Shapeshifter saves the day!

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	• Checkmate (Mates, Book 2) Annmarie McKenna Samhain Publishing, 2007 - 220 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Shapeshifter saves the day!

This story is the follow up to McKenna's book "Seeing Eye Mate" In this story heroine Nikki is having trouble getting over a near rape that occured 6 months previously. When she starts to try and go out again she ends up walking smack into a triple murder where the murder sees her and then tries to kill her for the rest of the book.

The Hero has known she is his "Mate" for a long time but wanted to wait until she was older to claim her and have wild sex for the rest of their lives. He returns from a 6 month business trip to find his previously outspoken future mate withdrawn and changed. He finds out why, claims her and sets about protecting her and finding out who the murder is before he can kill Nikki.

Nikki takes the news that he is a shapeshifter wolf a little to easily but what the heck this is fiction. The sex is hot and the characters are nice people. It is also nice to be able to find out a little more about what happened to the hero and heroine in her first book.

I give it 4 out of 5 because their are authors who write this type of story much better. Lora Leigh, Christine Feehan to name a few.

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Checkmate

Eli Graham has been gone on pack business for over a year, forced to leave before he could claim the woman whom he knows is his mate. Eli is back now and is determined to claim his mate. The perfect plan, right? Until Eli learns that during his absence Nikki has been in the hospital twice for serious matters and to top it off, she no longer trusts men.

Nikki Taylor has been in hiding since she was attacked. Nikki has wanted Eli for a while, but now she only wants to hide from him. She even made her brother and Eli's brother promise not to tell Eli what happened during his absence. Nikki is persuaded to join some long time friends for a girl's night. However she arrives only to discover a worse nightmare than the one she has been hiding/recovering from.

Eli will let nothing else happen to Nikki if he has any say in the matter. He totally takes over her security and at the same time tries to show Nikki that some men can be trusted to keep her safe and loved. When Nikki and Eli's guard is lowered by a mistake, can Eli still keep Nikki safe or will they lose any future by acts of a madman?

Checkmate reminded me of a great fire, it smolders at first and then is slowly built into an inferno. Nikki has only become a shadow of her normal self after being attacked and fears what Eli will think of her when he gets back. Eli has returned determined to claim Nikki and finds that while he was gone she has been placed in harm's way twice. Eli and Nikki have to work together to solve both problems, which isn't easy when you are talking about an Alpha male and a strong, determined woman. I read Checkmate in one setting, late into the night, just because I could not put it down. The emotions that both Nikki and Eli go though had me on the edge of my seat and I was sorry to reach the end. Checkmate is a must read, not once, but several times over.

Note to readers: Checkmate is a sequel to Seeing Eye Mate and while they are stand alone books, the characters do intermingle.

Jo
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T. Richey

Verry good and sexy. I would recamend this book to any one wanting a little substance to their erotic romance.

Nikki and Eli

I am not going to go into detail, I see this has been nicely done. I really enjoyed this story...much better than the first story with Eli's twin. Nikki endures a lot in this book and Eli sticks by her and shows her a passion beyond her dreams. I recommend this book and will be checking out more books by this author.

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What's an alpha shape-shifting wolf to do when the woman pre-destined to be his mate no longer trusts men? After returning home from an eight-month security job, Eli Graham is ready to claim his best friend's little sister as his mate. He'd put it off for years, thinking he was doing the right thing by waiting. Instead of the stubborn, independent, carefree girl he left behind, Eli finds a shell of the woman he once knew. Having lived through a near fatal attack, Nikki Taylor has hidden herself away from the world. Now the time has come to face head-on the one man who could devastate her completely, Eli Graham. She's loved him forever, craves him, body, heart and soul, but he's never treated her as anything but a little sister. When Nikki witnesses a murder, she has no choice but to rely on Eli's expertise. While guarding her from the man bent on wiping out a witness, Eli shows Nikki that he'll not only protect her body, but he'll show her just what it means to be a wolf's mate. Warning, this title contains the following: hot, explicit sex, graphic violence and language, and is not for the faint of heart!

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