Kendra Leigh Castle’s debut novel Call of the Highland Moon kicks off with a supernatural twist on the meet cute device: When werewolf Gideon MacInnes is attacked by his cousin’s minions during a visit to Upstate New York, he collapses behind Carly Silver’s tiny romance novel bookstore. Carly can tell there is something off about the huge dog bleeding on her doorstep, but snow is falling fast, and the poor thing looks so pathetic she can’t resist taking it home and treating its wounds. She even allows the injured beast to sleep on her bed... only to wake up and find that her new pet has transformed into an extremely handsome—and totally naked—Scottish guy.

Most of Call of the Highland Moon focuses on Carly and Gideon’s developing relationship. The book features its fair share of violence, but its villains are clearly 100% evil (which makes all the butt-kicking pleasantly uncomplicated), and the characters devote just as much angst to wondering if small, delicate Carly could survive a werewolf transformation as they do to Gideon’s epic battle with his cousin. Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton’s kinky, blood-soaked books would be well advised to look elsewhere, but Call of the Highland Moon is a great pick for readers who like their supernatural romances funny, seductive, and light on gore.

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