"A most suspensful erotic, read"

A child was found in a wolf's den in April of 1979 by the Indian hunter who was forced to kill the wolf mother. With the two wolf cubs was the newborn girl, a beautiful, if unusual, child. The Indian who found the child, also took her to raise. Loving her as his own, guiding her as the visions that came to him suggested he guide her.

Now, nineteen years later, Taneika is grown and starting college. She's different from other young women and she knows it. The cold doesn't bother her, her blood runs as wild and free as she does with the wolf that walks beside her. But it's now time for Taneika to find love. Love and danger.

Living beside Taneika is Taren Carpenter, a special investigator working to find a killer. He's drawn to Taneika, lusts after her, and in taking her draws danger to her and sets in motion a change within Taneika that will alter her life forever.

Despite the slow start to this novel, R. Casteel has penned an exceptional, complicated, suspenseful, and highly sensual novel that you don't want to miss. Expect to be surprised. Expect to gasp in wonder, and to shake your head at this writer's daring imagination. Suspend all your beliefs about the wolf, and humanity. Step outside the day- to-day whirlwind of life and enter an amazing journey of a woman learning not just about love, but about herself, and the animals who had always been drawn to her.

Sensual and suspensful, an amazing journey of secrets learned and questions answered in this exceptional young womans life. This is a book you definitely don't want to miss for the amazing story alone.

Reviewed by Shadoe Simmons
Posted August 23, 2002

Summary

Undercover agent Taren Carpenter's new neighbor is anything but your average girl next door... Taneika sometimes seems closer to the wolves she cares for than to other people. Her rare gift, an ability to control wild animals, has branded her an outcast within their community. When Taneika inadvertently becomes part of a murder investigation Taren is assigned to, his protective instincts take over. Forced together by danger, passion seals their bond. Taren's heart has fallen, but he only knows half the woman. What will happen when he meets...Daughter of the Wolf.