With the old city crime boss dead, the vermin is crawling out of the woodwork to gain control of the Dallas underworld, even Albanians are part of the race. While getting ready to hit a warehouse where a burglary is being committed, the Dallas SWAT team is nonplussed when they smell werewolves. The team, being werewolves themselves, had no idea there was another pack in the city, let alone criminals. In the middle of the fracas, Officer Eric Becker notices the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. She seems to be one of the thieves, but most troubling is her scent: could she be the elusive soul mate he has been told about, The One ? Without thinking, he hides her, thus preventing her from being caught, and he is almost as surprised as she is by his spontaneous gesture. He cannot stop thinking about the mysterious werewolf, Jayna Winston, but searching for her gets Eric into much more trouble than he could ever imagine.

The very creative Paige Tyler broadens her shifter mythology in her latest SWAT offering, IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, introducing the omegas, loner werewolves, who are unable to control their animal, unstable and unreliable, and the betas, who have an even stronger pack mentality than the alphas. Most interesting is that even our SWAT alphas don't know everything about werewolves. The new villains in town, the Albanian crime lords, are almost too convincingly creepy! The dynamics between the various factions of bad guys is mystifying, and all too realistic, and the appearance of Jayna in Eric's life threatens the survival of the SWAT pack.

Ms. Tyler has again created wonderfully complex characters. It's impossible not to care and identify with Jayna, while Eric is definitely my favourite SWAT hero to date -- until the next one, maybe! He is all alpha when it comes to his job, but he is a very caring and gentle man, as he proves to Jayna. He has no doubt that she is his One whereas she harbours doubts, but still, he lets her decide how to proceed where their future is concerned. Eric and Jayna go from friends to more, which leads to wonderfully tender and playful sex scenes. As for the action part, well, hang on to your hats: Paige Tyler can write action scenes like no one else, and in this book, she goes all out! Being IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES has never been better!