Oil heiress Marissa Vasquez survived the battle in Twilight, Tennessee, only to find herself returning to the nightmare she'd hoped she'd escaped. Twilight provided a brief, welcome sanctuary from the evil plotting of her uncle, but vampire Hernan Cortes Herrera has kidnapped Marissa, returning her to his compound in Belize. Marissa has lost her will to live, having lost her family under her uncle's rule, as well as losing the heroic Navarre, one of the renowned Shadowmen, who could not have survived the attack on Twilight. She saw him struck down by the enemy, but she clung to Navarre's memory during the darkest moments of her captivity.

Marissa is horrified when she discovers what Herrera intends for her and makes plans of her own to thwart him. What she doesn't count on is the trump card Herrera holds, or the appearance of one she thought lost. Navarre and Marissa make their escape from Herrera's compound, but getting out of the country will take all they have, and more.

BRIDE OF THE WOLF by Jennifer St. Giles is the fourth of the Shadowmen series. Unlike the other stories, which stood alone, readers will want to read the first three novels in order to understand the action to-date. Marissa is a passionate, strong character, and Navarre a worthy hero, but I never felt a connection with them as I did with the characters in previous novels. The violence was uncomfortably graphic and the action erratic; with so many supporting characters it was sometimes difficult to keep everyone straight. A highpoint is the continued peeks into Dr. Cinatas, who is the scariest thing in the series. The man is pure evil and gets scarier with every story.