"A great paranormal romance, pure magic"

Something is kidnapping children. Gwen and Kat Tanner found two of them, but their souls were ripped out of their bodies. The police think someone mortal is to blame but Gwen and her granddaughter Kat, believe it is an evil spirit known as a mara. In its spirit form, it is invulnerable but when it takes the shape of a human, it can be killed like a regular vampire. Kate and Gwen, members of the Damask Circle, are more than capable of killing the mara because they are shape shifting psychic witches.

One of the missing children is the niece of Ethan Morgan, a police officer who is also a werewolf. He intends to stay with the Tanner women until they find Janie. Kat and Ethan are immediately attracted to one another but he thinks that is only moon fever because a werewolf can only love once and he gave his heart away years ago. As the two shapeshifters battle the evil forces mara throws at them Kat finds herself believing that Ethan is her true love even if he denies it.

Action, romance and magic, all that and more can be found between the pages of CIRCLE OF DESIRE. Keri Arthur is one of the bright shining lights in the paranormal genre and each book she writes is fascinating, seductive and spellbinding. Her latest is no exception and the fact that her two lead proponents are both shifters makes the romance that much more interesting.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 21, 2003

Summary

Four children kidnapped. Two found dead, their tiny souls ripped from their bodies...

In ten years of working for the Damask Circle, shapeshifter Katherine Tanner has never come across anything that goes after kids the way this monster does. Has never met anything that does to them what this thing does. And it's not something she wants to confront. But with the Circle's resources stretched to the limits, she's given very little choice. The last thing she needs is interference from a cop who has no idea what he's up against.

Ethan Morgan's niece is one of the missing children and he has every intention of not only defying the odds and bringing her back alive, but of catching the monster behind these kidnappings and bringing her to justice. Even if he has to break every law in the country to do it. And he's willing to use anyone and everyone to achieve those aims--even a crazy woman who claims to be a witch.

Forced to join forces, Ethan and Kat are drawn to each other, but fight their feelings as they struggle to uncover clues that will lead them to the monster's lair and battle a seemingly endless supply of zombies and other dead things determined to stop them. But time is ticking away and both know the monster behind these kidnappings rarely keeps her victims alive for more than seven days. And four of those have already gone.

But the greatest threat to Kat might not come from the forces of darkness gathering around them, but from the man she is beginning to love.

Because Ethan is a werewolf...and the full moon is rising...