The hard thing about Night Shift is when you realize werewolves are bad news, but people can be worse.
After Night Shift officer Kit Marlow solved the murder of child star Haley Jenkins, he figured he was due a little down time. Maybe even a dinner date with Cade Deacon, the sarcastic security consultant, very good kisser, and werewolf who'd helped with the investigation.
That was before someone in a Night Shift uniform drove them both off the road. With the full moon up the only dinner date Cade is interested in...has Marlow served up on a plate. And not in a sexy way.
It's the second time that corrupt Night Shift officers have tried to kill Marlow. If he has his way, it will be the last. Problem is he only has twenty-eight days before the next full moon. If he hasn't identified who wants him dead by then, he'll have to take to werewolf filled streets with a team at his back he can't trust.
First things first, though. Get through the next twelve hours alive and uneaten, and hope that if a second date is still on the cards it's less eventful.
Warning! This too ends on a cliffhanger. Darn!
Yes, this is still a bit rough around the edges and things aren’t always neatly explained, but the next chapter in this gritty paranormal romantic suspense was consistently compelling!
Starting literally the minute after Shift Work abruptly ends, the push pull between werewolf Cade and cop Kit never stops and again, it was fucking fasciniating watching these two skirt around each other and their own burgeoning and unwanted feelings, all the while investigating the attempted murder of Kit. Cade hides behind his anger at being used as a weapon against the man he doesn’t want to want, and Kit is still the moral guy who never backs down from a fight. It’s a race against time as these two work together trying to flush out the corrupt cops that have been lurking unknowingly for the last few years, and it remains to be seen if Kit will survive the next full moon.
Apparently, in my old age and after reading a lot of MM, I’m seriously enjoying this dance between these two where it’s not instalove and over the top or hormone fueled. Some readers might not appreciate the nuance of such a painstaking crawl but man, the want and need is just under the surface ready to burst through, and I luxuriated in their slow burn, their off kilter, awkward and sometimes scathing banter, and the icky sticky feelings of caring. Never is any of this overt except when Cade and Kit kiss again and then some….
Be prepared for more expansion on this AU where werewolves dominate in numbers, where the social implications of such are further expanded upon. Relations between races are always kinda tense, never harmonious, and the power struggle in all aspects is always an undercurrent of frisson. As Cade and Kit narrow their search, they and others are getting desperate.
Admittedly, I originally picked this to read thinking I’d get a swift conclusion to a nice little duology since it seems that Moore takes forever in writing her stories. I’m not saying she should rush her process, only that it’s potentially bad for a reader’s patience (mine especially), and I was hoping for a finite story. Well, she’s got me hooked and apparently, Moore is in for the long tease. I’m going to be over here in my corner, being impatient for the next drop because I do feel this series is just that good. Here’s hoping the unknown long wait won’t be too torturous. Fingers, toes, and eyes crossed!
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