the aftermath of Jack's mating with Lillian.  We watch as a flurry of mixed emotions throws the couple into situations and accusations that cannot be easily taken back when spoken in anger.  Pain at what he had done shamed Jack but his lion knew that Lillian was his mate.  Convincing Lillian was another matter.There is more to this storyline than the sex and mating of mountain lion shifters.  Mandy Harbin finally reveals the story behind the Woods family heritage and what the future hold in store for the next generation.  I enjoyed this particular storyline because it had more depth and background history.  The family patriarch had been closed mouthed for too long and in Surrounded by Secrets-the secret to the Woods family shifting will finally be revealed.