The Mane Event
Shelly Laurenston
Kensington Brava, Oct 2007, $14.00, ISBN: 9780758220363
reviewed by Harriet Klausner

"Christmas Pride" - When NYPD cop Desiree "Dez" MacDermot sees her childhood friend Mace Llewellyn for the first time in years; she thinks he is one muscular hunk. His stare could melt an iceberg as Mace makes it clear he wants Dez and she feels like heavenly ecstasy as he sniffs and tongues her neck; even his purring puts her in the mood. However, even as she is FALLING Dez has doubts as Mace insists he is a shape shifting man-lion.

"Shaw's Tail" - New York City Hotel owner Brendan Shaw lies in his hospital bed battered from head to toe. However, in spite of the severity of his injuries, Brendan knows his nurse is his soul mate. The lion shape shifter has to persuade the wolf from Tennessee Ronnie Lee Reed that he is the one for her.

These two linked paranormal novellas star shape shifting lion-humans and their seemingly opposites in a cat vs. dog tales. Each story is amusing as the lions know who they want, but it is the feline who prove to be the tamers. Lighthearted in nature except in the boudoir, fans will enjoy the jocular romances of shape shifters.