"The second in the sexy HEAT series by Judy Mays"

Serena Wilde is in a bind. She is a werewolf just coming into her annual wolf heat phase. She desperately needs to get away from her sanctuary, the wolf preserve run by Dr. Kearnan Gray where she has lived and worked for three years. No human man can satisfy her sexual urges during her wolf heat and she can't let her boss know of her true identity. If he knew what she was, he'd hate her for it, and she'd need to find a new place to hide from the domineering leader of her pack, who has decided he wants Serena no matter what.

Kearnan created the preserve as a way to escape his ancestry. He must keep his true identity secret for if Serena knew the truth about him she'd run, just like she did from her own pack. He senses she is his one true mate, but unfortunately for him, she is unaware of this fact. He knows that the only way into her heart is to capture her and forcefully show her that this is her destiny. What will happen though when her pack catches up to them and his true identity is revealed?

For fans of strong paranormal erotica with some D/s bondage scenes, this story will entice. Domination and submission is the way of life in a wolf pack, since as people know, wolves are led by the strongest, most dominant alpha wolf and his chosen mate. That aspect of pack life is covered in spades in In the Heat of the Night. Serena is absolutely furious to find she has been imprisoned by Kearnan, vowing revenge at any cost. However, her tune changes dramatically when he proves that he alone can sate her sexual hunger in the strongest days of her heat cycle. She comes to love his domination over her, even revel in it. The sex scenes between them are explosive, causing readers to sit up and take notice, and maybe even start looking for their own significant others.

Kearnan is a tortured male, feeling that his family line makes him a lesser being then others of the werewolf community. While at first readers will not understand his feelings, they come to understand him when his genealogy is revealed. Serena is somewhat harder to relate to, however. Her reason for fleeing her pack -- to escape the alpha, Alex Whitehorse, who wants her as mate - doesn't completely gel with her behavior with Kearnan. Her biggest complaint is the fact she does not love Alex. While the fact she does not love him is completely understandable since wolves (and werewolves) mate for life so therefore she would not submit to him. Yet with Kearnan, she falls under his spell immediately and is eager for attentions though she hates him for imprisoning her.

Readers of the first book in the series, Perfumed Heat, will enjoy the opportunity to visit with some of the characters, even for as short a time as they are in this story. The secondary characters each have their own stories as well, and will leave one eager for more background on them. One character that stands out is George Two Bears, who is the most mysterious of all characters in the book, and evidently has quite a history of his own.

© Kelley A. Hartsell, August 2005. All rights reserved.

Reviewed by Kelley Hartsell
Courtesy Love Romances
Posted October 11, 2005

Summary

Serena Wilde was anything but serene. The full moon was tonight. She had to get away, or she'd be far wilder than her sexy boss could ever anticipate. Why in the world did he have to demand that she show up for a meeting about a new breeding program now? Dr. Kearnan Gray might be an expert on wolves, but he didn't know a damn thing about werewolves, especially one that was about to come into heat.

Sexual Content: E-rotic. Genre: Werewolf.