Seemingly overnight, Claire Morgan has transformed: the normally mousy schoolteacher is now bold, and her behavior is truly wild. Her eyes gleam silver. Suddenly she’s a self-confident femme fatale with a libido that just won’t quit. After an impulsive makeover, she’s even…dare she say it?…sexy. Is Claire going insane?
Then brutally handsome stranger Gideon March tells her she was bitten by a werewolf, and Claire figures he’s the insane one. Sure, she was attacked by a nasty dog in a back alley, but this guy stalking her says he’s a member of an underground society of lycan hunters — and his mission is to kill her immediately.
When Claire finally realizes she really is a lycan, there’s no turning back — because by now Claire and Gideon are bound by a hungry passion. If they can’t break the curse by the next full moon, Claire’s soul will be lost forever and Gideon will be forced to terminate his prey — a woman dangerously close to devouring him, heart and soul.
I love a good werewolf book. Although my favorite werewolf will always be Vane, I still have liked most of the werewolf books that I’ve read. Marked by Moonlight is no exception. I enjoyed the world that Kohler has created here and plan on reading the next book in the series.
Gideon March has spent most of his life killing lycans. After watching his mother turn lycan and brutally kill his father before coming after him and his sister, Gideon knows that lycans are no more than animals. It doesn’t matter who they were before they were turned, lycans are cold-blooded killers. So when he kills a lycan that infected Claire Morgan, he is mystified by his reluctance to kill her. After years and years of believing that there is no saving a newly turned lycan, Gideon finds himself wondering if Claire actually can be saved.
Claire Morgan has been timid and mousy her entire life. After Gideon convinces her that she will in fact turn into a killer at the next full moon, Claire decides she’s going to live life to its fullest until then. Claire now has confidence that she’s never had before and she loves it. Her attraction to Gideon is unexpected, and Claire is unprepared for the power of her feelings. She eventually writes it off as the lycan blood she was infected with.
I enjoyed reading about Claire “finding” herself. It took her being bit by a werewolf to realize that she could be the person she’s always wanted to be…strong and self-confident. Though Claire does want to do what is necessary to break the curse, she doesn’t want to go back to the person she was. It takes almost the whole book for her to realize that she doesn’t have to be that person.
4 out of 5.
This book is available from Pocket Books. You can buy it here or here in e-format.