Intertwined with her Bound by Magick series, as well as a bit of her De la Vega Cat series Lauren Dane has a new entry in her Cascadia Wolves series, the first since 2008. UNCONDITIONAL, book eight, picks up a handful of years past book seven (Fated) and plunges right in with a missing witch, a terrifying series of murders and of course the passionate love story of cop Michelle Slattery and her high school sweetheart, now a wolf in the Pacific Pack, Josh Neelan.

Although I have read a number of multi-series authors, several of whom bring hints of one series into another, with UNCONDITIONAL, Lauren Dane becomes perhaps the queen of interconnected series. It takes a delicate touch to maintain focus on the series a book is set within while intertwining fairly substantial threads from other series' storylines. In this case, the primary series is the Cascadia Wolves as represented in the Pacific Pack offshoot. A strong but secondary thread ties tightly to the Owen Witches series via Michelle's new connections with the witches she encounters when seeking those who took her friend. There is even a thread within the book that ties back to the De la Vega Cat series a bit further into UNCONDITIONAL.

I have read all the Cascadia Wolves books, but nothing within the other two series before starting this book. Although I now have a strong interest in picking them up, I did not feel the lack while reading UNCONDITIONAL. Enough is explained as the story progresses that I think even readers completely new to Dane's books could read this as a starting point before back tracking into any of the series. If you are looking for steaming hot sex scenes and strongly vibrant characters set within a well-developed world all wrapped around a fascinating and thrilling mystery, plunge in. I am sure you will enjoy the ride.