CRESCENT KINGDOM

A young wolf shifter on the run from a dangerous past settles in Crescent Creek, Colorado, where she meets her fated mates, an overly protective pack of shifters with their own troubled histories.

After changing her name and going on the run from her abusive father and his vengeful pack, Wren, a young shifter who’s taught herself to disguise her true nature and to fight, finds herself living a somewhat peaceful life as a waitress in the heavily supernatural town of Crescent Creek. Her life takes a turn when she meets the members of a local wolf pack—a fighter, a charming Englishman, a hacker, a mercenary, and an assassin—who all feel an undeniable and inexplicable attraction to her. As she grows closer to each of them, emotionally and physically, the risk of her past being revealed becomes greater until Wren must decide whether keeping her secrets are worth losing the family, and the love, she’s found. While the author’s intention is clearly to provide five individual male characters for Wren—and the reader—to fall in love with, it doesn’t work since they’re virtually indistinguishable: They’re all over six feet tall, muscular, and seem to share the same gruff voice, making them all feel trope-heavy and stereotypical. Additionally, and frustratingly, they prefer calling Wren anything but her chosen name, defaulting to nicknames such as “Birdie,” “Girlie,” and “Little Warrior,” instead. Wren herself had the potential to join the pantheon of strong female leads but, like the members of the pack that fall for her, she lacks a dynamic personality.

A “why choose?” shifter romance that lacks charm.