Alan Carman had been in love for half his life with Tonya
Kappes, but it was never the right time for them. When
Alan came back to his hometown of Gladwin, he thought
nothing could rain on his parade, but a mad scientist with
his evil female cougar-shifter acolyte sank any hope he
had for a normal life. That's when Alan was abducted, and
his shifter DNA artificially activated, which made him
what he thinks of as a monster. Only one thought now
occupies Alan's now nearly-animal mind: kill the cougar
Elisabeth Oltheten who ruined everything. Tonya doesn't
like what Alan has become, but she is still attracted to
him, and she decides that she will do what it takes to get
Alan home, even if she has to resort to her feminine
wiles, a part of herself she has downplayed for years
because of her profession as a policewoman: she'll have to
seduce Alan if it's what it takes to get him to come home.
FOR THE BEAR'S EYES ONLY continues the wondrous adventures
of the Grizzlies
Gone Wild series, and I could
hardly wait for Alan's story, as the clan chases after the
evildoers who are experimenting on shifters. I am still in
awe of Kathy Lyons' incredible worldbuilding, how the
animal and human halves of the shifters are so
interdependent, sometimes at war with each other, and how
the animal is ever so present. I loved the solutions town
deputy sheriff Tonya comes up with when trying to rein in
Alan, after her first attempt fails. She is an amazing
character: she is scared of Alan, yet still attracted to
him, but her grizzly has set her sights on Alan as her
mate, which causes a lot of problems. Alan is even more
conflicted, as he is fundamentally a good, nice, and
dependable non-violent man, and what a struggle it is for
him to deal with the monster who constantly threatens to
take over. Alan and Tonya are fundamentally law-abiding
citizens and it is a real struggle for them trying to deal
rationally with the issues at hand, especially with a
blood-thirsty monster-Alan.
FOR THE BEAR'S EYES ONLY unfolds at lightning speed, the
writing is impeccable as always, and gosh, sometimes this
story is really scary because I liked the characters, and
worried about them; I was almost hyperventilating when
reading the fierce battles, and the equally ferocious sex
scenes, which are steamy beyond belief and quite daring,
in a shifter sense. Still with all this mayhem and
violence, the tenderness at the heart of Tonya and Alan's
relationship remains; he loves her so much, it hurts to
see him suffer so much. And Ms. Lyons comes up with a
glorious ending that had me tearing up. What a fabulous
voyage this series has been, and I can only wonder what
the ingenious Kathy Lyons will think of next!
BEAR ON THE PROWL
Life as Alan Carman knew it is over. After he was
captured and tortured by a mysterious enemy, the lawyer's
latent grizzly-shifter DNA was triggered. The old Alan is
gone, and in his place is a terrifying vicious beast that
lives and breathes for revenge. He will track down the
person who did this to him-and it'll be the last thing he
ever does.
Tonya Kappes refuses to let Alan run headlong to his
death. A bear-shifting deputy-and the Gladwin Clan's
beta-Tonya faces Alan with one weapon: the love that's
lingered between them since they were kids. But the
idealistic man she knew has changed...into something raw,
primal, and unbelievably sexy, igniting every lustful
cell in her body. And, if Alan can't learn to love the
beast inside himself, maybe he can love the animal in her
. . .
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